WORLD PROBLEM
OVERCOMING IGNORANCE
IMPORTANCE OF LIBRARY MOVEMENT
P.A. NAPIER, May 19. The importance of the library movement in the battle in the world to-day against ignorance and prejudice was stressed by Mrs E. M. Knox Gilmer, of Wellington, in her presidential address to the New Zealand Library Association’s annual conference, which was opened in Napier yesterday. The most effective and urgent tasks facing the association were in New Zealand, she said, but responsibilities in “the troublesome world ” could not be shirked. “ When only one out of three in the world can read more than a few words, when three-quarters of the oeople of the earth are under some kind of Government censorship, and when language barriers hinder the free flow of jdeas as they do, I submit that the world has a problem of almost fantastic size if further tragedy is to be avoided,’’ she declared. The main point in Mrs Knox Gilmer's remarks about New Zealand library services was her advocacy of a universal free library system. The conference is being attended by 150 delegates from all parts of the Dominion.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26776, 20 May 1948, Page 2
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