PDF Books in Library & Information Science in English Language
Dewey Decimal Classification
by Melvil DeweyDewey decimal classification is a proprietary library classification method developed by Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey, an American librarian and educator and the inventor of this system. Prior to invention of DDC, libraries had been assigning permanent bookshelves based on their acquisition rather than topic or genre. DDC created the conce..
The Book Lovers' Anthology
by R. M. LeonardThe Book Lovers' Anthology is a compendium of writing about books, readers and libraries compiled by R. M. Leonard. Are you a book lover?. Do you know what you are reading can directly impact your character. Not only excessive reading, but even reading books which are badly written can corrupt your mind. Are you selective in yo..
The Enemies of Books
by William BladesThe Enemies of Books is a book written by English Printer William Blades, in which he explores the neccesacity of book preservation and critizicise the demolition of books intentionally and unitentionally. Historical incidents of book demolotions by nature as well as intentional have been provided. Blades says mistreatement of books had..
A List of English & American Sequel Stories
by Thomas AldredMany years ago I compiled a comparatively short list of sequel stories for staff reference purposes, and the list was subsequently published in The Library World (1900-1). Several librarians who found the old list useful have asked me at various times to bring it up-to-date, and I have at last found leisure to accede to the request and to add a lar..
Blackie's Books for Young People, Catalogue - 1899
by Blackie & SonWith Frederick the Great: A Tale of the Seven Years’ War. By G. A. Henty. With 12 page Illustrations by Wal Paget, and Maps. 6s.“The story is one of Mr. Henty’s best, and so cleverly is history interwoven with fiction that the boy who reads it will know as much about the Seven Years’ War as many an adult student of Carlyle’s masterpiece.”—Standard...
The Book Collector
by Charles NodierThe accompanying essay by Charles Nodier, 1780–1844, Librarian of the Arsenal in Paris, bibliographer, bibliophile, and a literary leader of the Romantic Movement, originally appeared in French under the title “L’Amateur des Livres,” in Les Français Peints par Eux-mêmes, Paris, 1841, Vol. III, pp 201–9. It seemed to me excellent, and so agreeably o..
The Palmer Method of Business Writing
by A. N. PalmerThe Palmer Method of Business Writing: A Series of Self-teaching in Rapid, Plain, Unshaded, Coarse-pen, Muscular Movement Writing for Use in All Schools, Public or Private, Where an Easy and Legible Handwriting is the Object Sought; Also for the Home Learner. The object of this book is to teach rapid, easily-executed, business writing. It has ..
The Bibliomaniac
by Charles NodierIf Nodier belonged by right of his first{10} literary impressions to the classical school, his liberal spirit soon identified itself with that of the romanticists. His face, full of genial originality, bore the characteristics of a man living between two literary epochs; but history little by little soon effaced all these tints and shades. Nodier w..