Training for Library Service: A Report Prepared for the Carnegie Corporation of New YorkD. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, 1923 - 165 páginas |
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actual library adequate admission American Library Association book selection brary Carnegie Corporation Carnegie Library cataloguing cent certification class-room clerical college course coöperation correspondence instruction correspondence study degree desirable efficient equipment experience fees fessional field practice give given grade high school important Institute instruction in library kinds of library lack lectures librarians library administration library profession library school instructors Library Science library service library staff library subjects library system library training library workers literature methods offer one-year course opportunity organized period persons positions possible Pratt Institute present principal problems profes professional education professional library school professional schools professional training school library Simmons College skill small library specialized training standards summer schools supervision Syracuse University teachers technical text-books tion training class training for library training in service types of library University of Washington Western Reserve University women year's York Public Library York State Library
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Página 153 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
Página 127 - That this Board shall investigate all existing agencies for teaching library subjects and methods, shall evaluate their work for purposes of certification, shall seek to correlate these agencies into an organized system and to that end shall recommend such new agencies as seem to It desirable and shall establish grades of library service with appropriate certificates.
Página 9 - Until the distinction between clerical and professional workers is sharply made and adhered to the demand for adequate salaries for the professional group will prove ineffective because they will be economically impossible. A careful appraisal of the duties actually performed by many workers for whom professional salaries are demanded will show that they are often in large part clerical and not worthy of higher remuneration..
Página 136 - Professional training calls for a broad, general education, represented at its minimum by a thorough college course of four years, plus at least one year of graduate study in a properly organized library school.
Página 14 - Works of a similar scope are compared and the limitations of each pointed out. Lists of questions to be solved by the use of the works studied are given, and the method of finding the answers discussed in class.
Página 115 - It is not, then the intervention of the postal system which gives to correspondence study its virtue. The method of instruction is the essential thing. It may or may not be applied through the mails. The chief characteristics of the method are constant efforts by the student and correction by the teacher. As ordinarily applied in correspondence study, the method consists of the assignment by the instructor of definitely planned work, the writing out by the student of the results of his work, the...
Página 5 - College education is now required of the high school teacher in practically every part of the country. How can the public library, even in the smallest town, be expected to serve intelligently the needs of all classes if the librarian is not at least as well equipped as the high school teacher? The librarian, indeed, if he is to live up to his opportunities, should be the intellectual peer of the high school principal, the superintendent of schools, the minister, the editor, and all other educated...
Página 14 - Problems in selection of reference books, especially for the small library, are assigned and talked over. The aim of this course is not only to promote familiarity with a considerable number of well-known reference works, but also to give the student some idea of the method in the handling of books, to familiarize him with the use of indexes, tables of contents, and varying forms of arrangement, and, finally, to suggest some method of comparison and evaluation.
Página 142 - One of the most important conclusions of this study is that the professional library school should be organized as a department of a university, along with other professional schools, rather than in public libraries, state or municipal.