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- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing
- Copyright
- Copyright © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- ISSN
- 0024-2535
- DOI
- 10.1108/eb012218
- Publisher site
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Abstract
Time was when we librarians were howling at twopenny libraries. Not having the enterprise to display what should be our better and more enduring books in street windows, to give our libraries the impact of a good bookshop, we grew pale before the garish shows of tuck publications in cheapjacks' twopenny corner booths. Our dumps then, the slur on librarianship, infuriated me. I protested. The shivering stopped. Soon we saw, we now see, these nolonger twopenny booths as dingy shops hinting at furtive merchandise. We did not understand, we do not yet understand, that whoever grovels to the mob, will die by the mob a fact librarians, as well as cheapjacks, should remember, for no library has ever won credit or got thanks for its tuck.
Journal
Library Review – Emerald Publishing
Published: Jul 1, 1954