Research Catalog

Title

The practice of book selection.

Author

Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1940]

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Description

xii, 368 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

• Papers presented before the Library Institute at the University of Chicago, July 31 to Aug. 13, 1939
• The University of Chicago studies in library science

Uniform Title

• Papers presented before the annual conference (University of Chicago. Graduate Library School. Library Conference) ; 1939.
• University of Chicago studies in library science.

Subjects

• Book Selection
• Book selection

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 344-356.

Contents

Theories of book selection for public libraries, by C. B. Roden.--Community analysis and the practice of book selection, by Leon Carnovsky.--Important books of the last one hundred years - political science, economics, and sociology, by Max Lerner.--Evaluation of contemporary fiction and nonfiction, by George Stevens.--Literature as propaganda, by Henry Hazlitt.--The evaluation of historical writings, by Louis Gottschalk.--Popularizing science, by Waldemar Kaempffert.--Selecting books for a technical department, by E. H. McClelland.--Book selection and self-therapy, by Mandel Sherman.--In the language of the people, by James Clarke.--Organization of internal processes in book selection for public libraries, by Leta E. Adams.--Publishing children's books, by Bertha L. Gunterman.--Book selection in a modern high school, by Frieda M. Heller.--Book selection in a liberal arts college, by Carter Davidson.--Aesthetic aspects of book production, by H. L. Gage.--The publisher as a factor in popular reading, by F. G. Melcher.-- A great bookstore in action, by Adolph Kroch.--The teaching of book selection in the one-year library school, by Agnes C. Hansen.--Selected reading list (p. 344-356)

LCCN

40027249

OCLC

• ocm01406440
• SCSB-4216480

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries