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78 E. WASHINGTON STREET CHICAGO, ILL. 1913
President's address: The world of books and the world's work Henry E. Legler 73
A. L. A. Publishing Board Henry E. Legler 105
Carnegie and endowment fund W. W. Appleton 111
Co-operation with the N. E. A. M. E. Ahern 125
Federal and state relations B. C. Steiner 126
Library administration A. E. Bostwick 126
Library work with the blind Emma N. Delfino 136
Library work in Great Britain L. S. Jast 139
The immigrant in the library Mary Antin 145
Immigrants as contributors to library progress Adelaide B. Maltby 150
What of the black and yellow races? W. F. Yust 159
The working library for the artisan and the craftsman E. F. Stevens 170
The woman on the farm Lutie E. Stearns 173
Book influences for defectives and dependents Julia A. Robinson 177
Changing conditions of child life Faith E. Smith 184
How the library is meeting the changing conditions Gertrude E. Andrus 188
Normal schools and their relation to librarianship W. H. Kerr 193
The present status of legislative reference work C. B. Lester 199
State wide influence of the state library D. C. Brown 202
The law that stands the test M. S. Dudgeon 206
Making a library useful to business men S. H. Ranck 210
Libraries in business organizations Louise B. Krause 215
The municipal reference library as an aid in city administration George McAneny 219
How to discourage reading E. L. Pearson 230
American association of law libraries 362
The PRESIDENT: The Thirty-fifth Annual Conference of the American Library Association begins this evening. Custom has decreed that the presiding officer shall deliver a message, and the present presiding officer has not sufficient independence of mind to depart from that long-established custom.
Turning for a text to Victor Hugo's stirring epic of Paris, these words may be found in the section for May, and in the third chapter thereof:
A Library implies an act of faith Which generations still in darkness hid Sign in their night, in witness of the dawn.
When Johann Gutenberg in his secret workshop poured the molten metal into the rough matrices he had cut for separate types, the instrument for the spread of Democracy was created. When early Cavaliers and Puritans planted the crude beginnings of free public schools, the forces of Democracy were multiplied. When half a century ago the first meager beginnings of the public library movement were evolved, Democracy was for all time assured. Thus have three great stages, separated each by a span of two hundred years from that preceding, marked that world development whose ultimate meaning is not equality of station or possession, but equality of opportunity.