An outline of the history of dermatology in Victoria

Reading and ownership

“…In 1957, in Keighley, West Yorkshire, fiction was reported to account for seventy-five per cent of loans, in spite of efforts to boost 'serious' reading by giving readers an additional non-fiction only ticket. 176 With continued demand for popular genres in particular, there was a revival of 'the old and sterile controversy about the provision of fiction'. 177 The debate turned on how far public libraries were responding to demand and how far they were responsible for perpetuating it.…”