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LI B R.AFLY OF THE. U N I VE.R.SITY OF ILLINOIS AM 1886-89 this material is re- The person charging 1 its return on or before sponsible for Latest Date stamped below. and underlining of books Theft, mutilation, action and may are reasons for disciplinary from the Univers.ty. result in dismissal University of Illinois Library Ml 2 7 lEP 17^1 L161 O-1096 328 THE LIBRARY JOURNAL. \Sept.-Oct., '88. Index to Periodical Literature. to 1887. FIRST SUPPLEMENT, JAN. 1, 1882, JAN. 1, By WILLIAM FREDERICK POOLE, LL.D., Librarian of the Newberry Library, Chicago, and WILLIAM I. FLETCHER, A.M., Librarian of Amherst College. With the cooperation of the American Library Association, i vol., royal 8vo, cloth, $8.00, net ; sheep, $10.00, net j half morocco, uncut, $12.00, net, " In the preface to the third edition of POOLE'S INDEX," 1882, the promise was made that " Supplements will be issued every five years, which will include not only the periodicals which have appeared during that period, but also older serials which are worthy of being indexed, and are not included in this edition." In fulfilment of that promise the first five-year Supplement is now ready under the joint supervision of the same editors. This Supplement includes references to periodicals which appeared from January i, 1882, to January i, 1887, and also to a considerable number of older serials which were not included in the edition of 1882. The number of volumes indexed is 1065, and they belong to 141 different sets of periodicals. Sixty-one sets are included in this volume which did not appear in the edition of 1882. .Of these, thirty-three are new, having issued their first numbers during the five years, and twenty-eight are older sets which are now indexed for the first time. POOLE'S INDEX is so well known to librarians, editorial writers, scholars, and literary men, that the mere announcement of the publication of the first five-year supplement will awaken their interest. The uniform testimony from all libraries is that the Index is used more than any other work of reference in their collections. In the larger libraries several copies are required to meet the public demand. The Assistant Keeper of Printed Books in the British Museum wrote to Dr. Poole, " April 25, 1887, as follows : It may perhaps interest you to know that the wear and tear of the third edition of your Index is so great that we find it almost impossible to keep a copy in the reading- room fit for service. We have four copies worn to tatters in spite of all that could be done in the way of mending the leaves." Any of the larger libraries in this country and in Great Britain could make a similar report. In the smaller libraries the Index has been a Godsend in supplementing their limited resources by making the contents of their periodicals available. The Supplement is a companion volume to the main edition of 1882, having a page of the same size, type, and style, and no change has been made in the plan of indexing, or in the arrangement of the matter. *** For sale by all Booksellers. Sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt ofprice by the Publishers, HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY, BOSTON. ii East Seventeenth Street, New York. PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS TENTH GENERAL MEETING AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION SAINT LOUIS MAY 8-1 1 l889 BOSTON LIBRARY BUREAU 146 FRANKLIN STREET 1889 CONTENTS. Title. Author. Page. President's address, Common sense in libraries C: A. Cutter i Some library superstitions W: I. Fletcher 9 Architects and librarians N. S. fatten 13 Report on library architecture A . Van Name 16 Report on index to portraits, etc R: R. Bowker 28 Sunday opening of libraries . Miss M.. S. Cutler. ... 30 Report on library legislation H: M. Utley 44 Report on scrap-books W. A . Bardwell .... 49 Report on charging systems H:J. Carr 57 The library in its relations to persons engaged in industrial pursuits S: S. Green 69 Reading for the young Miis M.. Sargent .... 80 Uses of subject catalogs and subject lists W: E. Foster go Report or. classification R: Bliss 94 Indexing or catalogizing W.J. Gilbert 100 Eclectic card catalog rules K. A: Linderfelt .... 102 Some German publishing methods G: W: Harris 104 Report on periodicals F: M. Crunden .'.... 108 Report on aids and guides for readers W: C. Lane no Accents J.L. Whitney 113 Book-binding memoranda R. B. Poole 115 University library buildings H. M. Stanley .... 118 ! Proceedings 120-149 Fourth Session . 137-139 First Session 120-125 Next meeting 137-138 President's address 120 Industrial libraries 137 Treasurer's report 120-121 A. L. A. endorsement 138-139 Distribution of documents public 121-123 Fifth Session 139-142 School Library 123 Subject catalogs 139-140 Election of officers 123 Classification 140-141 Letters 123-124 Cataloging 141 Library superstitions 124-125 A. L. A. endorsement 141 Second Session 125-132 Indexing 14' of Finance Committee Report 125-126 Mr. Crunden praised 141 Alphabeting 127-129 Vote of thanks 141-142 Architects and librarians 129 Card catalog rules 142 University library buildings 129 German publishing methods 142 Public documents 129-130 Adjournment 142 Next meeting 130 Proceedings 142 Mr. Dyer 130-131 Program 142 A. L. A. endorsement 131 Public meeting 143-146 Choice of officers 131 A. L. A. Publishing Section 146-148 State librarians 132 A. L. A. College Library Section 148-149 Library School 132 Social features 149-151 Third Session 132-137 Post-conference excursion 151-153 Indexing of portraits 132 From Nashville to Cincinnati 153-157 Sunday opening 133 135 Attendance summaries 157 Charging systems 135 Necrological addenda . 158 Book-binding 135-136 Attendance register 158-160 Officers 136-137 CONFERENCE OF LIBRARIANS ST. LOUIS, MAY S-n, 1889. COMMON SENSE IN LIBRARIES. ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, C: A. CUTTER, LIBRARIAN OF THE BOSTON ATHENJEUM. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE AMERICAN ment, the same content with small begin- LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: nings, the same ingenuity to contrive and In obedience to an unbroken precedent, I quickness to seize upon every improvement must open this convention with some general the same common sense, in short, have been remarks. They shall be on Common Sense. shown in the spread of our libraries, as in the Common -Sense what is it? I hope no settlement of our country, to a degree not seen one will insist on a definition. Logicians or- in older lands. Our libraries have been like der us to define our terms before engaging in our railroads. When we were poor and popu- discussion, but I find it much more con- lation was scanty, we built railways in the venient flat iron to leave this one a little vague, trust- cheapest manner : two planks with a ing to your knowledge of its general meaning rail spiked along them, turning up every now and to your willingness to allow a certain and then to run through the bottom of the car, latitude in its use. But if I must be explicit, a tramway rather than a railroad. The Eng- I will common sense is sense other lish wondered and sneered say my ; traveler, seeing it, ; people's sense, when it differs from mine, is but it was the only way in which we could little better than nonsense. build them, and so we opened up the country. One definition I must protest against, how- Now that we have got riches from fhe terri- ever I cannot with the man de- then have carried our ; agree who tory reached, we railway clared that common sense is thus named system far ahead of any; we run palace because it is so uncommon. We could not cars across the desert. So our libraries, be- conduct the affairs of life if this were true. gun modestly a century ago, by making the In our own field common sense is the very most of a little and by the use of mother wit, characteristic of American libraries. We must have, with the schools, opened up a great not blow our own trumpet too loudly. We country of intellect, have extended themselves must not overlook the magnificent accumula- more than anywhere else on the globe, have tion of books in German and French libraries, become a necessity at least wherever the the good fight made by our English brothers New Englander goes and, the era of luxury against prejudice and ignorance, the zeal having come, one finds them on the frontier, and the complete organization of the Italians. or what was lately the frontier, at Minneap- Yet I believe that the same qualities that olis, at Denver, with all the perfections of have made our nation (with certain glaring material and personnel that the Library Bu- exceptions) the best of pioneers the same reau and the Library School can furnish. A fitting of means to ends, the same suiting century ago western libraries were founded of the man and the to the environ- with coon skins now cross the thing ; they prairies ST. LOUIS CONFERENCE. side side with the concrete sidewalk and as to attract crowds of and so by sightseers ; on, the electric tramcar. and so on. Yet there is much still to desire. If com- I cannot help regretting the amount of time mon sense is not uncommon in ordinary life, that is wasted on statistics. They are inter- no more is blundering, because mankind mix esting, but they are costly to prepare and to with their judgment so much unreason from print, and I would rather see the time spent passion, from fashion, from prejudice, from on making the library more useful.