Monday, July 04, 2005
Libraries shouldn't encourage people to read books, should instead help governments promote their health, educational and social objectives. You can't be sure whether this is just lazy journalistic writing, as in my 'umble opinion, libraries ALREADY do much more than lend books (to the chagrin of Tim Coates and his ilk) and ALREADY promote other objectives, a library that has no material to help educate people, or no information on who people need to speak to or where they need to go with a problem isn't a library, it's an empty building, literally.
This should be seen as the modern "exciting challenge", 154 years after the opening of the country's first free public library, a Westminster seminar will be told. "We should not look at libraries exclusively as free bookshops," one of the main speakers, Professor Mark Hepworth, is due to say.
This is indeed the modern 'exciting challenge', it's just that libraries atarted dealing with it years ago. Only someone who doesn't actually go into libraries would think they are 'free bookshops'.
This should be seen as the modern "exciting challenge", 154 years after the opening of the country's first free public library, a Westminster seminar will be told. "We should not look at libraries exclusively as free bookshops," one of the main speakers, Professor Mark Hepworth, is due to say.
This is indeed the modern 'exciting challenge', it's just that libraries atarted dealing with it years ago. Only someone who doesn't actually go into libraries would think they are 'free bookshops'.
