... materials, and find selecting and acquiring them a challenge. Argues that greater awareness of what such materials have to offer would answer growing demands from users and provide spiritual and cultural benefit for the community. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Beliefs Ideologies Library materials...

...David Owen If there is such a thing as the “public library movement”, where is it today and where is it going? Discusses the motive forces that shape its values and beliefs and how they differ from those of our predecessors, if at all. Examines whether there is a public library ideology which...