Through the use of case studies, research, and practical interviews, The Small or Rural Academic Library: Leveraging Resources and Overcoming Limitations explores how academic librarians in such environments can keep pace with, create, and improve modern library practices and services, network with colleagues, and access continuing education and professional development opportunities.

An efficient county library contemplates maximum service for money expended. Situated at the county seat or at some other centrally located place within the county, its book stock is carried to every resident of the county through a system branches, stations, and school deposits, and the services of an automobile and the parcel post. A trained librarian cooperates with school, farm, and other official leaders of the county in administering to the book needs of the communities. This study was initiated to discover the extent and character of service extended rural schools by county libraries. Such a study seemed necessary because of the library needs of rural schools, the adequacy of the county library as an agency for supplying these needs, and the lack of information showing the service extended rural schools by the major portion of the county libraries in the United States. Its facts and findings herein presented should be of interest and help to those desiring to improve rural schools by means of county libraries, and to those wishing to conduct further research in this field. This study is based largely upon replies to a questionnaire from 144 county libraries located in 32 different States. This is approximately 55 per cent of the entire number of county libraries in continental United States. Contents of this bulletin include: (1) Letter of transmittal; (2) Introduction; (3) County library branches in school buildings; (4) County library staff members; (5) Rural school problems of county libraries; (6) Chief sources of revenue of county libraries; (7) County library practices with reference to book expenditures, lending and instruction; (8) Transportation of books by county libraries and growth in book circulation; (9) Visual aids, magazines, music, and other material loaned to schools by county libraries; (10) Efforts of county librarians in stimulating interest in libraries; (11) Summary and conclusions; and (12) Some important references on county library service to schools. (Contains 7 tables and 6 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.].

Excerpt from Lessons on the Use of the School Library: For Rural Schools, State Graded Schools, Village and City Grades; Also for Use in High Schools in the Giving of Such Library Instruction Outlined as Has Not Been Given in the Grades There are over one and one-half million books in Wisconsin school libraries, with large additions in the aggregate each year. These books have been a power for good in the schools of the state. And yet the returns possible from the invest ment in school libraries are greatly in excess of those yet realized. It is so short a time since there were practically no school libraries that teaching practices, so far as the school library is concerned, are still to a large extent dominated by methods and courses of study which originated when the textbook reigned supreme. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.