The public libraryBaker, Ernest A. (Ernest Albert)
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The public library
Baker, Ernest A. (Ernest Albert)
Library extension -- Great Britain; Public libraries -- Great Britain
It will not do merely to tolerate this large section of those who use
libraries, on condition that its interests are made secondary to the
“serious students and trained readers.” This would be fatal to the true
purpose of the public library, which should minister to intellectual
life in all its fulness. The general reader must be put first, not
second. A clear conception of what is best for the general reader will
ensure that the interests of education shall not be neglected. It
is on the growth of a new consciousness, a new attitude towards the
institutions subserving humanism, that we must pin our faith in the
great library system of the future.
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Contains statistics of existing libraries and their work.
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RURAL LIBRARIES.
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