AUTHORS IN SHIRT SLEEVES
New Service For Country Folk
New Zealand where books are as scarce as trips to town since petrol was restricted, it is entirely the fault of the population. One of the most consistently successful projects deveioped since New Zealand had a Labour Government has been the Country Library Service. Hampers of books going out regularly at an absurdly small cost, vans touring the country as travelling libraries, special services to specialists and students-these are among the activities of one of the most important jobs of work in the country. Now comes news of yet another service to subscribers. The Library agencies have inaugurated an extensive Information Service, fed by a growing collection of pamphlets, newspaper clippings, pictures and periodicals. This should prove a boon to rural communities. It is an answer to the growing demand for up-to-the-minute information on topics about which there has not yet been time for books to be written and published. Oliver Wendell Holmes once said that "A great proportion of the best writing and reading comes in paper covers, The P there is any country centre in
. writer appears, as it were, in his shirtsleeves." This is truer now. than then. To-day more than ever, commercial organisations, research committees, social bodies, and the like, keep up with social and economic change by rushing out pamphlets, brochures and booklets "in their shirt-sleeves." It is these that form the basis of the new Information Service. , The Country Library Service has regularly circulated nearly one hundred newspapers and periodicals. These are also now part of its Information Service. A picture often conveys more than words: the Service is adding a wide range of pictures to its information files — art prints, photographs, architects’ plans, technical designs. These should greatly extend this field. The Information Service is available to all readers of participating libraries. There is no guarantee that "crossword puzzle" types of questions will be answered, but requests for information on politics, technology, the international situation, art, farming or the home, referred by the local librarian to Wellington, will be given immediate attention.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 75, 29 November 1940, Page 9
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348AUTHORS IN SHIRT SLEEVES New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 75, 29 November 1940, Page 9
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