/library/oar/handle/123456789/45081 2025-12-22T01:01:03Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/45133 Title: Inter-library cooperation : national and international Authors: Baluci, Marie Therese Abstract: The concept of cooperation is not new. In Book II of the "Republic" Plato wrote that a city comes into being because not one of us is self-sufficient but needs many things. This same reason could very well both introduce and sum up the theme of library cooperation today. Libraries work and act together because it has become increasingly evident over the past twenty-five years that no library is large, well-stocked and well-staffed enough to be completely self-sufficient. Libraries everywhere need to depend on one another both at a national and international level. Description: This document contains a discussion, a list of the contributors, and the text on back cover of the book. 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/45129 Title: Facilities for the research worker at special libraries and non-governmental archives in Malta : the librarian's point of view Authors: Grima, Joseph R. Abstract: A survey of the local special library scene will come up with a number of libraries, collections of books and documents spread amongst different institutions all over the island and covering different aspects of the country's social, political, economic and religious life. Although awareness of the importance of information in an organized form has yet to take form in the minds of the public and private sectors alike, yet one may say, on a positive note, that over the past twenty years, certain foundations have been laid and with more effort and interest from all the important sectors in Malta - the State, the Church and the private sector - a truly national information system can be set up. 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/45126 Title: Libraries and research in Malta : an outline history Authors: Xuereb, Paul Abstract: The first major publication by a Maltese author based on a research library as well as on field-work was G.F. Abela's Della descrittione di Malta (1647). At the time there were no large institutional collections available to scholars, with the exception of the library in Valletta of the Franciscan Friars Minor and that at Floriana of the Capuchin Friars, both of which were largely theological and philosophical in nature. Abela, however, who was the Order of St John's Vice-Chancellor and Grand Prior, may have had access to the collection of books recovered from the estates of deceased Knights in terms of the Order's Rules, and which formed the core of the library established in the Conventual Church of St John in 1649. This library's collection was subsequently merged with that given to the Order by the Bailli de Tencin to form the Order's Biblioteca Tanseana (later Biblioteca Pubblica and now the National Library of Malta) in 1776, the first non-religious library in Malta accessible to all and furnished with a wide range of scholarly and general literature. Description: This document contains Table of Contents and Preface 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/45124 Title: Scientific research facilities available at the University Library : the research worker's point of view Authors: Ellul-Micallef, Roger Abstract: Dr Xuereb's invitation to participate at this morning's seminar arrived on my desk at a particularly harrowing time, for I was being harassed to deliver an editorial article which I had previously promised in a moment of weakness. To add to it all, the day had dawned hot and humid and my battered fan was doing little to improve the situation. I was in need of urgent references in order to deliver what was expected of me. As had happened frequently in the past, a significant number was not available in our library. I must confess that my initial reaction was to jot down the word 'inadequate' next to the proposed title of my talk, garnish it with a couple of expletives and return the invitation. Having scribbled the word down I soon felt that such a comment, left unqualified, would be grossly unfair on my part. I therefore wrote back accepting Dr Xuereb's invitation and here I am this morning. 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z