The Library World Volume 71 Issue 7

Abstract

IT is always something of an embarrassment for a West German librarian to address his British colleagues on the problems of public libraries. What is there of interest in a system which in almost every respect is years behind the development of the English libraries? When I begin to think along these lines of the considerable and, indeed, natural role which the library plays in British society (almost a traumatic experience for a German librarian), then the inequalities of the situation become particularly clear. Even though there are many historical and political causes for this state of affairs, it is still impossible for any correspondent to free himself of a certain psychological handicap.

Citation

(1970), "The Library World Volume 71 Issue 7", New Library World, Vol. 71 No. 7, pp. 197-228. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009548