WHY NOT CIRCULATE BOOKS?
••Ti)P Birmingham library authoiitips luivo :i reputation for being thoroughly conventional. Surprise has then-fore been expressed by the announcement of the president. Mr U P Hadley, that the library has opened a musical section for the purpose „f circulating gramophone records, sacs the “Sunday Times." *lt ' s quite an experimental policy, sajs Mr Hadley in explanation. .‘Comment has been made that an >»nov e t iou of that kind touches our diguUv. or the dignity of literature, and that such a policy is not germane to the business of the library. • surelv. if we can circulate hooks ol fiction bv certain authors without upsetting our “dignity,” we can help some of the members to acqn.re a cultural taste for the music of Schubert and other classic composers? Whether the experiment is successful or not depends, of course, on the members.’ ”
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1928, Page 1
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144WHY NOT CIRCULATE BOOKS? Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1928, Page 1
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