TY  - JOUR
AB  - 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:
VL  - 24
IS  - 6
SN  - 0024-2535
DO  - 10.1108/eb012602
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012602
AU  - Crawford John
PY  - 1974
Y1  - 1974/01/01
TI  - The Rural Community Library in Scotland
T2  - Library Review
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 243
EP  - 250
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -