Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lost - Between Cambridge and Main streets, Part 8 of Ames' Cases on Trusts. Please leave with Librarian of Law School...
Lost - Between Cambridge and Main streets, Part 8 of Ames' Cases on Trusts. Please leave with Librarian of Law School...
...following card has been provided by the library authorities, and will be sent whenever inquiries for any book then out will warrant: "The librarian would remind you that there have been several inquiries for the book named below, and has no doubt that when informed of this demand you will desire to return it as soon as your use for it is over...
...four weeks is none too long a time. That some books, however, are kept out longer than is necessary there can be no doubt. Would not a system of "request cards" obviate the difficulty? When a student is desirous of a book which is out at that time, the librarian could send a notice to the borrower, requesting him to return the book as soon as he had finished reading it. In this way the book, if in demand, would pass as rapidly as possible from student to student, often, doubtless, being kept out even less than two weeks, while...
...librarian of Harvard University, in acknowledging the receipt of a copy of Bent's "Short Sayings of Great Men," says, "I am glad to have at my elbow in my own study - as I have had for some days - in a convenient nook in my official den, another good friend of a book, to make me seem to others wiser than I am, and to show me to myself more deficient than ever...