Editing Public library (section)

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[[File:Gonohe town librery.jpg|thumb|Library in the rural town of [[Gonohe, Aomori]], Japan]]
The first public library in [[Australia]] was the Melbourne Public Library (now the [[State Library of Victoria]]), which opened in 1856, just a few years after their introduction into Britain. This was however purely a reference library. In September 1869, the [[New South Wales]] (NSW) government opened as the Free Public Library, Sydney (now the [[State Library of New South Wales]]) by purchasing a bankrupt subscription library. In 1896, the [[Brisbane]] Public Library was established. The library's collection, purchased by the [[Queensland]] Government from the private collection of [[George Rogers Harding|Justice Harding]]. In 1935 the ''[[Free library movement]]'' was established in New South Wales advocating for free public libraries to be supported by municipal authorities.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Remington|first1=G. C.|title=The Free Library Movement|journal=The Australian Quarterly|volume=9|issue=2|pages=87–93|doi=10.2307/20629436|jstor=20629436|year=1937}}</ref> A similar movement was established in Victoria within a couple of years.<ref>{{Cite web|date=1937|title=Free Public Libraries| url=http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/114472|access-date=4 September 2019|website=State Library Victoria }}</ref>

"[[New Zealand]] was, by the third quarter of the nineteenth century, a veritable paradise for readers, with the formation of public libraries following closely on the heels of the settlers as they spread across the country."<ref>Traue, J. E. 2007. “The Public Library Explosion in Colonial New Zealand.” ''Libraries & the Cultural Record: Exploring the History of Collections of Recorded Knowledge 42'' (2): 151–64.</ref>

Pre-Independence libraries in [[India]] have been discussed by R.K. Bhatt and K. Kandhasamy.<ref>Bhatt, R. K., and Kandhasamy K. 2020. "A Study of Public Libraries in India: Pre-Independence Period". ''Library Philosophy & Practice'', November, 1–20.</ref>

[[Eugène Morel]], a writer and one of the librarians at the [[Bibliothèque nationale]], pioneered modern public libraries in France. He put forward his ideas in the 1910 book ''La Librairie publique''.<ref>{{cite web |title= La Librairie publique |year= 1910 |publisher= Enssib.fr |format= PDF |url= http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque-numerique/document-brut-48832 |url-status= live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111003225919/http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque-numerique/document-brut-48832 |archive-date= 3 October 2011 }}
</ref><ref>Gaëtan Benoît, ''Eugène Morel, pioneer of public libraries in France'', Litwin Books, 2008.
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Mexican public libraries trace their origins to convent and monastery libraries in the sixteenth century, but the first modern public library dates from 1758 when the Biblioteca Turriana—named after its founder and donors, the three cathedral canons Luis Antonio Torres Quintero, Cayetano Antonio de Torres Tuñón, and Luis Antonio de Torres Tuñón—was established at the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral.   Liberal governments seized its holdings in 1867 to establish the National Library.

Japanese public libraries greatly expanded in the 1950s with the Library Law.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chandler |first1=G. |title=The Japanese library and information system: a Broad comparative survey of its evolution and structure, 1947-82 |journal=International Library Review |date=1983 |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=389–407|doi=10.1016/0020-7837(83)90059-6 }}</ref>