Papers and Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Library Association / Held at Ottawa, Canada, June 26-July 2, 1912

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PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL
MEETING
OF THE
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
HELD AT
OTTAWA, CANADA
JUNE 26-JULY 2, 1912

AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
78 E. WASHINGTON STREET
CHICAGO, ILL.
1912

[CONTENTS]

General sessions:		PAGE
Addresses of welcome and response		[57]
Address	Herbert Putnam	[59]
President's address: The public library: a leaven'd and prepared choice	Mrs. H. L. Elmendorf	[67]
Publicity for the sake of information: The public's point of view	W. H. Hatton	[72]
Secretary's report	George B. Utley	[75]
Treasurer's report	Carl B. Roden	[81]
Reports of boards and committees:
Finance committee	C. W. Andrews	[81]
A. L. A. Publishing Board	Henry E. Legler	[83]
Trustees of endowment funds	W. C. Kimball	[91]
Bookbinding	A. L. Bailey	[93]
Bookbuying	W. L. Brown	[95]
Co-ordination	C. H. Gould	[96]
Co-operation with the N. E. A	M. E. Ahern	[101]
Federal and state relations	B. C. Steiner	[102]
Library administration	A. E. Bostwick	[102]
Library training	A. S. Root	[113]
Library work with the blind	Emma N. Delfino	[114]
Public documents	George S. Godard	[115]
Preservation of newspapers	Frank P. Hill	[116]
Publicity for the sake of support	Carl H. Milam	[120]
Breadth and limitations of bookbuying	W. L. Brown	[124]
Open door through the book and the library	C. E. McLenegan	[127]
What do the people want?	Jessie Welles	[132]
Assistant and the book	Mary E. Hazeltine	[134]
Type of assistants	Edith Tobitt	[138]
Efficiency of the library staff and scientific management	Adam Strohm	[143]
What library schools can do for the profession	Chalmers Hadley	[147]
Address	Sir Wilfrid Laurier	[159]
Conservation of character	J. W. Robertson	[161]
Address	George E. Vincent	[170]
Book advertising: information as to subject and scope of books	Carl B. Roden	[181]
Book advertising: illumination as to the attractions of real books	Grace Miller	[187]
Report of Executive Board		[192]
Report of Council		[195]
Report of resolutions committee		[201]
Memorial to Frederick Morgan Crunden		[203]
Report of tellers of election		[204]
Social side of the conference	R. G. Thwaites	[205]
Day in Toronto	M. E. Ahern	[208]
Day in Montreal	Carl B. Roden	[209]
Post-conference trip	Julia Ideson	[211]
Sections:
Agricultural libraries		[213]
Catalog		[227]
Children's librarians'		[247]
College and reference		[268]
Professional training		[295]
Trustees'		[302]
Public documents round table		[307]
Affiliated organizations:
American association of law libraries		[312]
League of library commissions		[316]
Special libraries association		[329]
Attendance summaries		[354]
Attendance register		[355]
Index		[367]

Note: The minutes of the National association of state libraries have not been received in time to be included in this volume. They will be separately printed by that association.

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[OTTAWA CONFERENCE]

JUNE 26-JULY 2, 1912