id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
crl-12878	McElderry, Stanley	Readers and Resources: Public Services in Academic and Research Libraries, 1876-1976	1976-09-01	13	.pdf	application/pdf	7196	400	54	Although Branscomb's study is not a model for the solution of college library problems through the ap- plication of scientific methods, it did draw extensively upon research studies, and it did question basic assumptions about library service in provocative ways. As personal · as- sistance came to be recognized as an important feature of library service, it acquired a distinctive name-refer- ence work -and departmental sta- tus.26 Even with the acceptance of the need for reference service, there was no con- sensus on what functions were appropri- ate for the academic library to offer.	cache/crl-12878.pdf	txt/crl-12878.txt