A librarian's open shelf
Subtitle: essays on various subjects.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Books and reading; Education; Libraries -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Reprint of the 1920 ed.
Table of contents: title: Do readers read.; title: What makes people read.; title: The passing of the possessive; a study of book titles.; title: Selective education.; title: The uses of fiction.; title: The value of association.; title: Modern educational methods.; title: Some economic features of libraries.; title: Simon Newcomb: America's foremost astronomer.; title: The companionship of books.; title: Atomic theories of energy.; title: The advertisement of ideas.; title: The public library, the public school, and the social center movement.; title: The systematization of violence.; title: The art of reading.; title: History and heredity.; title: What the flag stands for.; title: The people's share in the public library.; title: Some tendencies of American thought.; title: Drugs and the man.; title: How the community educates itself.; title: Clubwomen's reading.; title: Books for tired eyes.; title: The magic casement.; title: A word to believers.