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id: 3426
author: Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart)
title: On Books and the Housing of Them
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summary:
  The time may be approaching when we shall be able to estimate the quantity of book knowledge stored in the repositories of those empires which we call prehistoric. Nay, even the different members of the book-body do not sing, but clash, when bindings of a profuse costliness are imposed, as too often happens in the case of Bibles and books of devotion, upon letter-press which is respectable journeyman's work and nothing more.


id: 15199
author: Dury, John
title: The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650)
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  It is the observation of Forreigners concerning our Universities, that they finde in them men of as great learning as any where els; but that they lie as it were dead and unknown to the whole world of other men of Learning; becaus they delight to live a retired and unsociable life: this humor therefore amongst other parts of our Reformation, must by som Gospel-principles and Rational inducements bee Reformed, not onely in Colleges but in other Associations. John Dury was a very important figure in the Puritan Revolution, offering proposal after proposal to prepare England for its role in the millennium.


id: 15327
author: Dana, John Cotton
title: A Library Primer
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summary:
  They should leave to a librarian of good executive ability the selection, management, and dismissal of all assistants, the methods and details of library work, and the initiative in the choice of books. And it is precisely these professional duties of which the person untrained in library work is in most cases wofully ignorant.


id: 22608
author: Spofford, Ainsworth Rand
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title:
  A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries

summary:
  Vegetable parchment is used to bind many booklets which it is desired to dress in an elegant or dainty style, but is highly unsuitable for library books. It is not enough to dust the tops of the books periodically; a more full and radical remedy is required, to render library books presentable.


id: 33494
title: The Library and Society: Reprints of Papers and Addresses
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summary:
  After some details, of no present consequence, developing this idea, the letter goes on:-- Nor would I, on this plan, neglect the establishment of a department for consultation, and for all the common purposes of public libraries, some of whose books, like encyclopaedias and dictionaries, should never be lent out, while others could be permitted to circulate; all on the shelves being accessible for reference as many hours in the day as possible, and always in the evening. It does not therefore follow that people are unworthy of public libraries because the best books are largely let alone; the question is whether even the second best may not be good reading.


id: 44406
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title:
  Papers and Proceedings of the Twenty-Third General Meeting of the American Library Association Held at Waukesha, Wisconsin, July 4-10, 1901

summary:
  They have circulated library books through their own schools, sometimes at considerable cost and trouble to themselves, and for years have done all in their power to make their pupils wise and discriminating patrons of the library. Has anybody succeeded in getting from the railroads or express companies special concessions for the transportation of library books? Mrs. DOCKERY:


id: 45756
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title:
  Papers and Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Library Association Held at Ottawa, Canada, June 26-July 2, 1912

summary:
  In the higher grades and in the high schools emphasis should be placed on library work. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON WORK WITH THE BLIND The committee on library work with the blind notes with satisfaction the progress which has been made in the past year towards increasing the production of new embossed literature.


id: 47134
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title:
  Papers and Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth General Meeting of the American Library Association Held at Kaaterskill, N. Y., June 23-28, 1913

summary:
  At the time we took our last survey of the department it was found that probably about six out of ten of the children of the city read library books in their homes during the calendar year, and that each child had read about twenty books on the average. These show no design in selection further than meeting the state aid requirement of the expenditure of a certain amount of money every year for library books.


