Comments on: Further reading https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com What's happening to your library? Tue, 15 Oct 2019 17:53:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Gareth Osler (@LibraryWeb) https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/reasons-for/further-reading#comment-5536 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:19:03 +0000 http://83.170.89.36/~publicli/?page_id=879#comment-5536 If I can add a brief bibliography to the latter post:

Great Britain. Ministry of Education; Bourdillon, H. T. (1962). Standards of Public Library Service in England and Wales. Report of the Working Party appointed by the Minister of Education in March 1961. (Chairman, H. T. Bourdillon.). London : H.M.S.O.
http://www.worldcat.org/title/standards-of-public-library-service-in-england-and-wales-report-of-the-working-party-appointed-by-the-minister-of-education-in-march-1961-chairman-h-t-bourdillon/oclc/558643663&referer=brief_results

HANSARD 1803–2005. PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS BILL, (Hansard, 30 June 1964, Second Reading)
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1964/jun/30/public-libraries-and-museums-bill

Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1964/75?view=extent

The public library system of Great Britain: a report on its present condition with proposals for post war reorganisation, Library Association, 1942. Lionel R McColvin

Also the books cited on the subject of the science of happiness in the following presentation:

The Economics of Happiness and Libraries
http://www.slideshare.net/oslergareth/library-camp2012-happinessindex-14833820

]]> By: Gareth Osler (@LibraryWeb) https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/reasons-for/further-reading#comment-5535 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 08:38:29 +0000 http://83.170.89.36/~publicli/?page_id=879#comment-5535 Having pondered (and studied) this question since I first began working for libraries in 2003, at this point I tend to think of a library as being of value in every context of our lives, the only issue being how efficiently librarians can break down the traditional barriers of time (in a chronological sense) and distance between the reader and the knowledge and wisdom of others that might be of value:

“People wish also in the main, to give their fellows and themselves the opportunity for self-improvement … human sympathy … the universal desire for an increase of human happiness by an increase of knowledge of conditions of human happiness”
Library Daylight – Tracings of Modern Librarianship, 1874-1922, Edited Rory Litwin.

“the gift that you give the artist and that the artist gives you”
Boing Boing, 17 November, 2006, Zadie Smith on the practice of reading.
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/17/zadie_smith_on_the_p.html

(It is not without reason I do not think that we have evolved this way.)

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