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Government subsidies for public libraries in New Zealand 1877-1935.
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Australasian Public Libraries and InformationServices
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December 1, 2005
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There has been much research on the revolution in New Zealand libraries which followed the 1934 Munn-Barr report. In their enthusiasm for those reforms, researchers have neglected the contribution of the earlier mechanics' institutes, and the period of direct Education Department subsidies to public libraries. Failings in the department's limited approach were obvious by the early 1930s. After 1935 a centralised approach through the Country and School Library Service, and later the National Library, became the alternative
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There had been financial assistance given to public and other libraries and institutes by various New Zealand provincial governments in ...