Australian Library History Forum 2016 Keynote Address at State Library of Queensland, Brisbane on the 7 July 2016

4. • Alistair Black: the public library is viewed
superficially as an uncontroversial cultural
institution, without a history, meaning all
things to all people and commanding a ready
acceptance which verges on the taken for
granted. Its social neutrality and impartiality
are almost mythical.

7. Scott Bennett: learning paradigms in libraries

8. Munn and Pitt: “The frankness with which the
librarian insisted that it is the institute’s function
to ‘amuse the ratepayers, not to edify them’,
was at least completely honest.”

9. Scott Bennett: learning paradigms in libraries

10. McShane’s modification of Bennett