The Libraries of the American State and National Institutions for Defectives, Dependents, and Delinquents (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Libraries of the American State and National Institutions for Defectives, Dependents, and Delinquents In publishing Miss Curtis study of institution libraries, I am sure the University of Minnesota is rendering a notable service not only to libraries and public institutions, but also to the general public which is still shockingly ignorant of how its institutions are really administered. This little volume stands unique in its field, as it brings together a large amount of first-hand material secured through original research, in addition to collating scattered papers on single phases of the problem. It administers a definitive refutation to the popular fallacy that institution libraries are a fad and that inmates of such institutions can not and will not make use of them. I confess to having been surprised at finding how many institutions looked upon their libraries as integral parts of their work. Any undue elation was checked, however, by observing how uneven the library equipment runs and how far we still have to go before it becomes really adequate in many places. The popularizing of institutions as the result of their gradual coming under state control, and the consequent raising of standards of care, has meant that they house an increasing number of superior patients, capable of appreciating means of culture and refinement. Hence the tendency to carry over into the institution the function of books as part of normal free cultivated life. But more than that: books and music have been demonstrated to possess therapeutic value both in preventive and reëducative work for the handicapped mentally or physically. Their value for the convalescent has long been utilized, as in the tuberculosis sanatoria. And as preventives of nervous disorders they have been scarcely less popular. But only recently has their value as a preventive of incipient dementia or as a restorative in certain cases of insanity been recognized. Add to these facts the further discovery that good books aid in the morale and discipline of an institution for juvenile delinquents; that these delinquents are voracious readers; that the habit of reading creates a "diversion" from less constructive habits; that in reformatories the library plays the rôle of continuation school; that in the care and education of the feeble-minded books frequently are the most potent means for focusing and energizing a sluggish mind; and you get some idea of how significant and practical this problem really is. The free population of this country, with its more or less irresponsible attitude toward the public library would do well to follow the example of the prisoner or the insane or the feeble-minded; for Miss Curtis, herself instructor in a university library school, shows how inmates not only do not destroy their books, but even conserve them as their most precious treasures. 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.
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