Library Association Record, Volume 15Library Association., 1913 Proceedings of the 22d-33d annual conference of the Library Association in volumes 1-12; proceedings of the 34th-44th, 47th-57th annual conference issued as a supplement to volumes 13-23, new series volume 3-series 4, volume 1. |
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Page 470 - SAY not of me that weakly I declined The labours of my sires, and fled the sea, The towers we founded and the lamps we lit, To play at home with paper like a child. But rather say : In the afternoon of time A strenuous family dusted from its hands The sand of granite, and heholding far Along the sounding coast its pyramids And tall memorials catch the dying sun, Smiled well content, and to this childish task Around the fire addressed its evening hours.
Page 568 - the true university of these days is a collection of books," and that thus such libraries are entitled to a first place as instruments for the elevation of the masses of the...
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Page 514 - These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity.
Page 273 - and the Cooperation of the American Library Association « and the Library Association of the United Kingdom.
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