Country Library Service
Sir,—ln i his reply to “Country Cousin” Mr Alley says that “the request service is not intended to be used for the popular and latest novels.” How, then, do country readers get the popular novels? They certainly are not on the van. Time and again the van appears with the same old books oh the fiction shelves and the, only way to get anything new or popular is to request it. Does Mr Alley, mean that the Country , Library Service should cater for the minority when he states that “books of marginal interest have an essential place in its stock.” Surely these books of marginal interest should be available from the request service and not from the fiction shelves of the van. While lam very appreciative of the Country Library Service, a greater range and variety cf betterclass fiction would be even more appreciated.—Yours. NON-MARGINAL READER. July 13, 1966. [The national librarian (Mr G. T. Alley) replies: “Country Library Service vans visit libraries which vary greatly in size, and their primary purpose is to extend local book stock. They cannot provide a complete service of
popular reading to the small country groups they visit, and are not intended to be a substitute for library service by local authorities.”]
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31120, 25 July 1966, Page 12
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