The Reading Room and
News Room contain a careful selection of the leading newspapers, and a
large variety of the best periodicals. The Reference Library contains
about 24,000 volumes, including sets of the publications of several
learned societies, and is being brought up to date by the purchase of
recent standard works of reference. The Local Collection, which for
completeness probably equals that of any other county, has a rich store
of material, valuable not only to the antiquary, but to all those who
desire to know something of the literature and art of the county, or its
natural and geological history, or the part played by Norfolk and Norwich
in the general history of England. Further, the Library, being
encyclopaedic in character, may be regarded as a bureau of information,
and as such it is playing an important part in the educational,
industrial and social life of the City.
_Printed by Jarrold & Sons_, _Ltd._, _Norwich_, _England_.
Footnotes:
{1} A. Jessopp's Norwich (Diocesan histories), 1884, p. 155.
{2a} Leland's "Laboryouse Journey and Serche of Johan Leylande for
Englandes Antiquitees," enlarged by John Bale.
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