This book is a comprehensive evaluation of the people's library movement. The study examines the origins of the movement, its evolution, achievements, failures and lessons that other movements should learn from its experiences. People's library movement of Kerala can enlighten other voluntary movements on how to encourage the common people to become active participants in development. People's Library Movement will be of interest to development activists, administrators interested in participatory development programmes and social workers involved in managing public libraries and community information centres. Scholars from history, sociology, education, and library and information science fields also will find this book useful.