The CERN Library

Published 1968 | Version v1

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Any advanced research centre needs a good Library. It can be regarded as a piece of equipment as vital as any machine. At the present time, the CERN Library is undergoing a number of modifications to adjust it to the changing scale of CERN's activities and to the ever increasing flood of information. This article, by A.G. Hester, former Editor of CERN COURIER who now works in the Scientific Information Service, describes the purposes, methods and future of the CERN Library.

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Any advanced research centre needs a good Library. It can be regarded as a piece of equipment as vital as any machine. At the present time, the CERN Library is undergoing a number of modifications to adjust it to the changing scale of CERN's activities and to the ever increasing flood of information. This article, by A.G. Hester, former Editor of CERN COURIER who now works in the Scientific Information Service, describes the purposes, methods and future of the CERN Library. The reading room of the Central Library showing the desk, with some of the reference collection and the preprint racks behind. md5:dea90c6a1657cae8b1dd1815d7c6dd45	756.7 kB	Preview Download
Two photographs taken in the PS Library, the 'sate/lite library' located in the Proton Synchrotron Division building. On the left, the racks of periodicals ; on the right, the book collection and card catalogue drawers. md5:dee0b37e1118c3611244f89360b79730	753.3 kB	Preview Download
An aerial view of the CERN site, picking out the location of 1 : The Central Library 2 : The PS Library 3 : The TC reference collection 4 : The NPA reference collection 5 : Salle Pauli md5:b17405f67f9f21ba0d0c787222400ed9	569.8 kB	Preview Download
Part of the Library book collection in the Central Library. md5:55c57a1a8f8346833dbc0864a1c8af73	526.7 kB	Preview Download
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