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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