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An important experiment , never before tried in a large public library with a great number of volumes in circulation , has been ventured upon this year , and has succeeded . This was to conduct the examination of the Library in sections ...
An important experiment , never before tried in a large public library with a great number of volumes in circulation , has been ventured upon this year , and has succeeded . This was to conduct the examination of the Library in sections ...
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... and the author of " Memoirs of Libraries , " and of a recent 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 ...
... and the author of " Memoirs of Libraries , " and of a recent 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 ...
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Forty - one of the 302 had reading - rooms open in the evening . In 1868 the free town and communal libraries in France had 4,122,000 volumes and 44,070 manuscripts . In Belgium , almost every large town has its library , though not ...
Forty - one of the 302 had reading - rooms open in the evening . In 1868 the free town and communal libraries in France had 4,122,000 volumes and 44,070 manuscripts . In Belgium , almost every large town has its library , though not ...
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With a collection of a few thousands in hand , and plans for a building to hold 250,000 volumes , our predecessors , not a dozen years ago , had reasonable hopes of meeting the requirements of many years , notwithstanding that shelf ...
With a collection of a few thousands in hand , and plans for a building to hold 250,000 volumes , our predecessors , not a dozen years ago , had reasonable hopes of meeting the requirements of many years , notwithstanding that shelf ...
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The shelves are then compared with the shelf - lists , and every volume missing is noted . ... the slips showing books in the hands of borrowers are examined , and part of the missing volumes thus accounted for .
The shelves are then compared with the shelf - lists , and every volume missing is noted . ... the slips showing books in the hands of borrowers are examined , and part of the missing volumes thus accounted for .
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