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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/131173| Title: | Public libraries |
| Keywords: | Public libraries Libraries and society -- United Kingdom |
| Issue Date: | n.d. |
| Publisher: | Tipografia Paolo Cumbo |
| Citation: | (n.d.) Public libraries. Melitensia Miscellanea Collection (Melit-Misc. vol. 80.4). University of Malta Library, Melitensia Special Collections. |
| Abstract: | We welcome the indications, now crowding upon us from every quarter, that the people of this country are beginning to feel the importance of taking active measures for the establishment and increase of public libraries. Large collections of books, open for common use, are at once the storehouses and the manufactories of learning and science : they bring together the accumulated fruits of the experience, the research, and the genius of other ages and distant nations, as well as of our own time and land; and they create the taste, as well as furnish the indispensable aids for the prosecution of literary and scientific effort in every department; In great cities they qualify the exclusive spirit of commercial and professional avocations, and encourage men to steal an hour from the pursuit of gain, and devote it to the attempt to satisfy a natural curiosity and to cultivate an elegant taste... [Excerpt] |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/131173 |
| Appears in Collections: | Miscellania : volume 080 - A&SCMisc |
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