Excerpt from Reference Guides That Should Be Known, and How to Use Them Experience has proved that the best results can be obtained if the work is begun in regular class recitations by a librarian or a teacher reading the text with the class. If conducted in this way, no previous preparation will be neces sary, either by the class or by the one who conducts it. As the reading of the text proceeds, it will be seen that important features of the reference books studied are emphasized by referring to the sample pages embodied in the text. With a little class direction of this kind the students can readily see the plan of the text, and can finish any unread pages independently as an assigned lesson for the next recitation. In classes composed of advanced students, or in cases of absence, the entire work could be done independently. The questions on the colored page fastened on the inside of the last cover are designed to emphasize important points and to systematize the work for class records. Blank spaces are left under the questions for the answers. When the questions are assigned as a lesson to be prepared out of class, and the answers are written from memory in the blank spaces during the class recitation following, the points are more thoroughly impressed than they are when the answers are written before coming to class, while having direct access to the text. A key, giving the answer to each question, together with its value on the scale of 100, will be found underneath the question sheet when it is removed. By means of this key, students can correct their own or another's work in a few minutes of class time, in case the librarian or teacher cannot give extra time to do so. Schools which ask a leading reference question in final examinations find that students give more attention to the work and therefore learn to value its importance. Possibly the best way of presenting the points which it is hoped this series of lessons may emphasize is to quote directly from the preface of a Bulletin on Library instruction in universities, colleges and normal schools, from the United States Bureau of Education, 1914 - No. 34. 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.