Library Instruction In Universities Colleges And Normal Schools PDF Download

Excerpt from Library Instruction in Universities, Colleges, and Normal Schools The importance of instruction in the use of books, bibliography, and library economy is recognized by institutions of higher education in the United States. In many of the universities, colleges, and normal schools of the country prescribed courses are given in the book arts and bibliography. In the year 1881 Mr. R. C. Davis, librarian emeritus of the University of Michigan, succeeded in having a course in bibliography and reference works made a part of the curriculum of the University of Michigan. The efforts of Mr. Davis gave a great impetus to the general movement for bibliographical and library instruction in colleges and universities. Brown Uni versity in 1902 - 3 offered a course in bibliography, which in recent years has been discontinued, owing to pressure of other duties on the part of the professor of bibliography, who is at the same time librarian of the university. Yale University has a course in the bibliography of history, which is required of all students before further courses in history can be taken. This course has been found productive of an excellent training for advanced college work. In cooperation with the legislative reference department of the Wisconsin Free Library Commission, the library school of the Uni versity of Wisconsin offers a special course of training for legislative and municipal reference work and the various sociological phases of library service. The interest in bibliographical work is undoubtedly Increasing, but as Mr. Willard Austen, of Cornell University, re marks. 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.