A librarian's open shelf: essays on various subjects.
Publisher: The H. W. Wilson company
Published: 1920
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Books and reading; Education; Libraries
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: Sme 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 schol, and the social center movement.; title: The systematization of violence.; title: The art of re-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.