[Vwoolf] Public Libraries

[Caroline Webb]

Do the museums regularly dump their collections so they'll only carry
last year's artworks?
 
I am appalled at the closure of English public libraries, and would
protest if I lived there, but I take Stuart's point.  When I was in the
local library while staying in England a few years ago I was very
disappointed to see it was the same (or worse) as my local library here
in Australia--a good place to find any popular-fiction book first
published last year, almost certainly useless if you want to read
something more than three years old and/or not popular fiction.  
 
Public libraries in their previous sense and purpose have already, in
effect, been closed.
 
Caroline 

>>> Gregory Jordan Dekter <jdekter at gmail.com> 24/07/2013 2:33 am >>>
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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