Pat McMahon, Galway Librarian, on the Public Library Service

Pat McMahon, County Librarian, Galway talks about the Public Library Service.

The opening lines of the talk are based on the poem by John Holmes entitled "What does a man think about." This poem is to be found in The Faber Book of Modern American Verse, edited by W.H. Auden, and published by Faber and Faber in 1955.

Nuria Amat is a writer who was born in Barcelona. Her ideas about literature and language are to be found in an interview she gave to the Barcelona Review, which is an online magazine. The full interview may be found at:
http://www.barcelonareview.com/12/e_na_int.htm

The quotation about dreams is from the story by Vassilis Vassilikos entitled And dreams are dreams, published in New York by Seven Stories Press in 1996.

Sallie Tisdale's ideas about the public library are to be found in full in her article entitled Silence please: the public library as entertainment centre, which appeared in Harpers Magazine in March 1997.

Ideas about market forces, the market and public service were regularly written about by Michael Prowse in his column entitled Pause for thought," which appeared in the weekend edition of the The Financial Times during the late 1990s.

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[kmccook]

I am opening my class on Human Rights and Librarianship with a link to this presentation by Pat McMahon.

Kathleen de la Peña McCook

[GraceAnneLadyHawk]

a lovely, gentle, and passionate view of the library as place.

[MorrisCountyLibrary]

Thank you!! Excellent quality ...and I'm going to steal! "The public library must always be a place for the beating heart.." for this side of the pond.  Too true!! Thanks for sharing this.