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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CORRECTIONS
- Contents
- BOOK THE FIRST: FREE TOWN LIBRARIES, AT HOME
- CHAPTER I FREE LIBRARIES IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, AND THE LEGISLATION CONCERNING THEM. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY GLANCE AT EARLIER TOWN AND PARISH LIBRARIES
- CHAPTER II TOWN COUNCILS, PAROCHIAL VESTRIES, AND OTHER LOCAL BOARDS; AND THEIR DUTIES IN TOWNS OR PARISHES IN WHICH A FREE LIBRARY IS PROPOSED TO BE ESTABLISHED UNDER ONE OR OTHER OF THE LIBRARIES ACTS
- CHAPTER III THE PLANNING, FORMING, ORGANIZING, AND WORKING, OF A FREE TOWN LIBRARY
- CHAPTER IV HISTORY OF FREE LIBRARIES ESTABLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN ON THE PRINCIPLE OF A LIBRARY RATE. 1850–1868
- BOOK THE SECOND: FREE TOWN LIBRARIES, ABROAD
- BOOK THE THIRD: FREE TOWN LIBRARIES, IN AMERICA
- BOOK THE FOURTH: BRIEF NOTICES OF COLLECTORS
- GENERAL INDEX
CHAPTER III - THE PLANNING, FORMING, ORGANIZING, AND WORKING, OF A FREE TOWN LIBRARY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CORRECTIONS
- Contents
- BOOK THE FIRST: FREE TOWN LIBRARIES, AT HOME
- CHAPTER I FREE LIBRARIES IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, AND THE LEGISLATION CONCERNING THEM. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY GLANCE AT EARLIER TOWN AND PARISH LIBRARIES
- CHAPTER II TOWN COUNCILS, PAROCHIAL VESTRIES, AND OTHER LOCAL BOARDS; AND THEIR DUTIES IN TOWNS OR PARISHES IN WHICH A FREE LIBRARY IS PROPOSED TO BE ESTABLISHED UNDER ONE OR OTHER OF THE LIBRARIES ACTS
- CHAPTER III THE PLANNING, FORMING, ORGANIZING, AND WORKING, OF A FREE TOWN LIBRARY
- CHAPTER IV HISTORY OF FREE LIBRARIES ESTABLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN ON THE PRINCIPLE OF A LIBRARY RATE. 1850–1868
- BOOK THE SECOND: FREE TOWN LIBRARIES, ABROAD
- BOOK THE THIRD: FREE TOWN LIBRARIES, IN AMERICA
- BOOK THE FOURTH: BRIEF NOTICES OF COLLECTORS
- GENERAL INDEX
Summary
BUILDINGS FOR A FREE LIBRARY
The striking contrast which has just been spoken of in the outward appearance of the two chief Libraries of the neighbour towns of Liverpool and Manchester sums up, so to speak, an important principle which underlies two distinct questions: It brings under the eye of the passerby in the streets of those towns the best possible illustration of the wisdom of forecast in planning and building a Free Library which is intended to grow. It also brings vividly before his mind the wisdom–even when large funds are in question–of beginning with books, and of postponing buildings. Nor is that contrast without a pregnant meaning in relation to a third question,–and one of wider bearing than either of the others. For the building in ‘William-Brown Street’ shows conclusively, on the one hand, that the Corporation of Liverpool has entered, from the first, into the true spirit of the Libraries Acts of 1850 and of 1855; while the building in ‘Camp Field’ shows, on the other hand, that the Corporation of Manchester–even in 1868–and in spite of a large stroke of work which under the provisions of those Acts its members have already performed for their constituents, and which, on the whole, they have performed with much vigour, fidelity and success, has not yet fully entered into the spirit of the legislation initiated in 1850.
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- Free Town Libraries, their Formation, Management, and HistoryIn Britain, France, Germany, and America, pp. 35 - 60Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1869