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

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ments by drawing upon the general collection of the Central Library. The newest branch library is the Business-District Branch, located on the first floor of the City-County Building at Grant and Diamond streets. This branch was opened in June 1924, for the convenience of business and industrial concerns, and for busy people downtown. Directories of orincipal cities, business digests, bond and statistical rating service, trade directories, and business reference books form the bulk of the book collection here, but a daily messenger to the Central Library makes the entire collection of over a half million books available upon a day’s notice. Over a aundred trade and technical magazines are received here regularly, and two important financial papers—the Wall Street Journal and the Journal of Commerce—are received dailv. In 1920, the Department of Work with Schools was officially organized. Hitherto, library work with the schools had been carried on by the Department for Children to which it is still closely allied. Up to that time, with one exception, all work was done with schools through the nearest branch library only. The first separate school library in Pittsburgh was started at Schenley High School in 1916. This was the first to come under the cooperative plan of the Board of Pub- lic Education and the library, whereby the library fulfilled certain obligations and the Board of Public Education fulfilled other obligations. The library room, its equipment, and the reference books which are on permanent deposit are furnished by the Board of Public Education; the supervision, catalogu- ing of all books, and the books in the circulating collection are ‘urnished by the Library. Since the birth of the official Department of Work with Schools, twelve more high school libraries have been organ- ized. Allegheny High School Library had been started previous to the organization of this department. The platoon school library is an entirely new develop- ment. During six years’ time, forty-three platoon school libraries have been established. The particular advantages of a platoon school library may be briefly told as follows:

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