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where the need is socially urgent, there the library should be most ready to press its service
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The quote says that a library should be most prepared to help where people’s need is greatest and most urgent. Its service should respond to pressing social needs rather than being equally ready everywhere regardless of circumstances.
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- Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University
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