Annual Report

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Nixon-Jones Printing Company, 1909

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Seite 64 - Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public within and for the City of St. Louis, Mo., appeared Edward L.
Seite 89 - I would establish a library which differs from all free libraries yet attempted ; I mean one in which any popular books, tending to moral and intellectual improvement, shall be furnished in such numbers of copies ' that many persons can be reading the same book at the same time ; in short, that not only the best books of all sorts, but the present literature of the day...
Seite 76 - THERE is only one solution of all social problems — increase of intelligence and sympathy. To this end newspapers, schools, and pulpits are useful. But these are all limited in their speech. Politics, personal considerations, undue or misplaced conservatism — these make limitations. The public library is the broadest of teachers, one may say the only free teacher. It is the most liberal of schools; it is the only real people's college. It can freely tell all known facts about any question.
Seite 89 - ... the pleasant literature of the day, shall be made accessible to the whole people when they most care for it ; that is, when it is fresh and new. I would . . . thus, by following the popular taste — unless it should demand something injurious — create a real appetite for healthy reading. This appetite, once formed, will take care of itself. It will, in a great majority of cases, demand better and better books.
Seite 18 - ... acknowledged the execution of the foregoing power of attorney. Witness my hand and notarial seal this .... day of ,19 [Notarial seal] Notary Public My Commission expires Title of bonds/notes Total face amount Denomination Serial No.
Seite 15 - ... or Austrian, has now become alert. His alertness makes him open to educative influences, but it may also show itself in such ways as that just noted. Keeping the war out of the schools Is of course a purely local phenomenon, to be deprecated where it occurs. The library can do Its part here also. G. Stanley Hall believes that the problem of teaching the war is how to utilize in the very best way the wonderful opportunity to open, see and feel the innumerable and vital lessons Involved.
Seite 77 - Hours open each week for lending ( Central library), 72. Hours open each week for reading (Central library), 79.
Seite 132 - Association is due the gratitude of scholars for numerous devices which tend to the perfection of this instrument. All persons interested in the subject of education will note with satisfaction the progress of the library. Next after the school and the daily newspaper comes the library in educative power. These three institutions are the great secular means which our people have to prepare themselves for their singular destiny.
Seite 69 - Louis officials regarding their municipal reference library : " No ordinance need be passed, and no department of the city government need try any new scheme, measure or device without first having full knowledge of what other cities or corporations have done along similar lines, and with what degree of success.
Seite 22 - No millionaire will go far wrong in his search for one of the best forms for the use of his surplus who chooses to establish a free library in any community that is willing to maintain and develop it.

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