TY - JOUR AB - I am going to begin rashly. I am going to assume that my views on the purposes of a public library are correct, I hold that it is a place of education: not the formal education of a school, nor yet of the haphazard education that the world provides, but something in between. I believe this notion of the use of a public collection of books to have been in the minds of the founders of public libraries. VL - 15 IS - 4 SN - 0024-2535 DO - 10.1108/eb012245 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012245 AU - HARLEY JOHN PY - 1955 Y1 - 1955/01/01 TI - Wanted—A New Technique T2 - Library Review PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 230 EP - 232 Y2 - 2024/04/23 ER -