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crl-10656	American Library Association, 	Brief of Minutes, Association of Research Libraries, July 6--7, 1951, Chicago; Report of the Committee on the Use of Manuscripts by Visiting Sholars Set up by the Association of Research Libraries	1952-01-01	8	.pdf	application/pdf	5422	223	51	Grounds of Federal Support for Research Libraries The Library of Congress presented a report setting forth two possible grounds for Federal support of research libraries, namely that such libraries render service to agencies of the Federal government and that the research resources of the country as held by such libraries constitute a national resource which it is in the national interest to sustain and develop. The report implied, however, that at the present time the possibility of legisla- tion by Congress for any general contribution 'to the support of research libraries was hardly to be expected.	cache/crl-10656.pdf	txt/crl-10656.txt