Annual Report - Enoch Pratt Free Library, כרכים 24-32The Library., 1910 "The Enoch Pratt Library at seventy-five, 1886-1961; a retrospective report" follows report for 1961. |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
able addition Andrew Carnegie Annual Report appropriation asked assistance Avenue average circulation bindery Board of Trustees books through delivery books were circulated borrowers Branch Libraries BRANCH Number Building given bulletin board card catalogue Cathedral street cent Central Library circulated through delivery circulation of books clerks Custodian December Eastern High School Enoch Pratt Free February 24 fiction given by Andrew Goucher College Grecht HENRY STOCKBRIDGE highest circulation home circulation amounted hundred increase institutions interest large number Librarian list of books Locust Point lowest magazines Maryland months neighborhood number of books Number of volumes occurred February open shelf Park patrons Paul's Reformed Church Percentage placed Pratt Free Library Public Library purchase readers reading clubs Reading Room received reference registration salaries sent September 12 shelves staff Steiner Story Hour summer Sunday School teachers thousand dollars tion total circulation amounted total number vicinity Walbrook ward young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 54 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.
עמוד 43 - We must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly necessary to recapitulate. It stands pre-eminent even among the languages of the West.
עמוד 48 - The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are — 1. Never read any book that is not a year old. 2. Never read any but famed books. 3. Never read any but what you like; or, in Shakspeare's phrase — No profit goes where is no pleasure ta'en: In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
עמוד 15 - Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not compensate for the good they impart. Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof, and obtain access for himself and family to some social library. Almost any luxury should be sacrificed to this.
עמוד 55 - ... called the best society in the place where I live. To make this means of culture effectual, a man must select good books, such as have been written by rightminded and strong-minded men, real thinkers, who instead of diluting by repetition what others say, have something to say for themselves, and write to give relief to full, earnest souls ; and these works must not be skimmed over for amusement, but read with fixed attention and a reverential love of truth.
עמוד 44 - Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book ! — a message to us from the dead, — from human souls whom we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away; and yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, amuse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.