When libraries made headlines

Amey, Larry

Australian Library Journal 2001 50 (3)1234
(ReLIS:jul:juljuh:y:2001:v:50:i:3:p:1234)

Abstract:

How big an impact did the report have? Sir Grenfell Price, at the opening of the building of the National Library of Australia in 1968, said the Munn Pitt survey led to a 'revolution in Australian libraries'. Eventually, authorities took to referring to Australian library history as AM and PM, that is, the bettering influence on library provision between ante-Munn and post-Munn. Norman Horrocks in his study, 'The Carnegie Corporation of New York and its impact on library development in Australia' comments that 'the impact of this report at the time was tremendous'. Indeed, it is undoubtedly true that no library report before or after in the history of Australia has made such an impression.

Keywords: Australia ; Bibliotecas ; Encuestas
Pages: 1234
Volume: 50
Year: 2001
Issue: 3

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