An introduction to library science / by Pierce Butler. Butler, Pierce, 1886-1953. Libraries and readers. Books and reading. Librarians. Library science. 020 BUI "This volume is not an elementary handbook ... On the contrary, through the essays ... [the author] sets forth the essential nature of science as he conceives it, and shows how the problems of the modern library as an important social institution may be studied in accord with its spirit and methods."-Foreword, p. vii. Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press, 1933 1933 1933 Text xvi, 118 p. eng The University of Chicago studies in library science. [no. 1]