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Show Gift Books Added to Springville Library ... j r'' ' - -1 - I v r J 1 f ,.rnrr,- - - - ' ... - ' I - : :i . ' ff : ! J' 1 Lr' r n , ! fiill - V. r---' Great iiuoks ir;r,lt RdU . Itl i ?, 5'' V,i 8,12? I f ill- - 5? , -vw , 1 Vt!naics2854 $ . ' ; wivAitu-e' ,..-..-,..- ' . ... ..I- X . . r j Miss Effie Kelsey, 'Springville librarian, shows a high school student, Michael Sumsion, part of the collection of 54 volumes of books received as a gift to the library this week through a grant from the Old Dominion Foundation. The books dealing with ideals and thoughts of the world working out important world problems, are designed particularly for a group study course. : Springville Library Is One of 1600 to Receive Gift Collection of Books The Springville public library was the recipient this week of a set of Great Books of the Western World, presented as a gift under a grant from the Old Dominion FnunrlntinTi Thp pt- . .Dominion f oundation. The . set 3 consists of 54 volumes. The library was chosen to .receive .re-ceive one of the 1600 sets distributed distribu-ted through a, selection committee, of the American Library Association, Associa-tion, after Miss Effie Kelsey, librarian, li-brarian, answered and returned an application questionaire sent out to librarians last September. Ques-tionaires Ques-tionaires were sent out to 30,000 libraries including public, college and university, junior, high schools public and private and' to all state library agencies. Any library which did not receive a questionaire, was asked also to make application for a set. The 1600 successful applicants appli-cants were selected from several thousand libraries that replied so Springville is to be complimented for being thus favored, and the librarian is being commended for her part in securing the books. The volumes which deal with discussion dis-cussion of world problems are especially es-pecially written for group study courses and it is expected that clubs and other organizations in town will make use of the fine information in-formation which they contain. The old Dominion Foundaion was established in 1941 by Paul Mellon. Grants of over $20,000 have been made . by the foundation for "religious, "re-ligious, charitable, scientific, literary liter-ary educational purposes as shall be in the furtherance of the public welfare." Produced by Encyclopedia Bri-tannica, Bri-tannica, Inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago, William Benton is publisher of the Great Books of Western World with Rob-bert Rob-bert Maynard Hutchins, editor and Mortimer J. Adler, associate editor edi-tor and editor of Synopicon. The set of 54 volumes encompass 443 works by 74 authors, spanning western thought from Homer and the Bible to the 20th century. It totals 32,000 pages comprising some 25,000,000 words. Editorial preparation of the set occupied 100 scholars for eight years at a total cost of $2,000,000. The set contains whole works, not excerpts, and for 21 of the 74 authors, all their works. It represents rep-resents the only publication in English, or the only edition aside from rare or expensive printings, of key works by Aristotle, Hippocrates, Hippoc-rates, Galen, Euclid, Archimedes, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, Har-Montesquieu, Har-Montesquieu, Kant, Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday and Freud. The set includes 1,200 pages of original writing, including Dr. Hut-chins' Hut-chins' introductory volume, "The Great Conversation," and the 102 introductory essays in the Synto-picon Synto-picon by Dr. Adler. |