The importance of fiction to the Raffles Library, Singapore, during the long nineteenth-century

• Main Author: Luyt, Brendan
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::History and statistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101515; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6716
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

One of the main controversies in the world of librarianship in the latter half of the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth century was the role of fiction in the public libraries of North America and United Kingdom. To what extent was this concern translated to other parts of the English-speak...