A Librarian's Open Shelf
by Arthur E. Bostwick
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About this eBook
- Author
- Bostwick, Arthur E. (Arthur Elmore), 1860-1942
- Title
- A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects
- Credits
- Produced by Ted Garvin, Barbara Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Libraries
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 13430
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13430
- Release Date
- September 10, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A Librarian’s Open Shelf
- 2.Essays On Various Subjects — Arthur E. Bostwick, Ph.D.
- 3.Preface
- 4.Contents — A LIBRARIAN’S OPEN SHELF
- 5.ESSAYS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS
- 6.Do Readers Read?
- 7.What Makes People Read?
- 8.The Passing of The Possessive: A Study of Book-Titles
- 9.Selective Education 1
- 10.The Uses Of Fiction 2
- 11.The Value Of Association 3
- 12.Modern Educational Methods
- 13.Some Economic Features of Libraries 4
- 14.Simon Newcomb: America’s Foremost Astronomer
- 15.The Companionship of Books 5
- 16.Atomic Theories of Energy 6 — Some Consideration on the Identity of Definite Portions of Energy
- 17.The Advertisement of Ideas
- 18.The Public Library, The Public School, and The Social Center Movement 7
- 19.The Systematization of Violence
- 20.The Art of Re-reading
- 21.History and Heredity 8
- 22.What The Flag Stands For 9
- 23.The People’s Share in The Public Library 12
- 24.Some Tendencies of American Thought 13
- 25.Drugs and The Man 14
- 26.How The Community Educates Itself 15
- 27.Clubwomen’s Reading — I— The Malady — II— A Diagnosis — III— The Remedy
- 28.Books For Tired Eyes
- 29.The Magic Casement 16
- 30.A Word to Believers 17
- 31.Index — Footnotes
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