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Library Daylight Tracings of Modern Librarianship, 1874-1922 Library Daylight Tracings of Modern Librarianship, 1874-1922 Edited by Rory Litwin With an introduction by Dr. Suzanne Stauffer Library Juice Press, LLC Duluth, Minnesota All items published herein are in the public domain, with the exception of the Introduction. The copyright to the Introduction is held by Dr. Suzanne Stauffer (2006). Published by Library Juice Press, 2006 Library Juice Press PO Box 3320 Duluth, MN 55803 http://libraryjuicepress.com/ ISBN 13: 978-0-9778617-4-3 ISBN 10: 0-9778617-4-0 Printed on acid-free paper. For Ruth Hafter Contents Contents vii. Editor’s Preface xiii. Introduction 1. 1874 Germantown Quakers Check the Spread of Novel 15. Reading From the 1874 annual report of a small public library established by Quakers in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Published in The Nation. 1876 A Librarian’s Work, By John Fiske 17. The Atlantic Monthly (Vol 38, Iss 228), October 1876. 1878 Boston Medical Library Dedicatory Address 35. From Medical Essays—1842-1882, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The physician and poet, not the jurist O. W. Holmes, Jr.) Dedicatory Address at the opening of the Medical Library in Boston,! December 3, 1878. 1880 Brief item in The Nation on copyright in Germany 51. From The Nation, Vol. XXX—No. 766 (March 4, 1880), p.177. 1883 The Father of the American Libraries 53. By Bunford Samuel The Century; a popular quarterly. Volume 26, Issue 1 (May 1883). 1886 Women in Libraries: How They are Handicapped 59. By Melvil Dewey. Excerpts from a March 13, 1886 address before the Association of College Alumni, originally published in Library Notes 1 (October 1886). 1887 Columbia Library School 63. By Melvil Dewey. Published in Library Notes, v.1 No.4, March 1887. vii 1892 Proceedings of the Fourteenth American Library 71. Association Conference, Lakewood: The Woman’s Meeting Published in Library Journal 17 (August 1892). 1894 Librarianship as a Profession for Women 79. By Miss Richardson. Originally published in The Library 6 (1894). 1895 Improper Books 85. A paper delivered at the 1895 ALA Conference in Denver, Colorado. By George T. Clark, Librarian, San Francisco Free Public Library. 1896 Hear the Other Side—1896 ALA President’s Address 89. The address of ALA President John Cotton Dana, Librarian of the Denver Public Library. The conference was in !Cleveland and Mackinaw, Ohio, !September 1-4 and 8, 1896. 1899 The Telegraph in the Library 97. By Richard Garnett, in Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography (New York: Harper, 1899). 1901 Library Cooperation 101. By Lodilla Ambrose.T! he Dial; a Semi-monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and !Information. July 16, 1901. Vol. 31, No. 362. 1903 On George Iles’ plea for a headquarters for ALA 105. “A Library of Libraries.” The Nation, July 30, 1903, p. 89. 1904 Wild Flower Show at the Free Library 109. Sixty Varieties Gathered in and About Oakland Exhibited in the Children’s Room. From The San Francisco Call, March 27, 1904. The Library: Its Past and Future ! ! 111. By Guido Biagi, Director, Royal Laurentian Library, Florence, Italy. !A talk given at the ALA Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904!. viii 1905 The Library as Social Centre 125. The opening address at the Red Wing Meeting of the Minnesota Library Association, October 12, 1905, by Miss Gratia Alta Countryman. 1912 Phones Installed in Free Library 129. Patrons Now May Save Themselves Needless Trips for Books That Are “Out.” San Francisco Call (daily newspaper), April 7, 1912, p. 64. Letter to the Editor of The Nation on “The librarian 131. who reads is dead” Published Nov. 7, 1912. 1913 The Heyday of Librarians 133. The Nation, July 3, 1913. Note on 1913 ALA Annual Conference in The Dial 137. The Dial: Semi-monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and !Information. July 16, 1913. Vol. 55, No. 650. The Region of the Unromantic 139. The Dial: a Semi-monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion and !Information. December 1, 1913, p. 465. 1914 First Aid to the Enquiring Reader 141. The Dial; a Semi-monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion and !Information. June 1, 1914; Vol. 56, No. 671. Some Old-Time Old-World Librarians 143. By Theodore W. Koch ! The North American Review, Aug 1914. vol. 200, !no. 705, p. 244. 1915 The People’s Share in the Public Library 157. By Arthur E. Bostwick, Librarian, St. Louis Public Library. ! Read before the Chicago Woman’s Club, Jan. 6, 1915 !Published in Library Journal, April, 1915. Women Assistants and the War 167. Published in Library World 17 (January 1915) By M.F. ix How Far Should the Library Aid the Peace 173. Movement and Similar Propaganda? By George F. Bowerman, Librarian, The Public Library of the District of !Columbia. An address at the American Library Association National Conference !in Berkeley, California, 1915. The Libary’s Primary Duty 181. President’s Address, ALA Annual Conference, Berkeley, CA, June 3-9, 1915. By Hiller C. Wellman, Librarian, City Library, Springfield, Massachussetts. Some Tendencies of American Thought 189. By Dr. Arthur E. Bostwick, Librarian, St. Louis Public Library. Read before the New York Library Association at Squirrel Inn, Haines Falls, Sept. 28, 1915, and before the Missouri Library Association at Joplin, Missouri, Oct. 21, 1915. 1916 Librarianship: A Profession 199. W. E. Henry, Librarian, University of Washington, Seattle. The Larger Publicity of the Library 209. By Joseph L. Wheeler, Librarian, Youngstown Public Library. Presented at the ALA Annual Conference in Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1916. 1917 “Human Interest” in the Public Library 219. By Marilla Waite Freeman, Librarian, Goodwyn Institute, Memphis, Tennessee. Library Journal, January, 1917. Great Reasons to Go to the New SF Main Library 223. “Library Offers Wisdom to Knowledge Seekers!. There Isn’t Any Subject One Can’t Get Facts About Among Books.” San Francisco Examiner, Feb 18, 1917. 1920 Libraries Should Provide for the Reader Who 227. Smokes San Francisco Examiner, February 20, 1919. p. 20. Ankles of Library Girls Seized as They Stack 229. Books San Francisco Examiner, December 5, 1920, p. 90. x

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