Academic Library Reform and the Ideal of the Librarian in England, France, and Germany in the Long Nineteenth Century

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• A newspaper article from 2006, despite its lighthearted tone, gives pause for thought: Alan Hamilton, ‘Stress? Shhhhh …’, The Sunday Times, 12 January 2006 <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article787479.ece> [accessed 29 April 2011].
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