Opis: Library Work - Guthrie Anna Lorraine

Excerpt from Library Work: Cumulated, 1905-1911; A Bibliography and Digest of Library Literature

When the Cumulative Book Index was projected it was not proposed to build up a bibliographical publishing business, but only to provide a short title index to books of the year giving information of price and publisher. Figures seemed to show that we could publish such an index if we could get five hundred subscribers a year at the modest subscription price asked for.

The compilation was done evenings in the smallest room in "Honeymoon Flats" by the publisher assisted by his enthusiastic wife. The same force read proof, combined old and new lines of metal for each cumulated issue, kept the books, did the correspondence, etc. for this new business - a work which now takes the time of from twelve to twenty people.

The first evolutionary step was the employment of a real editor to do nothing else but prepare copy and read proof. At the same time the typographical style was changed and the features, subject index and full author entry were added.

The end of the first year found us with a small list of enthusiastic subscribers and plans so enlarged and improved as not to be recognized as the original cumulative plan.

Succeeding years saw always some advance; 1900 the first edition of the United States Catalog; 1901 the beginning of the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature; 1902-1903 the second edition of the United States Catalog and the purchase of the Cumulative Index to Periodicals which was consolidated with the Readers' Guide; 1905 the completion of the first five yearly volume of the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature and the commencement of the Book Review Digest; 1906 our entire business of publishing, printing and bookselling in one new fireproof building, and the beginning of the Cumulative Reference Library.

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Szczegóły: Library Work - Guthrie Anna Lorraine

Nazwa: Library Work Cumulated, 1905-1911; A Bibliography and Digest of Library Literature (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Guthrie Anna Lorraine
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330097144
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 418
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

Recenzje: Library Work - Guthrie Anna Lorraine