Author: Ono Mary Imhoff

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Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9781332150861

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Excerpt from The Library and Social Movements: A List of Material Obtainable Free or at Small Expense It is of course generally conceded that the day has gone by when the library can be a store-house of the classics and of standard literature and nothing more. It is not enough that to these it adds literature that refreshes and amuses, poetry that pleases, and art that elevates. The librarian is not through when to these she adds work with children, with schools, with women's clubs. Every one of these features of library work is important, is indispensable, and must be present in every library. We must remember that the world, politically, economically and socially is traveling at a (tremendous rate. Methods of government, of business, of industries, of education, have changed essentially during even the last ten years. Political parties are striving to accomplish different things by different means. Legislators are invoking new devices to regulate human affairs. The universities, particularly in all branches of learning relating to the humanities, are occupying a field almost unknown a few years since. With the world of which it is a part moving at this gait, the library must move with it or drop behind. The chances are that if a library is being conducted as it was ten years ago, with the same methods, and the same material, it is at least nine years behind the times. As a part of this progress has come the growth of an appreciation of every individuals duty to society. Under this conception, no man is at liberty to ignore the fact that he is responsible for the welfare of those with whom he comes in contact, that he shares with others the responsibility for the general condition of affairs; that it is just as much his duty to serve society as it is to serve himself or his family. This sense of social responsibility has resulted in many important social movements. These modern movements have for their ultimate aim the good of the individual, separately and in the aggregate. They seek to care for the physical, mental and moral welfare of the individual. They seek to improve housing conditions, to care for health, to prevent tuberculosis and other similar diseases. They protect the man as he works by providing for hygienic conditions in factories, requiring safety devices, forbidding child labor, regulating the hours of labor for women, and in every way seeking to make wholesome conditions in the industries. These movements seek also to make the worker a more efficient industrial instrument, give him a training in trade schools, in agricultural colleges, in industrial schools, in university extension work and correspondence schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Library and Social Movements written by Ono Mary Imhoff and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Library and Social Movements: A List of Material Obtainable Free or at Small Expense It is of course generally conceded that the day has gone by when the library can be a store-house of the classics and of standard literature and nothing more. It is not enough that to these it adds literature that refreshes and amuses, poetry that pleases, and art that elevates. The librarian is not through when to these she adds work with children, with schools, with women's clubs. Every one of these features of library work is important, is indispensable, and must be present in every library. We must remember that the world, politically, economically and socially is traveling at a (tremendous rate. Methods of government, of business, of industries, of education, have changed essentially during even the last ten years. Political parties are striving to accomplish different things by different means. Legislators are invoking new devices to regulate human affairs. The universities, particularly in all branches of learning relating to the humanities, are occupying a field almost unknown a few years since. With the world of which it is a part moving at this gait, the library must move with it or drop behind. The chances are that if a library is being conducted as it was ten years ago, with the same methods, and the same material, it is at least nine years behind the times. As a part of this progress has come the growth of an appreciation of every individuals duty to society. Under this conception, no man is at liberty to ignore the fact that he is responsible for the welfare of those with whom he comes in contact, that he shares with others the responsibility for the general condition of affairs; that it is just as much his duty to serve society as it is to serve himself or his family. This sense of social responsibility has resulted in many important social movements. These modern movements have for their ultimate aim the good of the individual, separately and in the aggregate. They seek to care for the physical, mental and moral welfare of the individual. They seek to improve housing conditions, to care for health, to prevent tuberculosis and other similar diseases. They protect the man as he works by providing for hygienic conditions in factories, requiring safety devices, forbidding child labor, regulating the hours of labor for women, and in every way seeking to make wholesome conditions in the industries. These movements seek also to make the worker a more efficient industrial instrument, give him a training in trade schools, in agricultural colleges, in industrial schools, in university extension work and correspondence schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.