Readership
Articles
- ‘How to encourage our literature’: Australian Fiction in the Australian Public Library
A visitor to a typical major public library in Australia prior to the Second World War would have found it difficult to locate more than…
1 May 2012 - Forgotten Books and Local Readers: Popular Fiction in the Library at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
This essay uses the records of local library borrowers' choices in the early twentieth century to approach a body of fiction that has been given…
1 October 2014