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Reading and Revolution: the Role of Reading in Today's Society
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 046 652 RE 003 272 AUTHOR Dietrich, Dorothy M.; Mathews, Virginia H. TITLE Reading and Revolution: The Role of Reading in Today's Society. Perspectives in Reading No.13. INSTITUTION International Reading Association, Newark, Del. PUB DATE 70 NOTE 88p. AVAILABLE FRCM Interuational Reading Association, 6 Tyre Ave., Newark, Del. 19711 ($3.00 to members, $3.50 to nomembers) EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF-50.65 HC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS Adult Basic Education, *Conference Reports, Conferences, Cultural Opportunities, Industrial Training, Paraprofessional School Personnel, *Reading, *Reading Programs, Relevance (Education), *Social Change, Social Environment, Social Influences, *Technological Advancement ABSTRACT Eight papers read at a joint International Reading Association (IRA) and Association of American Publishers conference in March, 1969, are included in this volume of the IRA Perspectives in Reading series. The purpose of the conference was to discuss the place of reading as a basic communication skill in an increasingly technological society. The papers chosen for this volume discuss (1) the relevance of reading in the face of social and technological revolution,(2) some specific means of meeting the reading needs of society through two kinds of reading programs--paraprofessional instructors (Women's Talent Corps) and industrial reading improvement programs (General Motors), and (3)some possible directions which reading might be expected to take with increasing societal change. Reactions to several of the papers by those attending the conference are included immediately following the papers, and the volume ends with some concluding remarks which summarize the conference. (MS) 4 ie So 41, c_, 4 11 iraPERSPEOTIVES IN READINGla Oki Lt w1D oD Perspectives in Reading No. -
IDEALS @ Illinois
ILLINOIS- UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN PRODUCTION NOTE University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library Large-scale Digitization Project, 2007. Library Trends / VOLUME 14 NUMBER 4 APRIL, 1966 Current Trends in Branch Libraries ANDREW GEDDES Issue Editor CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE ANDREW GEDDES . 365 Introduction MILTON S. BYAM . 368 History of Branch Libraries JOHN T. EASTLICK AND HENRY G. SHEAROUSE, JR. 374 Organization of a Branch System JOHN M. CARROLL . 385 Establishing Branch Libraries * WYMAN H. JONES . 401 The Role of the Branch Lidrary ih the Progrim of Metropolitai Library Service HAROLD L. HAMILL . 407 Selection, Training, and Staffing for Branch Libraries MEREDITH BLOSS . 422 The Branch Cdllectidn * LEARNED T. BULMAN . 434 Young Adult Work in Branch Libraries WALTER H. KAISER . 440 Libraries in Non-Co&olidaied Sistems' EMERSON GREENAWAY . 451 New Trends in Branch Public Liirary Sen& This Page Intentionally Left Blank Introduction ANDREW GEDDES FORALMOST one hundred years the means of ex- tending library service in metropolitan areas has been through the development of branch outlets. In general these units have been con- sidered as miniature main libraries conveniently located for easy access by all residents of the neighborhood and offering a varied range of services. Because of this structure, a substantial portion of the budget of any consolidated system is allocated to branch library operations for staff, for library materials and for building maintenance. It is also safe to assume that a great deal of administrative time as well is de- voted to the many aspects of this phase of the library program. Despite the acknowledged growth and importance of the branch library structure, it is equally clear that professional literature dealing with branch administration is almost totally lacking. -
Special Libraries, September 1966
San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Special Libraries, 1966 Special Libraries, 1960s 9-1-1966 Special Libraries, September 1966 Special Libraries Association Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1966 Part of the Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons, Information Literacy Commons, and the Scholarly Communication Commons Recommended Citation Special Libraries Association, "Special Libraries, September 1966" (1966). Special Libraries, 1966. 7. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1966/7 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1960s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1966 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. special libraries September 1966, vol. 57, no. 7 1966 Convention and Annual Reports BOL'SHAIA SOVETSKAIA Announcing a 40(,$;,Discount on the Internationally Renowned Great Soviet Encyclopaedia. 2nd Edition. Offered for the first time with a duplicate Vol. 50 in English Translation (Information U.S.S.R.). This highly acclaimed reference work is written by Russia's fore- nlobt authorities and is the most comprehensive source of con- temporary information available on the Soviet Union, covering such fields as: State structure: Nat~~ralcharacteristics; Popula- tion; Languages of the people: Historical outline: National econ- omy; Trade unions; Sport and physical culture: Public education; Press and broadcasting; Science and scientific institutions; Litera- ture: Art and architecture; Music; Theatre and cinema; Religion and the church; Union republics: Chronological tables: Trade sta- tistics: and many more. THE GREAT SOVIET ENCYCLO- PAEDIA, 2nd Edition is bound in a sturdy library binding and contains some 96.000 expertly written articles, 45,000 illustrations with 3,500 in full color, 622 color maps and 1,740 maps within the body of the text. -
History of Urban Main Library Service
History of Urban Main Library Service JACOB S. EPSTEIN THEMOST IMPORTANT early date for urban public libraries would certainly be 1854, the year the Boston Public Library opened its doors. But as Jesse Shera has noted: “The opening, on March 20,1854, of the reading room of the Boston Public Library. ..was not a signal that a new agency had suddenly been born into American urban life. Behind the act were more than two centuries of experimentation, uncertainty, and change.”l Before the advent of public libraries there were numerous social li- braries, mercantile libraries and other efforts to have a community store of books which could be borrowed or consulted. A common prin- ciple evident in each of them was the belief that the printed word was important and should be made available to the ordinary citizen who could not own all the literature which was of value. Although it was a subscription library, rather than a public library as we think of it today, Benjamin Franklin’s Library Company of Phila- delphia, organized in 1731, was the first library in America to circulate books and the first to pay a librarian for his services. In his Autobiogra- phy, Franklin declared, “These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farm- ers as intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries, and perhaps have contributed in some degree to the stand so generally made throughout the colonies in defense of their privileges.”2 Here is that recurrent theme of self-improvement that runs throughout the Ameri- can public library movement. -
Groufi Serwices in Public Libraries GRACE T
ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN PRODUCTION NOTE University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library Large-scale Digitization Project, 2007. Librarv/ Trends VOLUME 17 NUMBER 1 JULY, 1968 Groufi Serwices in Public Libraries GRACE T. STEVENSON Issue Editor CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS I,SSUE GRACE T. STEVENSON , 3 Introduction RUTHWARNCKE . * 6 Library Objectives and Commur& Needs RUTH W. GREGORY ' 14 The Search for information' Aboui Comrnunik Nekds KATHERINE LORD O'BRIEN . 22 The Library and Continuing Edkation DOROTHY SINCLAIR . 36 Materials to Meet Special Needs ' MILDRED T. STIBITZ . 48 Getting the Word Ardund ' JEWELL MANSFIELD ' 58 A Public Affairs Progiam-?he &troit'Publib Libiary LILLIAN BRADSHAW * 62 Cultural Programs-~e Dailas kblic Libra& FERN LONG 68 The Live Lon :and Like It'Library ClAb-fhe Cleveland Public Li%rary EMILY W. REED , 72 Working with Local Organization's-"& Endch PrHtt Frke Lidrary ' ELLEN L. WALST-I . 77 A Program Planners Skries-The Sea& Pubiic Library ' EDITH P. BISHOP , . 81 Service to the Disadvantage>: A Pilot Projeci-Thk Los 'Angeies Public Library R. RUSSELL h."N . 86 Library Leadership through Adult Group Services-An Assessment ELEANOR PHLNNEY . 96 Trends and Neehs: The Present Condiiion ahd Fiture * Improvement of Group Services Introduction GRACE T. STEVENSON THECONCEPT OF “group services” on which the articles in this issue of Library Trends are based is not original, but was formulated out of years of observation, discussion and practice. Formulated in late 1965, it is the same as that stated by Robert E. Lee in his Continuing Education for Adults Through the American Public Library, which was published in 1966. -
Dukedomlarge00reynrich.Pdf
University of California Berkeley of California Oral History Office University Regional California The Bancroft Library Berkeley, Library School Oral. History Series and Leaders Series University of California, Source of Community Flora Elizabeth Reynolds S ENOUGH": FORTY YEARS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA "A DUKEDOM LARGE PUBLIC AND ACADEMIC LIBRARIES, 1936-1976 With an Introduction by Charles and Grace Larsen Interviews Conducted by Laura McCreery in 1999 the of California Copyright O 2000 by The Regents of University Since 1954 the Regional Oral History Office has been interviewing leading participants in or well-placed witnesses to major events in the development of northern California, the West, and the nation. Oral history is a method of collecting historical information through tape-recorded interviews between a narrator with firsthand knowledge of historically significant events and a well- informed interviewer, with the goal of preserving substantive additions to the historical record. The tape recording is transcribed, lightly edited for continuity and clarity, and reviewed by the interviewee. The corrected manuscript is indexed, bound with photographs and illustrative materials, and placed in The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, and in other research collections for scholarly use. Because it is primary material, oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account, offered by the interviewee in response to questioning, and as such it is reflective, partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable. ************************************ All uses of this manuscript are covered by a legal agreement between The Regents of the University of California and Flora Elizabeth Reynolds dated June 14, 1999. -
World of Words
women in the world of words A chronological vignette drawn from the archives for the fiftieth anniversary of the WOMEN'S NATIONAL BOOK ASSOCIATION New York. New York - October 24, 1967 FIRST PRINTING Copyright @ 1967, by the Women's National Book Association The format and illustration material were planned and prepared by A. Albert Freeman, Resident, Visualart Associates. Inc. The typefaces for the text were selected and composed by Fmda Brome. Printed by the New York Lithographing Corporation, New York The WNBA wishes to thank the following for their wntribution: RR Bowker Company for material from their filer HMmond lnwrpornted for the design and preparation of the cover map. Auto Screen Print, Inc, division of The Lehigh Reas, Inc. for printing the cover. The Columbia Mills, Inc for the Tannlin wver material. Fairchild Publications, Inc for Fdions 1917-1967. Women's National Book Association Domthy M. McKittrick, Resident New Ywk Chapter WOMEN IN THE WORLD OF WORDS No Amen'cm town is too small, no country too remote, for the bookwoman to become a member of the Women'sNationaIBook Associntion - f~omWNBA archives Pauline C. Shenvwd OUR CREED. The purpose of this Association shall be to coordinate all the related inreresrs which have to do with the making and distributing of books. Believing that it is impossible to isolate any single insfmmentalify m the great merial cinulation of thought, this Association is created to include in a shgle working body, women writers, women booksellers, women m'tics, women editors, women libmrizns, and women advertisers, t~- gether with women employed in the printing and bmkmaking trades and in publishing houses, as a mmns of education to more consciarsness in owselves and as an organized power to jitrthm in every instance of which we can make use, the freer movement of life and huth. -
A Narrative of Augusta Baker's Early Life and Her Work As a Children's Librarian Within the New York Public Library System B
A NARRATIVE OF AUGUSTA BAKER’S EARLY LIFE AND HER WORK AS A CHILDREN’S LIBRARIAN WITHIN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM BY REGINA SIERRA CARTER DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Policy Studies in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016 Urbana, Illinois Doctoral Committee: Professor James Anderson, Chair Professor Anne Dyson Professor Violet Harris Associate Professor Yoon Pak ABSTRACT Augusta Braxston Baker (1911-1998) was a Black American librarian whose tenure within the New York Public Library (NYPL) system lasted for more than thirty years. This study seeks to shed light upon Baker’s educational trajectory, her career as a children’s librarian at NYPL’s 135th Street Branch, her work with Black children’s literature, and her enduring legacy. Baker’s narrative is constructed through the use of primary source materials, secondary source materials, and oral history interviews. The research questions which guide this study include: 1) How did Baker use what Yosso described as “community cultural wealth” throughout her educational trajectory and time within the NYPL system? 2) Why was Baker’s bibliography on Black children’s books significant? and 3) What is her lasting legacy? This study uses historical research to elucidate how Baker successfully navigated within the predominantly White world of librarianship and established criteria for identifying non-stereotypical children’s literature about Blacks and Black experiences. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Philippians 4:13 New Living Translation (NLT) ”For I can do everything through Christ,[a] who gives me strength.” I thank GOD who is my Everything. -
Cole, John Y., Ed. TITLE the Community of the Book. a Directory of Selected Organizations and Programs
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 269 032 IR 051 509 AUTHOR Heston, Carren 0., Comp.; Cole, John Y., Ed. TITLE The Community of the Book. A Directory of Selected Organizations and Programs. INSTITUTION Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Center for the Book. REPORT NO ISBN-0-8444-0525-6 PUB DATE 86 NOTE 123p.; For 1984 report, "Books in Our Future," see ED 253 243. PUB TYPE Reference Materials - Directories/Catalogs (132) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC05 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Books; Censorship; Directories; *Literacy; *Literacy Education; *National Organizations; National Programs; *Publishing Industry; *Reading Skills; Technological Advancement ABSTRACT This is a selective listing of organizations that promote books and reading, administer literacy projects, and encourage the study of books. Expanding on a brief list of organizations in the 1984 Library of Congress report, Books in Our Future, it focuses on national programs of special interest to the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. The emphasis is on organizations in the United States, where recently there has been renewed interest in educational reform, in literacy, and in the future of the book. A7.phabetically arranged, the entries provide addresses, telephone numbers, and contact pt.sons for the organizations; general descriptions of their purposes; examples of their activities; the names of their publications; and a description of how they are funded. This information is based largely on materials that were provided by the organizations and programs themselves. Shared areas of interest include reading skills (the problem of illiteracy) and reading motivation (the problem of aliteracy); the state of the book industry; books and technology; the potential complementarity of 1.7Joks and the media; censorship; the history of books; and the international role of the book. -
Special Libraries, July-August 1965
San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Special Libraries, 1965 Special Libraries, 1960s 7-1-1965 Special Libraries, July-August 1965 Special Libraries Association Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1965 Part of the Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons, Information Literacy Commons, and the Scholarly Communication Commons Recommended Citation Special Libraries Association, "Special Libraries, July-August 1965" (1965). Special Libraries, 1965. 6. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1965/6 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1960s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1965 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Putting Knowledge to Work OFFICERS DIRECTORS President WILLIAMK. BEATTY ALLEENTHOMPSON Northwestern University Medical General Electric Company, Sun Jose, California School, Chicago, Illinois President-Elect HELENEDECHIEF DR. F. E. MCKENNA Canadian National Railways, Air Reduction Company, Inc., Murray Hill, New Iersey Montreal, Quebec Advisory Council Chairman PHOEBEF. HAYES(Secretary) HERBERTS. WHITE Bibliographical Center for Re- NASA Facility, Documerztation, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland .tearch, Denver, Colorado Advisory Council Chairman-Elect KENNETHN. METCALF MRS. HELENF. REDMAN Henry Ford Museum and Green- Los Alamor Scientific Laboratou7, Los Alamos, New Mexico field Village, Dealborn, Michigan Treasurer RUTH NIELANDER JEAN E. FLEGAL Lumbermens Mutual Casudty Union Carbide Corp., New York, New Yolk Cumpany, Chicago, 1llinoi.r Immediate Past-President MRS. DOROTHYB. SKAU WILLIAMS. BUDINGTON Southern Regional Research Lab- The John Crerur Library, Chicago, Illinois oratory, US. Department of Agri- culture, Neu; Orlean.r, Louisiana EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: BILL M. -
ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries
derson, David W. Heron, William Heuer, Peter ACRL Amendment Hiatt, Grace Hightower, Sr. Nora Hillery, Sam W. Hitt, Anna Hornak, Marie V. Hurley, James Defeated in Council G. Igoe, Mrs. Alice Ihrig, Robert K. Johnson, H. G. Johnston, Virginia Lacy Jones, Mary At the first meeting of the ACRL Board of Kahler, Frances Kennedy, Anne E. Kincaid, Directors on Monday evening, June 21, the Margaret M. Kinney, Thelma Knerr, John C. Committee on Academic Status made known Larsen, Mary E. Ledlie, Evelyn Levy, Joseph its serious reservations about the proposed Pro W. Lippincott, Helen Lockhart, John G. Lor gram of Action of the ALA Staff Committee on enz, Jean E. Lowrie, Robert R. McClarren, Jane Mediation, Arbitration and Inquiry. It moved S. McClure, Stanley McElderry, Jane A. Mc that the Board support an amendment to the Gregor, Elizabeth B. Mann, Marion A. Milc Program which would provide that the staff zewski, Eric Moon, Madel J. Morgan, Effie Lee committee “shall not have jurisdiction over mat Morris, Florrinell F. Morton, Margaret M. Mull, ters relating to the status and problems of aca William D. Murphy, William C. Myers, Mrs. demic librarians except on an interim basis,” Karl Neal, Mildred L. Nickel, Eileen F. Noo and that the interim should last only through nan, Philip S. Ogilvie, A. Chapman Parsons, August 31, 1972. It also stipulated that proce Richard Parsons, Anne Pellowski, Mary E. dures be set up by ACRL to protect the rights Phillips, Margaret E. Poarch, Patricia Pond, of academic librarians. (For the full amend Gary R. Purcell, David L. -
Special Libraries, Fall 1986
San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Special Libraries, 1986 Special Libraries, 1980s Fall 1986 Special Libraries, Fall 1986 Special Libraries Association Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1986 Part of the Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons, Information Literacy Commons, and the Scholarly Communication Commons Recommended Citation Special Libraries Association, "Special Libraries, Fall 1986" (1986). Special Libraries, 1986. 4. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1986/4 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1980s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1986 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. special libraries Fall 1986, vol. 77, no. 4 SPLBAN 75(4) 263-362 (1986) ISSN 0038-6723 Maybe what your business reference section needs is a good reducing plan! Get more facts and less fat from Dun's Marketing Services. if you ve got three feet of shelf space we ve got 250 000 Dun's Industrial Guide U S and tnternattonal companiesthat will slip neatly mto More than 65 000 U S plants and businesses involved place with no cluner or wasted space Your patrons w~ll in metalworkmg from suppliers of raw materials to pro have the most authoritalive and accurate resources for cessors from assembling plants to distributors-from researchtng markets here and abroad ident~fy~ngkey consumer products to heavy machinery