Subscription Libraries and the Cost of Living

Abstract

The merging of the Birmingham Library with the Birmingham and Midland Institute has sent a mild shiver through the faded rooms of the proprietary and subscription libraries. Not that the Birmingham Library has suffered under the change of ownership, rather the contrary; but the merger represents the extinguishing of one more of the dwindling band of similarly constituted libraries.

Citation

WHATMORE, G. (1957), "Subscription Libraries and the Cost of Living", Library Review, Vol. 16 No. 3, pp. 162-165. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012272