Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1898-1899 [PAGE 216]

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF COURSES

Collateral Minor Subjects

ioia. 102a. 103a. 104a. 105a. 106. 107.

Law of Personal Property. Statutory Construction. Theory and Practice of Conveyancing. Guaranty and Suretyship. Railroad or Insurance Law.

General Minor Subjects

Public Law and Administration. Statutory Law of Illinois. LIBRARY SCIENCE

1.

ELEMENTARY LIBRARY ECONOMY.—Instruction begins with

the selection of books and the placing of an order, and follows the regular librarv routine. The work of the order department is taught by lectures and practice. American, English, French, and German trade bibliography is introduced. Instruction in the accession department is according to Dewey's Library School Rules. Lectures are given upon duplicates, exchanges, gifts, importing copyright, and allied topics. The Dewey decimal classification is taught by classifying books. In the shelf department Dewey's Library School Rules is used and supplemented with lectures. Sample shelf-lists are made with both sheets and cards. Cataloguing is taught according to Dewey's Library School Rules and Cutter's Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue. After each lecture students are required to catalogue independently a number of books. The class is taught to modify the rules to suit different types of libraries. Lectures are given on forms of card catalogues and mechanical accessories. Library handwriting is practiced in connection with all the work. Instruction is given on loan systems and on binding and repair work. A comparative study of Chicago libraries is made in the second semester, when the students have become familiar with library methods. Single lectures are given" on library associations, library schools, library commissions, traveling libraries, home libraries, library economy publications, government and service, library legislation, regulations for readers, library architecture, libraries and schools, and