Public Libraries: A History of the Movement and a Manual for the Organization and Management of Rate-supported LibrariesCassell & Company, Limited, 1891 - 604 páginas |
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... lending department should be transferred to the reference department , and the sitting room in the library should be preferentially given to the reference readers . No mercy should be shown to the sleepers . When a “ reader " goes to ...
... lending department should be transferred to the reference department , and the sitting room in the library should be preferentially given to the reference readers . No mercy should be shown to the sleepers . When a “ reader " goes to ...
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... Lending and Reference Library . The opening ceremony took place on the afternoon and evening of Thursday , September 2 , 1852 , and in the issues of the local newspapers on the following Saturday every prominence was given to the ...
... Lending and Reference Library . The opening ceremony took place on the afternoon and evening of Thursday , September 2 , 1852 , and in the issues of the local newspapers on the following Saturday every prominence was given to the ...
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... Lending Library , an institution up to that time without example in this country . In support of this object twenty - six townsmen sub- scribed , either for themselves or for their respective firms , the sum of £ 100 each . The building ...
... Lending Library , an institution up to that time without example in this country . In support of this object twenty - six townsmen sub- scribed , either for themselves or for their respective firms , the sum of £ 100 each . The building ...
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... lending to all adult citizens , without let or hindrance . The conclusion will be drawn that if these institutions are provided for the citizens it tends to destroy the moral fibre of a man , and dulls the sense of self - independence ...
... lending to all adult citizens , without let or hindrance . The conclusion will be drawn that if these institutions are provided for the citizens it tends to destroy the moral fibre of a man , and dulls the sense of self - independence ...
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... AND SOUTHPORT . These two Lancashire seaside watering - places are well served by their libraries . Blackpool shows a steady increase in its lending department . The number of borrowers gives a propor- 96 Public Libraries .
... AND SOUTHPORT . These two Lancashire seaside watering - places are well served by their libraries . Blackpool shows a steady increase in its lending department . The number of borrowers gives a propor- 96 Public Libraries .
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Página 529 - Therefore, when I say, in conducting your understanding, love knowledge with a great love, with a vehement love, with a love coeval with life, what do I say, but love innocence, love virtue...
Página 20 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Página 577 - Where there is no such mode, then signed by the clerk of the authority, and delivered to the member or left at his usual or last known place of abode in England, or forwarded by post in a prepaid letter, addressed to the member at his usual or last known place of abode in England.
Página 19 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations — a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him.
Página 531 - Any Town or City may receive in its corporate capacity, and hold and manage any devise, bequest, or donation, for the establishment, increase, or maintenance of a Public Library within the same.
Página 574 - Act mentioned: (4) As respects the electors of the county councillors, the persons entitled to vote at their election shall be, in a borough the burgesses enrolled in pursuance of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 and the Acts amending the same, and elsewhere the persons registered as county electors under the County Electors Act, 1888.
Página 529 - ... cheerless beginnings of knowledge, by the darkness from which she springs, by the difficulties which hover around her, by the wretched habitations in which she dwells, by the want and sorrow which sometimes journey in her train ; but let him ever follow her as the Angel that guards him, and as the Genius of his life. She will bring him out at last into the light of day, and exhibit him to the world comprehensive in acquirements, fertile in resources, rich in imagination, strong in reasoning,...