WAR LIBRARY SERVICE
The annual report of the New Zealand Library Association mentions the increased scope of the War Library Service, to which 135,093 books and 147,127 periodicals had been allocated up to December 31, 1941. Local libraries and other organisations had helped with the collection of the books, and the librarians and staffs of the Auckland, Canterbury, Dunedin, Wanganui, and Palmerston North Public Libraries had undertaken the processing and distribution of the books to the fighting forces.
Libraries were now established at the Base Camp and the New Zealand Forces Club, Cairo, the report continues. Service was also given to isolated groups in the desert. Whenever possible, shipments of books and periodicals had been sent for the sole use of Base Camp Hospitals'. Many soldiers would now have the means of keeping in touch with their civilian occupations.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1942, Page 5
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139WAR LIBRARY SERVICE Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1942, Page 5
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