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Australian university students receive no grant for books such as is m a d e to students in Britain. Perhaps for this reason they tend to expect the library to meet more of their needs. First- a n d even second-year classes in some subjects are very big. Multiple copies are certainly provided in Australian university libraries, m u c h more liberally than in British universities, but teaching methods are not always designed to ease the load on the library. If 500 stu­ dents all required access to the same book within a week, or even within a fortnight, it is not easy to justify the degree of duplication which would be necessary to satisfy them, particularly if they choose to restrict the hours in which they visit the library.

T h e developing Public Libraries movement is the focus of attention, and only the long-established libraries of the Scottish universities and Oxford and Cambridge are large enough to be reported in print. Even so, only senior appointments, bequests and annual reports are recorded. T h e first substantial item of information on a university library appears in 1894, and is an account of Aberdeen University Library. ( 1 ) T h e main emphasis is upon the history of the library, but there are hints of a growing awareness of the needs of readers.

The Australian Humanities Research Council virtually ignored the problem presented to the university library by the academic specialist. The demands for teaching staff are greater than the supply, and universities tend to appoint the best qualified candidate without AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 19ÖÖ TO too much regard for his interests. The result is that Australian university libraries, even more than the libraries of other countries, are littered with small specialist collections developed to support individual interests, without any regard to the development of the library as a whole, and which if dis­ continued gradually decrease in importance when the individual who prompted their acquisition has gone elsewhere.

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