Library Journal, Volume 39, Issue 2Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, Karl Brown, Charles Ammi Cutter, Bertine Emma Weston, Helen E. Wessells R. R. Bowker Company, 1914 - 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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Page 737 - What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians, were reposing here, as in some dormitory or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade.
Page 815 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Page 753 - A Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean and Reverent".
Page 800 - Inks and Adhesives. They will be a revelation to you, they are so sweet, clean, well put up, and withal so efficient.
Page 548 - The act directed the bureau to investigate and report upon "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
Page 548 - The said bureau shall investigate and report to said department upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupations, accidents and diseases of children, employment, legislation affecting children in the several States and Territories.
Page 742 - If I were not a king, I would be a University man: and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library, and to be chained together with so many good authors, et mortuis magistris.
Page 753 - On my honor I will do my best : To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the scout law; To help other people at all times; To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
Page 692 - First, Good service from libraries is indispensable to the best educational work. Second, The wise direction of a library requires scholarship, executive ability, tact, and other high-grade qualifications, together with special training for the effective direction of cultural reading, choice of books, and teaching of reference principles. Third, Because much latent power is being recognized in the library and is awaiting development, it is believed that so valuable a factor in education should be...
Page 895 - Engineers, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.