Excerpt from Pamphlets and Minor Library Material: Clippings, Broadsides, Prints, Pictures, Music, Bookplates, Maps Nothing so straitly challenges Mr. C. A. Cutter's definition of the functions of a library - to get, to keep and to use as a consideration of the best treatment for pamphlets. Most libraries, indeed, if their librarians be wise, will not keep even all the bound books which come to them, but the enormity of rejecting unsuitable gifts seems less with pamphlets and minor material. Only the very largest libraries, not a dozen in this country, will get everything they can; still fewer will mean to keep (in the permanent sense) everything they get. The keeping will be modified consciously or unconsciously by such reservations as till worn out or as long as useful or till later or better material appears. The same con siderations give serious pause to the librarian who would observe the thoroughly valid counsel of perfection bind everything you keep, which in these days is more likely to be amended to read bind everything you are sure will be kept permanently. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.