Full Description
The gilded age was a formative period in the development and extension of American libraries. Between 1868 and 1901, the field of librarianship saw many notable changes, including the founding of the American Library Association, the introduction of the Dewey decimal classification system, and the establishment of the pioneer library school at Columbia University, among other key developments. This book brings together the writings of foundational figures in Gilded Age librarianship, including Charles Ammi Cutter, Melvil Dewey, Andrew Carnegie and Richard Rogers Bowker. Featuring seminal works of library scholarship alongside previously unpublished letters and reprints of long forgotten journal articles, the book places each selection in chronological order and includes an introductory narrative for each entry.
Contents
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
