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... volumes in circulation , has been ventured upon this year , and has succeeded . This was to con- duct the examination of the Library in sections , without closing it to the public . The details of the method by which this feat was ...
... volumes in circulation , has been ventured upon this year , and has succeeded . This was to con- duct the examination of the Library in sections , without closing it to the public . The details of the method by which this feat was ...
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... volume on " Free Town Libraries , " which I shall have occasion to quote , and in which a separate chapter is devoted to the history of our Public Library . points of view all the had preceded it , " 26 CITY DOCUMENT . - No . 114 .
... volume on " Free Town Libraries , " which I shall have occasion to quote , and in which a separate chapter is devoted to the history of our Public Library . points of view all the had preceded it , " 26 CITY DOCUMENT . - No . 114 .
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... volumes , and issuing , as they count , three millions a year . In France , more than three hundred towns and villages have free public libraries , administered and maintained by municipal- ities . Beside these , there were ten or ...
... volumes , and issuing , as they count , three millions a year . In France , more than three hundred towns and villages have free public libraries , administered and maintained by municipal- ities . Beside these , there were ten or ...
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... volumes , our predecessors , not a dozen years ago , had reasonable hopes of meeting the requirements of many years , notwithstanding that shelf - room may be wanting in a library , where classifications are preserved , long before the ...
... volumes , our predecessors , not a dozen years ago , had reasonable hopes of meeting the requirements of many years , notwithstanding that shelf - room may be wanting in a library , where classifications are preserved , long before the ...
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... volume missing is noted . When a morn- ing's work is thus done , the slips showing books in the hands of borrowers are examined , and part of the missing volumes thus accounted for . The binder's schedules are next looked to , and those ...
... volume missing is noted . When a morn- ing's work is thus done , the slips showing books in the hands of borrowers are examined , and part of the missing volumes thus accounted for . The binder's schedules are next looked to , and those ...
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100 A parcel 25 feet 50 feet avenue Back Bay Beacon street bounded as follows bridge building Castle street cent channel Charles River City of Boston committee commonwealth containing eight hundred containing nine hundred containing one thousand containing seven hundred containing six hundred described as taken dollars Dover street East Boston eastwardly Edward Tuckerman Eliot street Emerald street filling flats foot formerly belonging formerly of George formerly of Henry formerly of James formerly of John formerly of Mary formerly of William heirs of Edward Indiana place land belonging legislature less Lucas street measuring twenty feet Middlesex street Northeast northeastwardly by land Northwest parcel of land park Sarah SHATTUCK side South Boston Southeast southwest square feet Suffolk street tidal basins Tremont street trustees twenty and feet wardly by land Washington street West Boston bridge westwardly by land wharf