ABSTRACT
The paper, by a 'consumer economist', discusses the use of libraries under four classifications: the personal library, the specialized library, the teaching library of a college or university, and the research library. The economist doing research on a particular problem will do well to consider applying to a library specialized in the field. Students of economics, along with those of other subjects, face the decision many times a year, of whether to buy a book or to wait for it to be provided by the library. For economists who have served in government, such papers as are left over from those days may well be given to archival sources, e.g. in the United States: the Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson libraries. The reproduction of economics classics started with Augustus M. Kelley in New York in a small way, each book taken apart and filmed page by page by Mr. Kelley.
