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A Charter for School Libraries
JAMES SPEIRSTHE Education Act (1944), if fully and sympathetically operated, should foster new reading habits, and encourage librarians everywhere. Thoughtful observers in Britain have been…
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Carlyle and the Twentieth Century
W.A. MUNFORDWHEN librarians meet and talk “shop,” it isn't usually long before someone is trying to argue about the provision of lighter material— the ephemeral novels, travel, and biography…
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The Bad Old Days
EDWARD GREENALTHOUGH my articles are chiefly concerned with conditions appertaining to the early days of the public library, I cannot resist the temptation to step aside and reflect upon the…
The Children's Book Section
MURIEL M. GREENOne hears sometimes of precocious children who can read before the average baby can talk, and this raises the interesting speculation as to when a child is old enough for books…
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