NATIONAL LIBRARY
SOUTH AFRICAN PLAN COLLEAGUE OF MR. BARR TO REPORT Mr. John Barr, Auckland city librarian, has been informed of a signal compliment paid a former colleague. When Mr. Barr was on the staff of the Mitchell Library in Glasgow’, Mr. S. A. Pitt, now chief librarian of Glasgow’, was supervisor of branch libraries in the Scottish city. Mr. Pitt has been invited to go to South Africa to report as to the foundation of the establishment of a national system of libraries for the whole Union. The expenses of his visit wall be met by the Carnegie Corporation, at whose invitation the trip will be made. “The visit is of great importance to librarians,” commented Mr. Barr today, “as South Africa is considering the possibility evidently of a national library system throughout the country.” _______________
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 276, 11 February 1928, Page 10
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136NATIONAL LIBRARY Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 276, 11 February 1928, Page 10
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