Library Review: The librarian and the art of reading: Summer 1944

Abstract

Purpose

Written in 1944, the purpose of this paper is to assess the librarian's increasing responsibilities and influences in the light of new educational plans.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper presents a personal viewpoint on the subject of “the librarian and the art of reading”.

Findings

It is vital that librarians should stress more and more the creative art of reading and point to the dangers of both superficial reading and of over‐indulgence.

Originality/value

The paper emphasises the great influence that libraries, as centres of learning, can have on a community.

Citation

Blackburn, R.H. (2007), "Library Review: The librarian and the art of reading: Summer 1944", Library Review, Vol. 56 No. 2, pp. 109-112. https://doi.org/10.1108/00242530710730286