Titre et auteur:

Landmarks of library literature, 1876-1976 / edited by Dianne J. Ellsworth and Norman D. Stevens.

Publication:

Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1976.

Description:

v, 520 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1 : Libraries and librarianship -- Introduction -- Of the librarian's profession (Archibald MacLeish) -- The profession (Melvil Dewey) -- Librarianship as a profession (Pierce Butler) -- Professionalism reconsidered (Mary Leed Bundy and Paul Wasserman) -- The profession and its problems -- The next fifty years (Louis R. Wilson) -- Critique of library associations in America (Ralph Ellsworth) -- Do we want a library science? (C. Seymour Thompson) -- Do we want a library science? A reply (Douglas Waples) -- The place of research in library science (C.C. Williamson) -- Part II : The historical view of librarianship -- Introduction -- On the value of library history (Jesse H. Shera) -- The sociological beginnings of the library movement (Arnold K. Borden) -- Part III : The social responsibilities of libraries -- Introduction -- Questions of a political scientist (Carleton B. Joeckel) -- The obligations and responsibilities of the librarian concerning censorship (Leon Carnovsky) -- The library's collection in a time of crisis (Margaret E. Monroe) -- The spectre at Richmond (Stanley Kunitz) -- Segregated libraries (Rice Estes) -- The disadvantaged majority (Anita R. Schiller) -- Part IV : Libraries and the concept of library service -- Introduction -- Public Libraries : -- The future of the free public library (Lewis H. Steiner) -- Hear the other side (John Cotton Dana) -- Library work for rural communities (Liberty Hyde Bailey) -- The national library concept : -- What may be done for libraries by the nation (Herbert Putnam) -- Libraries and the young : -- Public libraries and the young (William I. Fletcher) -- Report on reading for the young (Lutie E. Stearns) -- Academic libraries : -- The university library and the university curriculum (W.F. Poole) -- University libraries face the future (Keyes D. Metcalf) -- Special libraries : -- The special library and some of its problems (Ethel M. Johnson) -- Problems in library service : Librarians and readers -- Personal relations between librarians and readers (Samuel S. Green) -- Reference service (Samuel Rothstein) -- The open library (W.H. Brett) -- Part V : The technical aspects of librarianship -- Introduction -- Cataloging and classification : -- The classification of books (Lloyd P. Smith) -- Classification systems (Ralph R. Shaw) -- The crisis in cataloging (Andrew D. Osborn) -- The possibility of discarding the card catalog (Fremont Rider) -- Top priority for cataloging-in-source (Joseph L. Wheeler) -- The management of libraries and their resources : -- Business methods in library management (F.M. Crunden) -- Efficiency criteria for the operation of large libraries (Richard L. Meier) -- Cooperation in lending among college and reference libraries (Ernest C. Richardson) -- The division of a library into books in use and books not in use (Charles W. Eliot) -- Proposal for a division of responsibility among American libraries in the acquisition and recording of library materials (Keyes D. Metcalf and Edwin E. Williams) -- Part VI : Automation and the future of libraries -- Introduction -- From Fright to Frankenstein (Ralph R. Shaw) -- The great gas bubble prick't (Ellsworth Mason).

Ressources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0810808994
9780810808997

Sujet:

Libraries United States.
Library science United States.
Libraries.
Library science.
Library Science
Bibliothèques États-Unis.
Bibliothéconomie.
Bibliothèques.
libraries (buildings)
library science.
Bibliotheekwetenschap.
Bibliotheken.
United States

Classification/genre:

Essay
essays.
Essays
Essais.

Vedettes secondaires:

Ellsworth, Dianne J.
Stevens, Norman D.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 180369
Cote: ID Z731.L25; ID:98-B769
Statut: Disponible