The Library World Volume 41 Issue 3

Abstract

RELIEF, which came to Europe in the early morning of September 30th, will be felt no more keenly anywhere than in libraries. Since Richard de Bury implored peace because war was the worst enemy of the book, we have had reason to know for ages what war may mean for our collections. Already, indeed, library staffs had been drawn upon for service in the Forces, in Air Raid Precautions and other urgent war work and some have not returned to their usual places yet. In the last war the proceedings began for libraries with drastic retrenchments and these were restored only when it was found that even at such a time the book was a necessity and not a superfluity.

Citation

(1938), "The Library World Volume 41 Issue 3", New Library World, Vol. 41 No. 3, pp. 57-80. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009213