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标题：The National Medical Library: Acquisition Program
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作者：Samuel Lazerow
期刊名称：Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
印刷版ISSN：0025-7338
出版年度：1954
卷号：42
期号：4
页码：447-453
出版社：Medical Library Association
摘要：AN AGGRESSIVE acquisition program is, by definition, the basic requirement for every dynamic library. It is a truism that before books can be cataloged, shelved, loaned, and read, they must be acquired. Getting and spending may lay waste the powers of poets, but late and soon it is the primary task of the librarian who tries to build a great and useful collection of books. Building a collection requires money, a large measure of skill and ingenuity, and a certain acquisitive instinct which can survive prolonged immersion in the cold sea of fanfold forms, balance sheets, overlapping bibliographies, and painfully fragmentary source information.