This paper stresses the need for librarians to devote attention to reading as an ongoing activity and to the personal, social and environmental contexts within which it takes place. It argues that the relationship of the render to the printed text is as important for the librarian as the printed text itself and that it is from this relationship that emerges a substantinl part of the values which the library serves. It was read to the Assistant Librarians Section, The Library Association of Ireland, at the College of Librarianship Wales, on 16 April 1975.
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