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Proceedings87amer.Pdf L I B R.ARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AM 1886-89 this material is re- The person charging 1 its return on or before sponsible for below. Latest Date stamped ond underlining of books Theft, mutilation, aet.on and may are reasons for disciplinary from the Un.vers.ty. result in dismissal University of Illinois Library 7 P L161 O-1096 PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS NINTH GENERAL MEETING AMERIGO LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ROUND ISLAND PARK THOUSAND ISLANDS AUGUST SEPTEMBER BOSTON LIBRARY BUREAU 32 HAWLEY STREET 1887 CONTENTS. Title. Author. Page. President's address W: F: Poole . , Action of burning-gas on leather C. J. Woodward Lettering books J. Edmands . ' . A notation for small libraries C: A. Cutter . 14 Alphabeting J. Edmands . , 16 The British Mu!ei'm system of press-marks . G: W: Harris . 21 Business methor":- ,n library management . F: M. Crunden . 25 The British Museum catalog as in use in the library of the Young Men's Christian Association of New York City . R. B. Poole .... 28 Frequency of registrations of book-takers . //:/. Carr 3 A quicker way of measuring books . G: W. CoU .... 35 ' Newspaper volumes in a library . //: M. Utley .... 39 Pamphlets and continuations of serials . L. Swift 40 How to bind periodicals . .V. C. Perkins . 44 Some thoughts on close classification . G: W. Cole .... 46 Libraries for specialists . C: A. Nelson .... 5i The Columbia College School of Library Economy from a student's standpoint . Miss M. W. Plummer . 53 The relations of city governments to libraries . W: Rice 54 Special collections at Ithaca . G: L. Burr -. 59 62 A course of reading for school children . /: C. Sickley .... Report on library architecture . J. N. Lamed .... 6? The possibilities of public libraries in manufacturing communities . Mrs. M. A. Sanders . 85 Libraries and schools . S: S. Green .... 90 Hours of opening libraries . E. C. Richardson . 92 Brief review of the libraries of Canada . /. Bain, Jr 96 Bibliographic bureaus . H. Putnam 99 Report on catalogues and aids and guides for readers, 1885-87 . W: C. Lane . 104 Proceedings 113 Fourth Session 132 First Session ii3-.i2i Fifth Session 132-137 President's address 113 Classing and arranging maps and charts . -132 Secretary's report 113-114 Library architecture 132-135 - Treasurer's report 114-115 Distribution of public documents '?5 '37 Cooperation committee's report 116 Free access to the shelves ....'.... 137 Report of committee on School of Library Econ- Sixth Session 137-140 omy, with letter of Miss James 116-117 Public documents I 37" I 38 Action of electric light on paper 118-119 Indexes made by the Patent Office Library . 138 Report of the committee of arrangements . 119-120 Resolution concerning State librarians .... 138 Notation for small libraries 120-121 Schools and libraries 138 Alphabeting 121 Officers. .< <39 Second Session 122-128 Report of the coMniittee on resolutions ... 139 Alphabeting 122-125 Place of meeting for 1888 39 Jenner's sliding shelf 125 Seventh Session 140-146 Business methods in library management . 125-126 Library assistants ........... "4 Librarian's duty 126 Bibliographic bureau ..... ..... 140-142 Manuscript catalogue 126-127 Kansas libraries ........... 142-143 Auditing committee's report 127-128 Place for the next meeting ..... i43~M4 Third Session r28-i32 Badges '44 Newspaper volumes 128-129 Ferree's Mutual Library of Philadelphia t44-'4S Adjustable periodical case 129 Miscellaneous i45-'4& Binding periodicals ijo Appendix i : A. L.A. Publishing Section. 146-147 of sale r 5 Catalogue 'duplicates (30-131 Appendix 2 : Excursions ......... I47' 1 Seminary work iji Attendance register ... ........ '5 CONFERENCE OF LIBRARIANS. THOUSAND ISLANDS, AUG., SEPT., 1887. ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, WILLIAM F. POOLE, LL. D., LIBRARIAN OF THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY, CHICAGO. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE ASSOCIA- When our association was organized at Phil- TION : adelphia, in October 1876, and it was proposed WE meet for our ninth annual conference to hold annual conferences, the doubt was ex- amid these beautiful islands which fringe the pressed whether such frequent meetings could outer limit of our northern frontier, and near be sustained. Were there topics in our pro- the boundaries of our Canadian brethren. fession of sufficient number and interest, that Some of these brethren we have with us, and we could write and talk about them as often we welcome them to our conference with sen- as once a year ? Should we not, after two or timents of friendship and esteem. Whether three meetings, be threshing old straw? An the homes of those present be north or south inspection of the programme before us and of of the river St. Lawrence, we are all, in the the printed proceedings of recent years will best sense, Americans. Little more than a show that the apprehension was wholly ground- century has passed since the countries which less. Bibliography in itself, and more espe- are now the Dominion of Canada and the cially in its relations to library administration, United States had a common history; and is a progressive study, and I think we may they have to-day common interests and aspira- venture to term it a progressive science. Old tions. I believe that not many decades of topics require to be discussed in new rela- years will have passed before they will again tions, and new subjects come up every year have a common history and a common des- which were not thought of when the associa- tiny. tion was organized. There is every probabil- We come from our various fields of labor ity that the attendance and the interest in to enjoy the delightful social intercourse which these annual conferences will increase; that these annual reunions afford and to be bene- the schemes will from to ; expand year year ; fited and strengthened in our^vork by listen- and that the committee on the programme will ing to the papers and discussions, of which so grow in wisdom, and prescribe a week for the generous a scheme has been provided by the presentation of papers and their discussion. committee on programme. The committee The subject to which I now wish to call this year, I think, has distinguished itself in your attention is : giving us a rich, varied, and solid bill of fare, The Public Library of our Time. and one unsurpassed by that of any previous conference. Their wisdom is also conspicu- I use the term public library with the ous in giving us four days for the work they same restricted signification which is attached have so liberally provided for our profit and to the term pttblic school, meaning by it a entertainment municipal institution, established and regu- THOUSAND ISLANDS CONFERENCE. lated by State laws, supported by local taxa- a public library in every city and town in the tion, and administered for the benefit of all United States, the National Library at Wash- the residents of the municipality which sup- ington, the Astor in New York, and the Library ports it. It is unfortunate that we have not of Harvard University would be more con- in our vocabulary a term to express this mean- sulted, and be more essential to the public ing without using one which has been and is than they are at present. still used, to some extent, with so wide a sig- The enormous increase in the number and nification that it includes any and every col- size of the libraries of the world during the lection of books which is not the of is remarkable and the most property present century ; an individual and a private library. In this of this growth has taken place since the country there is no ambiguity in the term establishment of the first free public library, public school, for the people have long been less than forty years ago. In 1821 the familiar with the institution. British Museum, now with its nearly 2,000,- The public library, however, as here de- ooo volumes, had only 116,000. Washington fined, has come into being within the memory Irving spoke of it about that time in his of some of us here present. Its rapid devel- "Sketch Book" as "an immense collection of opment during the past thirty-five years in volumes in all languages, many of which are the United States and England furnishes an now forgotten, and most of which are never interesting indication of the progress which read." In 1835, when the first royal com- characterizes the popular methods of educa- mission was appointed to examine into the tion in our time. affairs of the British Museum, it had only Public collections of books for the benefit 200,000 volumes and an annual appropriation of scholars are not new. They are as old as from Parliament for its support of from .200 civilization. They flourished in Egypt in the to .300 an allowance on which most of time of Rameses II., in Athens in the time our town libraries would starve. In 1837 of Pericles, in Rome in the time of the Antony Panizzi was appointed keeper of the Caesars, and all through the middle ages. printed books in the Museum, and began his Every country in Europe has its national great work of library administration and re- library, and many a continental city has its old generation. In 1845 he addressed a memoir municipal library of musty books which the to the trustees, setting forth the deficiencies masses of the people never care to read. of the library, recommending that they be The universities have their collections, and supplied by an adequate appropriation from some of them are excellent. The public Parliament, and that the books in the library library is not a substitute for, and will never be catalogued in a uniform and scientific supplant, these and other collections which method.
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