id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-13370 Citron, Helen R. COM Systems in Libraries: Current British Practice (Book Review) 1979-07-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1413 84 62 The positive points are: ( 1) the diversity of applications of COM in British libraries, (2) the strong trend in Britain to COM fiche and reasons for this trend, and (3) the cooperative approach to library COM problems.-Helen R. Citron , Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Half of the book's ten chapters dramatize the im- mense destructive power of library fires, well demonstrated by the Gondring Library fire in California that was started by a single paper match dropped into a bookdrop, and which ended in $200,000 damage (p.100). cache/crl-13370.pdf txt/crl-13370.txt