A search of the shelves of almost any
public library will bring to light a book entitled, "A Naturalist Among the Head Hunters." Mr.
I had found my way to the free
public library, and was reading myself into nervous prostration.
He strolled up Bond Street or through the Burlington Arcade, and when he was tired went and sat down in the Park or in wet weather in the
public library in St.
There were law students who read "Noctes Ambrosianae," the 'Age of Reason', and Bailey's "Festus," as well as Blackstone's 'Commentaries;' and there was a
public library in that village of six hundred people, small but very well selected, which was kept in one of the lawyers' offices, and was free to all.
You can buy it in any book-store or draw it from the
public library. You would feel ashamed of your paucity of abuse and ignorance of that noble man compared with what Saleeby has collected on the subject.
I suggested to Perry that we were in the
public library of Phutra, but later, as he commenced to discover the key to their written language, he assured me that we were handling the ancient archives of the race.
Thence to a
public library, but could find no satisfactory Schlegel in the directory.
Dr Hood treated his private book-shelf as if it were a
public library. And if this strict scientific intangibility steeped even the shelves laden with lyrics and ballads and the tables laden with drink and tobacco, it goes without saying that yet more of such heathen holiness protected the other shelves that held the specialist's library, and the other tables that sustained the frail and even fairylike instruments of chemistry or mechanics.
By dint of constant repetition, however, these constitutional sights had very little more interest for me than so many parochial vestries; and I was glad to exchange this one for a lounge in a well-arranged
public library of some ten thousand volumes, and a visit to a tobacco manufactory, where the workmen are all slaves.
This he had learnt from the fiction in his
public library. Beyond that he had learnt very little.
'So meron kaming training, essential skills for
public library personnel.
The benchmarking programme included visits to the National Library Board of Singapore, Singapore National Library, Central
Public Library, Bedok
Public Library, Jurong Regional library, Tampines Regional Library, Hrbourfron Librray and Orchard Library.