II What are the reasons for and against building a public library in connection with a museum, art gallery, lecture-room, music-hall, town hall etc.? 12 Define a "book-stack," state its object and mention conditions in which it is undesirable. 13 Compare wood with iron as a material for bookcases and shelves. State advantages of each. 14 What is the object of a central court? State different ways of treating this feature in a large building. 15 Describe the radial system of placing bookcases and give instances of its use. State reasons for and against the use of the radial system. College Department 62D LIBRARY EXAMINATION LOAN DEPARTMENT WORK AND Thursday, June 5, 1902-2.30 to 5.30 p. m., only Answer questions 11-12, 13, two others on binding and five on loan department work but no more. If more than seven of the others are answered only the first seven answers will be considered. Division of groups is not allowed. Each complete answer will receive 10 credits. Papers entitled to 75 or more credits will be accepted. LOAN DEPARTMENT WORK I What points should be considered in planning a charging system for a small college library? 2 Give the main features of some special charging system which is appropriate to a college library. 3-4 Compare the Newark and the Browne charging systems. 5 State the conditions that, in your opinion, would make it imperative to keep a time record. 6 State some of the relations between access to the shelves and the problems of a charging system. 7 Does the duplicate fiction plan help the public library to fulfil your ideal of its purpose? Why? 8 How should you provide against the spread of contagious. diseases in a public library? BOOK-BINDING 9-10 Describe in outline the process of binding a book. [Minute detail is not desired.] 11-12 Describe fully the bindings of 10 books (to be assigned), indicating materials of both sides and back, and any peculiarities of binding. 13 Fill out binding slips for five books (to be assigned). 14 What is considered the best material for binding (a) heavy reference books, (b) newspapers? Give reasons. 15 Mention three valuable works on book-binding. Characterize any one of them. College Department 62D LIBRARY EXAMINATION HISTORY OF LIBRARIES Friday, June 6, 1902-9.30 a. m. to 12.30 p. m., only Answer 10 questions but no more. If more than 10 are answered only the first 10 answers will be considered. Division of groups is not allowed. Each complete answer will receive 10 credits. Papers entitled to 75 or more credits will be accepted. 1-2 Sketch the history of printing up to the beginning of the 16th century. 3 Explain the difference between wood-engraving, steelengraving and etching. What is dry-point etching? What is meant by half-tones? 4 Explain the following: uncial characters, diptychs, blockbooks, lithography, semé. 5 Give a brief account of Grolier and the Grolier bindings. 6 Give a brief history of the Bodleian Library. 7 Describe the free library movement in Great Britain. 8 Compare English libraries with American libraries in the following particulars: salaries and vacations, catalogues, charging systems. 9-10 Describe in some detail the library facilities of Greater New York. II Mention points of interest regarding the following libraries: Boston Public Library, Carnegie Library of Pittsburg, Medford Public Library, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Crerar Library. 12 Mention three of the most important law libraries in this country. Describe briefly the arrangement and treatment of law libraries. 13 Give a brief sketch of library schools and training classes. 14 Mention 10 living librarians of note, specifying the lines in which each is prominent and the library with which each is identified. 15 To what libraries should you direct a scholar who was investigating the following subjects: Spanish literature, music, genealogy, architecture, natural science? College Department 62D LIBRARY EXAMINATION REFERENCE Tuesday, June 10, 1902-2.30 to 5.30 p. m., only Answer 10 questions but no more. If more than 10 are answered only the first 10 answers will be considered. Each complete answer will receive 10 credits. Papers entitled to 75 or more credits will be accepted. 1 Describe fully Murray's New English Dictionary. 2 Describe Morley's English Writers. 3 What musical reference books should be put into a public library of 10,000 volumes? Give reasons in each case. 4 Judged from the standpoint of usefulness in a reference library, what is the best history of American literature? Give reasons in full. 5 If a very small public library could afford but one English dictionary, what English dictionary should you recommend for use in this library? Give reasons. 6 What book should you recommend to a person who wished to find out about the social customs of the English colonies in America? Why? 7 Mention and characterize briefly four American historical journals. 8 Mention and compare in some detail four handbooks of general information. 9 Mention and compare as fully as possible two good German cyclopedias. 10 Compare the historical works on the United States by Bryce and Tocqueville. II Compare the Statesman's Year-book with Whitaker's Almanack. 12 Compare the Economic Review with the Economist. 13 Mention a good Latin-English lexicon; a Modern GreekEnglish lexicon; the most scholarly French dictionary; an English-Russian dictionary; a Hebrew- English lexicon; two good German dictionaries; a pronouncing Spanish-English dictionary; a Swedish-English dictionary; a Greek-English lexicon. 14 What is the best dictionary of statistics? Mention a good insurance cyclopedia. 15 Mention the best cyclopedia of (a) Browning, (6) Milton, (c) Dickens, (d) Shakspere, (e) Shelley. College Department 62D LIBRARY EXAMINATION REFERENCE AND SELECTION OF BOOKS Tuesday, June 10, 1902-9.30 a. m. to 12.30 p. m., only Answer five questions on selection of books, questions 1-2 and three others on reference but no more. Division of groups is not allowed. Each complete answer will receive 10 credits. Papers entitled to 75 or more credits will be accepted. REFERENCE 1-2 State two questions that you might reasonably expect to find answered in each of the following: (a) Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines, (b) Nystrom's Pocket-book of Mechanics and Engineering, (c) Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology, (d) Stillé's National Dispensatory, (e) Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible, (f) Oliphant's Literary History of England, (g) Hone's Every-day Book, (h) Marshall's Genealogist's Guide, (i) Commercial and Financial Chronicle, (j) Cassier's Magazine. 3 Describe fully the Encyclopaedia Britannica, specifying in what subjects it is strongest and what its limitations are. 4 Compare as reference books Viollet-le-Duc's Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française and Gwilt's Encyclopaedia of Architecture. 5 What is the best history of (a) the Norman conquest of England, (b) the Elizabethan period? What two famous diaries throw much light on a certain period of English history? To what period do these diaries belong? 6 Discuss the question of the advisability of putting religious denominational dictionaries into a public library. If means were limited what three, if any, should you buy first? 7 What three types of scientific periodicals are there in this country? Illustrate by specific examples. SELECTION OF BOOKS 8-9 Criticize and estimate (about 600 words each) either Shaler's The Individual or Quick's Educational Reformers; also Berenson's History and Criticism of Italian Art or Haeckel's Riddle of the Universe. |