Abstract
A historical survey reveals that public libraries collaborated very readily with educational authorities in the nineteenth century, but that in the twentieth century there has been a considerable division of opinion. Idealists both inside and outside the library profession have stressed the educational aspect of library work, but the majority of practising librarians, hard pressed by shortages of staff, accom modation, and funds, have felt obliged to concentrate on what they regard as their major task, i.e. book provision. The examination of current problems leads up to the conclusion that, as a result of reforms in local government now pending, we shall shortly be facing a quite new position, in which a solution of this long-standing demarcation problem may at last be within sight.
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