LIBRARIES' CONFERENCE.
RESOLUTIONS CARRIED. j [BI TEMSGBAPH— J>B2!SS ASSOCIATION.) ; AUCKLAND, This Day. The Libraries Conference passed a resolution expressing the desirability of improved salaries and shorter hours for library assistants, co-ordination between public and semi-public libraries in the same city, referred to a committee the question of co-operafcion in bookbinding, with a view to effect a saving in the cost, appointed a committee to draw - model by-laws for municipal libraries. On a proposal recommending the executive committee to consider the desirability of the appointment of Home agent for the supply of books and periodicals, there was much diversity of opinion, but the motion was carried. THE PUBLIC AND THE PARLIAMENTARY LD3RARY. The subject of converting the Parliamentary Library into a national r and municipal one as fully as practicable, for use by the general public as against the present method of exclusiveness to parliamentarians and their friends, was discussed. A motion was carried recommending the Minister for Education and the Parliamentary Library Committee to institute the change. Mr. Wilson, Parliamentary Librarian, defended the present method, saying the public was not shut out from admission to the library during the recess.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 89, 17 April 1911, Page 7
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190LIBRARIES' CONFERENCE. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 89, 17 April 1911, Page 7
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