The Public Library (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Public LibraryIn 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 inventory Of our intellectual assets as the Cambridge History Of English Literature has in its fifteen big volumes no reference to the effects Of the Ewart Act or to the vast collections of liter ature amassed and thrown open to the people through its operation. This book will be a small addition to a very small group Of works on various sides of a momentous subject.The author is deeply indebted to Mr. W. C. Berwick Sayers, Chief Librarian, Croydon Public Libraries, for his kindness in reading the proofs and for many useful suggestions, and to his daughter, Miss Ruth Baker, for indexing the book.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.