Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median and Mode
Libraries as Learning Institutions - An Informal History by Dr Ian McShane, Senior Research Fellow, Urban and Social Sciences, RMIT
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4. • Alistair Black: the public library is viewed
superficially as an uncontroversial cultural
institution, without a history, meaning all
things to all people and commanding a ready
acceptance which verges on the taken for
granted. Its social neutrality and impartiality
are almost mythical.
8. Munn and Pitt: “The frankness with which the
librarian insisted that it is the institute’s function
to ‘amuse the ratepayers, not to edify them’,
was at least completely honest.”