Annual Report, Volume 80The Library, 1898 From 1889 to 1918 the reports consist of the Report of the director and appendixes, which from 1893 include various bulletins issued by the library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries) These, including the Report of the director, were each issued also separately. |
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Page 40 - Of these 22, all but one were engaged in library work, and 10 were in New York libraries. At the examinations 14 passed, four of these with honor, ie, with a marking above 90 per cent. The class of 1897 is the first to graduate since the change of policy in regard to the senior class went into effect. According to this change the completion of junior work does not necessarily admit to the senior class. Class work, examinations and personal qualifications are weighed, and only those who seem likely...
Page 44 - Only those who hold credentials for the completion of a full four-year academic or high school course, or its equivalent, will be admitted to the summer session. For those engaged in library work in the state of New York, and who meet the requirements for admission, instruction will be provided without charge as part of the work of the public libraries division.
Page 62 - ... school and a public library. The most enthusiastic believer in the work of the study clubs, summer schools, extension lectures, correspondence teaching and other forms of home education will admit the folly of undertaking to organize a third educational center in the smaller communities. The work will be done best and cheapest by associating it either with the high school or the library, and there is no question that the library as in itself the most important of the agencies for home education...
Page 5 - To the Regents of the University of the State of New York I have the honor to report herewith on the work of this department during the year commencing Oct.
Page 61 - York, by their long use of the phrase " extension " have given sanction to the idea of established agencies proceeding from some central source, eg, Albany, towards the town, the village, the home and the individual. Mr. Dewey on home education says: "Our extension or home education department has from the first been conducted in the rooms of the state librarian and under the supervision of its director. In the nature of the case this was necessary, and we should without hesitation have carried it...
Page 43 - Eastman, library inspector, is regularly at the school and his unique experience in studying the problems of the hundreds of libraries throughout the State is constantly utilized in the summer course. Opportunity is given for submitting questions and practical difficulties for discussion and solution. Each year important lectures by nonresident librarians are arranged for May and June so that summer as well as regular students may hear them. Practical work, carefully supervised and criticized, supplements...
Page 2 - Albany 1873 MARTIN I. TOWNSEND, MA LL. D. - - Troy 1877 CHAUNCEY M. DEpEW, LL. D. - - - - New York 1877 CHARLES E. FITCH, LL.
Page 62 - ... director. In the nature of the case this was necessary, and we should without hesitation have carried it on always under the library name had it not been thought desirable to use a distinctive name because of the initial appropriation of $10,000 for a fuller organization of this new work.1 Both in print and in addresses I have from the first impressed extension societies and conferences and those interested in other phases of home education that it was in itself naturally so closely allied to...
Page 42 - Cap and gown; some college verse. JL Harrison, '93 Graduation theses. The following is a complete list of theses presented : 01 6. 8 The librarian and modern literature; with a suggested course of reading in preparation for the Library school. IE Lord, Alice Newman and LD Waterman, '97 ' 020 How to make the most of a small library. Lilian Denio, '88 020.6 State and local library associations. NM Pond, '96 021 . i How to make a public library useful.