The Library World Volume 16 Issue 5

Abstract

IN the annual reports of many libraries in all parts of the country decreased issues are bewailed. True the decrease, in most cases, does not amount to much; but there it is, and in each annual report it has to be explained. And the explanation in most general favour at the moment is the double‐barrelled one of “picture‐palaces” and “cheap editions.” Whether or not this explanation is correct does not concern us greatly. But we must protest against the attitude being taken in so many places, that a decrease of any kind necessarily must be an evil. The work of a library cannot really be shewn by the total at the foot of a column of figures.

Citation

(1913), "The Library World Volume 16 Issue 5", New Library World, Vol. 16 No. 5, pp. 128-160. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb008975