Goals of Public Library Services for Children

Sullivan, Peggy

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Title

Goals of Public Library Services for Children

Author(s)

Sullivan, Peggy

Issue Date

1977

Keyword(s)

Children’s libraries

Abstract

"Some years ago, Lowell Martin wrote an article on cooperation between school and public libraries which he subtitled: ""Or, Why Don't We Have Any?"" It was not only eye-catching and provocative , but a very reasonable question to ask. A subtitle for this discussion of goals of children's services of public libraries might be: ""Are We Sure We Have Any?"" However, I would not do that because I believe that when conferees have heard all of the speakers and discussions planned, and when readers later have read all the papers, they will be convinced that, indeed, there are goals. If there were not, we could scarcely now all be so convinced of the importance of children's services that we would be gathered here, and there could not be the strong thread of agreement running through the presentations which, I predict, will be discernible. It is only in individual programs of service to children, perhaps only in the minds of individual librarians, that the question may not be satisfactorily answered. The most painful question is not whether librarianship has goals for public library service to children; it is whether or not each person responsible for providing that service has recognized, measurable, articulated goals for service. I think they do not."

Publisher

Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Allerton Park Institute (23rd : 1977)

ISSN

0536-4604

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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