The practice of book selection
Subtitle: papers presented before the Library institute at the University of Chicago, July 31 to August 13, 1939
By: edited with an introduction by Louis R. Wilson.
Contributors: Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979
Series: University of Chicago studies in library science
Publisher: University of Chicago press
Published: 1940
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Book selection.
Table of contents: value: Theories of book selection for public libraries, by C.B. Roden.; value: Community analysis and the practice of book selection, by Leon Carnovsky.-  Important books of the last one hundred years - political science, economics, and sociology, by Max Lerner.-  Evaluation of contemporary fiction and nonfiction, by George Stevens.-  Literature as propaganda, by Henry Hazlitt.-  The evaluation of historical writings, by Louis Gottschalk.-  Popularizing science, by Waldemar Kaempffert.- Selecting books for a technical department, by E.H. McClelland.-  Book selection and self-therapy, by Mandel Sherman.-  In the language of the people, by James Clarke.-  Organization of internal processes in book selection for public libraries, by Leta E. Adams.-  Publishing children's books, by Bertha L. Gunterman.-  Book selection in a modern high school, by Frieda M. Heller.-  Book selection in a liberal arts college, by Carter Davidson.-  Aesthetic aspects of book production, by H.L. Gage.-  The publisher as a factor in popular reading, by F.G. Melcher.-  A great bookstore in action, by Adolph Kroch.-  The teaching of book selection in the one-year library school, by Agnes C. Hansen.-  Selected reading list (p. 344-356)