. Review of reviews and world's work. line. In its work with schools the special librarysystem is sometimes used. In some towns itis the custom for whole classes to visit the libraryand in company with the teacher examine bookswhich treat of the subjects being studied. Thisis often done in the childrens room. A glance at the happy faces in the childrensroom is all that is needed to show that such aplace is a step in the right direction. Peopleare gradually beginning to realize this—and toprovide a proper room for the young. The li-brarian must be a person of tact and with a lovefor children. T
. Review of reviews and world's work. line. In its work with schools the special librarysystem is sometimes used. In some towns itis the custom for whole classes to visit the libraryand in company with the teacher examine bookswhich treat of the subjects being studied. Thisis often done in the childrens room. A glance at the happy faces in the childrensroom is all that is needed to show that such aplace is a step in the right direction. Peopleare gradually beginning to realize this—and toprovide a proper room for the young. The li-brarian must be a person of tact and with a lovefor children. The very fact that the child vol-untarily opens his heart demands sympathy anddiscrimination. It is a delicate position, and onerequiring a ready knowledge of child nature. The library that does not recognize this workas one of the developments of the future willsoon find itself behind the times. The Pratt In-stitute acknowledges this when it gives in thecurriculum for a librarians second year of study visits to childrens THE DENVP:it PUBLIC LIBRARYS yi ARTKKS KOlt YOUNU PKOFLE. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL. THE foregoing article describes the work now-carried on in many American public libra-ries, with a view to encouraging and guiding thereading of children. The methods described byMiss Smith have been adopted, to a greater orless extent, by the public library administrationof nearly every one of our larger cities, and ofmore than one of the smaller towns and most instances the initiative has been takenby the libraries; but the factor of active coopera-tion between the public library and the publicschool has been an important element in much ofthis work. For nearly twenty years, Mr. SamuelS. Green, librarian of the Free Public Library atWorcester, Mass., has been an untiring advocateof such cooperation; and in other cities, east andwest, the intelligent effort of school superintend-ents, principals, and teachers to direct the read-ing of t
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