Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Ricker Library: A Familiar Talk to Students of Architecture in the University of Illinois
During the past year the Library Com mittee of the College of Engineering in the University of Illinois has concerned itself with the difficult problem of how our students may be brought to a realization of the im portance of reading, on their own initiative, good and useful books, especially the techni cal literature of the course in which they are enrolled and are presumed to be primarily interested. The College of Engineering possesses very full and valuable collections of books in every one of its special departments of study, and it is the constant hope of the instructors that students will employ these documents to their utmost advantage. The importance of purposeful reading as a factor in education does not need to be demonstrated, but it is sometimes necessary to recall it to mind. It is with the hope that students of architecture may be led to drink more deeply of the Pierian Spring and thereby avoid the dangers of meager draughts, that this some what limited discussion of the books in the Ricker Library of Architecture has been prepared.
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