Excerpt from Public, Society, and School Libraries The statistics of libraries for 1900 will be found summarized in tables 1 to 9 and the statistics in detail for each library will be given in the concluding pages of this chapter. Tables 10 to 14 reproduce the most important items in similar tables for 1875, 1885, 1891, and 1896. Table 1 gives the number of libraries, the number of volumes, and the number of pamphlets reported from each State and shows the increase in number of libraries and volumes and the percentage of increase in volumes in each State and geograph ical division. The North Atlantic Division has of the libraries and a million more than half the number of volumes in the United States. New York alone has 718 libraries with volumes; Massachusetts, 571 libraries with volumes, and Pennsylvania, 401 libraries with volumes. The North Central Division has libraries with volumes. Illinois has 309 of these libraries with volumes; Ohio, 266 libraries with volumes, and Michigan, 193 libraries with volumes. The South Atlantic Division has 421 libraries with volumes. Maryland has 80 of these libraries with volumes, and the District of Columbia 74, with volumes, one million of these being in the Library of Congress. 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.

Excerpt from Public, Society, and School Libraries in the United States: With Library Statistics and Legislation of the Various States Table 1. - Summary of statistics of public, society, and school libraries of volumes and over in 1896. 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.

Excerpt from The Library and Society: Reprints of Papers and Addresses It may be desirable to repeat here the warning that the word classics in the title of this series is to be understood as meaning early and standard expressions of ideas that have later developed into prominence. The papers and addresses in this volume have been chosen especially with this in view, and as they emphasize social relations an effort has been made to include expressions from men of eminence whose names would not probably occur 'to the student of library economy as having ex pressed an opinion about the work of libraries or as having influenced it in any permanent way. I desire to acknowledge the kindly assistance ren dered in the selection and grouping of the articles by Mrs. Gertrude Gilbert Drury, chief instructor in the St. Louis Library School. It has been most valuable. 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.

This book examines the connections between public school reform in the early twentieth century and American political development from 1890 to 1940.

Provides vision for strong school library programs, including identification of the skills and knowledge essential for students to be information literate. Includes recommended baseline staffing, access, and resources for school library services at each grade level.

Excerpt from Systematic Index to the Books of the St. Louis Public School Library: Together With the Charter, Regulations and by-Laws of the Society, and the Rules and Regulations of the Library and Reading Room Colburn, D. P. First Book of Arith metic. Common School Arithmetic. Arithmetic and its Applications. 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.

Excerpt from A List of Serials in the Principal Libraries of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity Philadelphia is the seat of the oldest public library in the United States that founded by Benjamin Franklin, who calls it in his Autobiography, the mother of all North American subscription libraries. Other learned institutions, the American Philosophical Society and the University of Pennsylvania gratefully acknowledge their indebtedness to the same far-sighted, public-spirited genius and still carry'on his plans of benefiting the community by maintaining libraries. According to the Report of the United States Bureau of Education for 1903 Phila delphia had then 120 public, society and school libraries. 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.