According to the European Library portal

http://search.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/en/index.html

all 3 editions from 1968 / 2003 / 2010 are held in Belgium -fyi

For those interested you can check many other countries here in
addition to WorldCat holdings     --cheers, Karen Weaver

Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique (KBR)
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Description complète
Titre :	 Encyclopedia of library and information sciences / by Marcia
J. Bates and Mary Niles Maack
Auteur(s) :	Marcia J. Bates
Mary Niles Maack
Edition :	 3rd edition
Editeur(s) :	 West Palm Beach, Fla. : CRC Press, 2010
Collation :	 7 vol. : ill. ; 29 cm
ISBN :	 978-0-8493-9704-2
Cote de l'ouvrage :	 9 B/2010/1.198 (Magasin - Salle de lecture générale)
Coll. :	vol 1 : Academic - Catalogs
vol 2 : CD-ROM - Domain
vol 3 : Dublin - Information Literacy
vol 4 : Information Management - Lesbian
vol 5 : Libraries -Organizational
vol 6 : Pacific - Sociology
vol 7 : Software - Zoological



On 4/5/11, Laval Hunsucker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It has been interesting for me to note the points made in this
> thread.-- especially those by Marcia Bates herself. My thanks
> for that.
>
> I'm not sure what I would have done in this case as library
> selector myself. The publication came out just after my
> retirement, and anyway I had been responsible for the
> collections notin LIS, but in another group of disciplines.
>
> But what I've now read in this thread has more or less
> convinced me, and today I put in a good word for the
> acquisition of ELIS3 at the academic library where I was
> employed until nearly the end of 2009. Who knows --
> maybe that will help. It's this country's largest library system,
> at the university which furthermore has this country's only
> full-fledged library/information/archiveseducation program.
>
> As I wrote in a previous posting, neither that institution nor
> any other in the country has yet acquired ELIS3, in either
> electronic or printed form. And as far as WorldCat is
> concerned -- it's really poor in establishing whether and where
> copies of publications are available in Europe, and I was using
> other, more local and reliable, resources for my previous
> posting indicating the absence or near-absence of ELIS3 in
> many European countries. Ola Pilerot mentioned the availability
> of the resource in Sweden, and that had struck me too as a
> kind of exception ( Borås, Växjö ). But the biggest exception, I
> noticed, is Germany -- with copies in Berlin (FU), Dresden,
> Hagen ( Fernuniversität ! ), Halle, Hamburg, Jena, München
> (BSb), Saarbrücken, Stuttgart, Trier and ( I think ) the DNb ;
> and to a lesser extent Switzerland ( Bern, Genève, Zürich ).
>
>
> - Laval Hunsucker
>   Breukelen, Nederland
>

>
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