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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CONTENTS

General sessions:
President's address: The world of books and the world's work	Henry E. Legler	[73]
"As others see us"		[83]
Secretary's report	George B. Utley	[99]
Treasurer's report	C. B. Roden	[103]
Reports of boards and committees:
Finance committee	C. W. Andrews	[104]
A. L. A. Publishing Board	Henry E. Legler	[105]
Carnegie and endowment fund	W. W. Appleton	[111]
Bookbinding	A. L. Bailey	[113]
Bookbuying	W. L. Brown	[114]
Co-operation with the N. E. A.	M. E. Ahern	[125]
Federal and state relations	B. C. Steiner	[126]
Library administration	A. E. Bostwick	[126]
Library training	A. S. Root	[134]
Library work with the blind	Emma N. Delfino	[136]
Library work in Great Britain	L. S. Jast	[139]
The immigrant in the library	Mary Antin	[145]
Immigrants as contributors to library progress	Adelaide B. Maltby	[150]
The man in the yards	Charles E. Rush	[154]
What of the black and yellow races?	W. F. Yust	[159]
The working library for the artisan and the craftsman	E. F. Stevens	[170]
The woman on the farm	Lutie E. Stearns	[173]
Book influences for defectives and dependents	Julia A. Robinson	[177]
Changing conditions of child life	Faith E. Smith	[184]
How the library is meeting the changing conditions	Gertrude E. Andrus	[188]
Normal schools and their relation to librarianship	W. H. Kerr	[193]
The present status of legislative reference work	C. B. Lester	[199]
State wide influence of the state library	D. C. Brown	[202]
The law that stands the test	M. S. Dudgeon	[206]
Making a library useful to business men	S. H. Ranck	[210]
Libraries in business organizations	Louise B. Krause	[215]
The municipal reference library as an aid in city administration	George McAneny	[219]
The friendly book	G. M. Walton	[224]
How to discourage reading	E. L. Pearson	[230]
Report of tellers of election		[236]
Executive board		[237]
Council		[242]
Sections:
Agricultural libraries		[258]
Catalog		[259]
Work with children		[275]
College and reference		[300]
Professional training		[343]
Public documents round table		[352]
Affiliated organizations:
American association of law libraries		[362]
League of library commissions		[364]
Special libraries association		[382]
Post-conference trip		[386]
Attendance summaries		[392]
Attendance register		[393]
Index		[409]

KAATERSKILL CONFERENCE
JUNE 23-28, 1913

FIRST GENERAL SESSION
(Monday evening, June 23)

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.

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