VALUE OF LIBRARIES
"Only ratepayers and residents of the City of Auckland will be entitled to the new free borrowing privileges; all others will be required to pay directly for the privilege of borrowing books from city libraries," said Miss Ellen Melville, when speaking at the annual meeting of the Epsom branch of the Auckland Citizens and Ratepayers' Association on the subject of "Auckland Libraries and Their Purposes," last evening.
The view too generally accepted tbfit public libraries were merely purveyors of current shortlived reading matter had to be replaced with Qie idea that they were the community storehouses of knowledge and culture, not in the sense of compulsory educational institutions, but as places where people might obtain help, self-instruction or recreation, said the speaker.
Dealing with the request of the Epsom branch for a new library building in the centre of the district and suggesting a site near the corner of Gillies Avenue and The Drive Miss Melville said that the City Council realised the need for new buildings, but were unable to proceed in the immediate future, awing to war conditions.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 146, 22 June 1945, Page 7
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