The Public Library [antikvár]

Preface to the Second Edition When this book first appeared I acknowledged my gratitude to the authors, editors, publishers, and others who had helped me and given me permission to reprint their material. I am glad to do this again and to thank additionally those to whom I am now for the first time indebted. Permission has been given by the following in respect of extracts from the works noted : Messrs Allen and Unwin, Ltd (Bertrand Russell's In Praise of Idleness), the American Library Association (Sydney Ditzion's Arsenals of a Democratie Culture, Minimum Standards for Public Library Systems, ig66, reports in ALA Bulletin, September 1967 and January 1969), Messrs Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. (Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth and A. E. Bostwick's The American Public Library (copyright 1910, D. Appleton and Co.)), the Editor, The Assistant Librarian, and the author (Alan Glencross's article in voi. 46), Messrs Benn, Ltd (Sir F. G. Kenyon's Libraries and Museums), Messrs Blackwood and Sons, Ltd {Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 157), Mrs Grâce Carlton (Thomas Greenwood's Public Libraries), Carnegie Corporation of New York (Carnegie's The Empire of Business), the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust (D. H, Stott's Delinquency and Human Nature), Clarendon Press (R. G. Collingwood's An Autobiography), Columbia University Press (R. D. Leigh's The Public Library in the United States), Council of Europe (Public Libraries and Life-Long Education Colloquy), the Danish Government (Danish Public Libraries Acts of 1950 and 1964, Regulation 169 of May i3th, 1965), Messrs Duckworth and Co., Ltd (Rumney and Maier's The Science of Society), Messrs Alexander Gardner, Ltd (John Mackintosh's The History of Civilization in Scotland), Messrs Grafton and Co. (L. S. Jast's Libraries and Living, L. R. McColvin's Libraries and the Public, and J. Wellard's Book