by New Zealand. National Library Service
About this book
The Report of the National Library Service for the Year Ended 31 March 1958, by New Zealand. National Library Service, captures a defining moment in the growth of New Zealand’s public information infrastructure. This concise essay/short nonfiction account lays out the Service’s year of activity—detailing the Country Library Service, School Library Service, Library School, and the National Library Centre—while placing those programs in the postwar context of expanding civic education and regional outreach.
Readers will find clear summaries of lending operations, book stock and acquisition policies, the Book Van and Hamper services, lighthouse and hospital provision, interlibrary loans, periodicals and bibliographical work, and the push for a national library proposal and union catalogue. The report discusses standards for participating public libraries, assistance to island schools, centralised book imports, and professional training initiatives, illustrating how mid‑century policy shaped access to books and information across urban and rural communities.
Ideal for librarians, library science students, historians of public policy, and anyone interested in New Zealand’s cultural infrastructure, this audiobook offers a compact, authoritative snapshot of library service evolution in 1958.
