[Vwoolf] Public Libraries

[Laurie Reiche]

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.
On Jul 23, 2013, at 9:01 PM, Jean Mills <millsj7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Stuart,
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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.
> 
> Jean 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Gregory Jordan Dekter <jdekter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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