Obshchestvennyia biblioteki v Amerike (Public Libraries in America) [Rare Research on Library Science]

Very good condition; cover shows slight soiling and color fading to the edges, creases across cover corners, replaced spine; internally occasional pencil markings in the text.

The first multi-pronged research on public libraries in America published in Russia. It covers their history and legislation, state funding and private initiative, contribution of the American Library Association, education for librarianship (schools of library), internal organization (branches, cataloguing, borrowing, etc.), statistical data, and much more. The author points out that libraies in America have gone far ahead of Russia, so this research could be of considerable practical importance at adopting America's practical experience in Russia. The text is supplemented with numerous photographic images. At the end of the book attached bibliography list of American and German editions.

Charnoluskaya Ekaterina Matveenva (-) of noble origin Russian litterateur, translator, publisher, bibliographer.