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Unit 9: Development of Libraries in India, U.K and U.S.A

Self Assessment Notes

State whether the following statements are true or false:
6. Sidis claims that the first public library was Boston’s in 1636.
7. The library in the New Hampshire town of Peterborough was opened in 1834.

9.4 Summary

• The names of Maharaja Sawai Man Singh of Jaipur and Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Punjab will
be remembered with appreciation in the history of library services in India.
• In 1808 the Government of Bombay proposed to register libraries, which were to be given
copies of books published from the “funds for the encouragement of literature”.
• The 1951 census, the first conducted after independence, found 2,843 local governments in
the urban and rural areas in India, of which 320 were rural district boards.
• In Bristol, an early library that allowed access to the public was that of the Kalendars or
Kalendaries, a brotherhood of clergy and laity who were attached to the Church of All-
Hallowen or All Saints.
• Steven Fischer estimates that in 1790, there were ‘about six hundred rental and lending librar-
ies, with a clientele of some fifty thousand.
• William James Sidis in The Tribes and the States claimed the public library, as such, was an
American invention.
• In 1731, Benjamin Franklin and his friends, sometimes called “the Junto”, operated the Li-
brary Company of Philadelphia partly as a means to settle arguments and partly as a means
to advance them through sharing information.

9.5 Keywords

Professional : Skilled person
Session : Gathering
Proximity : Closeness
Amalgamated : Merged

Venture : Enterprise.

9.6 Review Questions

1. What is library development?
2. Who are library fund raising professionals?
3. What is library development programmes?
4. Write a note on library development staff evaluation.
5. Explain the library co-ordination with the institutions development office.
6. Describe the library development in United Kingdom.
7. Discuss the library development in United States.

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