Talk:Charles Wilson (librarian)

A fact from Charles Wilson (librarian) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 February 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Charles Wilson (pictured) allowed a young woman, who would later become a famous writer under the pen name Katherine Mansfield, to use the New Zealand Parliamentary Library?

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Private library[edit]

I'm having some difficulty parsing "Wilson had a traditional approach to his role and concentrated on the expansion of the library, and he had a substantial private library. The library received the substantial library from Alexander Turnbull, who bequeathed his "55,000 volumes of books, pamphlets, periodicals and newspapers, and thousands of maps, paintings, drawings, prints and manuscripts" to the New Zealand government". I may be mistaken, but it seems ambiguous as to whether Wilson looked after his own personal library and also Turnbull's, or whether it refers to the one same library. So, to clarify, do both "substantial private library" and "substantial library" refer to the same or different libraries? -- Ohc ^¡digame! 02:59, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Scratch the above. I found the ref and worked it out. Now copyedited. -- Ohc ^¡digame! 03:07, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]