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The Great Libraries of the World and their Functions
ARUNDELL ESDAILEThe earliest and still the most fundamental duty of a library of national rank differs in degree rather than in kind from that of its local younger sisters. It is similarly to…
Subject Branches
ERNEST A. SAVAGEOnce upon a time an evil spirit made a librarian invent an indicator, blue in, red out. No artist in statistic hyperbole could chart the mischief that jig‐saw did, and only a…
The Situation as we now see it
LIONEL R. MCCOLVINI want to begin this, the last of six articles on public library policy, with a personal explanation. When I wrote the first I nursed, with reasonable justification, hopes that…
Much Ado About Records
IDA DARLINGTONThe boatmen on the pleasure boats which ply between Westminster Pier, the Tower and Greenwich have of recent years taken to drawing attention, by megaphone, to the historic places…
Library Education on Trial: Letters
L.R.In our Spring number we published an article by Dr. E. A. Savage under the above title. The following comments are to hand from Mr. White of Wallasey and Mr. Kemp of Princeton…
The Condition of Book Stock: Comments
W.A. MUNFORDMr. Carter dislikes grubby books. So do I. I regret very much that it is not yet possible for me to assert that my own libraries at Cambridge contain none. All our fiction stocks…