id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14406 Lancaster, F. W. The World of Books and Information: Essays in Honour of Lord Dainton (Book Review) 1988-07-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1257 56 53 ; establishing Five Compelling Reasons To Use The 8/0SIS Previews® Database July 1988 (while chairman of the University Grants Committee) a Working Party on Capital Provision for University Libraries, which resulted in the production of the famous (or infamous) ''Atkinson Report'' on size and funding of British academic libraries; and, most importantly, serving as chair- man of the National Libraries Committee, which was directly responsible for the cre- ation of the British Library in 1973. The exclusion of Vanity Fair, Puck, the Philistine, and similar journals ''because they are being included in another book in this series on humor magazines seems unfortunate (however defensible from the publisher's point of view) for a collection and its projected companion volume that are intended as comprehensive sources of information on their subject. cache/crl-14406.pdf txt/crl-14406.txt