Identifier: reviewofreviewsw22newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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flag wasdepicted in a series of colored drawings from itsbeginning to the present. As one of the chiefdevelopments of work in tliis room is to improve The average circulation for the past year hasbeen 425 daily. The books are on open shelves,so that the children make their own selections,but there is constant supervision and aid to thosewho desire it. Six regular assistants are in thisdepartment, and they receive aid from the mainlibrary at very busy times. The circulation hasgone as high as 1,325 in a single day. During the past year they have had a numberof special displays of pictures—notably the Cen-tury pictures of original drawings of war articlesin the Century and Hobsons book. They havealso, exhibited the process of making a plate,showing six different stages : the artists draw-ing ; the screen from which the picture is taken ;the negative ; the plate before receiving the acidbath ; the plate after going through the etching THE PROVISION FOR CHILDREN IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES. 53
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THE JUVENILE DEPARTMENT OF THE ST. LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY. process ; the finishing* proof. On the bulletinboards are constantly displayed pictures takenfrom magazines on special topics—anniversarydays, great events, birthdays of famous men,also pictures bearing upon special studies givenby the teachers in the public schools. The roomis made attractive with flowers, growing plants,pictures, and books. A room is especially pro-vided for the tiniest children with games andscrap-books, and miniature chairs and tablesseem adapted to the little ones. This same ideais being carried out in smaller new libraries, thatof Providence in particular. The two old libraries of Denver have recentlybeen consolidated, and they .; have been in their newbuilding but a few months.The accompanying pictureis of their new childrensroom. It has wall shelvingfor 4,000 volumes. Theiraim is to come in contactwith the children and to di-rect their reading withouttheir knowing it, having al-ways in mind the adage o

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