"JDriends of the Library: so benign, so helpful, so ... friendly! Yet, so often
when one mentions the subject to library administrators reactions are heard
which range from, ""Oh yes, we had a group years ago, when we had our
new building campaign, but after that they became inactive and quietly
disappeared,"" or, ""Oh, you have a friends group? I keep thinking I should
try to get a group going for my library, but what do you do with them?"" to
""Friends? You mean pests! There are days I'd trade them for identifiable
enemies!"" Are friends worth the bother? Is it heresy to ask?
This small anthology of case studies has been assembled on the basis
of discussions with many people, in different parts of the country and from
libraries of various sizes. An entire book could be written about the interactions
between library administration, the trustees of the library, and the
friends group. There appears to be an endless array of stories, experiences,
and strong feelings among participants in these mini-dramas."
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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