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RURAL LIBRARY PROVISION IN HEREFORDSHIRE; THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
JOHN C. CRAWFORDAlthough Herefordshire does not have long traditions of rural library provision two experiments took place in the 1890s. (1) In 1894, the newly founded Colwall Parish Council…
ARGYLL: LIBRARY SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC BEFORE 1958
WILLIAM L. SCOTTINTRODUCTION To choose 1958 as the year terminating a study of the development of public library facilities in Argyll may seem somewhat arbitrary. The year is chosen as marking…
CAITHNESS SCHOLAR‐BORROWERS IN THE NINETEEN‐TWENTIES
DANIEL HAYIn an earlier paper Daniel Hay has described the Wick Library in which his professional career began. In the following short piece, here published posthumously, he considers a…
AIRDRIE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 1853—1894
W. CRAIG STRANGLike the Caithness library, the Airdrie library as a separate entity disappeared in the process of local government reorganisation in 1975. This account assesses the extent of…
SIBERIAN BOOK STUDIES
PATRICIA POLANSKYThis brief survey notes new publications which contribute to our understanding of the book as it developed in Siberia. Soviet scholars and librarians have a strong tradition of…