This book, first published in 1946, lays out the tools a librarian has to organize books for use and to make them productive. The methods of classing, cataloguing, indexing, personal guidance, display and publicity are directed to one end, the making know of books and their contents.
Part
1. Display by Formal Classification
1. Function of Classification
in Revealing Knowledge in Books
2. Function of Classification in Displaying
Books
3. Practice of Classification: Relations with Cataloguing and Display,
Preparatory Reading and Schemes
4. Practice of Classification: Rules and
Codes Part
2. Display for Particular Purposes
5. The Home Reading Library as
an Exhibition of Books
6. General Reference Libraries
7. Special Libraries
8.
Entrance, Corridor and Window Displays Part
3. Display by Selective Processes
9. Classification and Display in Relation to Bookstock
10. Home Reading Books
in Retirement
11. Rotation of Stock Part
4. Practical Display
12.
Organisation, Methods and Materials
Ernest A. Savage
