A Library Primer |
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Popular passages
Page 26 - A library should be planned with a view to economical administration. The rooms for public use should be so arranged as to allow complete supervision with the fewest possible attendants.
Page 26 - This form of shelving leaves more elbowroom in passing, admits more light, and provides a temporary resting-place for books in use or in transit. Three feet between floor-cases is ample for all purposes of administration. No shelf, in any form of book-case, should be higher than a person of moderate height can reach without a step-ladder. Shelving for folios and quartos should be provided in every bookroom. Straight flights are preferable to circular stairs.
Page 77 - The number of each line, called the accession number, is written on the back of the title page of the book described on that line. The accession book is a life history of every book in the library. It forms such a record as any business-like person would wish to have of property entrusted to his care.
Page 152 - The association seeks In every practicable way to develop and strengthen the public library as an essential part of the American education system.
Page 81 - Cyclopedias, periodicals, etc., so general in character as to belong to no one of these classes are marked nought, and form a tenth class.
Page 70 - In both joined and disjoined bauds dot i and cross t accurately to avoid confusion; eg Giulio carelessly dotted has been arranged under Guilio in the catalogue. Cross t one space from line. Dot i and j one and a half spaces from line. In foreign languages special care is essential. Joined hand. Connect all the letters of a word into a single word picture. Complete each letter; eg do not leave gap between body and stem of b and d, bring loop of f back to stem, etc.
Page 85 - ... subject in a perfectly unmistakable way, the letters never being used to signify countries, and the figures never being used for any other subjects but countries. Thus 45 is England wherever it occurs; eg F being history and G geography, F45 is the history of England, 045 the geography of England.
Page 85 - States, and so on), so that it is possible to express the local relations of any subject in a perfectly unmistakable way, the letters never • being used to signify countries, and the figures never being used to signify any other subjects but countries.
Page 135 - There had never been a library in the village except a small circulating library. We all believed that the use of books and the greater knowledge of books would be a common center of interest around which we could all work and toward which we would be glad to •give work. The result of five years...
Page 27 - Poole (classifying the books in departments and arranging them for storage and study in separate rooms, under one roof) has so far influenced library construction that modern library plans provide accommodations for readers near the books they want to use, whatever system of shelving is adopted. In a circulating library the books most in use should be shelved in floorcases close to the delivery desk. In the floor-cases of a reference library the upper shelves should be narrower than those below,...