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& N54%jniversity of the State of New York Melvil Dewey, Director
MELVIL DEWEY, Secretary Salome Cutler Fairchild, Vice-Pirector
Florence Woodworth, Director's assistant
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SUMMER SESSION 1898 JAN 2' 1910
The rapid growth in the number of libraries and in the interest in improving
their methods so as to secure greater results from the means available, is making
it impossible to give as much attention as individual calls for instruction and assis-
tance demand. The summer school is provided to meet just this need. For five
weeks the resources of the regular school and of the state library will be devoted to
giving all the help possible to librarians and assistants who wish to make themselves
more efficient in their work. This circular is sent to libraries with the suggestion
that they consider the wisdom of allowing some one from their staff to take advantage
of this unusually favorable opportunity for the best available instruction.
The second summer session of the New York state library school will begin
Monday, May 30 and continue five weeks closing Friday, July 1, 1898, in time to
allow all to attend the meeting of the American library association at Chautauqua.
By this plan the summer school students will see the state library and all departments
of the University in full operation instead of in vacation, and will make the personal
acquaintance of the students of the regular classes whose work ends only one week
earlier. The completion of new rooms makes it possible to have both schools in
session at the same time and secures many advantages impossible for a July and
August session. *
The members of the regular faculty will give certain lectures, and for other
instruction will select graduates who from their library course and experience seem
best adapted to this peculiar work. The state work has been so arranged that Mr
W: R. Eastman of the public libraries division will be at the school during the entire
five weeks, that his unique experience in studying the problems of the hundreds of
libraries throughout the state may be constantly utilized in the summer school. Full
opportunity will be given for submitting questions and practical difficulties for
discussion and solution. At the close of the course regents examinations will be
given, and certificates that the summer course has been completed will be awarded to
successful candidates. Obviously five weeks will allow study only of the simplest
methods and most elementary work included in the 76 weeks of the full course,
which is found hardly long enough for the work. Simple cataloging, classification,
accessioning, shelflisting, loan systems and some elementary work in bibliography
and library economy will be taken up.
The summer course is intended for librarians of the smaller libraries and library
assistants who can not leave their positions for the full course. As the number of
desks is limited, application should be made as early as possible. Only those who
hold credentials for the completion of a full four-year academic or high school course,
or its equivalent, will be admitted to the summer session. For those engaged in
library work in the state of New York, and who meet the requirements for admission,
instruction is provided without charge as part of the work of the public libraries
division. To all others meeting conditions for admission the fee is $20 for the five
weeks' course. * -
MELVIL DEWEY
Director
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