A Booksellers's Library and how to Use it

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Publisher's Weekly, 1891 - Bibliographical literature - 72 pages

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Page 5 - The Library Journal was established in 1876 by the cooperative efforts of the leading librarians on both sides of the Atlantic. Its chief object is to be a practical help to the every-day administration of both large and small libraries, and to effect a saving by enabling library work to be done in the best way, at the lowest cost. The Journal especially meets the needs of the smaller libraries, offering them the costly experience and practical advice of the largest. In refraining from doing imperfectly...
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Page 14 - Being the full titles, with descriptive notes, of all books recorded in THE PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY during the calendar year, with author, title and subject index, publishers' annual lists and directory of publishers.
Page 7 - ... etc. etc. The Literary News, since its establishment under the name of The Literary Bulletin, in 1868, has passed through many transformations in appearance and method before acquiring the distinctive features which have given it a character of its own, and which have become so familiar to thousands of readers. In substance it has been the same since its inception--- " a monthly record of current literature;" but while primarily fulfilling its mission in the interests of the book-trade, it has...
Page 3 - WEEKLY, indeed, it is so representative of the publishing enterprises of the day that it becomes an essential supplement to the other departments. A minor but practical and convenient feature is the " Books Wanted" column, giving subscribers the privilege of a free insertion of five lines in each issue.
Page 15 - It includes a price-list of all the textbooks in use in the United States, arranged alphabetically by author's or editor's name, and a detailed subject-index, referring from each specific subject to authors of books on that subject, so that the advantages of both a finding list for the trade and a class catalogue for the use of schools are combined.

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