Courses of study in library science : $b being the assistants' guide to librarianshipWilliams, Reginald Gordon
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Courses of study in library science : $b being the assistants' guide to librarianship
Williams, Reginald Gordon
Library science -- Outlines, syllabi, etc.
Willcock--Notification of infectious disease and the public library.
_L.W. Vol. 2, 1899-1900, pp. 89-91._
QUESTIONS.
_1._ What rule or rules would you include in your bye-laws, if you wish
to obtain exemption from the payment of rates?
_2._ Make a comparison of the early rules in libraries with those of
to-day.
_3._ State what steps you would take to obtain the return of a book
long overdue, and what power you have for the enforcement of payment of
the fines?
_4._ Discuss the pros and cons of Sunday opening of reading rooms.
_5._ If you saw a person cutting an advertisement from a newspaper in
the reading room, what action would you take?
_6._ Give the dimensions of tables, chairs and newspaper stands or wall
stands for a general reading room.
TEST EXAMINATION.
_1._ Give a brief account of the Public Libraries Act of _1919_. What
amendments or additions would you suggest in order to improve the
Municipal Library System of England?
_2._ Outline the legislation of the United States and state how it
differs from English legislation.
_3._ Assume that a library is free from debt and that the income from
the rates and other sources amounts to £20,000, state under the usual
main headings how you would allocate the expenditure.
_4._ A library authority wishes to raise a loan of £50,000 for the
building of a library. State the Act or Acts it must work under, the
period for the repayment of the loan, and the general procedure in
connection with obtaining loans.
_5._ Draw a plan of a library, on one floor, to serve a population of
100,000 showing what departments you consider essential, and giving the
area you would allocate to each.
_6._ State what size you would have the book-cases; what gangway space
between each stack, and your method of dealing with oversize books in a
large open access library.
_7._ Name the ten best guides to book selection.
_8._ State how you would proceed to select the nucleus stock for a
library.
_9._ Draft a set of rules for a lending library.
_10._ Draft twelve rules for the juvenile lending library.
_11._ If a person wished to become a borrower, but worked and lived
outside the library district, under what conditions could you accept
his application?
FACTORS AND NOTES RELATING TO LIBRARY AND MUSEUM LEGISLATION,
ORGANISATION AND EQUIPMENT.
PRINCIPAL ACTS OF PARLIAMENT AFFECTING PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
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