Excerpt from A Handbook of United: States Public Documents Personal contact and experience with the demands of the public have been the basis in the preparation of the Handbook and rigid adherence to official authority, the test for accuracy. It is strange that the student regards Public Documents in pretty much the same light as he does other works of reference, while the average librarian shrinks from them as if they were tomes in unknown tongues. When the subject matter alone is considered, the United States Public ...
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Excerpt from A Handbook of United: States Public Documents Personal contact and experience with the demands of the public have been the basis in the preparation of the Handbook and rigid adherence to official authority, the test for accuracy. It is strange that the student regards Public Documents in pretty much the same light as he does other works of reference, while the average librarian shrinks from them as if they were tomes in unknown tongues. When the subject matter alone is considered, the United States Public Documents will claim first place as a constantly-increasing cyclopaedia of subjects useful to the community. Furthermore this is in realitv their field. For their kindly encouragement, generous advice, invalua ble assistance, and excellent suggestions my keenest obligation and heartiest appreciation are extended to Miss Adelaide R. Hasse, Mrs. Myrta Lockett Avary, Miss Ethel Everhart, Mr. Lawrence J. Burpee, Dr. Thomas M. Owen, and many others who have helped with pertinent criticism. My thanks are due also to those branches of the Government that have responded promptly and graciously to my requests. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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