An introduction to library science - Butler, Pierce, 1886-1953. (Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press, 1933)
"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.
Keywords: Libraries and readers; Books and reading; Librarians; Library science