The Small Library (Classic Reprint): A Guide to the Collection and Care of Books: A Guide to the Collection and Care of Books (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda
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Practical strategies for building focused, useful libraries
This concise guide helps small libraries, schools, churches, and organizations shape a high‑quality collection without waste. It discusses the realities of managing a “small library” and offers clear steps to improve selection, organization, and ongoing care. The book explains common pitfalls and provides practical paths to better service. It covers how to avoid overstocked shelves filled with low‑quality or inappropriate material and how to plan for useful, representative holdings. Advice includes seeking expert guidance from professional bodies and leveraging existing library networks to organize effectively and economically.
- Understand the aims of a small library and why quality matters as much as quantity
- Learn how to select and organize books to meet real readers’ needs
- Discover practical ways to handle donations, cataloging, and classifications
- Find guidance on working with librarians and library associations for better outcomes
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Down for the adventurous spirit who would aspire to guide other people on the highway of books. John Hill Burton, the learned and witty author Of The Book-hunter, sums up the case for the specialist and browser with all the force and superior style which distinguishes your true Aberdonian from the common herd. Writing of Bibliographies, he Observes: I come to another class of biblio graphies, of which it is difficult to speak with pa tience - those which either profess to tell you how to find the best books to consult on every depart ment of learning, or undertake to point out to you the books which you Should select for your library, or for your miscellaneous reading. AS to those who profess to be universal mentors, at hand to help you with the best tools for your work, in which ever department of intellectual labour it may happen to be, they break down at once. Whoever has set himself to any special line Of investigation, cannot Open one of those books without discovering its utter worthlessness and incapacity to aid him in his own Speciality. As to the other class of bibliographers, who profess to act the guide, philo Sopher and friend to the collector and the reader, I cannot imagine anything more offensively auda cions than the function they assume. It is an attempt of the pedagogue to assert a jurisdiction over grown intellects, and hence such books naturally develop in flagrant exaggeration the pragmatical priggism which is the pedagogue's characteristic defect. I would except from this condemnation a few bibliographers, who, instead of.
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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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Excerpt from The Small Library: A Guide to the Collection and Care of Books
Of all the difficult, hazardous and thankless tasks which well-meaning persons can choose for the improvement of their fellows, perhaps none is so unproductive, in some quarters, as book-selection and the recommendation of reading matter. In ninety cases out of a hundred, persons who read books recommended by others will contemn the judgment and taste of the recommender, and even hint at a certain lack of knowledge and critical perception. As a rule, educated and well-read people should never be assisted in any way in their reading or choice of books, because they are almost sure to resent even well-meant efforts, as an officious intrusion into the sanctity of their own superior knowledge. And, no doubt, it is somewhat of an insult to a thorough-going specialist to have some less-learned bibliographer thrusting forth with his selection of books and annotations, as a kind of last word on the subject.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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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