This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...railroad station, the principal retail store? Or would its loss affect that community only like the destruction of the monument on the green, or the fence around Deacon Jones' pasture? If we are to make the library a vital influence in the community we must so conduct it that its loss would be felt as a calamity--that ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...railroad station, the principal retail store? Or would its loss affect that community only like the destruction of the monument on the green, or the fence around Deacon Jones' pasture? If we are to make the library a vital influence in the community we must so conduct it that its loss would be felt as a calamity--that it could be spared no more than the postoffice could be spared, or the doctor, or the school. And we must do our best so to carry on every part of its work, every element that goes to make up its service to the public, that this part or element is contributing toward that service and not injuring it or delaying it. It is better for the community that we should be unemployed than mal-employed, and if the community should ever find out that we are the latter, we may be assured that unemployment will shortly be our condition, whether we like it or not. COST OF ADMINISTRATION The possibility of deducing a general method for calculating the probable cost of operation of a library. The problem of ascertaining how the cost of administration of a library is related to the various conditions and factors that affect it is the problem of finding a formula in which, by simple substitution of numbers representing or corresponding to these conditions, a reasonable or approximate cost may be obtained. The data obtainable are the conditions and actual cost in a limited number of cases. The obstacles are the difficulty of stating certain of the conditions numerically and the difficulty of deciding on the form of the formula, which must be done in advance. We must first agree, of course, that the legitimate cost of administration of a library should bear some relation to its conditions of work. Probably no one would quarrel with this, but the first thought of o...
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Very Good. 432pp. Maroon cloth hard cover with gilt titles, minimal cover wear and some spine sunning, rear endpaper hinge cracked but repaired with Japanese Paper, pages clean and binding sound. Previous owner's name on the front endpaper. Bostwick was previously the head of the American Library Association. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. MC.