Librarianship in Gilded Age America An Anthology of Writings, 1868-1901

Table of Contents

Introduction     
1868
Harvard College Library
CHARLES AMMI CUTTER     
1876
American Library Journal
MELVIL DEWEY     
Interlibrary Loans
SAMUEL SWETT GREEN     
Publishers' Slips for Librarians
CHARLES A. NELSON     
The Work of Librarians
JOHN FISKE     
1877
The American Library Association
MELVIL DEWEY     
The Profession
MELVIL DEWEY     
1880
Communication
MELVIL DEWEY     
1882
Classification
JOSEPHUS N. LARNED     
The Progress of Library Architecture
WILLIAM FREDERICK POOLE     
Selecting and Training Library Assistants
JAMES L. WHITNEY     
1883
Report on the Reading of the Young
MARY ABBIE BEAN     
The Work of the Nineteenth-Century
Librarian for the Librarian of the
Twentieth Century
RICHARD ROGERS BOWKER     
1884
The Free Public Library in the United
States: Evolution and Function
MOSES COIT TYLER     
The Young Writer's Use of a Library
WILLIAM E. FOSTER     
1887
Report of Librarian of the Enoch Pratt
Free Library to the Board of Trustees
LEWIS H. STEINER     
Report of the State Librarian to the New
Hampshire Legislature
WILLIAM H. KIMBALL     
1888
Melvil Dewey to Whitelaw Reid
MELVIL DEWEY     
1889
Library Philanthropy
ANDREW CARNEGIE     
Are Public Libraries Public Blessings?
JAMES M. HUBBARD     
1890
Theodore Roosevelt to George H. Putnam
THEODORE ROOSEVELT     
Being a Librarian
ERNEST C. RICHARDSON     
Library Work
WILLIAM FREDERICK POOLE     
Mary Abbie Bean to Charles Evans
MARY ABBIE BEAN     
The Duties of Trustees and Their Relations
to Librarians
SAMUEL SWETT GREEN     
The Function of Libraries and Schools in
Education
WILLIAM T. HARRIS     
Promoting the Free Library Movement
GROVER CLEVELAND     
1891
Uniformity Versus Individuality in the
Arrangement and Administration of
Public Libraries
LEWIS H. STEINER     
University Libraries: An Address at the
Opening of the Sage Library of Cornell
University
DAVID COIT GILMAN     
1892
Presidential Address
WILLIAM ISAAC FLETCHER     
The Salaries of Women Librarians
MARY SALOME CUTLER     
The Library of the United States
AINSWORTH RAND SPOFFORD     
1893
Shelving Pamphlets in Libraries
WILLARD AUSTEN     
The Future of Local Libraries
JUSTIN WINSOR     
Books and Readers in Public Libraries
CALEB B. TILLINGHAST     
School Libraries
HORACE E. SCUDDER     
1894
Bookbindings of the Present
BRANDER MATTHEWS     
1896
Hear the Other Side
JOHN COTTON DANA     
The New Building for the Library of
Congress
BERNARD R. GREEN     
Public Documents
FRANCIS A. CRANDALL     
1897
The Public and Its Public Library
JOHN COTTON DANA     
Address of the President
WILLIAM HOWARD BRETT     
The Care of Special Collections
WILBERFORCE EAMES     
The Care of Manuscripts
HERBERT FRIEDENWALD     
College Libraries in the United States
ASHTON R. WILLARD     
The Moral and Literary Responsibility of
Librarians in Selecting Books for a
Public Library
RICHARD JONES     
1898
Free Public Libraries and the Community
HERBERT PUTNAM     
Special Training for College Librarians
GEORGE T. LITTLE     
1899
Ainsworth Rand Spofford to William
McKinley
AINSWORTH RAND SPOFFORD     
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Herbert Putnam to John Addison
Porter
HERBERT PUTNAM     
The Bookbinding of American
Publishers
ELLEN D. BISCOE     
Letter of Resignation
MELVIL DEWEY     
1900
The Library of Congress
HERBERT PUTNAM     
Azariah Smith Root to Askel G. S.
Josephson
AZARIAH SMITH ROOT     
Ten Years of American Library Progress:
Address of the President
REUBEN GOLD THWAITES     
Summer Vacation Cards
SAM WALTER FOSS     
The Qualifications of a Librarian
AINSWORTH RAND SPOFFORD     
1901
Open Shelves and Public Morals
ISABEL ELY LORD     
Collection Development and the Best
Books
CHARLES AMMI CUTTER     
Herbert Putnam to Theodore Roosevelt
HERBERT PUTNAM     
Timeline: 1860-1902     
Appendix A: Presidents of the American Library Association, 1876-1902     
Appendix B: Locations and Attendance of the American Library Association Conference, 1876-1902     
For Further Reading     
Index