TY  - JOUR
AB  - Criticisms of the Library Association have no value which do not take account of all the circumstances. We are told that for some years past nothing constructive for librarianship or for its technique has been done. Our correspondent Callimachus makes this assertion by implication on another page. It must be remembered, however, that until quite recently the Library Association was a very small body which exercised an influence out of all proportion to its size and income. It has grown by direct membership and by affiliation in an extraordinary manner in the past year, a result which is due to goodwill on the part of librarians, but more immediately to the wise direction of Messrs. Jast and Savage and the untiring patience and tacful activity of Mr. Guy Keeling. Our readers know that Mr. Keeling has actually had to rest owing to the effects of overwork. This being so, it is quite clear that the demand for more must be tempered by a willingness to work on the part of the critics. The Association is only an embodiment of the membership; what the members want of the Association they must give to it.
VL  - 32
IS  - 4
SN  - 0307-4803
DO  - 10.1108/eb009128
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009128
PY  - 1929
Y1  - 1929/01/01
TI  - The Library World Volume 32 Issue 4
T2  - New Library World
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 104
EP  - 128
Y2  - 2024/05/08
ER  -