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Public Library Pioneer: A.W. McClellan
Contributor(s): McClellan, Keith Howard (Author)

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 ISBN: 1910779369     ISBN-13: 9781910779361
Publisher: Keith H McClellan
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: May 2017
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Physical Information: 0.33" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.47 lbs) 140 pages
 
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Encouraged by his father, McClellan made the most of his education only to find that the family could not afford to send him to university. His pacifist views featured strongly in his teenage and early adult years as did his love of science and practical experiments. He joined Tottenham Public Library as a junior assistant and progressed rapidly via Poplar and Penge to Chelmsford where his contribution to the home front was described as irreplaceable. After the war he returned to Tottenham where his pioneering approach he called Service in Depth was widely known as the Tottenham Experiment.. He combined fundamental ideas on purpose and function with practical means and empathy with staff to produce an outstanding service. The creation of the Greater London Council and the merging of Tottenham into the larger Borough of Haringey brought his practical application of his ideas to a premature end, but he was able to develop and write up his work at the College of Librarianship, Aberystwyth. His two books, The Reader, the Library and the Book, and The Logistics of a Public Library Bookstock, were published as a result.

Contributor Bio(s): McClellan, Keith Howard: - Keith McClellan spent his career in teaching. He taught English in Harlow, Essex, before he and his wife went to Kenya where they taught for six years. He became deputy head of his school there, wrote and directed plays for the Kenya schools drama festival performed in the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi. His play, The Iron Snake was published by Longman after he had directed it on Kenyan T.V. He returned to teach in Hampshire and moved to Berkshire where he was deputy head in John O'Gaunt School, Hungerford, at the time of the shooting tragedy there in 1987. Later that year he was appointed head of the Cooper School, Bicester where he spent the final twelve years of his teaching career. He spent a year as chairman of the Oxfordshire Secondary School Headteachers' Association and was also a headteacher representative on the Oxford University Education Department Committee dealing with student teacher placements. During this time he had articles published in the Times educational Supplement and the Oxford Times. On retirement he undertook many activities including joining a writing group. He went on to have a biographical sketch broadcast on Radio Oxford and later published his novel, The Bootlegger's Widow. He gives talks on from Writing groups to publication. His other interests are, his family, travel, walking and amateur dramatics.
 
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