A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects
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A Librarian’s Open Shelf
Essays On Various Subjects
Arthur E. Bostwick, Ph.D.
Preface
Contents
A LIBRARIAN’S OPEN SHELF
ESSAYS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS
Do Readers Read?
What Makes People Read?
The Passing of The Possessive: A Study of Book-Titles
Selective Education1
The Uses Of Fiction2
The Value Of Association3
Modern Educational Methods
Some Economic Features of Libraries4
Simon Newcomb: America’s Foremost Astronomer
The Companionship of Books5
Atomic Theories of Energy6
Some Consideration on the Identity of Definite Portions of Energy
The Advertisement of Ideas
The Public Library, The Public School, and The Social Center Movement7
The Systematization of Violence
The Art of Re-reading
History and Heredity8
What The Flag Stands For9
The People’s Share in The Public Library12
Some Tendencies of American Thought13
Drugs and The Man14
How The Community Educates Itself15
Clubwomen’s Reading
I—The Malady
II—A Diagnosis
III—The Remedy
Books For Tired Eyes
The Magic Casement16
A Word to Believers17
Index
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