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TRULY has it been said, “Of making many books there is no end.” It is, however, a curious reflection on the perspicacity of the human intellect that mankind should continue to groan at the weariness of much study, while making so little effort to diminish the burden, either by attempting to limit the rate of increase of material, or by considering how to improve the method of handling it.
The Aslib Directory: a Guide to Sources of Specialised Information in Great Britain and Ireland.
Edited by G. F. Barwick. Introductions by Sir Frederic G. Kenyon and SirErnest Rutherford. Published with the Financial Assistance of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trustees. Pp. xiv + 425. (London: The Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux; Oxford University Press, 1928.) 21s. net.
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BRADFORD, S. A Directory of Specialised Information. Nature 122, 158–159 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122158a0
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