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Publisher: [St. Paul, The Department of EducationSubjects: Children's literature -- BibliographySchool libraries -- MinnesotaNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:SUGGESTIONS FOR HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARIANS. Care of the high school library. The librarian is responsible for the care of books and other library property. She should keep a careful record of all books loaned, an accurate account of any money received for fines or injuries and she must make a report at the close of the school year including the following items:Number of volumes in the library.Number of volumes added during the year: (a) by purchase (b) by gift.Number withdrawn during the year: (a) lost (b) worn out (c) not accounted for.Number of volumes loaned during the year (counting each volume once for each time it is loaned).Receipts from fines, or other sources.Such other items as the board may require for their annual report to the Superintendent of Education.Preparation of books for the shelves. When the books are received, check with bill and with order to see that all have been received. Many libraries put date of bill, place where bought, and price, in the book back of the title page.When working with the books, open each one carefully according to directions. This will make the books wear much longer.How to open a new book: Lay the book, back downward, on a table or smooth surface. Press the front cover down until it touches the table, then the back cover, holding the leaves in one hand while you open a few at the back, then at the front, alternately, pressing them down gently until you reach the center of the volume. Never open the book violently nor bend back the covers, it is liable to break the back and to loosen the leaves.Stamp books with school stamp and put in school book plate.Enter the books in the accession book or library record book.Accessioning. The accession record is a chronological list of the books adde... ... Read more

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Hazel Dicken-Garcia, who joined the University of Minnesota faculty in 1979, retired at the end of the 2007-08 academic year. Known for her extraordinary commitment to her students, Dicken-Garcia made an indelible mark on the School of Journalism & Mass Communication (SJMC) and has been one of this country's greatest contributors to the field of journalism and mass communication history. She has published extensively on the history of journalism, and her book, Journalistic Standards in Nineteenth-Century America, received the Kappa Tau Alpha Award as the best book published in the field in 1989. Most recently, she co-authored Hated Ideas and the American Civil War Press with her former advisee Giovanna Dell Orto (Ph.D. 2004). On Sept. 19, 2008, the SJMC hosted a symposium in Dicken-Garcia s honor at the University of Minnesota. Some of her former advisees presented papers on the topic, Translating Ivory Tower Scholarship into Real-World Action. This book, published by the SJMC in recognition of Hazel s career, includes these papers and other contributions. ... Read more

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Columbus was Genoese
In "Christopher Columbus," Univ. of Okla. Press (1987), pp. 10-11, Gianni Granzotto lists the following information from documents written by contemporaries of Columbus:
1. Pietro Martire d'Angera (Peter Martyr) was the earliest of Columbus's chroniclers and was in Barcelona when Columbus returned from his first voyage. In his letter of May 14, 1493, addressed to Giovanni Borromeo, he referred to Columbus as Ligurian ["vir Ligur"], Liguria being the Region where Genoa is located.
2. A reference, dated 1492 by a court scribe Galindez, referred to Columbus as "Cristóbal Colón, genovés."
3. In "History of the Catholic Kings," Andrés Bernaldez wrote: "Columbus was a man who came from the land of Genoa."
4. In "General and Natural History of the Indies," Bartolomé de Las Casas asserted his "Genoese nationality."
5. In a book of the same title, Gonzalo de Fernández de Oviedo wrote that Columbus was "originating from the province of Liguria."
6. Antonio Gallo, Agostino Giustiniani and Bartolomeo Serraga wrote that Columbus was Genoese.

Samuel Eliot Morison, in his book "Christopher Columbus: Admiral of the Ocean Sea," notes that many existing legal documents demonstrate the Genoese origin of Columbus, his father Domenico, and his brothers Bartolomeo and Giacomo (Diego). These documents, written in Latin by notaries, were legally valid in Genoese courts. When notaries died, their documents were turned over to the archives of the Republic of Genoa. The documents, uncovered in the 19th century when Italian historians examined the Genoese archives, form part of the "Raccolta Colombiana". On page 14, Morison writes:

"Besides these documents from which we may glean facts about Christopher's early life, there are others which identify the Discoverer as the son of Domenico the wool weaver, beyond the possibility of doubt. For instance, Domenico had a brother Antonio, like him a respectable member of the lower middle class in Genoa. Antonio had three sons: Matteo, Amigeto and Giovanni, who was generally known as Giannetto (the Genoese equivalent of 'Johnny'). Giannetto, like Christopher, gave up a humdrum occupation to follow the sea. In 1496 the three brothers met in a notary's office at Genoa and agreed that Johnny should go to Spain and seek out his first cousin 'Don Cristoforo de Colombo, Admiral of the King of Spain,' each contributing one third of the traveling expenses. This quest for a job was highly successful. The Admiral gave Johnny command of a caravel on the Third Voyage to America, and entrusted him with confidential matters as well."

The biography written by Columbus's son Fernando, "Historie del S. D. Fernando Colombo; nelle quali s'ha particolare, & vera relatione della vita, & de fatti dell'Ammiraglio D. Cristoforo Colombo, suo padre: Et dello scoprimento ch'egli fece dell'Indie Occidentali, dette Mondo Nuovo" [English translation: "The life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus by his son Ferdinand," translated by Benjamin Keen, Greenwood Press (1978)] is available, in Italian, at:
http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/c/colombo_fernando/
At the top of page 4 of Keen's translation, Fernando listed Nervi, Cugureo, Bugiasco, Savona, Genoa and Piacenza as possible places of origin. He also stated: "Colombo ... was really the name of his ancestors. But he changed it in order to make it conform to the language of the country in which he came to reside and raise a new estate." (Colom in Portugal and Colón in Castile).
The publication of "Historie" provides irrefutable, indirect evidence about the Genoese origin of the Discoverer. Fernando's manuscript was eventually inherited by his nephew Luis, the playboy grandson of the Discoverer. Luis was always strapped for money and sold the manuscript to Baliano de Fornari, "a wealthy and public-spirited Genoese physician". On page xv, Keen wrote: "In the depth of winter the aged Fornari set out for Venice, the publishing center of Italy, to supervise the translation and publication of the book."
On page xxiv, the April 25, 1571 dedication by Giuseppe Moleto states: "Your Lordship [Fornari], then, being an honorable and generous gentleman, desiring to make immortal the memory of this great man, heedless of your Lordship's seventy years, of the season of the year, and of the length of the journey, came from Genoa to Venice with the aim of publishing the aforementioned book ... that the exploits of this eminent man, the true glory of Italy and especially of your Lordship's native city, might be made known." ... Read more

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Publisher: New York, General education boardPublication date: 1920Subjects: TeachersNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1922.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more