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Endowed Libraries and the Cost of Living
GEOFFREY WHATMORELibraries are quiet places, remaining for the most part aside from the world's upheavals and setbacks. But this is not to say that they are unaffected by them. It is a sad…
Bibliographic Boardinghouse
HARRY C. BAUERMany years ago a thrifty house‐wife presided over a men's boardinghouse near the campus of a well‐known American university. Often while planning daily menus, the hard pressed…
Should Children Read Books?
J.W. BAUGHThe question of what it is fitting for children to read would seem to be one which is always being debated. “Cinderella,” wrote a woman in 1802, “is perhaps one of the most…
A Place to Read
JEAN MENTERI think with nostalgia of the first library I knew. Queen Mary's House, the library of a school in Scotland, stands in its own small garden, adjoining the school grounds. It is…