<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I think Stuart, though I never met him but would love to, is just being a clever comedian! After all, we all know the less-privileged still relay on libraries….cheers, L.<br><div><div>On Jul 23, 2013, at 9:01 PM, Jean Mills <<a href="mailto:millsj7@gmail.com">millsj7@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Stuart,<div><br></div><div>First continental theorist bashing, and now this!?! What has happened to the "inner Common Reader" in you that I remember with such lurking fondness from the yesteryears of the listserv?</div>
<div><br></div><div>For all others who remain steadfast in their allegiance to libraries, check out Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf by Susan David Bernstein (EUP 2013). Although I'm not 100% convinced by her position on Woolf, it's a first-rate study of the Reading Room's significance on the writing lives of women.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jean </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Gregory Jordan Dekter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdekter@gmail.com" target="_blank">jdekter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 23 July 2013 06:42, Stuart N. Clarke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com" target="_blank">stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Rant over.</div><span><font color="#888888">
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<div>Stuart</div></font></span></div></div></div>
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