New York Libraries: A Quarterly Devoted to the Interests of the Libraries of the State, Volumen3University of the State of New York, 1911 |
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... districts , and their feeling that they will not get their full share of privilege from a library situ- ated at a distance . But the law has in it large possibilities , and all that is needed to realize some of these possibilities is a ...
... districts , and their feeling that they will not get their full share of privilege from a library situ- ated at a distance . But the law has in it large possibilities , and all that is needed to realize some of these possibilities is a ...
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... district . To the clerk of the town ( or village or school district ) of ... We , the undersigned , being each a tax- payer in the town ( or village or school dis- trict ) of county , N. Y. , hereby petition that at the next meet- ing ...
... district . To the clerk of the town ( or village or school district ) of ... We , the undersigned , being each a tax- payer in the town ( or village or school dis- trict ) of county , N. Y. , hereby petition that at the next meet- ing ...
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... district ; and under the amendment made to section 1118 by the laws of 1911 authorizing contracts with coun- ties , the word may also in certain instances be held to include a county . F. B. Gilbert Averages for city libraries If ...
... district ; and under the amendment made to section 1118 by the laws of 1911 authorizing contracts with coun- ties , the word may also in certain instances be held to include a county . F. B. Gilbert Averages for city libraries If ...
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... district school meet- ing , an appropriation of $ 7000 was voted for the enlargement of the stack room of the Richmond Memorial Library . A gift of $ 1500 has been received from Miss Adelaide R. Richmond for the purchase of new steel ...
... district school meet- ing , an appropriation of $ 7000 was voted for the enlargement of the stack room of the Richmond Memorial Library . A gift of $ 1500 has been received from Miss Adelaide R. Richmond for the purchase of new steel ...
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... district schools . The station reporting the largest circulation is that at Avon , where from a collection of 143 volumes , there were circulated 2138 . Other active stations are those of Piffard with a circulation of 1227 , East ...
... district schools . The station reporting the largest circulation is that at Avon , where from a collection of 143 volumes , there were circulated 2138 . Other active stations are those of Piffard with a circulation of 1227 , East ...
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Página 302 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Página 306 - I gave a beggar from my little store Of well-earned gold. He spent the shining ore And came again and yet again, still cold And hungry as before. I gave a thought, and through that thought of mine He found himself, the man, supreme, divine! Fed, clothed, and crowned with blessings manifold, And now he begs no more.
Página 299 - A good story has created many an oasis in many an otherwise arid life. Many-sidedness of interest makes for good morals, and millions of our fellows step through the pages of a story book into a broader world than their nature and their circumstances ever permit them to visit. If anything is to stay the narrowing and hardening process which specialization of learning, specialization of inquiry and of industry and swift accumulation of wealth are setting up among us, it is a return to romance, poetry,...
Página 9 - After the church and the school, the free public library is the most effective influence for good in America.
Página 79 - Whenever 25 taxpayers shall so petition the question of providing library facilities shall be voted on at the next election or meeting at which taxes may be voted, provided that due public notice shall have been given of the proposed action.
Página 301 - The world was old when typography was invented. Less than five centuries have passed since then, and in this interval — but a brief period in the long history of human endeavor — there has been more enlargement of opportunity for the average man and woman than in all the time that went before. Without the instrumentality of the printed page, without the reproductive processes that give to all the world in myriad tongues the thought of all the centuries, slavery, serfdom and feudalism would still...
Página 11 - We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits . . so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth — 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
Página 79 - ... purposes. A board of supervisors of a county may contract with the trustees of a public library within such county or with any other municipal or district body having control of such a library to furnish library privileges to the people of the county, under such terms and conditions as may be stated in such contract. The amount agreed to be paid for such privileges under such contract shall be a charge upon the county and shall be paid in the same manner as other county charges. [Amended by L....
Página 301 - A Library implies an act of faith Which generations still in darkness hid Sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
Página 102 - ... that have controlled or failed to control them? What is the good of pretending to write about love, and the loyalties and treacheries and quarrels of men and women, if one must not glance at those varieties of physical temperament and organic quality, those deeply passionate needs and distresses from which half the storms of human life are brewed?