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The Reader's Index
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Reading in Croydon
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Report
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Hosnill XVI
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Library Local Collections
This book, first published in 1939, looks at the collecting, conserving and use of the materials of local history, collected in local libraries. It examines the methods of arranging, cataloguing and displaying such materials as prints, photographs and maps, as well as official papers, manuscripts and letters.
HOSNILL XVII
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HOSNILL XVI
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The Public Library (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Public Library In this brief account Of our public libraries, the work they have done and the far greater work they are capable Of doing, many points have been suggested that call for more comprehensive legis lation. The one hope now is that the urban and rural libraries already existing or soon to be may be co-ordinated into a national system, or group Of systems, worked on economic lines, and em powered to act the part they were surely destined for in a civilized world. Sociologists, including those treating Of edu cation in the widest sense, have paid scant atten tion to the part played by the public library in social life, in the present or the future. Even such an inven...
Open Access in Public Libraries Exposed
Excerpt from Open Access in Public Libraries Exposed: Being a Reply to Mr. H. Keatley Moore's Paper in the Library The Clerkenwell and Croydon libraries are particularly referred to. If the deplorable picture Mr. Moore has drawn was based on experience at either of those libraries, prior to the advent Of Open access, it would be impossible to refute him. They were under my observation; and at that time Croydon might well have been dedicated to Chaos, while weary Clerkenwell suffered from too many inventions. In both instances any alteration could scarcely have proved for the worse and readers, long worried by frequent changes and ineptitude, were naturally glad to be told to help them selves...
