Papers and Proceedings of the ... General Meeting of the American Library Association Held at ..., Volume 19The Association, 1897 - Library science |
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Page 11 - 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.
Page 9 - Wherefore we arrive at the general proposition, that every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberty by every other man.
Page 25 - ... in order that the library as an institution may win the continued devotion out of which will grow the reading habit, it is necessary that there be a children's library that is a distinct and unique institution, disassociated from the adult library and from the school supplementary reading — a place where the children are led by the librarian into a grand revel in books. The schools have a distinct task, viz., to strengthen the intelligence of the children. It is a sad mistake to expect the...
Page 184 - The Snob : a Literary and Scientific Journal," NOT " conducted by members of the University,
Page 7 - THE two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
Page 7 - There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact. It affirms because it holds. Its fingers clutch the fact, and it will not open its eyes to see a better fact. The castle, which conservatism is set to defend, is the actual state of things, good and bad... The project of innovation is the best possible state of things. Of course, conservatism always has the worst of the argument, is always...
Page 7 - There is nothing so revolutionary, because there is nothing so unnatural and so convulsive to society as the strain to keep things fixed, when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress ; and the cause of all the evils of the world may be traced to that natural but most deadly error of human indolence and corruption, that our business is to preserve and not to improve.
Page 10 - Unusually clever he, Unusually brave, And he drew delightful Mammoths On the borders of his cave. To his Neolithic neighbors, Who were startled and surprised, Said he, "My friends, in course of time, We shall be civilized!
Page 16 - ... age, as well as with that distinguishing characteristic of a nation's intelligence, its literature. Booksellers may console themselves by being classed with those who follow literature as a profession, and of whom Froude has said, " It happens to be the only occupation in which wages are not given in proportion to the goodness of the work done.
Page 58 - THERE was held in London last summer, from the I4th to the i7th of July, a conference known as the International Bibliographical Conference. I am sorry that I cannot speak of that meeting from personal knowledge, as I was not present. In the preparation of this statement I have had to aid me the two official publications of the conference together with all the antecedent documents. I have also had some personal information from Dr. Bilings and Professor Newcomb, the gentlemen who represented the...