id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-9769 Barcus, Thomas R. Buying Books for 92 Junior Colleges 1939-12-01 6 .pdf application/pdf 3655 164 66 U R I N G the years 1925-28 the Carnegie Corporation made a number of ex- ploratory grants for the development of college libraries and in the fall of 1928 it set up an Advisory Group on College Libraries with D r . Overworked, they would lack the time needed to become familiar with the many dealers and their specialties, with the used book and back numbers market, and would lack the opportunity, afforded by buying the same titles for many colleges, to compare prices and service over a wide field. cache/crl-9769.pdf txt/crl-9769.txt