Despite the growing importance of second-hand material, partly as a result of the economic climate. the need to subject desiderata files in academic libranes to periodic review has been virtually neglected in Bntlsh library literature. A mechanism for such 'house-keeping (and with additional potential as a searching tool), based on limited computenzation, is described together with the diplomacy demanded by a 'purge.
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