Introduction

Abstract

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library” Albert Einstein Pick your own favourite quotations about libraries, there are many to choose from. In a world where the cost of a university education is now so daunting that it precludes many, I was interested to read the following: “I spent three days a week for ten years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of ten years I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.” Ray Bradbury (1920–2012).