Excerpt from Lessons on the Use of the School Library: For Rural Schools, State Graded Schools, Village and City Grades; Also for Use in High Schools in the Giving of Such Library Instruction Outlined as Has Not Been Given in the Grades There are over one and one-half million books in Wisconsin school libraries, with large additions in the aggregate each year. These books have been a power for good in the schools of the state. And yet the returns possible from the investment in school libraries are greatly in excess of those yet realized. It is so short a time since there were practically no school libraries that teaching practices, so far as the school library is concerned, are still to a large extent dominated by methods and courses of study which originated when the textbook reigned supreme. To help make the school library as effective an agency as possible in the work of the schools and in the lives of those who attend them these lessons have been prepared. Specifically, they are intended for the guidance of teachers in giving to their pupils definite lessons on the use of the school library. The Wisconsin law now provides that candidates for county or city teachers' certificates, and hence also for state certificates by examination, shall write on the cataloging and use of school libraries. Applicants for third grade certificates were included in this law beginning January 1, 1915. In the Wisconsin township library list of 1910-'11 instructions are given on the cataloging and care of elementary school libraries and the high school library list of 1909 contains similar instructions for high school libraries. The present publication, as an incident to its main purpose, will help teachers prepare for examinations on the use of school libraries. 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.