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
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Flint
Carmarthen
Anglesey
Middlesex
Hampshire (Isle of Wight)
Hampshire (Southampton)
Worcestershire
Northamptonshire
Cumberland
Durham
Northumberland
Kirkcudbright
Nairn
Fife
Bedfordshire
Surrey
Linlithgow
Shropshire
Cambridge
Isle of Man
(Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, _Seventh Annual Report_, 1921; p. 9.)
[21] _Library Association Record_--“The Gloucestershire Rural Library
Scheme,” by Miss A. S. Cooke (Feb., 1921).
[22] S. B. Antrim and E. I. Antrim, _The County Library_ (1914), p. 238.
[23] Total number of vols. accessioned (Dec. 31, 1920) 37,302; number
in the library 30,597.
[24] J. H. Friedel: _Training for Librarianship_, p. 106.
[25] pp. 141-5.
[26] The character of the best type of village institute may be judged
from the following account of the Nettlebed Working Men’s Club and
Institute:--
“Perhaps the most original feature of the equipment of the hall is
the provision of a cinematograph apparatus. The provision of picture
palaces in all English villages would be a doubtful advantage, if they
showed the baser sort of ‘cowboy’ and other sensational films. Given
some restraint in the choice of subject, however, moving pictures make
winter evenings more changeful. During 1918 the cinema was used very
little, but it is now running every Saturday evening, and draws full
houses. Mr. Fleming’s main idea in installing a cinema at Nettlebed was
to make use of its educational possibilities. The Oxfordshire Education
Committee welcomed the provision, as also did the Inspector of Schools,
the more so because it extended advantages to the school children of
six parishes near Nettlebed. The Education Code permits teachers to
take the whole or part of a school for rambles or visits to places of
educational interest during school hours, and films have been shown
at Nettlebed on certain afternoons to a concourse of children. The
subjects of the pictures were chosen to illustrate geography, history,
English, and nature study. A village club can conduct its ‘cinema
department’ by joining a lending library of films, so that the subjects
can be duly varied.
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