Title & Author:

Essays offered to Herbert Putnam by his colleagues and friends on his thirtieth anniversary as Librarian of Congress, 5 April 1929. Edited by William Warner Bishop and Andrew Keogh.

Publication:

Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1967]

Description:

x,555p. maps.ports. 21cm.

Series:

Essay index reprint series

Notes:
Reprint of the 1929 ed.
The Library of Congress / S.D. Fess -- Herbert Putnam / T,E, Burton -- Herbert Putnam / F.H. Gillett -- Mr. Putnam and the Minneapolis Public Library / G.A. Countryman -- The library service of Herbert Putnam in Boston / C.F.D. Belden -- The appointment of Herbert Putnam as Librarian of Congress / R.R. Bowker -- Herbert Putnam / M. Dewey -- Thirty years of the Library of Congress, 1899 to 1929 / W.W. Bishop -- The Cartography of the British attack on Fort Moultrie in 1776 / R.G. Adams -- The story of the transcripts / C.M. Andrews -- Three eras in the Library of Congress / F.W. Ashley -- The size factor in library problems / C.R. Barnett -- Tom Sawyer, detective : the origin of the plot / J.C. Bay -- The law division of the Library of Congress / E.M. Borchard and J.S. Hotchkiss -- Nomads / A.E. Bostwick -- Some library personnel problems / G.F. Bowerman -- The ideally perfect library / G.W. Cole -- Library service to a city / L.A. Eastman -- Concert, A.D. 2025, in the Library of Congress / C. Engel -- William H. Whitmore and the early printed laws of Massachusetts / M. Farrand -- South African libraries / M.J. Ferguson -- A division of manuscripts / W.C. Ford -- The medical library in relation to the university library / F.H. Garrison -- A brief summary of the activities of the Connecticut State Library, Hartford / G.S. Godard -- The Library of Congress and its new catalogue : some unwritten history / J.C.M. Hanson -- Reminiscences and observations on the card distribution work of the Library of Congress / C.H. Hastings -- Thirty years ago / F.C. Hicks -- Did Columbus discover Tobago? / L.L. Hubbard -- The Library of Congress : a depository of American biography / A. Johnson -- Franklin in France / J.J. Jusserand -- Copyright libraries / F.G. Kenyon -- Herbert Putnam / F.P. Keppel -- The open-shelf library / J.L. Koopman -- Zur geschichte der staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in en letzten dreissig jahren / H.A. Krüss -- The sojourn of the Harvard Library in Concord, Massachusetts, 1775-1776 / W.C. Lane -- French sources of American history / W.G. Leland -- A forgotten trail blazer / H.M. Lydenberg -- Goethe's letter to Joseph Green Cogswell / L.L. Mackall -- The Library of Congress Classification / C. Martel -- The perfect day of an itinerant peacemaker / L. Martin -- Cards and common sense / H.H.B. Meyer -- Reading courses : an experiment in adult education / C.H. Milam -- Social service of the public library / S.H. Ranck -- Inspired libraries / E.C. Richardson.
The Boston years of Dr. W.F. Poole / C.B. Roden -- Ma visite a la Library of Congress / P.R. Roland-Marcel -- The library of the League of Nations / T.P. Sevensma -- The National Library : a sonnet / W.A. Slade -- The United States and international copyright / T. Solberg -- The future of musicology in America / O.G. Sonneck -- Chinese books : their character and value and their place in the western library / W.T. Swingle -- Notes et impressions sur les Biblioteques d'Amerique / E. Tisserant -- Library extension : a basic factor in adequate book service / A.S. Tyler -- The place of the endowed reference library in the community / R.J. Usher -- The Library War Service and its general director / G.B. Utley -- American legal history : a challenge / J. Vance -- The Portolan atlases of American interest in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery / H.R. Wagner -- Notes on the beginning of a mid-west university library / F.K. Walter -- The photostat / J.B. Wilbur.

Subject:

Library of Congress.
Libraries.
Library science.
Bibliography.
Library Science
Bibliothèques.
Bibliothéconomie.
Bibliographie.
libraries (buildings)
library science.
bibliographies.

Form/genre:

Bibliographies
Bibliography.

Added entries:

Putnam, Herbert, 1861-1955.
Bishop, William Warner, 1871-1955, ed.
Keogh, Andrew, 1869-1953, ed.
Essay index reprint series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 65652
Call No.: W12806; ID:85-B9228
Status: Available