Manual of Library Economy Third and Memorial Edition

GENERAL MUSEUMS.--These are collections of a miscellaneous kind, comprising art, science, archæological and other objects, and aiming more or less at universality. The British M...

=174. General Principles.=--Although a great number of articles and papers have been written upon the subject of book selection, there still seems room for some remarks upon the...

=348. General.=---A public library is an institution based upon broad lines of mutual co-operation, in which every citizen has equal rights, and in which the rules should be dra...

=407. Character and Scope of the Department.=--The reference library is the communal study, bureau of information, and muniment house, when it is developed to its full possibili...

=256. General.=--Of the interior administrative work of the municipal, or even more of the university or institutional library, that which occupies most time and thought is cata...

=482. General Considerations.=--The declaration of the Library Association that library work with children is the foundation of all other library work represents, so far as Grea...

=27. The Library Rate.=--The general library Acts passed for Ireland, Scotland and England all limit the amount to be raised by rate for library purposes to one penny in the pou...

=78. General.=--The organization of the library staff under the chief librarian is naturally governed by the number of assistants and the size of the system they work. Most libr...

1901. “1 Edw. 7. An Act to amend the Acts relating to Public Libraries, Museums and Gymnasiums, and to regulate the liability of managers of libraries to proceedings for libel.”

=424. General.=--Of the departments of reference, other than the general working department, prior consideration may be given to the Local Collection on the ground that every mu...

=329. General.=--Public library binding is an art by itself, and is quite distinct from ordinary commercial bookbinding on the one hand, and artistic binding on the other. A bin...

=207. Donations.=--The first British Public Library Act did not make any provision for funds with which to buy books: it trusted entirely, with the innocence of extreme youth, t...

=268.= We have dealt already with forms of catalogue to some extent, but the five chief methods of displaying manuscript catalogues merit a more detailed consideration and illus...

=460. Newsrooms.=--The chief difference which exists in the composition of British and American libraries is the frequent absence from the latter of general reading rooms in whi...

=235. General.=--Quite a large number of classification schemes have been devised by Continental, American and British librarians, in which books are systematically arranged acc...

=376.= In modern library practice, methods of book-registration involving the use of ledgers or day-books have now been entirely abandoned, save in a few proprietary and subscri...

=112.= This chapter is of a purely practical character, with illustrations from well-known examples of library plans. Except in the necessary precautionary remarks made already,...

=300. General.=--Although the library invented the card index, it may be confessed that in this country the library has not yet realized the possibilities of its own invention,...

=65. General.=--The success or failure of a library depends almost entirely upon the ability and energy of the staff. Opinion upon this question has been almost revolutionized i...

=526. Lecture Room and Platform.=--Library development is a somewhat elastic term covering the various active measures taken by librarians to attract readers. It is now a common...

=14. Methods of Adopting the Public Libraries Acts.=--There are only two methods prescribed by the Libraries Acts under which public libraries can be established. In rural paris...

=506.= If libraries are an integral part of the educational system, it is clear that their relations with schools and with the teachers must be close. This is perhaps more cordi...

=55. Statistical Methods.=--It seems desirable to describe here, as being concerned with committee work, the various statistical and other methods adopted to show the operations...

=366. General.=--By a tradition now firmly implanted in the mind of the public, and nourished by journalists, the lending department is the most prominent feature of the public...

=397. Branch Libraries.=--Branch libraries are included in this division, because as a general rule they are principally lending libraries with a reading-room attached, and rare...

=241. Numbers.=--The class letters and numbers of all books should be written in the inside, preferably on the back or front of the title-page, and should also be carried on to...

=542. The Need, and Earlier Schemes.=--Until recently a rural dweller in Canada, the United States, and some parts of Australia was better provided with literature than the vill...

=143.= The chief requirements of book-shelving are accessibility and adjustability. All authorities on library architecture are agreed that high shelves are an obstruction to qu...

=159.= The effect of shabby fittings and furniture on the minds of visitors is not such as will tend to the promotion of discipline, nor will it instil respect for the library i...

=322. Forms and Blanks.=--Most of the important forms and blanks have already been described and figured under the different departments to which they refer, and this section wi...

=99.= Although there is no such co-ordination of libraries as there is of schools under central Government control, and therefore not the same apparent necessity for combination...

=450. General.=--The most recent development of library works which has justified itself in practice has for its aim the provision of information useful to commercial and busine...

=130.= It is important to note that all fittings which are fixtures, as are most of those about to be described in the following chapter, should be regarded as part of the perma...

=107. Theory.=--Although the subject of library buildings has been frequently treated by various writers, there is a lack of literature on the important question of size limitat...

=445. General.=--It is appropriate to devote a brief space to the consideration of reference libraries of municipal material, because the Library Association has affirmed the de...

=OPEN ACCESS LIBRARIES: Their Planning, Equipment and Organisation.= By JAMES DOUGLAS STEWART, OLIVE E. CLARKE, HENRY T. COUTTS, ALICE JONES, WILLIAM MCGILL. Under the Editorshi...

=230.= There is no more important factor in the success or failure of a library than the classification of the books and other material which form its stock. Some of its uses ar...

The American libraries or universities of Atlanta, Brooklyn, California, Cleveland (Univ.), Illinois, Michigan, New York (State), Drexel Inst., Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St Loui...