The Reformed Librarie-keeper: Or, Two Copies Of Letters Concerning The Place And Office Of A Librarie-keeper...
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The Reformed Librarie-keeper: Or, Two Copies Of Letters Concerning The Place And Office Of A Librarie-keeper; Volume 2 Of Literature Of Libraries In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries
John Cotton Dana, John Dury, Henry Watson Kent
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A.C. McClurg, 1906
Librarians; Library science
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A Thousand of the Best Novels. Newark, New Jersey, 1904
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Military history texts discuss the histo...)
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Military history texts discuss the historical record of armed conflict in the history of humanity, its impact on people, societies, and their cultures. Some fundamental subjects of military history study are the causes of war, its social and cultural foundations, military doctrines, logistics, leadership, technology, strategy, and tactics used, and how these have developed over time. Thematic divisions of military history may include: Ancient warfare, Medieval warfare, Gunpowder warfare, Industrial warfare, and Modern warfare.
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The New Museum: Selected Writings by John Cotton Dana
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Almost a century ago, museum pioneer John Cotton Dana (1856-1929) was advising museums to reach out to underserved audiences and "be of direct and useful service" to their communities. The founder of the Newark Museum, Dana was surprisingly prescient for his day, writing about such issues as museum-school-library collaborations, marketing and promotion, and informal learning in museums. Dismissing the idea that the museum's sole mission is to safe-guard the world's treasures, Dana believed that museums should strive to enrich people's everyday lives. Includes an annotated bibliography.
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Literature of Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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As the title indicates these notes have been compiled in the hope that they may be of assistance to librarians in caring for the binding and rebinding of library books. They hardly touch upon publishers’ binding or the decoration of bindings. The suggestions and advice they give should not be taken as final, for the binding and rebinding question is not yet settled. They may help some to carry out more successfully their own inquiries and experiments. If good binders were more common librarians would need little of the information here briefly set forth. But under the present conditions of the bookbinder’s art in this country librarians themselves must often furnish considerable expert knowledge, if they wish their work well done.
I have refrained from going much into the details of the process of binding. The details can only be made clear by means of illustrations, and have already been most admirably set forth in Douglas Cockerell’s book. I have tried to draw attention to the important points. The librarian ought to know good results when he sees them, or at least when he tests them on his books; the details of every step he can learn if he will, by a little practice and a good deal of observation. No librarian should try to bind or to conduct personally his own bindery. Binding is a special trade, and skill and speed in it come only by long practice.
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John Cotton Dana was an American librarian, museum director, author and printer. He was one of the significant men of his generation. Under his leadership, the Public Library and the Newark library became one of the most popular places of the city.
Background
John was born on August 19, 1856 in Woodstock, Vermont, United States. He was the fourth of the six children of Charles and Charitie Scott (Loomis) Dana. He was of New England English lineage, sixth in descent from Richard Dana, who settled at Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, in 1640, eighth from Joseph Loomis, who settled at Windsor, Connecticut in 1639. His father was a first cousin of James Dwight Dana.
Education
It was eleven years after his graduation from Dartmouth College in 1878 before John found his work.
He studied law in Woodstock 1878-80, shattered his health by too sedulous application and was compelled to seek a higher altitude and a drier air, became a surveyor in Colorado and was a member of a party that discovered ruins of the cliff dwellers on the Mesa River in 1881.
Career
Dana resumed the study of law in New York in the office of Bristow, Feet, and Opdyke and was admitted to the New York bar in 1883, but was again threatened with tuberculosis. He engaged in newspaper work for a short time at Ashby, Minnesota, found a position with a coal and coke company at Glenwood Springs, Colorado, in 1884, worked for a year as a civil engineer and in 1889 was appointed librarian of the Denver Public Library and secretary of the board of education.
He had had no specific training for librarianship and needed none. During the eight years of his administration the Library grew from 2, 000 to 40, 000 volumes, readers were given access to the stacks, and a children’s department was organized.
In 1898 he went to Springfield, Massachusetts, as librarian of the City Library, which had an excellent collection of 100, 000 volumes. “The worth of a book is in its use” was one of Dana’s favorite precepts, and he proceeded to make the books in the City Library useful. In four years’ time its home circulation increased forty-five per cent.
On January 15, 1902, Dana became librarian of the Public Library of Newark, New Jersey. During his administration the number of its books increased from 79, 000 to 392, 000, the number of its borrowers from 19, 000 to 75, 000, the yearly home circulation from 314, 000 to nearly 2, 000, 000—figures far in excess of the proportionate growth of the city.
Branch libraries were opened in various parts of the city, including a school library in the Barringer High School and, in 1904, the famous Business Branch, located in the heart of the financial and commercial district, which was soon rendering service to users throughout the United States and even abroad.
The popularity of the Library was due chiefly to Dana’s skilful use of publicity and to his revolutionary changes in library management and policy.
He made the Newark Museum in its sphere as popular as the Library; by changing exhibits frequently he coaxed the public into visiting it often; by stressing the industrial arts and the work of contemporary artists he tried to show that art is something living and attainable. “Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age” was a legend that met the eye of every visitor to the Museum and that many of the exhibits strikingly exemplified.
Dana himself was especially interested in printing; he and his brother had their own Elm Tree Press at Woodstock and produced work of unusual beauty and character. He contributed frequently to magazines and periodicals and published numerous pamphlets and broadsides. His Library Primer (1896; numerous later editions) has been a standard text-book since its first appearance. As an author he is best represented, however, by Libraries: Addresses and Essays (1916). His style is spare and pungent; he had a knack for aphorism and for making old truths sound startling and portentous.
He took delight in deflating sentimental altruisms and in “stirring up the animals, ” as in his presidential address, “Hear the Other Side, ” to the American Library Association in 1896. For the last five years of his life he was in precarious health. He died in St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York. His death was the occasion for editorial comment throughout the United States.
On everything he touched he left the stamp of a unique personality.
Though known as the “first citizen of Newark” he shunned publicity, declined honorary degrees from Dartmouth, Rutgers, and Princeton, and cultivated few close friendships.
Connections
On November 15, 1888 John Cotton Danawas married Adine Rowena Wagener of Russellville.