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The backs of books, and other essays in librarianship

by: Bishop, William Warner, 1871-1955

Publication date: 1926

Topics: Libraries, Library science

Publisher: Baltimore : Williams & Wilkins

Collection: marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

ix, 338 pages ; 20 cm

Includes index

The backs of books.--The Vatican Library; some notes by a student.--The Vatican Library; twenty-five years after.--Book-hunting in Rome.--Should the librarian be a bibliophile.--A decade of library progress in America.--The amount of help to be given to readers.--Two unsolved problems in library work.--Training in the use of books.--Cataloging as an asset.--The theory of reference work.--Leadership through learning.--Changing ideals in librarianship.--Our college and university libraries; a survey and a program.--The library and post-school education.--The American Library Association at the crossroads.--The record of science.--Fashions in books

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