Library lottery

Published 10 April 1999

From John Sharp

I read the comments by John Stonehouse on access to libraries with interest
(Forum, 20 March, p 47).
It is getting harder for scholars to use university
libraries, even for a single day’s reference. Many charge excessive sums and it
is a lottery when you turn up as to whether you will be charged.

There is another barrier. If the information you need is on CD-ROM, then
somehow the library thinks it is different. For example, although Stonehouse
says his library at Imperial College, London (allied with the Science Museum
Library) has free access, this is not so for …

Watford, Hertfordshire

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