Library Essays; Papers Related to the Work of Public Libraries. Arthur E. Bostwick

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       Arthur E. Bostwick

      Library Essays; Papers Related to the Work of Public Libraries

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066231149

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       LIBRARY ESSAYS PAPERS RELATED TO THE WORK OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES

       HOW LIBRARIANS CHOOSE BOOKS

       THE WORK OF THE SMALL PUBLIC LIBRARY

       LAY CONTROL IN LIBRARIES AND ELSEWHERE [3]

       THE WHOLE DUTY OF A LIBRARY TRUSTEE: FROM A LIBRARIAN’S STANDPOINT [4]

       THE DAY’S WORK: SOME CONDITIONS AND SOME IDEALS [5]

       LIBRARY STATISTICS

       OLD PROBABILITIES IN THE LIBRARY—HIS MODEST VATICINATIONS [6]

       THE LOVE OF BOOKS AS A BASIS FOR LIBRARIANSHIP [7]

       THE LIBRARY AS THE EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF A TOWN

       THE LIBRARIAN AS A CENSOR [8]

       HOW TO RAISE THE STANDARD OF BOOK SELECTION [9]

       SYSTEM IN THE LIBRARY [10]

       THE EXPLOITATION OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY [11]

       SERVICE SYSTEMS IN LIBRARIES

       EFFICIENCY RECORDS IN LIBRARIES

       MAL-EMPLOYMENT IN THE LIBRARY [12]

       COST OF ADMINISTRATION [13]

       LIBRARY CIRCULATION AT LONG RANGE

       CONFLICTS OF JURISDICTION IN LIBRARY SYSTEMS [14]

       THREE KINDS OF LIBRARIANS [15]

       SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND MENTAL TRAINING

       THE LIBRARY AND THE BUSINESS MAN [16]

       POETS, LIBRARIES AND REALITIES [17]

       THE CHURCH AND THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

       THE FUTURE OF LIBRARY WORK

       POPULARIZING MUSIC THROUGH THE LIBRARY [18]

       TWO CARDINAL SINS

       A MESSAGE TO BEGINNERS

       LUCK IN THE LIBRARY

       THE LIBRARY AS A MUSEUM

       THE LIBRARY AND THE LOCALITY

       INDEX

PREFACE

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      The author of these papers began his service in librarianship in April, 1895. He celebrates his silver jubilee by gathering them into a single volume. Before becoming a librarian he had worked for many years as teacher, editor and journalist, and the use of the pen having become second nature, he took it up in behalf of libraries and librarians, somewhat sooner, perhaps, than experience would warrant. However, the papers reflect to a certain extent the progress of library work during the past quarter century.

      A. E. B.

LIBRARY ESSAYS

       PAPERS RELATED TO THE WORK

       OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES

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      PAINS AND PENALTIES IN LIBRARY WORK[1]

      In somewhat the same way as Irving makes Diedrich Knickerbocker begin his history of New York with the creation of the world, so we may open a discussion of this subject with a word on the theory of punishment. We all know that neither moral philosophers nor penologists are agreed in this matter. Do we inflict punishment to satisfy our eternal sense of justice, to prevent further wrong-doing on the part of the person punished, as an example to others, or to reform the delinquent? So far as the justicial theory goes, it is unnecessary here to discuss whether it is founded merely on the old savage feeling of revenge, which having done its part in ensuring punishment to the wrong-doer in the uncivilized past, should now be put aside. As a matter of fact the rule, “Let no guilty man escape,” is a very good one for practical purposes, whatever its theoretical implications. Why should it be necessary to proceed according to any one theory in administering punishment? Practically in the home, at school, and in the courtroom the simple administration of justice does very well for us, and when we go a little farther into the matter we see that each of the other elements enters into consideration. Certainly it is so in the library.

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