Libraries for an imperial power

Kirsop, Wallace

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“…As Wallace Kirsop has pointed out, the 'push towards greater openness' in the evolution of colonial public libraries 'was not accidental', and was related both to a 'public demand for readier access to books', and to a global network of institutions and settlements that 'stimulated a spirit of emulation'. 31 Debating the admission policies of the SALMI at an annual general meeting in 1848, for example, the question was asked 'whether that Society was for a class, or for the people? Whether it was a Private Society, or a Public Institution?'.…”

Section: 'Liberality Of Access': Reconfiguring Books In the Colonial mentioning

confidence: 99%

From Community to Public Libraries: Liberalism, Education, and Self-Government

Atkin

Comyn

Fermanis

et al. 2019

New Directions in Book History

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This chapter considers the emergence of public libraries in the southern colonies, looking at how access to knowledge, education, and book provision were understood. It focuses primarily on the various meanings attaching to the word 'public' in the nineteenth century and on the development of 'national' acquisition and collection policies, but it also examines the motivations and catalysts for the development of public libraries more generally, concentrating on the specific, local conditions that led to their establishment and growth, on their connection to political factions concerned with representative government, and on their contribution to a distinctive type of 'colonial modernity'.

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Section: 'Liberality Of Access': Reconfiguring Books In the Colonial mentioning

confidence: 99%