Lessons on the Use of Books and Libraries; A Text Book for Schools and a Guide for the Use of Teachers and Librarians (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...own reading of newspapers: (i) Political news; (2) war news; (3) religious news; (4) educational news; (5) police news and crime, court news; (6) military and naval news; (7) labor news; (8) industrial news (factories); (9) inventions and discoveries; (10) health and medical news; (1r) commercial news; (12) railroad news; (13) shipping news; (14) society news; (15) weather news; (16) sporting news; (17) building news; (18) accidents and disasters; (19) births and deaths; (20) travel; (2i) parks; (22) financial news; (23) charity; (24) agricultural news; (25) legislative news; (26) real estate news; etc. EXERCISE 2 Look over a daily newspaper and write across each news item the kind of news which you think it is, using the foregoing list for suggestions. Bring the newspaper thus marked to class with you and compare your markings with those of the rest of the class, who should have other copies of the same paper to mark. See if you cannot find certain kinds of news placed together, such as society news, for example. Such news is called classified news. News arranged without regard to subject is called general news. Find the pages in the daily newspaper marked for this exercise that contain general news. KINDS OF NEWS BY LOCALITY In addition to classifying news by subject, we may classify it by the locality or place. This gives us the following kinds: Local news: concerning what occurs in the neighborhood, village, or city in which the newspaper is printed; county news may also be said to be local news. State news: concerning what occurs in the state. National news: concerning what occurs in our own country but outside our state. Foreign news: concerning what occurs in a foreign land. EXERCISE 3 Mark the news in a daily newspaper as local, state, national, or ...