The Social Uses of Inspection Authority: the Inspection and Purchasing Committees of Municipal Libraries
The committees for inspection and book purchasing were instituted in 1839 as organs charged with the control of the collections of municipal libraries. The study carried out here examines the period from 1885 to 1945 and attempts to respond to two types of question: the consequences of institutionalization of an external inspection authority for the library; the creation, by the State, of this authority which can be considered an intervention by central government in the function of local institutions.
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