"The greatest development in American public library service
has been realized in the large cities. These large city
""systems"" as they are frequently called, provide equality of
service to everyone within the area served. The patron of the
independent small library, inadequately financed, and therefore
poorly staffed and poorly supplied with books and periodicals
has the same need as the city dweller for services of
skilled librarians using the wealth of materials available in
such a library system.
As is pointed out in the new Public Library Standards
""even though local resources are limited, public officials and
librarians have a responsibility to provide full library services
to the community through a structure of cooperation and government.
"" In other words, to combine two of the standards:
""Every individual should not only have free library service
available in his local community but he should also have access
through his local outlet to the full range of modern library
facilities provided by regional, state, and federal library
agencies."""
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Allerton Park Institute (4th : 1957)
ISSN
0536-4604
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1453
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