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Leading by example: Barry in the library.

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From: The La Trobe Journal
Date: 20040922
Author:Hubber, Brian

Le bon Dieu est darts le detail

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

Introduction

REDMOND BARRY was a dominant personality during the founding years of the Library, and he continued to be involved with its governance and operation until his death in 1880. He maintained a belief that the best way to achieve a prosperous civilised society was to cultivate in its citizens, through the standard books of the time, the 'character of the loyal well bred English gentleman'. The Public Library was not intended 'to attract the idle and inquisitive or to entertain the frivolous'; ...

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