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| June 22, 2005 | Martin, Robert Sidney | COPYRIGHT 2003 University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Why do we study the history of libraries and other cultural agencies? There are many facile responses to this rhetorical question and a few substantive ones. The facile ones follow the ancient discussion about the utility and value of history generally. The most ready response for most people might be to cite Santayana's dictum that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In opposition to this, however, is the equally famous pronouncement of George Bernard Shaw that all we learn from history is that man can never learn anything from history. Even more cynical is the claim, attributed to the distinguished Oxford historian A. J. P. Taylor, that the sole…

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