Free Traveling Libraries in Wisconsin: The Story of Their Growth, Purposes, and Development; with Accounts of a Few Kindred Movements, Volumes 1-4

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Democrat Printing Company, 1897 - 39 páginas
 

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Página 36 - I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Página 36 - Give a man this taste and a means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. "You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. " You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him.
Página 29 - Once upon a time a Library Book was overheard talking to a little boy who had just borrowed it, and this is what it said: "Please do not handle me with dirty hands. I should feel ashamed to be seen when the next little boy borrowed me. "Or leave me out in the rain. Books can catch cold as well as children. "Or make marks, on me with your pen or pencil. It would spoil my looks. "Or lean on me with your elbows when you are reading me. It hurts. "Or open me and lay me face down on the table. You wouldn't...
Página 26 - Fines. A fine of one cent a day shall be paid for each book kept over time, and any money thus received shall be used under direction of the trustees for library expenses.
Página 27 - The traveling library gives an abundant supply of wholesome literature to the people of small communities at a slight cost, and not only excites their interest in such literature, but confines their reading to it until their tastes are formed. It is a free day and night school which does not close on Saturdays or Sundays or for long vacations. It instructs, inspires and amuses the old as well as the young, and its curriculum is so broad that it helps the housewife in the kitchen, the husbandman in...
Página 28 - ... Carolina, as well as in other Southern states, creating such bodies. Lastly I wish to take up the third duty of a library commission which involves many arduous and difficult tasks, viz. : the circulation of reading matter in places which have no libraries, commonly in the shape of traveling libraries. An extension of our educational system to include libraries for farmers as free as those for town people, is demanded by every consideration of sound public policy. National preservation and patriotism...
Página 29 - Or make marks on me with your pen or pencil. It would spoil my looks. " Or lean on me with your elbows when you are reading me. It hurts. " Or open me and lay me face down on the table. You wouldn't like to be treated so. " Or put in between my leaves a pencil or anything thicker than a single sheet of thin paper. It would strain my back. " Whenever you are through reading me, if you are afraid of losing your place, don't turn down the corner of one of my leaves, but have a neat little Bookmark to...
Página 29 - Besides, I may meet you again some day, and you would be sorry to see me looking old and torn and soiled. Help to keep me fresh and clean, and I will help you to be happy.

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