Papers Prepared for the World's Library Congress Held at the Columbian ExpositionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1896 - 324 páginas |
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Página 807 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Página 705 - That for the purchase of such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress at the said city of Washington, and for fitting up a suitable apartment for containing them...
Página 824 - A printed work consisting of a few sheets of paper stitched together, but not bound...
Página 733 - I recollect, are three : economy, good arrangement, and accessibility with the smallest possible expenditure of time. In a private library, where the service of books is commonly to be performed by the person desiring to use them, they ought to be assorted and distributed according to subject. The case may be altogether different, where they have to be sent for and brought by an attendant. It is an immense advantage...
Página 728 - A Standard Building is one having walls of brick or stone (brick preferred), not less than twelve inches thick at top story (16 inches if stone), extending through and 36 inches above roof in parapet and coped, and increasing four inches in thickness for each story below to the ground — the increased thickness of each story to be utilized for beam ledges. Ground floor area not over 2,500...
Página 727 - The injurious effects of artificial heat, such as is produced by a burning building, are, of course, greater in proportion as the temperature is higher. Unfortunately sufficient and reliable data are not at hand for estimating accurately the comparative enduring powers of various stones under these trying circumstances. It seems, however, to be well proven that of all stones granite is the least fire-proof, while the fact that certain of the finegrained siliceous sandstones are used for furnace backings...
Página 691 - The school gives the preliminary preparation for education, and the library gives the means by which the individual completes and accomplishes his education.
Página 773 - The simplest figure can not be bounded by less than three lines; the lightest table can not be firmly supported by less than a tripod. No more can the triangle of great educational work now well begun, be complete without the church as a basis, the school as one side, the library the other. The pulpit, the press, and wide-awake educators everywhere are accepting this doctrine. There is a general awakening all along the line. The nation is just providing in the congressional library a magnificent...
Página 778 - Librarians he had expressed his belief that "the hours that a library is open must correspond to the hours in which any considerable number of people will come to it — all night, if they will come all night, in the evening certainly, and on Sundays by all • means.