university libraries in Ireland and US, part 2

It's been suggested that I wasn't totally fair to Ireland and Britain when I compared private US institutions with the publically funded ones in the British Isles. So I did a quick check to see if the state-funded University of Washington in Seattle and University of California, Berkeley were as impressive as Princeton and others when I did an author search for the great Viennese theorist, philosopher, editor, analyst and much more, Heinrich Schenker. Here are the results:

Washington: 29 hits

Berkeley: 50 hits

(compared to the previous highest of 46 hits, Cambridge, England, and lowest of 2, University College Cork; the averages from four libraries in each area were Ireland 9.5, UK 36.5, US 45.25)

I rest my case. Ireland appears to have very little interest in proper provision for third-level education and scholarship, as is shown in the pitifully stocked university (and other) libraries. Britain does pretty well, in spite of awful funding in some areas. America is in a different league. If you are in one of the great population centres in the US, you may be pretty sure that most books in your subject area are available locally or via inter-library arrangements.