Download or read book University of Michigan Library, 1905-1912 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from University of Michigan Library, 1905-1912: A Brief Review by the Librarian From time to time it is well to take a backward glance over the road we have travelled so that we can get a proper perspective of the things we have left behind. Likewise, in institutions it is well to look at years in the aggregate and see what they have brought us. In our own Library, the question arises: What has been accomplished? In what respects are we better off than we were? What have we to show for the larger book funds granted us, for the increased pay roll, for the increase of friends who have shown an interest in our work? To answer somewhat similar questions a few years ago I jotted down a mere outline of the things which seemed to stand out the more strongly to us, as having been worth while. This old outline I now take up again and extend so as to include the later years. More books have been added to the University Library during the seven years of my librarianship than in the first 60 years of the history of the University. Or, to put it another way, if the present growth of the Library continues, it will, by December 1914 be double in size what it was when I came to the Library in 1904. This increase in the resources of the Library and the task of making our books more usable, better housed and better cataloged have been my chief concern. Much that has fallen to my lot to do was hoped for by my good friend and predecessor, Mr. R. C. Davis, but could not be done with the resources at his command. The rapid growth of the Library has brought with it not only the serious problem of finding shelf-room for the new books, but it has entailed increased expenditure all along the line. It costs more to put a book into a large library than in a small one, because more and higher grade labor is required to find whether the book is not already in or ordered for the library. 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.