LIBRARY IDEALS.
National Scheme Discussed By Conference. Press Association—Copyright. Wellington, To-day. A symposium on the realisation of library Ideals which embraced various points in a national library system, was listened to and discussed by delegates at the final session of the Nev.' Zealand Library Assaciations’ Conference which concluded yesterday. It was thought that the scheme would initially cost between £40,000 and £50,000, and that the national importance of the matter was vital to the well-being of the general community.
Moved by the president (Mr. W. J. Gaudin) and seconded by Mr. c. 57. Williams (Masterton), the following motion was carried unanimously: “That this conference instructs the ceuncil of the association to commend to the Government, local bodies and people of Nets' Zealand, the project of a national library scheme as outlined to this conference, and in Particular urges that early consideration be given to the possibility of making existing library services free, ercf-plfng in the care of light fiction,"
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 364, 19 February 1937, Page 5
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159LIBRARY IDEALS. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 364, 19 February 1937, Page 5
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