Papers and Proceedings of the ... General Meeting of the American Library Association Held at ..., Volume 12The Association, 1892 - Library science |
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Page 144 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Page 7 - The commission has always been able to furnish 1 50 volumes to every town, and generally, by the addition of gifts from friends, as many as 200 or more volumes. While noticing the fact that at the time of writing the first annual report of the Free Public Library Commission, 248 towns and cities had libraries in which the people had " rights or free privileges,
Page 55 - The officers of the association shall be a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer, elected annually, who shall together constitute the executive board which shall have power to act for the association in intervals between the meetings. 5. A regular meeting of the association shall be held in the State Library during the week of the State Teachers' Association and at such other times and places as may be fixed by the executive board.
Page 18 - 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 86 - It has resulted in giving to new libraries trained and competent people, who could lay a good foundation and build upon it; and where a library school pupil has been put in charge of an old library better service has been the outcome.
Page 109 - College, I at once looked in the 1882 edition of " Poole's Index " and read in the preface, as follows : " Thirty-five years ago, when a student of Yale College, and engaged as the librarian of one of the library societies, I caused examination of such references as were accessible and arranged subjects under topics, for the preparation of the student. I had noticed that the contents of standard periodicals with which the library was filled were not indexed, although they were rich in the treatment...
Page 41 - And when it is remembered that any book requiring serious study cannot be galloped through, like a novel, in the week or fourteen days allowed for use, it becomes at once evident that this gratuitous lending system is only adapted for the circulation of sensation, and not for the acquirement of real knowledge. It would be interesting to know what portion of a book like Kant's
Page 45 - Bakala goes back to earth delighted with his prize. With an infinite possibility within his reach, with the choice of wisdom, of power, of beauty at his tongue's end, he asked according to his kind, and his sordid wish is answered with a gift as sordid.
Page 97 - UTLEV read the report of the Finance Committee : — The Finance Committee, to whom was referred the annual report of the Treasurer respectfully report that they have examined the same. The Treasurer's statement of receipts has been compared with the statement of the bank in which the funds are deposited, and they are found to agree, except that the funds in bank show $1.55 in excess of the Treasurer's account, which is probably interest on the deposits for the last quarter and which will go into...
Page 99 - ... central alleys four feet wide. Instead of having two alleys four feet wide, the better arrangement for this room would be to have a central alley five feet wide, which would give direct communication with the reading-room from the work-room and librarian's room. The cases will not be so high but that a person of average stature can reach any book without step or ladder. The rule for estimating the shelving capacity of any room of considerable size, arranged in this manner, is to allow 25 volumes...