SWAY BACK TO FICTION.
Popular Taste in Reading Matter. NEW ZEALAND LIBRARIAN’S WORLD TOUR. Press Association —Copyright. Wellington, To-day. Popular taste in reading matter seems to be returning to Action, according to Dr. Guy H. Scholefield, Parliamentary Librarian, who returned to Wellington yesterday from a study of library methods abroad. Dr. Scholefield said that in the last
few years libraries everywhere had very much the same, experience. During the depression, which had caused
an increase in reading, through the people having more time on their hands, theirs had been a fairly general tendency to "heavy" reading. Social problems were studied considerably. But now popular taste seemed to be returning to fiction. People appeared to regard libraries as recreational as well as educational, though of course there were the specialised libraries which had not fiction at all on their shelves.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 40, 27 January 1936, Page 5
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