Download or read book Boston's Special Libraries (Classic Reprint) written by Ralph L. Power and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Boston's Special Libraries A librarian plying his trade in the heart of Boston has opportunities to dip into many lines of research closed to workers in a city where literary tradition has less part in the directing of public life. During the collegiate year of 1916-17 the advisability occurred to me of visiting and tabulating the various special libraries in and about Boston, partly to satisfy my professional curiosity, partly to compile a guide book for the students of the college, who, I felt, might conveniently use greater specialized resources than the library under my own charge could at that time offer. The result of several months of study and note-taking was a set of twenty-two articles printed originally in the Boston University News, Later the whole series was summarized and published serially in the Library Journal, while several of the articles appeared separately in various trade periodicals. Many issues of the News were quickly exhausted and the continued heavy demand for complete files which could not be supplied demonstrated the advisability of reproducing the matter in more available and permanent form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.