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An Interview with Frank M. Gardner (1908–1980)

An Interview with Frank M. Gardner (1908–1980) An Interview with Frank M. Gardner (1908-1980) David Gerard Wilmslow, Cheshire FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS SPENT his career in public libraries you have had a varied career within that framework. You began work in 1925, you have written, you have edited, you have taught and you have travelled. So can we begin with a resume of your work from the time when you started in Yorkshire until the time when you became Chief Librarian of Luton?l The first public library service I joined was Sheffield which at that time was probably the worst public library in the British Isles, and that's saying something because there was a pretty bad public library service throughout the country - not that I knew that! - but as a boy I had used a branch library in Sheffield which was still an old 'indicator' library, with hardly any books fit to read. I wanted to read H.G. Wells' War of the worlds and Jerome K. Jerome's Three men on the bummel, and I found that they were never there. The indicator never seemed to work properly, the books were in tatters, and one day the chief assistant said "We're about to have a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Library History Edinburgh University Press

An Interview with Frank M. Gardner (1908–1980)

Library History , Volume 13 (1): 10 – Jan 1, 1997

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Edinburgh University Press
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Copyright © Edinburgh University Press
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0024-2306
DOI
10.1179/lib.1997.13.1.29
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An Interview with Frank M. Gardner (1908-1980) David Gerard Wilmslow, Cheshire FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS SPENT his career in public libraries you have had a varied career within that framework. You began work in 1925, you have written, you have edited, you have taught and you have travelled. So can we begin with a resume of your work from the time when you started in Yorkshire until the time when you became Chief Librarian of Luton?l The first public library service I joined was Sheffield which at that time was probably the worst public library in the British Isles, and that's saying something because there was a pretty bad public library service throughout the country - not that I knew that! - but as a boy I had used a branch library in Sheffield which was still an old 'indicator' library, with hardly any books fit to read. I wanted to read H.G. Wells' War of the worlds and Jerome K. Jerome's Three men on the bummel, and I found that they were never there. The indicator never seemed to work properly, the books were in tatters, and one day the chief assistant said "We're about to have a

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Library HistoryEdinburgh University Press

Published: Jan 1, 1997

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