50 years ago

RURAL regional librarians will mount a campaign to get $2 for $1 subsidies for regional libraries from the State Government. Convener of the Rural Regional Librarians’ Group, Mr. Gordon Dadswell, said in Hamilton on Monday the group would concentrate its campaign for more cash on the State. Mr. Dadswell, who was addressing a meeting of the West Victorian Libraries Association, said this decision had arisen from a feeling that regionalisation had been pushed by the State. “Libraries have been pushed into regionalisation, but have been given no financial incentives to do so,” he said. “There is a feeling if we are to be regional operations, the State should bear the brunt of the finance because the State says it is a good thing.