The principal quantitative results are here presented, in tabular and textual form, of a research programme intended to provide basic data on the incidence and intensity of sub scription to BNB services in the United Kingdom as a whole, in the various regions of the U.K., and in the several categories of public, university and national, college and school and special libraries in the U.K. Estimates are made of the total potential demand for BNB services in each of these categories, and the basic operating characteristics of the categories of non-subscribers are discussed in the light of their ability to utilize central bibliographical services.
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