This collection features American Library Association (ALA) documents from years that Mary J. Booth attended.
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Correspondence with ALA
Various Authors
This PDF contains correspondence between Mary J. Booth and the American Library Association. Dates from 1924-1930.
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1929 ALA: A Measuring Stick for Libraries of Teaching Training Institutions
Committee on Normal School Libraries, NEA
Presented by W. H. Kerr and Committee in 1921.
Revised and enlarged, 1923.
Second draft revision, 1929.
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1923 ALA: Measuring Stick for Libraries of Teaching-Training Institutions
Committee on Normal School Libraries, NEA
A measuring stick is needed for normal school and teachers college libraries. How large a library staff should a normal school of 750 students heve? How large a library fund? ·How many books are needed in the library of a teachers college of· 1500 students? How much floor space ahd how many rooms in the library building? What library instruction should be given?
