Library Service for Children

This text throughout is addressed primarily to student children’s librarians who are being trained for positions in children’s libraries. Its purpose is to convey to beginning workers a sense of the joy that comes from close association with children and their books as well as to assist them in solving the daily problems which arise in organizing and administering library service to meet children’s interests and needs.

The subject has been considered in its relation to service for children in all types of libraries but emphasis has been placed on service in children’s rooms in public libraries because service in school libraries has been discussed in a corresponding volume in this series.

CHAPTERS
I. Values in Library Work with Children
II. Early Children’s Books
III. Book Selection
IV. Book Selection
V. Book Selection
VI. Children’s Book Collections
VII. Planning and Equipment
VIII. Circulation Work
IX. Reference Service
X. Reading Guidance
XL Library Service to Adolescents
XII. Extension of Library Service to Children
XIII. The Children’s Department
XIV. The Children’s Librarian

The book is part of the ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF LIBRARY CURRICULUM.
Texts Prepared Under the Auspices of the American Library Association (ALA)
Power, R., 11 Volumes; other volumes in the series include:
A Library Primer
Dana, J. C.
A Library Primer for High Schools
Severance, H. O.
A Primer of Library Practice for Junior Assistants
Roebuck & Thorne
Library and Adult Education.
Report of a Study Made by the American Library Association
Library Cataloguing.
Quinn, J. H.
Library Technique
Elliot, C. A.
Readings in Library Methods
Arnett & Arnett
The Library and Its Organization
Articles and Addresses
The Library and Society.
Classics of American Librarianship. Reprints of Papers and Addresses
Bostwick, A.E.
The Library Without the Walls.
Reprints of Papers and Address
Edited, Selected and Annotated by
Bostwick, A.E. & Janzow, L.M. 2 Volumes