AUTOCRATIC LIBRARIANS
SUPRESSI3K OF BOOKS BORROWERS CLOSELY WATCHED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 15. (Received November 16, at 9.40 a.m.) Tho ‘ Daily News ’ discloses that certain municipal library officials are suppressing many books, including those of Wells, Shaw, Anthony Hope, Bennett, Maxwell, Anatole France, Vere Stackpoole, and Eden Philpotts. The librarians, acting on their own initiative, frequently mark undesirable volumes with a red star, and lock them in private rooms. Borrowers are closely watched and prevented from specialising in a certain typo of fiction.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19407, 16 November 1926, Page 5
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86AUTOCRATIC LIBRARIANS Evening Star, Issue 19407, 16 November 1926, Page 5
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