A Primer of Librarianship

W.E. Doubleday

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000507003
• Subtopic: Library & Information Science
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This book, first published in 1931, presents a survey of librarianship by some of its leading theorists of the early twentieth century, a time of rapid library expansion following the Library Act of 1919. The entire field of Library service was undergoing review and experiment, with little remaining unchanged, and this volume details some of the new and modern practices then being adopted.

Index

• Accessioning, 92-4.
• Acts of Parliament, 208-12.
• Administrative departments, 60.
• Aids to readers, 95-103.
• Annotations, 60, 186-7.
• Anonymous works, 52
• Appointments, library, 213-14, 220.
• Architecture, library, 62-3.
• Atlases, library use of, 163-4, 175.
• Author-catalogues, 53
• Author-entries, 47.

• B.B.C. and libraries, 140-1.
• Bespoke books, 89.
• Bibliographical terms, 20-5.
• Bibliographies, 15;
  • of subjects, 14, 27.
• Bibliography, 11-25;
  • term denned, 11, 13
• Binding, cased books, 200-2;
  • reinforced, 200-1;
  • paper difficulties, 201-2;
  • library binding methods, 202-3;
  • materials, 203-4;
  • covers, 204;
  • finishing processes, 204;
  • special requirements, 205;
  • cut edges, 205;
  • buckram coverings, 206;
  • leathers, 203, 206;
  • fine bindings, 206-7;
  • Bookbinding as a School Subject, 207;
  • books about binding, 207.
• Blind, embossed books for the, 143-4.
• Block books, 20.
• Book—classification, 34-44;
  • displays, 99-102;
  • illustration, 17, 19;
  • imprints, 23, 50;
  • lists, 101-3;
  • production, 16;
  • purchasing, 120;
  • reviews discussed, 30-1;
  • selection, 26-33, 120;
  • stacks, 64;
  • stock percentages, 28-9;
  • storage schemes, 63-4.
• Books, children s, 108;
  • reference, 65.
• Borrowers’ application forms, 70;
  • registration methods, 70-1, 80-1, 82-5;
  • tickets. 71-3, 82-5.
• Branch libraries, 148-9.
• Buckram, use of, 206.
• Budgets, library, 117.
• Bulletins, library, 190-1.
• Business libraries, 174-82;
  • their scope and purpose, 174;
  • periodicals and their trea...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• General Introduction to the Series
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• I. Bibliography
• II. Book Selection
• III. Book Classification
• IV. Cataloguing
• V. Reference Libraries
• VI. Lending Libraries
• VII. Lending Library Routine Work
• VIII. Aids to Readers
• IX. Children’s Library Work
• X. Committee Work and Office Routine
• XI. University Libraries
• XII. Library Extension Work
• XIII. County Libraries
• XIV. Library Co-operation and the National Central Library
• XV. Commercial and Technical Libraries
• XVI. Business Libraries
• XVII. Library Publications
• XVIII. Print Collecting
• XIX. Binding for Libraries
• XX. Library Law
• XXI. How To Enter the Library Profession
• Index