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