Public Libraries: A History of the Movement and a Manual for the Organization and Management of Rate-supported LibrariesCassell & Company, Limited, 1891 - 604 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 85
Página ii
... volume ( with exceptions ) . BOHN'S LIBRARIES . Containing Standard Works of English and European Literature . PRICE £ 159 4s . Od . " The new and attractive form in which the volumes of Bohn's Standard Library are being issued is not ...
... volume ( with exceptions ) . BOHN'S LIBRARIES . Containing Standard Works of English and European Literature . PRICE £ 159 4s . Od . " The new and attractive form in which the volumes of Bohn's Standard Library are being issued is not ...
Página 3
... volumes ; and the University Library in the same city 370,000 volumes ; at Buda Pesth the University Library has 300,000 books , the corresponding Library at Cracow nearly the same number , and at Prague 205,000 . The leading Austrian ...
... volumes ; and the University Library in the same city 370,000 volumes ; at Buda Pesth the University Library has 300,000 books , the corresponding Library at Cracow nearly the same number , and at Prague 205,000 . The leading Austrian ...
Página 4
... volumes ( including the duplicates in its branches ) . The Harvard University collection follows with about 350,000 . The National Library , however , of the United States is destined to surpass all , for it is to contain , when ...
... volumes ( including the duplicates in its branches ) . The Harvard University collection follows with about 350,000 . The National Library , however , of the United States is destined to surpass all , for it is to contain , when ...
Página 38
... volumes in which they were interested , and would be happy to be relieved of the necessity of acquiring them for themselves . And to a certain extent that is the case with regard to the more costly works of reference . No doubt the ...
... volumes in which they were interested , and would be happy to be relieved of the necessity of acquiring them for themselves . And to a certain extent that is the case with regard to the more costly works of reference . No doubt the ...
Página 39
... volumes , by far the greater part of them must lie for years untouched upon the shelves ; he cannot possibly use more than a fraction of the whole in one year . But a library of five or ten thousand volumes opened free to the population ...
... volumes , by far the greater part of them must lie for years untouched upon the shelves ; he cannot possibly use more than a fraction of the whole in one year . But a library of five or ten thousand volumes opened free to the population ...
Contenido
76 | |
86 | |
98 | |
106 | |
115 | |
130 | |
136 | |
145 | |
151 | |
158 | |
166 | |
168 | |
175 | |
181 | |
188 | |
376 | |
388 | |
409 | |
420 | |
438 | |
448 | |
458 | |
479 | |
493 | |
501 | |
514 | |
524 | |
547 | |
558 | |
590 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Public Libraries: A History of the Movement and a Manual for the ... Thomas Greenwood Vista de fragmentos - 1971 |
Public Libraries: A History of the Movement and a Manual for the ... Thomas Greenwood Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
Public Libraries: A History of the Movement and a Manual for the ... Thomas Greenwood Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
Términos y frases comunes
Acts were adopted adopt the Acts annual appointed art galleries attendance authority Birmingham Board Board Schools Bootle borough borrowers branch British Museum building carried catalogue central library citizens classes Clerkenwell collection commissioners Corporation cost district erected established Ewart expenditure expense fact favour feet fiction floor gift give given Glasgow hall increase institutions interest issued labour large number lectures Leeds lending department lending library librarian library and museum library committee literature Liverpool London Manchester matter means mechanics meeting Millom municipal Newcastle-on-Tyne newspapers newsroom number of books number of volumes parish penny rate persons poll population pound present Public Libraries Acts purchase purpose question rate-supported ratepayers readers reading reading-room reference library Salford schools science and art Scotland shelves Southport subscription subscription library Sunday opening taken tion Town Council United Kingdom vestry village voting papers whole Wigan
Pasajes populares
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,...