[Vwoolf] Public Libraries

[Gregory Jordan Dekter]

I suppose we should dismantle the museums and cathedrals while we're at it.

On 23 July 2013 06:42, Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>wrote:

>   All this fuss about closing public libraries!  What are public
> libraries for?  I’m not up to date with current librarianship thinking, but
> they seem pretty useless to me.  When I first read Woolf’s essay on Parson
> Woodforde in CR2, as a teenager in the 1960s, I went to Wimbledon Library
> and got out one of his vols.  (Sorry, but I couldn’t get anywhere with
> it.)  Look on the London Borough of Merton’s current online catalogue, and
> there’s not a single vol. anywhere in the borough; 27 entries for the whole
> of London.  I remember when there was a whole stack of music scores in the
> Wim. Library.  Bet they’re not there now.  They might as well close them
> all as far as I’m concerned.
>
> Rant over.
>
> Stuart
>
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