Public Libraries, Volume 4

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Library bureau., 1899
 

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Halaman 266 - It excels in the ease with which the eye finds the word sought ; in accuracy of definition ; in effective methods of indicating pronunciation ; in terse and comprehensive statements of facts and in practical use as a working dictionary. Hon D. ]. Brewer, Justice of US Supreme Court, says : " I commend it to all as the one great standard authority.
Halaman 344 - Sound educational ideals are more firmly established, the benefits of school and college education are more widely diffused, the work of teaching is more intelligent and successful, the teachers themselves constantly grow more earnest and more studious. The one dark page in the history of the year is that which records interference with the work of public education and attacks, successful and unsuccessful, made upon it by political traders and spoils-seekers.
Halaman 58 - Each class is similarly separated into nine divisions, general works belonging to no division having nought in place of the division number. Divisions are similarly divided into nine sections, and the process is repeated as often as necessary. Thus 512 means Class 5 (Natural science), Division I (Mathematics), Section 2 (Algebra), and every algebra is numbered 512.
Halaman 58 - Knowledge is divided into the following main classes : 0, General works 1, Philosophy ; 2. Religion, 3, Sociology ; 4. Philology ; 5 Natural Science ; 6. Useful Arts ; 7. Fine Arts ; 8. Literature 9. History.
Halaman 102 - ... himself than to get his mathematical or scientific training in the same way. Children must be trained to use the library as they are trained to do other things. Pupils should learn to read with economy of time by making use of page headings, tables of contents, reviews, Poole's Index, card catalogues and other helps. The destiny of a child is not affected by the ability to read, but by the use he makes of that ability. The library should be made an indispensable adjunct of the school.
Halaman 256 - Amendments. This constitution may be amended by a three-fourths vote of those present and voting at two successive meetings...
Halaman 288 - In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
Halaman 101 - Teachers should be members of various library committees, especially of the purchasing committee. The librarian should make out frequent bulletins for school use. He should suggest books for the collateral reading of teachers and pupils in geography, history, science, and literature. He should regard the children as his most important patrons; those whom he can help the most. The children should have free access to the library shelves. The community should be led to regard the library as a necessary...
Halaman 255 - Such funds shall, subject to conditions legally incident thereto, be in the custody of three trustees, one of whom shall be elected by the Executive Board annually to hold office for three years from the date of his election and until his successor shall be elected.
Halaman 221 - no woman can hope to reach any standing. ..in the library profession... who does not bring to it that love which suffereth long and is kind, is not puffed up, does not behave itself unseemly, vaunteth not itself, thinketh no evil...." Every woman owes it to herself to live up to the ideals expected of womanhood; "no woman striving ever so hard to play the part of a man has ever succeeded in doing more than to give just cause for a blush to the rest of her...

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