LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26540, 15 August 1947, Page 2

LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

Teachers from two Dunedin schools and one school in a country district were speakers at a meeting of the Otago branch of the New Zealand Library Association. They described the difficulties which a teacher experienced in building up a library in a school. The main

obstacles were lack of time, accommodation, and enthusiastic support. The meeting was altendea by memoers of both the teaching and library professions. The chairman drew attention to a report of the Lower Hutt Municipal Library during the year in which it had changed from a subscription library to a free service institution. This report was a milestone in New Zealand library history, in that it was the first written record of such a change. It was men-

tioned that one of the compilers of the report, Mr R. O’Reilly, had gained the distinction of having had an article accepted by the Library Quarterly, the most scholarly of American library magazines. It was stated that the Fiction Committee. which had originated in Dunedin several years ago, had now been officially recognised by the New Zealand Library Association.