Scandinavian roundup

Abstract

In 1979 a 374‐page report on all parts and aspects of Danish libraries was presented to the Minister of Culture. The most delicate question dealt with in the report was the administrative joining of public and research libraries, the majority recommending legislation including both, and a common directorate. No thanks, said the research libraries. Now, from the turn of the year, a new Minister of Culture is establishing a directorate for the research libraries only, like the Library Inspectorate, which has been in existence for 50 years, co‐ordinating and developing the public libraries (The former director of The State Library Inspectorate, Erik Allerslev Jensen, has just finished his book on the Inspectorate until 1970 with the title To the Promotion of the Cause of Libraries). Whether the new directorate for the research libraries will succeed or not in co‐ordinating and developing the research libraries, is an open question!

Citation

BRO GLISTRUP, J. (1986), "Scandinavian roundup", New Library World, Vol. 87 No. 1, pp. 10-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb038664