Author:John Cotton Dana
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American librarian and museum director whose main objective was to make the library relevant to the daily lives of the citizens and to promote the benefits of reading; a public librarian for forty years and achieved a great deal in his field
John Cotton Dana
Works[edit]
- A Library Primer (1899) (transcription project)
- The Far North-West with Mary Wright Plummer and Theresa Hitchler (1906) IA
- "Libraries, Special, Commercial and Industrial," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
As editor[edit]
- A series of books jointly edited with Henry Watson Kent entitled Literature of Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1906-07)
- I. "Concerning the Duties and Qualifications of a Librarian" (Des Devoirs et de Qualities du Bibliothecaire) by Jean Baptiste Cotton des Houssayes (1727-1783).
- 2. "The Reformed Librarie-Keeper" (1650) by John Dury (1596-1680).
- 3. "An Overture for founding and maintaining of Bibliothecks in every Paroch throughout this Kingdom. (1699) by James Kirkwood (1650?-1708).
- 4. "Life, written by himself, 1609; with his First Draught of the Statutes of the Public Library at Oxford", from Reliquiae Bodleianae, (1703) by Thomas Bodley (1545-1613).
- 5. "De Bibliothecis Syntagma" (1602), by Justus Lipsius (1547-1606). Translated into English for this series.
- 6. "News from France; or, A Description of the Library of Cardinal Mazarini (1652), and, The Surrender of the Library of Cardinal Mazarin" by Gabriel Naudé (1600-1653).
Articles in Popular Science Monthly[edit]
- "The Public and its Public Library" in Popular Science Monthly, 51 (June 1897)
- "Some of the Extra-Artistic Elements of Esthetic Emotion" in Popular Science Monthly, 63 (September 1903)
- "The Bad Habit of Having Law Makers and Lawyers" in Popular Science Monthly, 85 (July 1914)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1928.
The longest-living author of these works died in 1929, so these works are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 93 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
