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iv. education and mental culture.
the school libraries, the other, the Order of Good Templars, for the libraries of
the various riksförbund. Besides this, there is a grant in aid of "ambulatory
libraries" (vandringsbibliotek) made by the State to the Folkbildningsförbundet,
which in December 1914 had 130 of these "ambulatory libraries" (which are
removed wholesale from one place in the country to another, temporarily, on hire).
The State also subsidizes the above-named central bureaus at Lund and
Gothenburg (from 1913) and the people’s library at Luleå.
In the Ecklesiastikdepartementet there are since 1913 two library experts
(bibliotekskonsulent), who report to the Department, advise the general public
as to books etc., and superintend the State-aided libraries. At present a
complete catalogue of the literature in the people’s libraries is being drawn up.
This catalogue will afterwards be published by the Ecklesiastikdepartementet,
and will serve as a guide to these libraries in selecting the books to be received
by way of State aid.
Other Measures. State grants are also made in aid of summer courses at
the universities of Uppsala, Lund, Stockholm and Gothenburg. These summer
courses are arranged so as to come back to the same place every four years.
Temperance courses are also subsidized by the State; these courses are held in
different towns and usually last from 4 to 6 days in each place; they visit
about 8 or 10 places in the course of a year.
The workmen’s unions and temperance societies have latterly come to avail
themselves more and more of lectures and books as means of education. The
have organized popular lectures and erected libraries for their people — and
this without any aid from public monies. The study circles referred to above
are a pleasing symptom of an intense and enduring interest in education.
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