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• Collection development (Libraries)
• Libraries -- Great Britain
• Great Britain

• Hate on the State: How British Libraries Encourage Islamic Extremism (c2007), by James Brandon and Douglas Murray (PDF in the UK)

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• Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2015), ed. by Robert P. Holley (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2016), ed. by Suzanne M. Ward, Robert S. Freeman, and Judith M. Nixon (PDF at Purdue)

• University Libraries and Scholarly Communication (1992), by Anthony Cummings, Marcia L. Witte, William G. Bowen, Laura O. Lazarus, and Richard Ekman (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Measuring Rod to Test Text Books, and Reference Books, in Schools, Colleges and Libraries (published by the United Conferate Veterans, ca. 1919), by Mildred Lewis Rutherford (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections (second edition; Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1919), by A. Edward Newton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections (London: J. Lane, 1920), by A. Edward Newton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886), by Percy Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (second edition, revised; London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887), by Percy Fitzgerald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Books in Black or Red (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Essentials of Book Collecting, by Robert F. Lucas (HTML with commentary at trussel.com)
• The Greatest Book in the World, and Other Papers (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925), by A. Edward Newton (page images at CMU)
• The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac, by Eugene Field (Gutenberg text)
• The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury, by Richard de Bury, trans. by Ernest Chester Thomas
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at philobiblon.com
• A Magnificent Farce, and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector (fourth impression; Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922), by A. Edward Newton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs (c1904), by Henry Howard Harper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hints to Collectors of Original Editions of the Works of Charles Dickens (London: G. Redway, 1885), by Charles Plumptre Johnson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Library, by Andrew Lang, contrib. by Austin Dobson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts (Helps for Students of History #17; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1919), by M. R. James
  • HTML at tertullian.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Books and Bookmen, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• ABC for Book Collectors (8th edition, 2004), by John Carter and Nicolas Barker (PDF at ilab.org)

• Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Baxter's Procrustes, by Charles W. Chesnutt (PDF at amazonaws.com)
• The Unique Hamlet: A Hitherto Unchronicled Adventure of Mr. Sherlock Holmes (c1920), by Vincent Starrett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• On Books and the Housing of Them (New York: M. F. Mansfield, 1898), by W. E. Gladstone
  • illustrated HTML at rtpnet.net
  • Gutenberg text
• Literary Taste: How to Form It, With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature (seventh edition, 1914), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)

• Ho Eranistes (full serial archives)
• The Colophon (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin du Bibliophile et du Bibliothécaire (in French) (partial serial archives)
• La Bibliofilia (partial serial archives)

• The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, by Anatole France (Gutenberg text)

• American Book Trade Manual (partial serial archives)
• American Book Trade Directory (partial serial archives)

• Collaborative Librarianship (2009-) (full serial archives)

• A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections (third edition, 2007), by National Information Standards Organization (U.S.) (HTML with commentary at niso.org)

• Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine (New York: Blast Books, ca. 2011), ed. by Michael Sappol, contrib. by Laura Lindgren, illust. by Arne Svenson (PDF at NIH)

• CREW: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries (revised edition, 2012; with supplementary teaching materials), ed. by Jeanette Larson, contrib. by Belinda Boon and Joseph P. Segal (PDF at Texas State Library)

• The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, c2010), contrib. by Charles Henry, Lisa Spiro, Geneva Henry, Paul N. Courant, Matthew Nielsen, Kathlin Smith, and Roger C. Schonfeld (PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Special Collections in ARL Libraries: A Discussion Report from the ARL Working Group on Special Collections (2009), by Association of Research Libraries (PDF at arl.org)

• Reports of the AAU Task Forces: Acquisition and Distribution of Foreign Language and Area Studies Materials; A National Strategy for Managing Scientific and Technological Information; Intellectual Property Rights in an Electronic Environment, by Association of American Universities Research Libraries Project (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Libraries, Museums and Art Galleries Year Book (partial serial archives)

• The Library Association Record (partial serial archives)

• Ariadne (full serial archives)

• Hate on the State: How British Libraries Encourage Islamic Extremism (c2007), by James Brandon and Douglas Murray (PDF in the UK)

• A New Chapter: Public Library Services in the 21st Century (full research report, with links to discussion paper and factsheets; Dumferline: Carnegie UK Trust, 2012), by Liz Macdonald (PDF with commentary in the UK)
• The Public Library Systems of Great Britain, America and South Africa (1903), by Bertram Laslett Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)

• A New Chapter: Public Library Services in the 21st Century (full research report, with links to discussion paper and factsheets; Dumferline: Carnegie UK Trust, 2012), by Liz Macdonald (PDF with commentary in the UK)

• A New Chapter: Public Library Services in the 21st Century (full research report, with links to discussion paper and factsheets; Dumferline: Carnegie UK Trust, 2012), by Liz Macdonald (PDF with commentary in the UK)

• Hate on the State: How British Libraries Encourage Islamic Extremism (c2007), by James Brandon and Douglas Murray (PDF in the UK)

• Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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