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The Rural Community Library in Scotland

Library Review

ISSN: 0024-2535

Article publication date: 1 June 1974

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Abstract

MANY of the parish and community libraries of Scotland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were subscription libraries, as this was the best way for people of limited means to amass and maintain reasonable collections, but it was not always so. When William Ewart and his colleagues met to consider the problem of public libraries in 1849, they interviewed John Imray, a civil engineer who had seen several parochial and village libraries in the north of Aberdeenshire. The cross‐examination by Ewart began as follows:

Citation

Crawford, J. (1974), "The Rural Community Library in Scotland", Library Review, Vol. 24 No. 6, pp. 243-250. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012602

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MCB UP Ltd

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