The Library
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The Library has acquired by gift and by purchase approximately 11,000 books and pamphlets.
This materials comprises general and special encyclopedias, general literature, English and foreign texts, treaties on subjects taught in the College; back numbers of magazines, both general and technical, and the nucleus of a fir working collection of State and Federal documents.
The funds at the disposal of the Library are being expended with care, in the effort to build up as good a working collection as possible, for students and faculty.
On the periodical racks are about one hundred general and special magazines and eight newspapers, acquired partly by gift, partly by purchase. The Wilson indexes are a valuable part of the periodical stock, as is also the New York Times Index.
The entire collection is housed in a room in the west wing of the Administration Building.
In the hope of building up a great technical and general library, in keeping with the College as its creators see it in the future, the effort is being made to lay the foundation in respect of organization, equipment, service, for a library commensurate with the standards of a college of the first class.
The well known formula of library effectiveness, "5 pre cent building, 20 per cent books, 75 per cent service," is an important part of the life philosophy of the Library.
The service which the Library gives is, of course, primarily for students and faculty; yet so far as the resources of the Library permit, service is rendered to outsiders as well. It is hoped that the Library may in the near future become an increasingly important part of the civic and cultural life of the Panhandle Plains Country and of all Texas.
Source: "Bulletin of the Texas Technological College". Lubbock, Tex. : The College, 1927. 26 (Call Number: LD5317 .T41 Vol. 31 1927)
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The Library has acquired by gift and by purchase approximately 11,000 books and pamphlets.
This materials comprises general and special encyclopedias, general literature, English and foreign texts, treaties on subjects taught in the College; back numbers of magazines, both general and technical, and the nucleus of a fir working collection of State and Federal documents.
The funds at the disposal of the Library are being expended with care, in the effort to build up as good a working collection as possible, for students and faculty.
On the periodical racks are about one hundred general and special magazines and eight newspapers, acquired partly by gift, partly by purchase. The Wilson indexes are a valuable part of the periodical stock, as is also the New York Times Index.
The entire collection is housed in a room in the west wing of the Administration Building.
In the hope of building up a great technical and general library, in keeping with the College as its creators see it in the future, the effort is being made to lay the foundation in respect of organization, equipment, service, for a library commensurate with the standards of a college of the first class.
The well known formula of library effectiveness, "5 pre cent building, 20 per cent books, 75 per cent service," is an important part of the life philosophy of the Library.
The service which the Library gives is, of course, primarily for students and faculty; yet so far as the resources of the Library permit, service is rendered to outsiders as well. It is hoped that the Library may in the near future become an increasingly important part of the civic and cultural life of the Panhandle Plains Country and of all Texas.
Source: "Bulletin of the Texas Technological College". Lubbock, Tex. : The College, 1927. 26 (Call Number: LD5317 .T41 Vol. 31 1927)
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