Letters, Libraries and Broadcasting-They Go Back Together a Long Way

Abstract

Letters, and the library which reposits them, have been ambivalent in their reactions to the various communications technologies which have emerged in the 20th century. Some have seen them as ortending the death of rint. Others have seen in each P of these an a ly which can enhance 0th the printed word and the role of the library. This article, based on what the periodical press of the early 1920s reported, looks at how the first of the electronic technologies, radio, was initially perceived in the world of letters and libraries.