Author: American Library Association

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-13

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780266252092

Excerpt from Papers and Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth General Meeting of the American Library Association: Held at Boston and Magnolia, Mass., June 14-20, 1902 Before going further I would like to have understood clearly the force of the term co extensive as just applied to the university library. Of course I do not mean that it is the university, nor that it does. Or can do, the work of the university, nor that it is greater than the university, nor that it is equal to the university. But I do mean that it is an integral part of the university, without which the university cannot exist; that it is as long and as broad though not as deep as the uni versity, and that the university contains no other department save itself which has these attributes. Then t/ze government of the university library reproduces in miniature the main feat ures of Me government of Me university itself. This statement may be taken as a basic princi ple. Upon it is built the structure I submit. The library has an external and an internal administration and each of these has a breadth corresponding to its proper functions. 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.