The Library Journal, Vol. 2: Official Organ of the American Library Association, Chiefly Devoted to Library Economy and Bibliography, (January-December,...

The Library Journal, Vol. 2: Official Organ of the American Library Association, Chiefly Devoted to Library Economy and Bibliography, (January-December,...
ISBN-10
1528516427
ISBN-13
9781528516426
Category
Reference
Pages
490
Language
English
Published
2017-10-13
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Author
C. A. Cutter

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Excerpt from The Library Journal, Vol. 2: Official Organ of the American Library Association, Chiefly Devoted to Library Economy and Bibliography, (January-December, 1886) The key to this enormous heap of material is, of course, to be found in the index, in which a bibliographer, Of critical acumen could probably drive a horse and cart through every page. But any one who has ever been lost' in the labyrinth of Government publications will be grateful for what he gets, and in this index he gets a great deal. To take two or three examples: There are thirteen entries under Library of Congress, with perhaps a hundred page-references, but no reference from Congress or Congressional to Library the 1876 Report on Public Libraries is entered under Public. But not under Libraries, and, by the way, the note on this work on p. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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