The story of Pittsburgh: Education

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623714

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-241132

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Education

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 14

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: [ca. 80] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Carnegie institute

Collection:: Economics Books

The principal entrance to the library proper is on the western facade facing Forbes Field. Bronze doors open into a dignified hallway panelled with Tennessee marble. On the first floor are the lending department, the Department for Children, the Carnegie Library School and the adminis- “ration offices. In the adult and juvenile lending rooms, readers have free access to the shelves which contain about 85,000 repre- sentative books. The lending collection, as a whole, numbers over 400,000 volumes of which about 220.000 are shelved in the Central Library. Two broad marble staircases lead to the second floor. From one side of the second floor corridor opens the reference room, a place for quiet study and special assistance. Here expert help is given to students, club women, business and professional men, teachers, newspaper writers, etc. All general reference books, such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical handbooks, etc., are collected in this room. At the south end of the corridor is the periodical and newspaper reading room, where over 1300 current magazines and newspapers are on file. The Department of Work with the Blind opens from the reference room. The Technology Department occupies rooms on the third floor. Ever since the library opened in 1895, special emphasis has been placed on the selection of books along industrial lines, with the result that Pittsburgh now has one of the finest collections of technical books in the country. The Technology Department in Pittsburgh was the first depart- ment of its kind ever organized in a public library. It publishes quarterly, a Technical Book Review Index, which 's the only publication of its kind. The responsibility of the public library for encouraging a love of good reading in young people was recognized as 2arly as 1898, when the Department for Children was first organized. There is no more important work in the library and none that pays better in far-reaching as well as im- mediate results. The department is concerned chiefly with the reading interests and literary training of children from the pre-school age to those fourteen or older. It aims to provide a wholesome form of recreation and amusement.

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