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Title: A Librarian's Open Shelf

Author: Arthur E. Bostwick

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A LIBRARIAN'S OPEN SHELF

ESSAYS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS

ARTHUR E. BOSTWICK, Ph.D.

1920

PREFACE

The papers here gathered together represent the activities of a librarian
in directions outside the boundaries of his professional career, although
the influences of it may be detected in them here and there. Except for
those influences they have little connection and the transition of thought
and treatment from one to another may occasionally seem violent. It may,
however, serve to protect the reader from the assaults of monotony.

A.E.B.

CONTENTS

DO READERS READ?
(_The Critic_, July, 1901, p. 67-70)

WHAT MAKES PEOPLE READ?
(_The Book Lover_, January, 1904, p. 12-16)

THE PASSING OF THE POSSESSIVE; A STUDY OF BOOK TITLES
(_The Book Buyer_, June, 1897, p. 500-1)

SELECTIVE EDUCATION
(_Educational Review_, November, 1907, p. 365-73)

THE USES OF FICTION
Read before the American Library Association, Asheville Conference,
May 28, 1907. (_A.L.A. Bulletin_, July, 1907, p. 183-7)

THE VALUE OF ASSOCIATION
Delivered before the Library Associations of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas,
Missouri, Indiana and Ohio, October 9-18, 1907. (_Library Journal_,
January, 1908, p. 3-9)

MODERN EDUCATIONAL METHODS
(_Notes and News_, Montclair, N.J., July, 1908)

SOME ECONOMIC FEATURES OF LIBRARIES
Read at the opening of the Chestnut Hill Branch, Philadelphia Free
Library, January 22, 1909. (_Library Journal_, February, 1909, p.
48-52)

SIMON NEWCOMB: AMERICA'S FOREMOST ASTRONOMER
(_Review of Reviews_, August, 1909, p. 171-4)

THE COMPANIONSHIP OF BOOKS
Read before the Pacific Northwest Library Association, June, 1910.
(_P.N.W.L.A. Proceedings_, 1910, p. 8-23)

ATOMIC THEORIES OF ENERGY
Read before the St. Louis Ac