Library Resources in the Manchester Area

Demographic trends in the Manchester-nashua Metropolitan area

introduction the Manchester-nashua metropolitan area has undergone a complex set of population shifts amid growing diversity. This brief documents those changes with recent data. For this research, we divide the Manchester-nashua metropolitan area into three parts: • the city of Manchester, with a population of 108,900 in 2007 • the city of nashua, with a population of 86,800 in 2007 • the bala...

Catalogue of Medical Books in Manchester University Library, 1480–1700

American Medicine and the Public Interest, by ROSEMARY STEVENS, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1971, pp. xiii, 572, £9.00. Rosemary Stevens has delineated the effect on medicine of the formation of professional societies representing the specialties into which it became divided in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its introductory section, an examination of professionalizato...

Estimating the audience level for library resources

WorldCat, OCLC’s bibliographic database, identifies books and the libraries that hold them. The holdings provide detailed information about the type and number of libraries that have acquired the material. Using this information, it is possible to infer the type of audience for which the material is intended. A quantitative measure, the audience level, is derived from the types of libraries tha...

Geothermal Resources in the Crater Lake Area ,

Library and information resources and users of digital resources in the humanities