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Volume 44, Issue 3
1 May 1995
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Library Review
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Case Report| May 01 1995

History of the Bradford Mechanics′ Institute Library

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-793X
Print ISSN: 0024-2535
© MCB UP Limited
1995
Library Review (1995) 44 (3): 8–11.
https://doi.org/10.1108/00242539510086267

Describes the history of the Bradford Mechanics′ Institute Library,which was founded in 1832, in relation to prevailing educational and social circumstances. Discusses changes resulting from the Education Act of 1870 when education passed into public hands. Considers the Library′s present survival and the circumstances hindering and harming that survival, which are mostly concerned with funding.

Keywords: Adult education, History, Libraries
© MCB UP Limited
1995
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