Specialized Library Needs of CIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP60-00346R000100270001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 25, 1957
• Content Type: MF

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25 January 1957'
140'ORAfdDU]{ FOR: -CIA Library Consultant Panel
SUBJECT : Specialized Library Needs of CIA
1. The CIA Library provides all forms of Library service to CIA
research components; provides many services to operational and
administrative units of the Agency; provides limited services through-
out the intelligence community and' in a few instances to non-intelligence
library users.
2. the basic' services to CIA ?research 'conq oninta might be compared
to those of any large research library. However,, the subject fields in
which service must be provided are as varied as in all but a few of the
larger reference libraries. Demands are insistent that the service be
prompt, coiarplete, and authoritative, although these criteria are not
of equal importance in every instance. Moreover, at times, the service
must be an a "crash" emergency basis. In addition, CIA has a major
problem in the tremendous flow of documents (cables, report, etc.) which
libraries normally do not have to face in such proportions. These
problems include speedy processing and'proper indexing for subsequent
recall of the information.
3. Library support to operational and administrative units
frequently raises the problem of masking the interests of CIA. Procure-
ment and accounting procedures must sometimes be modified, and recall
of detailed information may be renuired for operational background in
many areas "here detailed research is not normally undertaken.
b. 'rho attached statements indicate some of the specialized
library needs of the individual offices and an outline terms of
;reference for your inquiry. F...':`
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