Compiled from articles and addresses by
| Sir Walter Besant | [7] |
| E. A. Birge, dean University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. | [18] |
| William J. Bryan | [38] |
| John P. Buckley | [32] |
| Waller Irene Bullock, chief loan librarian Carnegie Library, Pittsburg, Pa. | [43] |
| James H. Canfield, late librarian Columbia University Library, New York | [40] |
| Andrew Carnegie | [25], [41] |
| Winston Churchill | [16] |
| Frederick M. Crunden, ex-librarian Public Library, St. Louis, Mo. | [4], [28], [47] |
| J. C. Dana, librarian Free Public Library, Newark, N. J. | [10], [12], [37], [42] |
| Melvil Dewey, ex-director N. Y. State Library, Albany | [21] |
| William R. Eastman, chief Division of Educational Extension, State Library, Albany, N. Y. | [22], [45] |
| Mrs. S. C. Fairchild, ex-vice director New York State Library School, Albany, N. Y. | [10] |
| W. I. Fletcher, librarian Amherst College Library, Amherst, Mass. | [6] |
| W. E. Foster, librarian Public Library, Providence, R. I. | [44] |
| Chalmers Hadley, secretary American Library Association, Chicago, Ill. | [3], [29] |
| Joseph Le Roy Harrison, librarian Providence Athenæum, Providence, R. I. | [27] |
| Caroline M. Hewins, librarian Public Library, Hartford, Conn. | [5] |
| F. A. Hutchins, University Extension Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. | [13], [19], [26], [36] |
| J. N. Larned, ex-librarian Public Library, Buffalo, N. Y. | [20], [22], [34] |
| Henry E. Legler, librarian Public Library, Chicago, Ill. | [17], [30] |
| James Russell Lowell | [18] |
| William McKinley | [30] |
| Theodore Roosevelt | [37] |
| C. C. Thach, president Alabama Polytechnic Institute | [9], [39] |
| Alice S. Tyler, secretary Iowa Library Commission, Des Moines, Iowa | [47] |
| Irene Van Kleeck | [36] |
MATERIAL FOR A PUBLIC LIBRARY CAMPAIGN
One of the most effective means of conducting a library campaign, especially in its early stage, is through the press. Not only will the reading and thinking part of the people thereby be reached, but any library editorial appearing in a newspaper, will, because of the public notice given it, receive greater consideration than if printed elsewhere. Library Commission workers and library supporters in general, have felt the need of printed material which could be made immediately available in a library campaign. Most library addresses and articles are too long, too scholarly in treatment or have lacked that crisp style necessary for use in the press.
Editors of newspapers are slow to accept for printing, signed editorials which have seen service elsewhere. It is suggested that the material here compiled be made as local as possible in its application to individual communities, and that the editorials be sent to newspapers unsigned by the original writers. The same editorials should not be sent to neighboring communities, at least in their original form. Every attempt should be made to have them appear as fresh and spontaneous as possible. Different editorials should always be sent the several papers in the same city.
The material here compiled is suggestive and sufficiently comprehensive to meet ordinary conditions. Much valuable material has been taken from circulars sent out by the Library Commissions of Oregon, Wisconsin and Iowa.
No better advice could be given in opening a public library campaign through the public press than the following, in the Wisconsin Free Library Commission Circular of Information, No. 5:
1 Citizens of —— believe in free public libraries. They need organization and courage to attack local problems rather than long homilies on the value of good literature.