Library Journal, Volume 1Karl Brown, Melvil Dewey, Frederick Leypoldt, Bertine Emma Weston, Helen E. Wessels R. R. Bowker Company, 1877 - Libraries Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Issued also separately. |
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... persons who were interested in these good . Selection is always difficult . The matters were not able to give much . In Franklin Commission found a double difficul- the dearth of material resources , the Society ty - in the persons for ...
... persons who were interested in these good . Selection is always difficult . The matters were not able to give much . In Franklin Commission found a double difficul- the dearth of material resources , the Society ty - in the persons for ...
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... persons . Probably a majority of both kinds had received more or less impulse from the Franklin Society . The 708 libraries contained 838,032 vol- umes , and yet 14 departments had not a single volume in a people's library . Much as it ...
... persons . Probably a majority of both kinds had received more or less impulse from the Franklin Society . The 708 libraries contained 838,032 vol- umes , and yet 14 departments had not a single volume in a people's library . Much as it ...
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... person in- terested in our libraries will be glad to learn that the Bureau has wisely printed a large edi- tion ( 10,000 copies ) , so that every library will be able to secure a copy . On the present plan of distribution , copies will ...
... person in- terested in our libraries will be glad to learn that the Bureau has wisely printed a large edi- tion ( 10,000 copies ) , so that every library will be able to secure a copy . On the present plan of distribution , copies will ...
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... persons , of what they were and when they lived . How fully the contents of the Roxbury Branch Library have been in- dexed may be inferred from the fact that it has taken nearly three hundred pages to catalogue about eleven thousand ...
... persons , of what they were and when they lived . How fully the contents of the Roxbury Branch Library have been in- dexed may be inferred from the fact that it has taken nearly three hundred pages to catalogue about eleven thousand ...
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... persons privileged to take out books is nearly 100,000 in a city of 342,000 inhabitants ; and the Superintendent estimates that three fourths of them avail themselves of their privilege , yet with only the loss last year of 100 volumes ...
... persons privileged to take out books is nearly 100,000 in a city of 342,000 inhabitants ; and the Superintendent estimates that three fourths of them avail themselves of their privilege , yet with only the loss last year of 100 volumes ...
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