ABSTRACT
Christopher Morley, certainly a great lover of books and libraries, wrote in his delightful John Mistletoe, “The book store is one of humanity’s great engines, and one that we use very imperfectly. It is a queer fact that most of us still have the primitive habit of visiting bookshops chiefly to ask for some definite title… .” Now Morley was speaking here in the vein of his redoubtable character Roger Mifflin who expressed the belief in The Haunted Bookshop that everything needed to cure the world’s ills can in fact be found in bookshops. He might as well have been speaking of libraries, however, as the same can be said of them.
