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Page 24 - ... Conciliation. Surely our college libraries are only barely competent in this subject, and this is typical of the whole group. So far I have said not a word about natural and applied science. We have finally learned to teach these subjects in laboratories, but we have as yet but faintly sensed the fact that the record of the progress of science as set forth in journals and the great treatises is an essential part of the subjectmatter of instruction. We make our students learn the technique of...
Page 24 - He notes, for example, that more than one hundred colleges offer courses in the book arts, in bibliography, and in the use of libraries.
Page 19 - Nowhere are the librarian's firmness, tact, and judgment more needed than in keeping the periodical list within bounds and having every title on it a worthy one. The addition of a new periodical title is a serious matter. It means a fixed charge upon the library resources for an indefinite time for subscription and binding, and it creates a mortgage upon...
Page 24 - ... learned to teach these subjects in laboratories, but we have as yet but faintly sensed the fact that the record of the progress of science as set forth in journals and the great treatises is an essential part of the subjectmatter of instruction. We make our students learn the technique of the microscope or the photometer, but seldom do we require them to learn the technique of the catalogs of the Royal Society or the Index Medicus. Here again it is the fault — in part — of the library equipment...
Page 13 - ... allotment of specific sums to different departments is very satisfactory, particularly when the customary proviso obtains that unexpended balances lapse into a general treasury (beyond literary jurisdiction) at the end of the fiscal or school year. This pernicious provision has been known to stimulate an annual professorial scramble in the last month of the year to spend the balance of their allotments. Pitiful expedients have been devised, such as dealers billing books to be furnished later;...
Page 14 - ... library may be centralized or scattered. The former policy collects in the library building all, or the larger part, of the library's resources on all subjects. There may be, in this building or in others, small seminar or laboratory collections, but they will be merely working collections, changing as professors and courses of study change and as new books are published; they will...
Page 13 - ... library. Granted. A symmetrical development is of little use if the professor and faculty of a given department do not know enough or care enough about their library to keep their purchases up to date. Much better let men spend the money who know what they want and know how to use It when they get it. Neither the need for books nor the out-put of desirable books will conform to a cut and dried plan which contemplates spending so many dollars in so many months on so many subjects, and the book...