Public Library Handbook

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Carson-Harper Company, 1895 - 182 sider
 

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Side 51 - To open a new book, hold the book with its back on a smooth or covered table ; let the front board down, then the other, holding the leaves in one hand while you open a few leaves at the back, then a few at the front, and so on, alternately opening back and front, gently pressing open the sections till you reach the center of the volume. Do this two or three times, and you will obtain the best results. Open the volume violently or carelessly in any one place and you will likely break the back and...
Side 75 - Don't- A Manual of Mistakes and Improprieties more or less prevalent in Conduct and Speech. By Censor, UNMUTILATED and with the additional matter. The only Authorized and COMPLETE Edition. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, EC [Sixpence. OF American origin, " Don't : A Manual of Manners," may be taken seriously, or considerably otherwise.
Side 99 - San Francisco Cataloguing for Public Libraries: a manual of the system used in the San Francisco Free Public Library.
Side 99 - The city council of said city shall have power to pass ordinances imposing suitable penalties for the punishment of persons committing injury upon such library or the grounds or other property thereof, and for injury to or failure to return any book belonging to such library.
Side 99 - CXV, sece.3 and 4.) No directors shall receive compensation. (Sess. Laws, 1893, Chap. CXV, sec. 4.) Each director shall give a bond of five hundred dollars. (Mills, 2819.) The mayor is president of the board. The board elects other officers, and makes rules and by-laws, has exclusive control of the expenditure of all money, and the management of all grounds, buildings, rooms, etc., owned, leased, or set apart for library purposes. The library fund must bo deposited in the city treasury.
Side 99 - State, for the use of such library, and the secretary of state is hereby authorized and required to furnish the same from year to year to such town or city. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
Side 99 - State, if desired for public use therein, and to take the receipt of such librarian therefor, one copy of each and every such book, pamphlet or periodical published by the State as can be spared, now on hand, or which shall be published by the State from time to time hereafter. — MILLS, 2822.

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