INDEX

Adams, Prof. W. G. S., on library provision, 136-139

Administration, 14, 183-184, 200-210, 221

Administration of Centralized Library System, 179

Adult Education, 4-6, 98-99, 111, 149, 154, 202-204, 208-209

Adult Education Committee and Board of Education, 200-201

Adult Education Committee and Central Library for Students, 190-191

Adult Education Committee, centralization, 73, 171-2, 175, 194, 197, 198, 202

Adult Education Committee, fiction question, 230-235

Adult Education Committee, Final Report, 165-167

Adult Education Committee, on grants, 186-187

Adult Education Committee, on intelligence bureaux, 89-90

Adult Education Committee, on lectures, 111

Adult Education Committee, on reading Rooms, 62

Adult Education Committee, on reconstruction, Preface, 30, 31, 73, 171-172, 175, 194, 197, 198, 202

Adult Education Committee, Technical and Commercial Libraries, 78-80

Advertising, 48-49, 103

Agricultural Libraries, America, 160-161

Airdrie, adoption of Library Act, 22

America, books for the blind, 94

America, children’s libraries, 64, 68, 74, 131

America, Education Authorities a. Library Authorities, 201-202

America, indexing, 227-228

America, inspection of Libraries, 184-186

America, librarianship, 224

America, libraries, 25, 41, 118

America, library schools, 213, 216, 219-220

America, rural libraries, 156-162

America, school and library, 131

America, State Library Commissions, 156, 184-186, 209

America, travelling libraries, 156

American Library Association, 211

Ancient Libraries, 11

Andersonian Institute, Glasgow, 8

Antwerp, Institute of Commerce, 77

Apparatus, Library, 219

Apprentice Classes, America, 220

Archbishop Tenison’s Library, 12

Architecture, library, 219

Assistants, 212, 217-219

“Athenæum”, The, 181

Baillie’s Institution, Glasgow, 23

Bath, adoption of Library Act, 22

Bibliography, 131, 171, 220, 223, 225

Birkbeck, George, 8

Birkbeck College, 8

Birkenhead Public Library, 22, 64

Birmingham Commercial Library, 80

Birmingham, library rate, 27

Birmingham Public Libraries, reference library, 45, 48, 50

Bishopsgate Institute, reference library, 51

Blackburn, adoption of Library Act, 22

Blind, libraries for the, 91-95, 171

Board of Education, 208-209

Board of Education as central authority, 200-201

Bolton Public Library, 21, 80

Book issues, 25, 40, 41

Book selection, 34-36, 54, 97, 129-130, 179, 215, 223, 224, 228-235

Book selection for children, 68, 70-72

Book selection, periodicals, 57, 59

Book supply, 41-43, 70, 105, 142

Bookbinding, 42, 180-181

Bookbinding demonstrations, 218-219

Book-box system, 138, 139, 141, 142, 144, 146, 149, 164, 165

Books, requirements of good, 72, 180-181, 227

Bootle Public Library, lectures, 101

Borough councils, 173

Borrowers’ restrictions, 40-41

Bradford Commercial Library, 80

Braille system, 93

Branch libraries, 37

Bright, John, 18, 21

Brighton, Local Act, 1850, 21

Brighton Public Library, 120

Bristol Commercial Library, 80, 81, 86, 85-87

Bristol Public Library, 11, 45, 50, 101

British Museum, 12, 13, 14, 170, 182

British Museum Library, 34, 54, 55, 195

Bromley Public Library, lectures, 101

Brotherton, Joseph, 13-19

Brougham, Lord, 1, 4, 9

Brown, James Duff, 54, 55

Buckinghamshire, village libraries, 135

Bureaucracy, dangers of, 7, 208, 222

Burslem, adoption of Library Act, 22

Bury, William, 11

Business librarians, courses for, 216

Camberwell Public Library, 22, 101

Cambridge, adoption of Library Act, 22

Canterbury, 16

Canterbury, adoption of Library Act, 22

Cardiff Public Libraries, 22, 45, 50, 89, 101

Cardiganshire Rural Library, 140

Carnegie, Andrew, 23, 25, 77

Carnegie Rural Library Scheme, 31, 139

Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, annual report, 140-141, 145-146

Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and Central Library for Students, 145-146, 190

Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and National Library for the Blind, 92-93

Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and rural libraries, 31, 139

Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, Scotland, 139-142

Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, and training in librarianship, 213

Catalogues, 39, 40, 171, 182, 226, 232

Cataloguing, 179, 218

Central clearing house, 170

Central Library for Students, 111, 170, 177, 188, 190

Central Library for Students, relations with rural libraries, 143, 145, 147

Central repository, 139, 141, 142

Centralization in library system, 29-30

Rural, 137-138, 161

Urban, 169-210

Chambers of Commerce, 85

Chelsea Public Libraries, 51, 101

Cheltenham, adoption of Library Act, 22

Chetham Library, Manchester, 11, 17

Children, books for, 129-130

Children, library work with, 216, 219

Children’s Libraries, 63-74, 205-6

Children’s Reading room, 63, 64

Choice of books, See Book Selection

Christian Socialists, 10

City and Guilds Institution, 194-195

Classification, 53, 83, 213, 223, 225-226, 227

Closed system, See Open access

Coats Libraries, 135, 139

Cobden, Richard, 13

Cockerell, Mr. Douglas, on bookbinding, 180

Commercial Libraries, 74-91, 219

Co-operation, 174-176, 177, 196-197

Co-operation, rural 150-155

Co-operation with industries, 97

Co-operation with outside organizations, 117, 150-155

Co-operation with schools, See Schools

Cork, adoption of Library Act, 22

Correspondence classes, 212

County Education Authority and rural libraries, 149

County library schemes, 137-139, 156-160

Coventry, 22

Coventry Public Library, 22, 41, 120, 133

Croydon Public Libraries, 80, 101, 106-107, 119

Croydon Public Libraries, junior library, 65, 66, 106-107, 133

Curriculum of School of Librarianship, 218

Czechoslovakia, library school, 220

Degrees in library science, America, 219

Derby Public Library, lectures, 101

Dickens, Charles, on libraries, 21

Digests, from periodicals, 182

Discipline in children’s libraries, 66-67

Discussion, value of, 109-110

Dr. Williams’s Library, 12

Doncaster, adoption of Library Act, 22

Dover, 16

Dramatic Circles, 114-117

Dublin Public Library, reference library, 45

Dundee, adoption of Library Act, 22

Dunfermline, central repository, 139, 147

Dunfermline Public Library, 61

Edinburgh Public Library, 23, 45

Education, 1-6, 72-74, 98, 122, 173, 184, 210-211.

See also Libraries and education

Education Act, 1870, 2, 24

Education Act, 1918, 224

Education Act for Scotland, 1918, 140

Education authority as library authority, 175, 200-210

Education Bill, 1807, 1

Education Bill, 1820, 2

Education Department, 2

Edwards, Edward, 13-17, 21, 29, 183, 184

Edwards, Passmore, 25

Elementary Education Act, 1870, 22

Engravings, 50

“Erewhon,” 221-222

Ewart, William, 6, 13-19

Ewart Act, See Public Libraries Act, 1850

Examinations in Librarianship, 212, 214, 219

Exeter, adoption of Library Act, 21, 22

Exhibitions, 120-122

Fiction question, 34-35, 230-235

Filing, 58-59, 226

Finance, 25, 26, 31, 41, 42, 102, 148, 193

Fisher, Mr. H. A. L., 98

Formby, Thomas, 25

Forster’s Act. See Education Act, 1870

France, librarianship in, 220

Fulham Public Libraries, lectures, 101

Furniture, fittings, etc., 82

Germany, library schools, 220

Glasgow, 8, 23

Glasgow Commercial Library, 80

Glasgow Mechanics’ Institution, 8

Glasgow Public Libraries, 38

Gloucester Public Library, 163

Gloucestershire Rural Libraries, 140, 163

Government department as library authority, 172-3

Government grants, 184-188

Government inspection of libraries, 183-188

Grantham Rural Libraries, 140

Grants, 29, 184-188

Greenwich Public Libraries, co-operation with schools, 127

Greenwood, Thomas, 29, 183

Guide-books to books, 179, 225, 232

Guildhall Library, 51

Hackney Public Library, 22, 127

Hampstead Public Library, 51, 101

Hebrides, rural library scheme, 147

Hereford, adoption of Library Act, 22

History of library movement, 1-31

Holland, library school, 220

Hornsey Public Library, lectures, 101

Huddersfield, 8

Hull, adoption of Library Act, 22

Illustrations, 43, 52, 53, 64, 65

Indexing, 47, 53, 61, 181, 213, 223, 226, 227, 228

Indicators, 38-39, 222

Industrial libraries, See Technical libraries

Industries, co-operation with, 79

Industry as local authority in technical library system, 198

Information Bureau, 54, 76, 82-83, 88-90

Information desks, 89

Inspection of libraries, 183-188

Ipswich, adoption of Library Act, 22

Ireland, Public Library Act, 20, 22

Ireland, reference libraries, 45

Islington Public Libraries, 22, 43, 55, 69-70, 101, 127

Issues as index of reading, 25

Italy, library schools, 220

Jast, Mr. L. S., on Schools and libraries, 203-204

Journalism, schools of, 223

Kidderminster, adoption of Library Act, 22

Kilmarnock Public Libraries, reference library, 50

Kingston Public Libraries, lectures, 101

Kirkwood, James, 11

Lamb, Charles, 116

Lambeth Palace Library, 12

Lancashire and Cheshire Union library, 135

Lancashire and Cheshire Union of Mechanics’ Institutions, 8

Lantern slides, 52, 106, 119

Leamington, adoption of Library Act, 22

Lecture rooms, 62, 99-107

Lectures, 64, 65, 99-107, 211, 212, 215, 228, 232

Leeds Commercial Library, 80, 88

Leeds Public Libraries, 8, 22, 45

Leeds Technical Library, 88

Leek Public Library, lectures, 101

Leicester, adoption of Library Act, 16, 22

Lending libraries, 33-43, 233, 234

Librarian, 66, 67, 69, 106, 107, 127, 205, 214, 216

Librarianship, definition of, 216-217

Librarianship, training in, See Training

Libraries and education, 29, 175, 200-210

Libraries Board, suggestions for a, 209-210

Library Association of the United Kingdom, on bibliography, 227

Library Association on centralization, 171-2

Library Association, commercial and technical libraries, 78, 80

Library Association, libraries and education, 29, 202-203, 204

Library Association on rural libraries, 153

Library Association and school libraries, 13

Library Association, Subject-Index to Periodicals, 181

Library Association on technical libraries, 198-201

Library Association Education Committee, 211

Library authorities, 173, 174, 175

Library authority, parish council as, 137

Library committees, 28, 173, 175

Library economy, 213

Library extension, 96-134, 219, 224

Library provision, 136, 139

Library rate, 15, 18, 19, 26, 136, 137

Library schools, 211-220

Library service, 14, 32-95, 138

Liberal education, 217, 222

Lichfield, adoption of Library Act, 22

Light literature, See Fiction

Literary and Scientific Institutions, 33

Literary and Scientific Institutions Libraries, 12

Literary history, 228

Liverpool Commercial Library, 80

Liverpool Public Libraries, 16, 37, 45, 48, 50, 91, 100, 102

Liverpool, Special Act, 1852, 21

Loan Collections to schools, 122, 124-125, 133

Local collections, 51-52

Local Education Committee, 31

Local Education Committee as library authority, 201

Local Government Act, 1894, 27

Local records, 52

London, City of, 20, 22

London Education Committee, 127, 175, 192

London libraries, 22, 47-48

London libraries, lectures, 101

London libraries, reading rooms, 60

London libraries, reference libraries, 45, 49, 50

London libraries, special collections, 50-51

London libraries, statistics, 178

London libraries, and students, 195-196

London library, 34

London, Library Act, 1877, 24

London Mechanics’ Institution, 8

London School of Economics, 211-212, 225

London, University of, School of Librarianship, 213, 216, 218-219, 222

London, University of, University College, 191, 213

McKillop, John, supplemental library scheme, 191-197

Magazine rooms, 55

Magazines, See periodicals

Maidstone Public Library, 22, 101, 163

Manchester, 13, 15

Manchester College of Arts and Sciences, 8

Manchester Commercial Library, 80, 81

Manchester Commercial library, contents, 83-85

Manchester Commercial library, vertical file, 225

Manchester, library rate, 27

Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 8, 61

Manchester Public Libraries, 21, 38, 45, 48, 49, 101

Maps, 43, 52, 58, 82, 119

Marylebone, adoption of Library Act, 22

Massachusetts Agricultural College, 161

Massachusetts Free Library Commission, 185-6

Mechanics’ Institutes, 5-10, 26

Mechanics’ Institute Libraries, 5-10

Meredith, George, on fiction, 230

Metropolitan Association of Mechanics’ Institutions, 8

Middlesex, rural library scheme, 163-164

Ministry of Reconstruction, 30

Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 23

Monastic libraries, 11

Motor service, 38, 141, 146

Museums, 15-16

Museums Act, 1845, 15, 18

Museums and Gymnasiums Act, 1891, 27

Music, 43

National Art Library, South Kensington, 178

National Home-Reading Union, 112, 119

National Institute for the Blind, 93

National Library for the Blind, 92-95, 171

National library service, preface, 155, 169-210, 220

National Science Library, South Kensington, 60-61, 178

New York Public Library, 94, 118, 132-133

Newcastle-upon-Tyne Public Libraries, 27, 45, 50

Newspapers, 43, 55-59

Newsrooms, 47, 55-59

Non-municipal libraries, incorporation of, 177-178

Northampton Public Library, 50, 80, 120

Norwich Public Library, 11, 21, 80, 101

Nottingham Public Libraries, 22, 45, 50, 64, 91-92, 101, 120

Obsolete methods, 220-221

Ogle, J. J., 29

Oldham, adoption of Library Act, 22

Oldham, library rate, 27

Open access, 37, 38-40, 161, 232

Orkneys, rural library scheme, 147

Overseas Trade Department, 85

Oxford, adoption of Library Act, 21

Paddington, adoption of Library Act, 22

Paisley, adoption of Library Act, 22

Palæography, 52, 218, 220

Parish council, as library authority, 137

Parochial libraries, 11-12

Parochial Libraries Act, 12

Patent Office Library, 178, 193, 195, 200

Peacock, Thomas L., 9

Periodicals, 47, 56-61, 181-182

Periodicals, indexing of, See Subject-Index to Periodicals

Permanent collections of books in country districts, 138, 149

Perthshire Rural Library, 140, 146

Philadelphia, Commercial Museum, 77

Philosophical Radicalism, 4

Polytechnics, 195

Poplar, school and library, 126-127

Post Office, transmission of books by, 95, 191

Practical instruction in librarianship, 218-219

Press clippings, 53, 65, 82

Preston, library rate, 27

Prints, 43, 52, 119

Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 78-79

Public Library Acts, 6, 96, 136

Public Library Act, 1850, 12-20, 30

Public Library Act, 1853, 12-20, 26, 30

Public Library Act, Ireland, 1853, 20

Public Library Act, Scotland, 1853, 20

Public Libraries Act, 1892, 24, 27

Public Libraries Amendment Acts, 1894, 28

Public Libraries Act, 1919, preface, 112, 122, 135, 140

Public Libraries Act, 1921, 30

Public Library Acts, adoption of, 21, 22, 23, 24

Public Library Bill, 1854, 20

Public Record Office Library, 178

Publications, library, 179-180

Purdue University agricultural library, 161

Putney, adoption of Library Act, 22

Rate, library, 27, 30, 172, 174, 175, 187-188, 193

Readers, issues, 40, 41

Reading circles, 62, 64, 65, 104, 110-111, 112-114, 143, 215, 228-229, 232

Reading courses, 64

Reading, standard of, 40, 42, 60, 229-235

Reading rooms, 55, 61-63

Ready-reference library, 48

Reconstruction, preface, 29-30

Reconstruction Committee, 30

Reference books, 44, 46, 47, 52, 58, 70, 138, 149

Reference libraries, 34, 36, 44-55, 176-177, 223

Regional committees, 189, 210

Rochdale Public Library, business section, 80

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 1

Royal Blind Asylum and School, Edinburgh, 93

Royal College of Science, 194

Rural libraries, 31, 110-111, 112, 135-168, 188, 219

Rural libraries, co-operation with outside organizations, 150-155

Rural libraries, co-operation with schools, 141-144, 148-149, 150-155

Ruskin, John, 134

Rye, Mr. R. A., libraries of London, 178

St. Bride Foundation Library, reference library, 51

St. Helen’s, library rate, 27

St. Kilda, transport of books to, 146-147

St. Pancras, adoption of Library Act, 22

St. Paul’s Cathedral Library, reference library, 51

Salaries, 179, 212

Salford Public Library, 13, 16, 27, 101

Sayle, Miss, village libraries, 135

School libraries, 70, 72, 73, 122-125, 216

School of Librarianship, University of London, See London, University of

Schools, 2-5, 98, 154, 200-210, 224

Schools, co-operation with, 23, 29, 51-52, 64, 65-74, 97, 106, 122-134, 137-138, 141-144, 148-149, 150-155, 200-206, 223-224

Scientific associations’ libraries, 178-179

Scotland, adoption of Library Act, 22, 23

Scotland, Education Act, 1918, 140

Scotland, Public Library Acts, 20, 26, 28

Scotland, reference libraries, 45

Scotland, rural libraries, 135, 140

Selborne, Roundell Palmer, Earl of, 19

Sheffield, adoption of Library Act, 21, 22

Sheffield, library rate, 27

Shelf-room, 180

Shetlands, rural library scheme, 147

Sion College Library, 12

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 9

Somerset Rural Library, 140, 162-163

Special collections, 43, 49-51, 52, 53, 119-120, 198, 225

Staff, 76, 77, 90, 183, 184, 211

Staffordshire Rural Library, 139-140

State aid, See Grants

State control, 29, 137-8, 179

State Library Commissions, America, 156, 184-186, 209

Statistics, Bristol Commercial Library, 86

Statistics, Islington Public Libraries, 43

Statistics, library provision, 136

Statistics, London libraries, 178

Statistics, public libraries, 16, 17, 23, 35, 43, 81, 86

Statistics of reading, 35

Statistics, rural libraries, 140-141, 144, 148

Statistics, supplemental library, 193, 194

“Steam Intellect Society,” 9

Stirling’s Library, Glasgow, 23

Story-telling for children, 64, 65

Stratford-on-Avon Public Library, reference library, 50

Students, 41, 46, 54, 62, 195-7

Students’ Library, Oxford, 92

Students’ reading rooms, 62

Subject-Index to Periodicals, 61, 171, 181, 182

Summer Schools, 211, 220

Sunderland, library rate, 16, 27

Supplemental libraries, cost of, 193-194

Supplemental libraries in national scheme, 188-193

Swansea, library rate, 27

Sweden, library schools, 220

Syracuse University, library school, 216

Teachers, 72-73, 132, 133, 142, 205

Technical associations’ libraries, 178-179

Technical libraries, 74-91, 197-200, 219

Thackeray, W. M., on libraries, 21

Training in librarianship, 171, 179, 211-235

Transport, 38, 141-142, 146-148, 191

Travelling collections for schools, 124-125

Travelling libraries, 135, 139, 156

Tutorial Classes, 104, 109-111, 142, 215

Union Catalogue, 182

Union of educational and library administration, 72, 73, 122, 133-134, 200-210, 234

Universities, 1

University Extension Courses, 107-114

University libraries, 45

Utilitarian function of the library, 74-77

Van Wert County Library, Ohio, 157-159

Verney, Sir Edmund, village libraries, 135

Village clubs, 141

Village Clubs Association, 151-153

Village Institutes, 8, 165-167, 168

Village libraries, 135

Voluntary workers in libraries, 103, 138, 141-142

Wales, National Library of, reference library, 50

Wallasey Public Library, lectures, 101

Walsall Public Library, 22, 27

Walthamstow Public Libraries, lectures, 101

Warrington Public Library, 16, 17, 27, 101

Warwick, adoption of Library Act, 22

Washington Training School for Business Librarians, 216

“Weeding-out,” 36, 159, 177, 225

West Riding Union of Mechanics’ Institutions, 8

Westminster, adoption of Library Act, 22

Whitbread, Samuel, 1, 4

Whitechapel, adoption of Library Act, 22

Whittington, Sir Richard, 11

Wigan Public Library, 27, 101

Wilts Rural Library, 140, 163

Winchester, adoption of Library Act, 21

Wisconsin, University of, 161, 216

Wolverhampton Public Library, 22, 27

Woolwich Public Libraries, lectures, 101

Workers’ Educational Association, 99, 110-111, 119, 142

Working Men’s College, 10

“Workshop theory,” 36

Yorkshire Village Libraries Association, 135

Young Mens’ Christian Association, 150, 153, 154

Young Women’s Christian Association, 150