Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1906 Excerpt: ... Committee issued a list of books in the traveling school libraries loaned by the Connecticut Society of Colonial Dames of America. Departments of public instruction sometimes print book-lists as part of their annual reports or of some other official publication. In his annual report for 1902 the state superintendent of New York published a book list under the title School Libraries and Reading. In 1905 the Illinois and Missouri Departments of Public Instruction issued courses of study for rural, graded, and high schools; followed by a graded list of books for school libraries, including reference-books. Illinois and Nebraska publish lists of books recommended for teachers' reading-circles, with reviews of some more recent publications. The Board of Education for New York City published in 1904 a Catalogue of Books for Public School Libraries, a list graded from the kindergarten to the eighth grade. This gives publisher, price, illustrations (if any), descriptive note, and author index, followed by a classified list of books for reference libraries and for teachers' libraries. In the annual report of the Columbus (Ohio) Public School library, for 1904-5, the librarian publishes a list of books in that library for supplementary reading, arranged by grades and subjects. A list of books for supplementary reading for the Milwaukee public schools was issued in 1904, graded and classified by subjects, and followed by a list of general reference-books. The committee appointed by the National Educational Association on Lists of Books for Reading and Reference in the Lower Grades of the Public Schools published in the Journal 0/ Proceedings for 1898, pp. 1016-22, graded lists of books suitable for a school library. The committee appointed by the National Education As...
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