Comment

BOOKS and resources are the staple of learning, whether in the general form of an aspect of a subject discipline-the textbook or its non-book resource equivalent-or in the more specialised form of the learning resource ' ... designed ... with the learning needs of particular students on particular courses'. But the very development of specific learning resources, together with the development of new technologies in the more conventional areas of library work, has brought about the need for a close association between librarians and educational technologists.