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
Many public libraries have wisely supplemented their own lecture
schemes by co-operating with University Extension. Even where the
library has not been able to offer a lecture room on the premises,
such co-operation may be very valuable, and a reciprocal advantage
to all concerned. The library can provide books for the students,
issuing reading lists which have been drawn up in consultation with
the lecturers; useful exhibitions, also, can be organized, from the
library’s own stores or from other sources. The tutorial classes
organized by the Workers’ Educational Association have been aided
effectively by such co-operation, which always reacts beneficially, in
more ways than meet the eye, on the libraries themselves. When there
is intimate association between libraries and technical colleges,
polytechnics, and the like, half at least of the real work will be done
in the library or through the books supplied by the library. Nor is it
only the urban libraries that are able to assert their true place in
adult education thus; several of the new rural repositories are working
hand in hand with the Workers’ Educational Association and its tutorial
classes, which have not failed on their part to utilize machinery
so apt to its purposes. Besides the ordinary stock of miscellaneous
books for the general reader, the wise rural librarian lays in a
good selection of the works required by reading circles and tutorial
classes, if necessary duplicating until there are enough copies for all
demands. But for this special call upon his resources, he would rely
upon the Central Library for Students to meet the requirements in works
of this class.
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