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Buildings, books and beyond: Mechanics' Worldwide Conference 2004: athenaeums, endowment institutes/libraries, literary institutes, lyceums, mechanics' institutes, mercantile libraries, philosophical societies, schools of arts and working men's/women's institutes: proceedings of an international conference convened by the Mechanics' Institutes of Victoria at Swinburne University, Prahran Campus, Melbourne, Australia, 2-4 September 2004. 2nd edition. Windsor, Vic: Prahran Mechanics Institute Press, 2004. 430pp. Paperback. $77.00 plus $9.00 postage (Australia) $25.00 (overseas). ISBN 9756 0001 X. Also available as a CD.ROM $60.00 plus $4.00 postage.
The description of subscription-based schools of arts libraries and their ilk in Ralph Munn and ER Pitt's Australian Libraries (Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research, 1935) as 'cemeteries of old and forgotten books', like some of the other colourful judgements delivered in their Report, was deliberately provocative and broad-sweeping There were in fact many exceptions among these institutions, which had originally been established mainly as places of learning for working-class people. There was...
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