While the population of Croydon, a suburb of London, has doubled in 38 years, tlie subscribers to the public library, one of the best-managed institutions in Great Britain, have increased fivefold. A novel, Croydon finds, can Ire read by 127 different people before it has to be ■’ scrapped.” This means that it is possible to provide a reader with one book every week for the whole year at a total cost to the library of 2s 7i
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20271, 2 December 1927, Page 14
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