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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
Library History – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jan 1, 1997
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