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assisting them to establish laboratories and
libraries to facilitate such research.
The comparative paucity of technical
libraries in Great Britain creates a problem
more difficult than that confronting the
United States, for in our own country pubhc
libraries are much more highly developed,
almost all of the larger and many of the
smaller having special technical collections.
In Los Angeles, Grand Rapids, Pittsburgh,
Boston and New York, for example, special
technology departments have been estab-
lished in the local public libraries.
That the special library has a fundamental
place side by side with the laboratory has been
definitely recognized by experts. Thus
Arthur D. Little, one of America's leading
chemists, in his presidential address before
the American Chemical Society in 1913 on
the subject of " Industrial Research in
America," stated that " These laboratories
should each be developed around a special
Hbrary, the business of which should be to
collect, compile and classify in a way to make
all instantly available, every scrap of infor-
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