This year sees the fiftieth anniversary of the Public Libraries Act (I9I9), and the con sequent birth of county libraries. But for five years before the Act, experiments in rural library provision had been sponsored and financed by the CUKT, which laid valuable foundations. Three types of experiment were tried in sixteen areas before the Trust felt confident in its recommendations to the Covernment concerning the proposed new legislation, which was to shape the administrative pattern of British county libraries.
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