On Buying and Using Print, Practical Suggestions From a Librarian to the Business Man
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Mr. Merle Thorpe, editor of The Nation's Business, the organ of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, asked me, in 1917, to prepare for his journal a series of lists of books and journals on business. These lists appeared in sixteen issues of the journal, between November, 1917, and July, 1919. The lists were compiled, with notes and comments, by Linda H. Morley and Adelaide C. Kight, the moving spirits of the Newark Library's Business Branch. They were then revised by me, after conferences with the compilers, and fitted with introductions. These introductions took final form at my hands. After the series came to an end, the editor of The Nation's Business kindly gave me permission to use them in book form as I saw fit. They were then freely edited, again with the help of Miss Morley and Miss Kight, and appear in this volume as a series of comments on the selection and use by business men and corporations of print of all kinds.
It seems proper to add that the volume, "2400 Business Books and Guide to Business Literature," H. W. Wilson Co., 1920, by Morley and Kight, will be found to include, under its thousands of alphabetically arranged headings, references to books, journals, parts of books and pamphlets, with publishers and prices, covering all the subjects found in this volume, and many others. The existence of this well known list make references to specific books quite unnecessary in this volume.
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