Papers and Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth General Meeting of the American Library Association / Held at Kaaterskill, N. Y., June 23-28, 1913
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AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 78 E. WASHINGTON STREET CHICAGO, ILL. 1913
The PRESIDENT: The Thirty-fifth Annual Conference of the American Library Association begins this evening. Custom has decreed that the presiding officer shall deliver a message, and the present presiding officer has not sufficient independence of mind to depart from that long-established custom.
Turning for a text to Victor Hugo's stirring epic of Paris, these words may be found in the section for May, and in the third chapter thereof:
A Library implies an act of faith Which generations still in darkness hid Sign in their night, in witness of the dawn.
When Johann Gutenberg in his secret workshop poured the molten metal into the rough matrices he had cut for separate types, the instrument for the spread of Democracy was created. When early Cavaliers and Puritans planted the crude beginnings of free public schools, the forces of Democracy were multiplied. When half a century ago the first meager beginnings of the public library movement were evolved, Democracy was for all time assured. Thus have three great stages, separated each by a span of two hundred years from that preceding, marked that world development whose ultimate meaning is not equality of station or possession, but equality of opportunity.
Not without stress and strife have these yet fragmentary results been achieved. Not without travail and difficulties will universal acceptance be accorded in the days to come. But no one may doubt the final outcome which shall crown the struggle of the centuries. The world was old when typography was invented. Less than five centuries have passed since then, and in this interval—but a brief period in the long history of human endeavor—there has been more enlargement of opportunity for the average man and woman than in all the time that went before. Without the instrumentality of the printed page, without the reproductive processes that give to all the world in myriad tongues the thought of all the centuries, slavery, serfdom and feudalism would still shackle the millions not so fortunate as to be born to purple and ermine, and fine linen.
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CONTENTS
PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS
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SECRETARY'S REPORT
REPORT OF THE TREASURER, January 1—May 31, 1913
REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
FINANCIAL REPORT
SALES OF A. L. A. PUBLISHING BOARD PUBLICATIONS.
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CARNEGIE AND ENDOWMENT FUNDS
CARNEGIE FUND, PRINCIPAL ACCOUNT
CARNEGIE FUND, INCOME ACCOUNT
ENDOWMENT FUND, PRINCIPAL ACCOUNT
ENDOWMENT FUND, INCOME ACCOUNT
BOOKBINDING COMMITTEE
COMMITTEE ON BOOKBUYING
Answer to the Foregoing Statement
Work of the library clerk.
Store Assistance.
BOOKSELLERS SELLING TO LIBRARIES AND THE RESULT, IN PROFIT AND LOSS TO THE BOOKSELLER.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CO-OPERATION WITH THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
COMMITTEE ON FEDERAL AND STATE RELATIONS
COMMITTEE ON LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION
Public or Circulating Libraries
College or University
State Libraries
Special Library
Society Libraries
Summary of Reports on Accession Routine
Summary of Reports on Charging Systems
Questionnaires
Labor Saving Devices
COMMITTEE ON LIBRARY TRAINING
I. THE PROCESS OF EDUCATION
II. THE TESTING OF SCHOOL WORK IN PRACTICAL ACTIVITY
COMMITTEE ON WORK WITH THE BLIND
PRESENT CONDITIONS AND TENDENCIES OF LIBRARY WORK IN GREAT BRITAIN
THE IMMIGRANT IN THE LIBRARY
IMMIGRANTS AS CONTRIBUTORS TO LIBRARY PROGRESS
THE MAN IN THE YARDS
WHAT OF THE BLACK AND YELLOW RACES?
Institutional Libraries
General Attitude
Table of Leading Cities
Cities Having Colored Libraries
Methods of Management
Traveling Libraries
What the Negro Reads
Conclusions
CHARLES CARROLL SOULE
JOHN SHAW BILLINGS
THE WORKING LIBRARY FOR THE ARTISAN AND THE CRAFTSMAN
THE WOMAN ON THE FARM
BOOK INFLUENCES FOR DEFECTIVES AND DEPENDENTS: HELPING THOSE WHO CANNOT HELP THEMSELVES
I. CHANGING CONDITIONS OF CHILD LIFE
II. HOW THE LIBRARY IS MEETING THE CHANGING CONDITIONS OF CHILD LIFE
NORMAL SCHOOLS AND THEIR RELATION TO LIBRARIANSHIP
FIFTH GENERAL SESSION
THE PRESENT STATUS OF LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE WORK
STATE-WIDE INFLUENCE OF THE STATE LIBRARY
THE LAW THAT STANDS THE TEST
MAKING A LIBRARY USEFUL TO BUSINESS MEN
LIBRARIES IN BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS: THEIR EXPANDING FUNCTION
THE MUNICIPAL REFERENCE LIBRARY AS AN AID IN CITY ADMINISTRATION
SIXTH GENERAL SESSION
THE FRIENDLY BOOK
HOW TO DISCOURAGE READING
REPORT OF THE TELLERS OF ELECTION
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Meeting of June 23, 1913
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON COST AND METHOD OF CATALOGING
COMMITTEES, 1913-14
COUNCIL
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RELATIONS BETWEEN THE LIBRARY AND THE MUNICIPALITY
AGRICULTURAL LIBRARIES SECTION
CATALOG SECTION
FIRST SESSION
ADMINISTRATION OF THE CATALOG DEPARTMENT FROM A LIBRARIAN'S POINT OF VIEW
THE RELATION OF THE CATALOG DEPARTMENT TO OTHER DEPARTMENTS IN THE LIBRARY
ADMINISTRATION OF A CATALOG DEPARTMENT FROM A CATALOGER'S POINT OF VIEW
SECOND SESSION
SECTION ON LIBRARY WORK WITH CHILDREN
FIRST SESSION
VALUES IN LIBRARY WORK WITH CHILDREN—I
VALUES IN LIBRARY WORK WITH CHILDREN—II
VOLUME OF CHILDREN'S WORK IN THE UNITED STATES
SECOND SESSION
POSSIBILITIES OF THE RURAL SCHOOL LIBRARY
THE WORK OF A HIGH SCHOOL BRANCH
THE LIBRARY'S OPPORTUNITIES IN VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE
BUSINESS MEETINGS
COLLEGE AND REFERENCE SECTION
MAIN SESSION
INSTRUCTION IN THE USE OF A COLLEGE LIBRARY
SOME PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING CLASSIFICATION FOR LIBRARIES
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ART IN THE COLLEGE LIBRARY
COLLEGE LIBRARIANS' ROUND TABLE
WHAT COLLEGE LIBRARIANS CAN DO FOR LIBRARY SCHOOLS
THE COLLEGE LIBRARY AND RESEARCH WORK
CATALOGING FOR DEPARTMENT LIBRARIES
PROPOSAL FOR A CATALOG OF UNIVERSITY SERIAL PUBLICATIONS
REFERENCE LIBRARIANS' ROUND TABLE
SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT, AND THE REFERENCE DEPARTMENT AS A BUREAU OF INFORMATION
WHAT ANY LIBRARY CAN DO FOR THE BUSINESS INTERESTS OF THE TOWN
A CIVICS ROOM IN A MEDIUM-SIZED TOWN
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING SECTION
SPECIALIZATION AND GRADING IN LIBRARY SCHOOLS
CO-OPERATION OF LIBRARIES WITH LIBRARY SCHOOLS
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON METHODS OF PUBLICITY FOR LIBRARY SCHOOLS
ACCOUNT OF THE WINTER MEETINGS OF LIBRARY SCHOOL INSTRUCTORS
PUBLIC DOCUMENTS ROUND TABLE
PAPER BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS
PROPOSING AN EXECUTIVE GAZETTE
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW LIBRARIES
SOME PROBLEMS OF THE INSTITUTION LIBRARY ORGANIZER IN THE STATE HOSPITALS
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW COMMISSIONS
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CHARTER PROVISIONS
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LIBRARY POST
REPORT OF PUBLICATION COMMITTEE
REPORT OF THE STUDY OUTLINE COMMITTEE
SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION
FIRST SESSION
SECOND SESSION
THIRD SESSION
POST-CONFERENCE TRIP
ATTENDANCE SUMMARIES
ATTENDANCE REGISTER
INDEX
