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Library Ideals

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The essays argue for public libraries as instruments of civic education and social improvement, analyzing challenges posed by rapid urban growth and proposing practical measures for extension and accessibility. Topics include library outreach to children and rural populations through traveling libraries, strategies for funding and administration, and the relationship between print culture and public work. Combining administrative guidance with a reforming vision, the pieces emphasize democratic access to knowledge, systematic library extension, and the librarian's role in fostering informed citizenship.

[1] Address delivered on behalf League of Library Commissions, Asheville Conference A. L. A., May 27, 1907.

[2] George Eliot, "Middlemarch."

[3] Read before the New York Library Association at Haines Falls, Sept. 28, 1915.

[4] Painter. History of Education.

[5] One devotes thereto a column and a half of 1736 columns in the volume, and the other devotes 37 columns to the subject of the 1480 columns contained in one of the five volumes of the work.

[6] Library Journal.

[7] Lowe. Literature for Children.

[8] Nearing, Scott. The New Education.

[9] Hodgson, Elizabeth. The Adolescent's Prejudice Against the Classics. English Journal, Sept., 1915.

[10] President's address at Kaaterskill Conference, American Library Association, June, 1913.

[11] Extracts from a paper in the Educational Bi-monthly, April, 1910, entitled, "The Chicago Public Library and Co-operation with the Schools."

[12] Extracts from booklet, "Books for the People," 1908.

[13] The Municipality, Dec., 1905.


Transcriber's Notes:

Some spelling has been normalized.

Variations in hyphenation and accentuation were maintained.