01584nam a2200277Ia 4500 120577 BIBL 20160527185146.0 740606r19691920nyu 000 0 eng 67023182 (OCoLC)01856172 PUCPR cicg PS 3503 .O67 L5 1969 028./9 Bostwick, Arthur Elmore Local 64306 A librarian's open shelf essays on various subjects / 2nd reprinting. Freeport, NY Books for Libraries Press 1969, c1920. ix, 344 p. 22 cm. Essay index reprint series Local 93150 Do readers read.--What makes people read.--The passing of the possessive; a study of book titles.--Selective education.--The uses of fiction.--The value of association.--Modern educational methods.--Some economic features of libraries.--Simon Newcomb: America's foremost astronomer.--The companionship of books.--Atomic theories of energy.--The advertisement of ideas.--The public library, the public school, and the social center movement.--The systematization of violence.--The art of reading.--History and heredity.--What the flag stands for.--The people's share in the public library.--Some tendencies of American thought.--Drugs and the man.--How the community educates itself.--Clubwomen's reading.--Books for tired eyes.--The magic casement.--A word to believers. Books and reading Local 63963 Libraries Local 125760 Education Local 90399 100997 100997 0 0 lc 0 PS_3503_000000000000000__O67_L5_1969 0 cil 77503 7 7 4 2016-05-27 182235 0 PS 3503 .O67 L5 1969 70000000294582 2016-05-27 00:00:00 r:120577 z:NCC:L 6