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A Bibliographical Withdrawal from Bogotá
Per Columbia ad Columbia ad me via ??.
LOWY, George. A Searcher's Manual. L.: Crosby Lockwood & Son Ltd., n.d. (copyright 1965, The Shoe String Press). Pp (4),[v]-[xii],(2),[3]-104. 8vo, grey cloth.
In the New Librarianship Series.
"A step-by-step presentation of searching techiques, based in part on everyday practice of the Searching Unit of the Acquistions Department of the Columbia University Libraries. The aim of the work is to describe actual and desirable practice rather than to create rules or to reflect one institution's routines. Efficient searching depends upon the quality and extent of training which the bibliographer - or other supervisor - is able to give the searching unit, as well as the members' qualifications (general education, attitude and aptitude, intelligence, knowledge of languages, subject matter background, etc.) for their work. " - from the dj.
Discarded from the British Council Central Library, Bogata. With the Council's "Truth Will Triumph" bookplate. Various library stamps, etc. Else vg in dj with a May 4th 1999 penned inscription by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio host Jurgen Gothe, mentioning collectors of "quirkitude and quixotica."
Jacket illustration shows the library of the Daily Mirror newspaper.
A Bibliographical Withdrawal from Bogotá
Per Columbia ad Columbia ad me via ??.
LOWY, George. A Searcher's Manual. L.: Crosby Lockwood & Son Ltd., n.d. (copyright 1965, The Shoe String Press). Pp (4),[v]-[xii],(2),[3]-104. 8vo, grey cloth.
In the New Librarianship Series.
"A step-by-step presentation of searching techiques, based in part on everyday practice of the Searching Unit of the Acquistions Department of the Columbia University Libraries. The aim of the work is to describe actual and desirable practice rather than to create rules or to reflect one institution's routines. Efficient searching depends upon the quality and extent of training which the bibliographer - or other supervisor - is able to give the searching unit, as well as the members' qualifications (general education, attitude and aptitude, intelligence, knowledge of languages, subject matter background, etc.) for their work. " - from the dj.
Discarded from the British Council Central Library, Bogata. With the Council's "Truth Will Triumph" bookplate. Various library stamps, etc. Else vg in dj with a May 4th 1999 penned inscription by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio host Jurgen Gothe, mentioning collectors of "quirkitude and quixotica."
Jacket illustration shows the library of the Daily Mirror newspaper.