One Hundred Years of Sci Tech Libraries
Subtitle: A Brief History
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: October 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780866567459
Subjects: United States; Scientific libraries; Library & Information Science; Language Arts & Disciplines; Reference; Language; Technical libraries; History; Library science; Science and technology libraries
First sentence: In 1886, in an address to the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, Melvil Dewey said: The colleges are waking to the fact that the work of every professor and every department is necessarily based on the library; text books constantly yield their exalted places to wiser and broader methods; professor after professor sends his classes, or goes with them, to the library and teaches them to investigate for themselves, and to use books, getting beyond the method of the primary school with its parrot-like recitations from a single text.