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Some 330,000 book titles were published in 1959 representing hundreds of millions of copies; more than 80,000 periodicals, appearing regularly bring 3,000,000 articles to the notice of a dumbfounded world and this figure does not include 30,000 newspapers. In one way or another this vast amount of material must be added to that accumulated during previous years, and the channels of acquisition have to provide for future expansion. Still more staggering than these figures is the knowledge that the quantity of scientific literature yearly published is growing so rapidly that it doubles every five years.
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International Federation of Library Associations. (1963). The material, its acquisition and conservation. In: Libraries in the World. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6129-1_3
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