Ideals: old and new. An address to young librarians

Edward Wyndham Hulme

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UC-NRLF Assistants' AssociationThe Series.Library No. 5. IDEALS: OLD AND NEW. AN ADDRESS TO YOUNG LIBRARIANS. BY E. B.A.,Hulme,Wyndham Librarian of the Patent Office. Croydon. Price1914. Threepence. Ideals: Old and New. BY E. WYNDHAM Librarian of theHULME, B.A., Patent Office. When I was invited toby your Honorary Secretary open this Session of Association it was intimated toyour gently me that undue was to be and that sometechnicality avoided, "theme such as The Wholespacious of wasDuty Man," the kind best suited to of andmy style eloquence your of assimilation. Now it is candidpowers thatmy opinion this note of caution with ourfriendly originated Chairman, who in the has suifered a deal from dosespast good unexpected of You all remember Crockett's account ofmy philosophy. " the Scotch Minister's first how this divine wassermon, ayont the cluds afore we could oor books shut o'ot o' sichtget gin we oorsels settled in oor seats and we saw nae mair o"gat him till he said Amen!" Mr. Thorne was warnedEvidently some one to take a similarby precautions against catastrophe on this occasion. And this is how it is that and I areyou '* saddled with this ancient theme of Old and inIdeals, New, Administration." You will notice thatLibrary my subject divides itself like our Book into two Ancient andHymn parts InModern. the first I have to the role of theplay uncongenial father and to offer advice and counsel oft tenderedheavy you by wiser and more men than If demurexperienced myself.

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• Librarian

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• Nombre de lectures: 10
• Langue: English

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