Library Essays; Papers Related to the Work of Public Libraries

by Arthur E. Bostwick

Administration, Cost of, [217]
Advertising. General, [277];
In the library, [35], 1[72]
Age limit for children, [210]
Allen, James Lane, quoted, [66]
A. L. A. catalog, [422];
President’s address, [121]
American Library Institute, [418]
American idea of delegated authority, [57];
Of propriety, [133]
Americans as money-lovers, [156]
Antin, Mary, quoted, [423]
Appointments, [95]
Appropriation for books, [24]
Architecture of libraries, [315]
Art, Not intellectual, [331]
Assassins, Persian sect, [129]
Autograph collections, [398]
Auto-standardization, [425]
Badness, Three kinds in books, [207]
Beginners, Message to, [357]
Beresford, J. D., quoted, [372]
Best books defined, [141]
Biblia abiblia, [288]
Bibliographies for book selection, [19]
Binding, Choice of, [25]
Boards of trustees, [39], [49], [93]
Book committees, [22], [147]
Book-lovers, [99]
Book selection, [17], [125];
Raising standard of, [141]
Book-taught Bilkins, [106]
Books, Distribution of, [30];
Love of, [97];
Waste of, [163];
Influence of locality on stock of, [411]
Booksellers’ League (N.Y.), [85]
Boston Public Library, [186]
Boston Transcript, [419]
Bowdoin College library, [394]
Branch dep’t., Jurisdiction of, [233]
Branch libraries, [93], [421];
Gifts of sites, [178]
Brooklyn Public Library, [12];
Scheme of service, [189]
Bryan, William J., [270]
Buildings, Future, [81];
Standardization of, [415]
Bulletins, Picture, [31], [402]
Business man’s library, [269]
Ca’Canny policy, [155]
Carlyle, Thomas, quoted, [64]
Carnegie, Andrew, Gifts of, [90];
quoted, [105]
Carnegie Committee, Requirements of, criticized, [417]
Cash-registers, [11]
Cataloguing, Local modifications of, [419]
Catholics and the library, [300]
Censor, Librarian as a, [121]
Center, Definition of, [111];
Functions of, [114]
Chance, Definition of, [374]
Charging systems, [420]
Chestnut Hill Branch, Phila., [416]
Children, Work with, [85]
Children’s department, Jurisdiction of, [233]
Christian Scientists and the library, [301]
Church and library, [299]
Churches, Duplication of, [344]
Circulation, Statistics of, [75];
At long range, [221]
Civic League, St. Louis, [405]
Civil Service Commission, N.Y., [190]
Civil Service in libraries, [183]
Class-percentages, Comparison of, [148]
Classification of work, [222]
Clippings, [399]
Closed-shelf issue, [221]
Commercial system in libraries, [160]
Conflicts of jurisdiction, [231], [351]
Connecticut State Library, [415]
Contract system, [94]
Cost of libraries, [85]
Cyclopedia, Library as a, [146]
Dana, John C., quoted, [261], [317]
Decameron, criticized, [137]
Delivery service, Frequent, [228]
Delivery station work, [221]
Detroit branches, [416]
Distributer, Library as a, [29]
Dont’s, for book-selectors, [150]
Downtown branch, [228]
Drudgery, [102]
Duns on postal cards, [13]
Duplication, Sin of, [341]
Education, [257];
Through libraries, [59], [87];
University of, [111]
Educational center, Library as, [111]
Educational results, [52]
Efficiency records, [199];
quoted, [385]
Eliot, Charles W., quoted, [80]
Envelopes for filing, [400]
Ephemeral books, [34], [89], [104]
Examinations, [186]
Exclusion of books, Grounds for, [122];
Of readers, [242]
Exhibits in a library, [397]
Expenditures, Division of, [418]
Experiments, [370], [389]
Expert advisers for book-selection, [125], [145]
Experts, Control by, [40], [49]
Exploitation of libraries, [321]
Extension of library service, [365]
Falsity in books, [123]
Feed-wires, Compared with books, [168]
Fiction, Appraisal of, [23];
Selection of, [147]
Finance, [51];
Statistics of, [73]
Fines, [4]
Forbes Library, [419]
Force, Fields of, [115]
Forecasts, [310]
Foreign books, [133]
Formalism in libraries, [290], [320]
French ideas of propriety, [132]
Genius, Definitions of, [64]
Gerould, Mrs., quoted, [291]
Gifts, Undesirable, [173]
Gil Bias, criticized, [137]
Glennon, John J., [274]
Godard, George, [415]
Grades in the staff, [186]
Grant, Ulysses S., Life of, [380]
Greenwich Village, New York
City, Library in, [424]
Group-education, [116]
Group-psychology, [285]
Group-value of collections, [402]
Groups, Recognition of, [315]
Harrisburg Public Library, [416]
Hicks, Frederick C., quoted, [261], [264]
Hierarchy, Control by a, [42]
High Bridge Branch, New York City, [416]
House-to-house delivery, [87]
Houses, Index to, [415]
Hungarian books, [368]
Hysteresis, [269]
Imponderables, [260]
Income from fines, [7]
Indecency and immorality distinguished, [127]
Indianapolis Public Library, Address at opening, [283]
Initiative, Need of, [361]
Insurance, A relief of “ill luck,” [390]
Interest and initiative, [384]
Inventory, [70], [74]
Jackson Square Branch, New York City, [416]
James, William, quoted, [117], [260]
Japanese, Heritage of, [167]
Kent, William, quoted, [206]
Kipling, Rudyard, quoted, [168]
Language, Best of, [142]
Lantern-slides, [404]
Lay control in libraries, [39], [49]
Lecky, W. H. H., [128]
Lectures, Collections taken at, [175]
Lenox Library, [393]
Librarians, Three kinds of, [241]
Librarians’ libraries, [50]
Library, The small, [29];
And the business man, [269];
The subscription, [293]
Library schools, [95]
Library work, Future of, [309]
Local history, [413];
Material, [117]
Locality, Library and, [409]
Luck in the library, [373]
Lutherans and the library, [301]
Machine-work, [157]
Mal-employment in the library, [205]
Mallock, W. H., Quoted, [153]
Mayer, Dr. Alfred G., quoted, [357]
Medical officers, [380]
Meetings in libraries, [314]
Militarism, Union against, [271]
Miller, Elsie, quoted, [224]
Missionary work of libraries, [313]
Morgan, J. P., [390], [394]
Moving pictures, [285]
Museum, Library as a, [393]
Music, Popularization of, [325]
Mutilation of books, [14]
Napoleon, Anecdote of, [373]
Nationalization of libraries, [310]
New Haven Public Library, [416]
New York, Consolidation of libraries in, [350]
New York Free Circulating Library. Scheme of service, [185]
New York Public Library, [312], [422];
Science circulation, [18];
Scheme of service, [192]
Newman, Cardinal, quoted, [66]
Newspaper science, [124]
Newspapers, [105]
Ninety-Sixth St. Branch, New York City, [425]
Non-partizanship, [180], [270];
In book selection, [126]
Omission, Sin of, [341]
Open shelf libraries, [82]
Organization of idleness, [153]
Othello criticized, [137]
Overdue books, [8]
Pains and penalties, [3]
Pay-duplicate system, [6]
Pearson, B. L., [419];
quoted, [208]
Phonograph records, [336], [405]
Photographs, Local, [414]
Pianola rolls, [336], [405]
Plates as museum material, [396], [397]
Play defined, [112]
Poe, Edgar A., [284]
Poetry, Increased taste for, [283]
Poets, libraries and realities, [283]
Political interference with libraries, [320]
Popularization of information, [123];
Of libraries, [310]
Portland, Ore., branches, [417]
Postal-card material, [400]
Postal-cards, Illegal, [13]
Prairie psychology, [294]
Private collections indexed, [415]
Problem novel, [130]
Professional training, [318]
Professionalization of libraries, [310]
Profit in a library, [161]
Promotions, [186]
Property, Waste of, [163]
Public Control by, [42], [49];
What is it? [91]
Public-opinion, Power of, [166]
Publicity, [35], [280], [304]
Publishers’ Weekly, [20]
Racial or social status? [423]
Readers, Statistics of, [76]
Reading of music, [326]
Realism, [285]
Recreation through libraries, [60]
Recreational results, [53]
Reference use, Statistics of, [75]
Registration, size and growth, [36]
Reich, Emil, quoted, [118]
Repetition in fiction, [347]
Reputation, Importance of, [165]
Reserves, Unlocking of, [117]
Reviews, [21]
Riley, James Whitcomb, [283]
Riverside Public Library, Cal., [416]
Rules, [352];
Authority for, [12]
St. Louis Pageant, [407]
St. Louis plan (pay duplicate), [6]
St. Louis Public Library, [314], [367], [396];
Efficiency records, [200];
Scheme of service, [194]
Savage, Characteristics of, [357]
Scholarship in libraries, [287]
School and library, [60], [88]
School, Function of, [113]
School libraries, [255]
Scrapbooks, [399]
Screens for display, [397]
Service systems, [183]
Shaw, George Bernard, [127]
Sight-reading, [333]
Simplicity, Best of, [142]
Smith, Munroe, quoted, [259]
Social results, [55]
Socialists, Mistake of, [155]
Socialization of libraries, [310]
Special libraries, [316]
Standardization, Limits of, [409]
Statistics, [69], [161];
Use of in book-purchase, [412]
Sumner, William G., quoted, [133]
Sunday school libraries, [301]
Superficiality defined, [135]
System, Magazine, [280]
System in the library, [153]
Talk, Unnecessary, [214]
Taste, Cultivation of, [33], [329];
Test of [142]
Telephone use, [274]
Text-books, Composite, [264];
Unsatisfactory, [124]
Textiles, [400]
Theft of books, [14]
Time, Waste of, [163], [353]
Trade-lists, [19]
Travelling libraries, [86]
Triviality, [135]
Trustees, [39], [49]
Trustees’ Section, A. L. A., [44], [49]
Truth in advertising, [278];
In books, [123];
As a test, [142]
Turgenief as a realist, [347]
Vacations, [212], [215]
Vincent, George B., quoted, [116]
Volta Review, quoted, [265]
Walmsley, H. R., quoted, [265]
Wister, Owen, quoted, [132]

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Read at the Magnolia Conference of the American Library Association, June, 1902.

[2] Figures for 1901.

[3] Read before the Trustees’ Section of the American Library Association at the Niagara Conference, 1903.

[4] An address before the Trustees’ Section of the American Library Association, Narragansett Conference, 1906.

[5] Presidential address before the New York Library Association, Lake Placid, September 21, 1903.

[6] Read before the Pennsylvania Library Club, Philadelphia, May 9, 1904.

[7] Read before the New York State Library Association, Twilight Park, September, 1906.

[8] Presidential address before the American Library Association, Lake Minnetonka Conference, June, 1908.