New challenges for libraries outlined

JET writes “http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1 520642,00.html

An initiative will be launched today to nudge policymakers away from seeing successful book lending and the encouragement of reading as the prime goals of Britain’s public library service.
Instead the emphasis should shift to whether libraries help governments promote their wider health, educational and social objectives.

“We should not look at libraries exclusively as free bookshops,” one of the main speakers, Professor Mark Hepworth, is due to say. “More complex measures and methodologies are needed to properly capture the social benefits of library services.””

July 6, 2005 by Uncategorized 0

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