Public Libraries: a History of the Movement and a Manual for the Organization and Management of Rate-supported LibrariesCassell, 1894 - 604 páginas |
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... whole of the work , wherever carried on , is voluntary , and the number of workers is receiving constant additions . Some of these pioneers may be forgotten and overlooked when opening ceremonies take place , but they have the ...
... whole of the work , wherever carried on , is voluntary , and the number of workers is receiving constant additions . Some of these pioneers may be forgotten and overlooked when opening ceremonies take place , but they have the ...
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... whole of this metropolis that there will be no parish without an establishment of the kind . That is a very satisfactory state of things , and if we are content with a moderate but ever - growing success - and that is what a prudent man ...
... whole of this metropolis that there will be no parish without an establishment of the kind . That is a very satisfactory state of things , and if we are content with a moderate but ever - growing success - and that is what a prudent man ...
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... whole of the Blue Books and parliamentary returns referring to Public Libraries which have been presented to the British House of Commons . It will be interesting to name them in the order in which they have been issued . First and ...
... whole of the Blue Books and parliamentary returns referring to Public Libraries which have been presented to the British House of Commons . It will be interesting to name them in the order in which they have been issued . First and ...
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... whole community should be done ? No school of thought condemns the establishment and maintenance of the British Museum Library and the National Gallery out of national taxation ; why , then , should it be called " State Socialism " for ...
... whole community should be done ? No school of thought condemns the establishment and maintenance of the British Museum Library and the National Gallery out of national taxation ; why , then , should it be called " State Socialism " for ...
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... whole position . No man whose rates are duly paid gets either the education for his children or the literature for himself and family at his neighbour's expense . He most certainly contributes , either in his rent or by the special ...
... whole position . No man whose rates are duly paid gets either the education for his children or the literature for himself and family at his neighbour's expense . He most certainly contributes , either in his rent or by the special ...
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Acts were adopted adopt the Acts appointed Art Gallery authority Birmingham Board Bootle borough borrowers branch Brierley Hill British Museum building carried catalogue central library centre citizens classes Clerkenwell collection commissioners Corporation cost district erected established expenditure extension favour feet fiction floor gift give given hall income increase institutions interest issued Lambeth large number lectures lending department lending library librarian library and museum library and reading-room library committee library rate library was opened literature Liverpool London Manchester matter means Mechanics meeting ment Millom municipal newspapers newsroom number of books number of volumes parish penny rate poll population pound present Public Libraries Acts purchase purpose question ratepayers readers reading reading-room reference library Salford science and art Scotland shelves Southport subscription library Sunday taken tion Town Council vestry village voters voting papers whole Wigan Winsford
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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 ii - ... a Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World; Vocabularies of Scripture, Greek, Latin, and English Proper Names ; a Dictionary of the noted Names of Fiction ; a Brief History of the English Language ; a Dictionary of Foreign Quotations, Words, Phrases, Proverbs, &c. ; a Biographical Dictionary with 10,000 Names, &c.
Página 21 - 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 22 - 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 568 - ... Libraries and Museums established under that Act or the Act thereby repealed shall be considered as having been established under this Act, and the Council of any Borough which may have adopted the said Act of One thousand eight hundred and fifty, or established a Museum under the Act thereby repealed, shall have and may use and exercise all the Benefits, Privileges and Powers given by this Act ; and all Monies which have been borrowed by virtue of the said repealed Acts or either of them, and...
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,...
Página 21 - Of all the amusements which can possibly be imagined for a hard-working man, after his daily toil, or in its intervals, there is nothing like reading an entertaining book. It calls for no bodily exertion.
Página 576 - Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent in the third column of that Schedule mentioned : Provided that...
Página 582 - All powers given by this Act shall be deemed to be in addition to and not in derogation of any other powers conferred on any local or harbour authority by Act of Parliament, law, or custom...