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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... tion and a half colorless , half commendatory review of a book , leading one to think it might at least be acceptable , while that same book has been pronounced by librarians to be so indecent as to call for the exclusion from libraries ...
... tion and a half colorless , half commendatory review of a book , leading one to think it might at least be acceptable , while that same book has been pronounced by librarians to be so indecent as to call for the exclusion from libraries ...
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... tion where the attempts to keep up with what is really new and vital , while at the same time shunning what is freakish and unworthy , may well bewilder him and make him wish there were no such things as " ad- vanced thought " or any ...
... tion where the attempts to keep up with what is really new and vital , while at the same time shunning what is freakish and unworthy , may well bewilder him and make him wish there were no such things as " ad- vanced thought " or any ...
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... tion , and a mark showing the best Looks in each . Books for boys and girls . Approved by the Brooklyn Public Library for use in its children's rooms ; issued by the Brooklyn Public Library . 5c • A revised and considerably enlarged ...
... tion , and a mark showing the best Looks in each . Books for boys and girls . Approved by the Brooklyn Public Library for use in its children's rooms ; issued by the Brooklyn Public Library . 5c • A revised and considerably enlarged ...
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... tion where likely to be desired , occasional variations in spelling and illustrative quota- tions where they will help to clarify the definition and usage . Frequent references to further information under other words are found ...
... tion where likely to be desired , occasional variations in spelling and illustrative quota- tions where they will help to clarify the definition and usage . Frequent references to further information under other words are found ...
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... tion with notes as to their value 6 Christmas book exhibit The Library Section is attempting to make a comprehensive collection of lists published by public libraries and found useful in school work . It will be glad to receive at least ...
... tion with notes as to their value 6 Christmas book exhibit The Library Section is attempting to make a comprehensive collection of lists published by public libraries and found useful in school work . It will be glad to receive at least ...
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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?