This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...or virtual foundation, of a Public Library. On the Continent of Europe, the Town Libraries (as a general rule, subject of course to its occasional exceptions, here and there) have been freely accessible to the inhabitants at large. And they have had, almost universally, a regular maintenance fund, of some sort, from ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...or virtual foundation, of a Public Library. On the Continent of Europe, the Town Libraries (as a general rule, subject of course to its occasional exceptions, here and there) have been freely accessible to the inhabitants at large. And they have had, almost universally, a regular maintenance fund, of some sort, from municipal sources. But, until a recent date, although in nearly all the great countries of Europe the principle had come to be recognised that a ' Town Library' ought to be among the established municipal institutions, and many hundreds of such libraries had been actually formed, the means assigned for their support were, in a very large number of cases, quite insufficient to ensure either creditable maintenance or good educational results. In Britain, the number of Town Libraries--of any kind, with any amount of maintenance, or of any degree of public accessibility--has, at all times, been conspicuously out of harmony both with national wealth, and with educational needs. When the wrant of such institutions came to be, in some measure, publicly recognized, the bent of the national mind and the strong influence exerted by many longestablished habits led, usually and naturally, to the seeking of its supply, rather by forming new private societies than by imposing a new public function on the old Town Councils. And in this track--as the reader has just seen--our American colonists and their descendants followed us closely. They did more than follow. They carried out the institution of associative Libraries over the length and breadth of settled North America with a thoroughness which has never been realised, to a like extent, at home. As regards those very few 'Town Libraries' of old foundation which had some sort of municipal existence amongst us...
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