INDEX

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, V, W.

Administration, Cost of, 217 Advertising. General, 277; In the library, 35, 172 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

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