Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Library Catalog: A Descriptive List With Prices of the Various Articles of Furniture, Equipment and Supplies for Libraries and Museums Furnished by Library Bureau; Catalog L1009
The purpose of Library Bureau is to supply public and private libraries with everything they need except books, other than technical manuals.
The development of library science during the last quarter century has made it evident that a library in the true sense is not merely a certain number of books, but rather a collection of books so arranged that they may be conveniently used for reading or reference. Five thousand well-chosen volumes classified and administered according to modern methods may better deserve the name of library than four times the number carelessly or erratically arranged, even though the larger collec tion might contain every volume to be found in the smaller group.
The true measure of a library's efficiency is not the number of books on its shelf-list, but the ease with which it may be used by the student, and the number of general readers to whom it affords profit and pleasure.
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