FICTION AND THE FREE LIBRARY.
"Should free libraries provide fiction?" and if so, with what limitations? This is a burning question in the literary world, and the Library Association at Brighton has been discussing it," says the London "Daily Chroncle." "The resolution arrived at, after a lively debate, was
judicious. The opinion of the Conference is that, while on the one hand every library should be amply supplied with fiction, yet on the other 'mere ephemeral fiction, of no literary, moral, or educational value, even if without offence, is not within the proper province of a public lending library.' We are entirely i n sympathy with those who desire to see free public libraries 'amply supplied with fiction.' The view that fiction should be excluded is unsound on its merits. The larger number of the patrons of free libraries read for relaxation, for relief, for entertainment. Moreover, it is a principal function of free public libraries to encourage and form the habit of reading; and the habit, acquired from fiction, may often extend to other branches of literature."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3029, 28 October 1908, Page 4
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178FICTION AND THE FREE LIBRARY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3029, 28 October 1908, Page 4
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