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THE incidence of hostilities has already brought in its train considerable dislocation in the various activities that are concerned with the provision of literature and information. In the world of science and technology this dislocation may seriously affect the national effort unless its implications are rapidly appreciated and appropriate readjustments made. To the disturbance that, as in the War of 1914–18, resulted from interference with the supply of foreign literature and from the diversion of money and labour into activities apparently more necessary than the provision of information, the present conflict has added the distraction caused by air-raid precautions. In consequence of these latter, many institutions have ceased their activities, or transferred them to locations relatively remote from centres of storage and distribution of information.
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Scientific and Technical Literature and Information. Nature 144, 877–878 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144877a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144877a0