摘要：Libraries have changed. Around the turn of the last century new public libraries were being built in towns and cities all over Britain. The Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie funded more than 2,500 new libraries around the world, and here in Wales the National Library was established in 1907. For many years the library catalogue was no more than ink on paper: card indexes in deep wooden drawers, painstakingly compiled by humans. Both the appetite for building libraries and the way in which they operate have changed somewhat in the intervening century but the core purpose of the library is very much the same –to give access to knowledge, literature and learning.
