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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Of course, back in those times, the latest fiction was not what libraries did. Fiction existed, of course, but libraries were oriented towards non fiction. Fiction tended more towards being published in magazines and newspapers. Libraries were more to educate rather than amuse.
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That was a concern even then:
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Nothing, he believed, could be more visionary than the fear that these libraries would be filled with novels and the worst description of publications—bad and useless as literature—or that they would be mere receptacles for newspapers.
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