Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...deal with a much larger and more troublesome class of users than does Gore Hall. You quote me as claiming that the student "should be notified when the time is expiring." Whereabouts in my communication did you find that? The method I suggested involved no more trouble to the librarian than the present method; but by a garbled quotation you wholly misrepresent my idea. I entirely agree with you that if a student forgets to return reserved books, "a privation for a time may help to make him a little more considerate of others." I only suggest that a week...
...expecting the library authorities to revoke a rule which experience has proved to be necessary. As to the complaints about the heaviness of the fines, and the rigidity of the rules concerning reserved books, they are almost too childish to deserve notice. Long experience has shown our librarians what limitations and punishments are necessary for the best good of all who use the library. The correspondent complains because a person is fined ten cents for every day he keeps out a book beyond the allotted time; he thinks he should be notified when the time allowed...
...cases where the offence was slight or caused by some accident, the librarian has always been very lenient; it is only the cases of gross, inexcusable carelessness, that the punishment is inflicted to its full extent...
After referring in appropriate terms to the decease of Prof. E. W. Gurney, a member of the corporation, of Francis E. Parker and H. P. Kidder of the Board of Overseers, and Mr. John L. Sibley, for many years the college librarian, President Eliot refers to the voluntary attendance at prayers and the plans adopted for religious guidance of the students, and says that the success of the new method during the first three months of the current year has surprised those even who advocated it the most strongly. The officers and students of the college, and a large part...
...using books in a manner incapable of record. Nevertheless, it is a pleasant fact that the 1358 persons authorized to borrow books from the library carried home 44 books apiece on the average during the year 1885-86, and that this use of the library is increasing. The librarian reports another very agreeable sign of college progress which he mentions that, whereas in 1874-75 only 57 percent of the undergraduates used the library at at all, now nearly 90 per cent use it. The library has lately received large bequests, the income of which will amount to some...