656. Ersted, Ruth. Evaluating the school library. Minnesota library notes and news, 12: 205–12, September 1938.

Quantitative standards are used.

areas.

657. Etheridge, Mabel W. Judging the adequacy of school libraries in rural In Department of Elementary School Principals. Sixteenth yearbook: Appraising the elementary-school program. p. 459-463. Washington, D. C., National Education Association, 1937. 655 p. (Bulletin, v. 16, no. 6, July 1937)

Suggestions for a qualitative evaluation rather than the usual quantitative measure of the school library.

658. Fargo, Lucile F. The program for elementary school library service. Chicago, American Library Association, 1930. 218 p.

Practices of the school library criticized, analyzed, and evaluated in terms of curriculum enrichment and relationship to the modern elementary-school program.

659. Foster, Emery M. and Lathrop, Edith A. Statistics of public-school libraries, 1934-35; being chapter V of volume II of the Biennial survey of education in the United States: 1934-36. Washington, D. C., U. S. Government Printing Office, 1938. 195 p. (U. S. Office of Education bulletin, 1937, no. 2) "Includes library statistics for both public elementary and high schools for the school year 1934-35. The data are based upon replies to a questionnaire, which was sent to 6,327 superintendents of city and county public schools in continental United States." 660. Hayner, C. Irene. Future of the school library in the twelve grade rural school. Library journal, 65: 743-45, September 15, 1940.

Program for using the library of a central school as the nucleus of a community library.

661. Heaps, Willard A. School-library studies and research 1936-38: a survey, critique, and bibliography. Library quarterly, 10: 366-92, July 1940.

Shows the attention paid to the investigation of school library problems both in education and professional library schools. Notes especially the increased research by official organizations and institutions.

662. Heffernan, Helen. What school library service means to rural education. Bulletin of the American library association, 33: 694-96, 713, October 1, 1939. Also in Educational method, 19: 154-56, December 1939.

The chief of the Division of Elementary Education of the California State Department of Education evaluates county library service to California schools.

663. Hicks, Howard H. The junior high school library. In American Library Association. School Libraries Committee. School library yearbook, no. 5. p. 41-83. Chicago, The Association, 1932. 253 p.

A survey of the practices of the junior high-school library field, with recommendations that are based upon (1) the general trend in library practice; (2) the phases of library practice which need improvement; and (3) the practice in individual schools which have superior service.

664. Highsmith, J. Henry. Report of library committee. High school quarterly, 20: 46-51, January 1932.

"There is no agency so potent in the development of widened and deepened intelligence as the high school library."

665. Hill, Andrew P., jr. The modern high school and its library. Nation's schools, 5: 25-34, March 1930. Also reprinted by Chicago, American Library Association, 1930. 12 p.

The essentials of library organization, planning, and equipment. Includes score card for junior high, high-school, and high-school-junior-college libraries, p. 11-12. Diagrams, illustrations, and floor plans.

666. Howard, Gertrude G. How is your library? In California Elementary School Principals' Association. Ninth yearbook: Current curricular practices

in elementary education. p. 77-80. Sacramento, The Association, 1937. 158 p. (v. 9, May 1937)

Discussion of questions that call attention to elements essential to a functioning library. 667. Humble, Marion. Rural America reads; a study of rural library service. New York, American Association for Adult Education, 1938. 101 p.

Attempts to answer questions such as the following: If I were one of these or a dweller of any other sort in rural America, what might I want or expect from public libraries? What would they mean to me and to my family? Would they provide us with education, recreation, information, help in solving our problems?

Information valuable to the community-minded school librarian in rural areas.

668. Joeckel, Carleton B. School libraries. In his Library service; prepared for the Advisory committee on education. p. 21-22. Washington, D. C., U. S. Government Printing Office, 1938. 107 p. (U. S. Advisory committee on education. Staff study, no. 11)

Indicates need of a vigorous public library system in which public school graduates may continue to find sources of supply for their reading needs and interests throughout adult life.

669. Johnson, B. Lamar. The secondary-school library. Washington, D. C., U. S. Government Printing Office, 1933. 110 p. (U. S. Office of Education Bulletin 1932, no. 17. National survey of secondary education monograph no. 17) An objective survey of library functions, facilities, use, and personnel, suggesting several unsolved problems of the library for further study.

670. Jones, Harold D. Boys' preparatory school libraries. Wilson bulletin, 12: 524-25, 528, April 1938.

Results of a survey made of the libraries of 115 preparatory schools for boys.

671. Kirkpatrick, L. H. Wanted-a revision of library standards. and society, 52: 464-66, November 9, 1940.

School

Urges desirability of short questionnaires which examine practices and methods rather than detailed results of practices.

672. Koos, Leonard V. The library in the secondary school. In his A national survey of secondary education-a preliminary summary. p. 211-13. North central association quarterly, 7: 206-15, September 1932.

Discusses the survey in general and presents certain findings in regard to the secondary school library.

673. The library in the school. Phi Delta Kappan, February 1940. bibliog. (v. 22, no. 6)

Partial contents: Editorial comments-Library trends, by Louis Shores; Leadership in the library, by Joy E. Morgan; Librarians needed, by Carl H. Milam; followed by a group of articles on the library in the school by experienced educators and librarians. Analytics entered in this bibliography for contributors to the periodical.

674. Lindeman, Eduard C. New Jersey libraries: past, present and future. New Jersey library bulletin, 9: 62-68, April & August, 1940.

An evaluation.

675. Lockhart, M. Janet. How much does the library serve the school? Wilson bulletin, 13: 565, April 1939.

Results of a survey made in nine Minneapolis high schools to determine the service each library gave to the various departments in the school.

676. Los Angeles. Board of Education. The school library system of Los Angeles; a symposium prepared by the librarians. Los Angeles, The Board, 1933. 212 p. (Los Angeles City School District, School publication no. 235, 1933) Symposium on administration of school libraries in Los Angeles, prepared by a group of local junior and senior high-school librarians and others,

677.

Some aspects of the Los Angeles secondary school library system. In American Library Association. School Libraries Committee. School library yearbook, no. 5. p. 147-183. Chicago, The Association, 1932. 253 p.

Contents: The superintendent looks at the school librarian, by Arthur Gould; The principal looks at the school librarian, by Harriet C. Robbins; Centralized administration, by Warren C. Conrad; Architecture and planning; Libraries in schools offering specialized curricula.

678. Lucey, Michael A. School library values; (abridged) Bulletin of the American library association, 31: 857-59, October 15, 1937.

Evaluation from the standpoint of the librarians, teachers, and students.

679. McAnally, Arthur M. Efficiency of school libraries. 13: 97, October 1938.

Criteria for the working value of a library.

Wilson bulletin,

680. MacCracken, Maisry. Library needs in Dutchess county. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Women's City and County Club and Vassar College, 1937. 124 p. (Norrie fellowship report, 1933–1935)

Status of school libraries in Dutchess county and their part in a proposed county library. 681. McPherson, Oscar H. A study of libraries in schools of the Secondary education board. Milton, Mass., Secondary Education Board, 1938. 21 p. mimeo.

First report of a study of libraries in schools made for the Bureau of Research of the Secondary Education Board (an organization consisting of about 150 private secondary schools of all types but chiefly boarding schools).

682. Merriwether, Lucile. High school library service in Tennessee Rosenwald demonstration units. Peabody journal of education, 12: 126-33, November 1934.

A summary of a Master's degree thesis, George Peabody College, 1933.

683. National Education Association. American Association of School Administrators and Research Division. Certain aspects of school library administration. Washington, D. C., The Association, 1939. 51 p. bibliog. (Circular no. 6, May 1939)

The circular is concerned with: Administrative control of school libraries; Nature of library service provided; Expenditures for school libraries; Status of school library supervision.

684.

Department of Elementary School Principals. Twelfth yearbook: Elementary school libraries. Washington, D. C., The Association, 1933. 576 p. (Bulletin, v. 12, no. 5, June 1933)

Contents: Modern education and the library; The status of libraries in elementary schools; Organization and administration of the school library; Planning the school library; Relationships between schools and public libraries; Integrating the school library and the classroom; The school librarian; Rural and state library practices; Supervision and appraisal; Research studies of booklists and reading interests.

685.

Department of Rural Education. Rural school libraries. Washington, The Association, 1936. 111 p. (Bulletin, February 1936) Contents: Introduction, by Edith A. Lathrop; The reading problem in rural schools, by Fannie W. Dunn; The administrative control of school libraries, by Helen Heffernan; Financial support of school libraries, by R. S. Ihlenfeldt; Book selection for the school library, by Nora Beust; Organization, administration, care, and use of the school book collection, by May Trumper, Mary C. Richardson, Alice Damon Rider; The library and the curriculum, by Anna Clark Kennedy; State school library supervision, by Harriet A. Wood; Responsibilities of teacher-training agencies, by William McKinley Robinson; Bibliography on rural school libraries.

Analytics entered in this bibliography for the contributors.

686. Newlon, Jesse H. Some implications of the indispensable school library. Teachers college record, 34: 552-59, April 1933.

Evaluation of the progress of school library development in the last 20 years.

687. Pierce, Paul R. Reorganizing extra-curriculum activities—a high-school program. School review, 46: 118-27, February 1938.

Evaluation of activities associated with the library.

688. Potter, Hope L. California's school libraries. Wilson library bulletin, 14: 142-43, October 1939.

A brief summary of the report which appears in Bulletin of the California State De partment of Education, no. 2, 1939. The secondary school library in California.

689. Rainey, Homer P. How can libraries help to meet the needs of youth? Bulletin of the American library association, 31: 406–14, July 1937.

Certain facts and problems in respect to the relationship of the problems of youth and library service. Facts based primarily on surveys made in Maryland and Pennsylvania on the needs of youth.

690. School library issue. Illinois libraries, November 1940. (v. 22, no. 9) A symposium on school libraries by Illinois educators and librarians; designed to stimulate the growth and improvement of school libraries in Illinois. Includes brief articles on such subjects as: A good rural school library; Training the teacher-librarian; A central library vs. classroom collections; Adequate library facilities for rural schools; Community services of elementary school libraries.

691. Shortess, Lois F. School libraries in Louisiana. Peabody journal of education, 12: 252-55, March 1935.

692. Smith, S. L. Library facilities in Negro secondary schools. Journal of Negro education, 9: 504-12, July 1940. tables. map. (Yearbook no. 9)

A brief sketch of the development of school and library facilities for Negroes in the South. 693. Theobald, Ruth L. School library service in Kentucky. Peabody journal of education, 13: 28-31, July 1935.

694. Waples, Douglas. Investigating library problems. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1939. 116 p.

Suggests the essential features of a systematic plan of attacking investigations of library problems.

695.

and Carnovsky, Leon. Libraries and readers in the State of New York; the State's administration of public and school libraries with reference to the educational values of library services. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1939. 160 p.

An inquiry into the reading habits of two representative communities in New York State, which relates problems of library administration to quality of reading material available from distributing agencies.

696. Welch, Willie W.

Alabama school libraries. Peabody journal of education, 12: 123-25, November 1934.

697. Wheatcroft, Beverly. Georgia high school libraries. Peabody journal of education, 12: 304-07, 309, May 1935.

698. White House Conference on Children in a Democracy. Libraries. In its General conference report presented by the Report committee, for discussion and action, January 18-20, 1940. p. 25-26. Washington, D. C., U. S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau. 1940. 50 p. mimeo.

General statement about the status of libraries, with recommendations.

699. Wight, Edward A. and Carnovsky, Leon. School library service. In their Library service in a suburban area; a survey and a program for West

chester County, N. Y. p. 106-22, 140-41. Chicago, American Library Association, 1936. 162 p.

An evaluation of library facilities of the schools of the county as shown in: "(1) the published reports of the State Department of Education; (2) a questionnaire study made by the Library Extension Division for the school year 1933-34, in which returns were secured from 155 public schools having four teachers or more; and (3) visits to schools by members of the survey staff."

700. Wilson, Louis R. Library service in rural areas. Social forces, 15: 52530, May 1937. Abstract in National Education Association. Proceedings of the seventy-fourth annual meeting held in Portland, Oregon, June 28, to July 2, 1936. p. 309–310. Washington, D. C., The Association, 1936. 958 p. (v. 74.)

A general background of library services in the South against which service to Negroes, particularly in rural areas of the South, is presented.

701. School and other libraries. In his The geography of reading; a study of the distribution and status of libraries in the United States. p. 156-169. Chicago, American Library Association and University of Chicago Press, 1938. 481 p.

An evaluation of development, services, use, and expenditures.

702. Wilson, Martha, comp. Selected articles on school library experience; second series. New York, H. W. Wilson Co., 1932. 328 p. table series)

(Librarians' round

Contents: Books as tools; The school librarian; The high school library at work; The junior high school library; The elementary and platoon school library; Supervision of school libraries.

703. Witmer, Eleanor M.

School library studies and research. Library

quarterly, 6: 382-404, October 1936.

The possibilities for study and research in the school library field are discussed, with definite suggestions for research areas and a listing of studies since 1930.

704. Wofford, Azile. School library evolution. Phi Delta Kappan, 22: 28588, 271, February 1940.

History of the school library movement.

705. Wofford, Kate V. The library-a controlling factor in modern education. In her Modern education in the small rural school. p. 416-435. New York, Macmillan Co., 1938. 582 p.

"The development of the modern library system in America shows an interesting parallel with the development of the modern school system."

706.

A rural educator looks at libraries. Library journal, 64: 927-29,

December 1, 1939.

Indicates need for a study of rural library service.

Refer also to items in this bibliography numbered: 36, 60, 61, 74, 82, 124, 444, 447, 521, 532, 553.

VI. FINANCES, BUDGETS, REPORTS

Bulletin

707. Britton, Jasmine. An initial budget for a high school library. of the American library association, 32: 445-48, July 1938. Also abridged in American school board journal, 97: 50, August 1938.

Material helpful in planning a new library.

708. Crouch, R. A. New curriculum and library planning for the Southwestern States. Southwestern library association papers and proceedings, 8: 106-12, 1936. Also in Peabody journal of education, 15: 87-91, September 1937.

A plea for larger budgets to increase the facilities of the library to meet the growing needs of the modern school.