Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Editor's Preface
  • Introduction
  • The Essays
  • Germantown Quakers Check the Spread of Novel Reading
  • A Librarian's Work
  • Boston Medical Library Dedicatory Address
  • Brief item in The Nation on copyright in Germany
  • The Father of the American Libraries
  • Women in Libraries: How They are Handicapped
  • Columbia Library School
  • Proceedings of the Fourteenth American Library Association Conference, Lakewood: The Woman's Meeting
  • Librarianship as a Profession for Women
  • Improper Books
  • Hear the Other Side
  • the 1896 ALA Presidential AddressThe Telegraph in the Library
  • Library Cooperation
  • On George Iles' plea for a headquarters for ALA
  • Wild Flower Show at the Free Library
  • The Library: Its Past and Future
  • The Library as Social Centre
  • Phones Installed in Free Library
  • Letter to the Editor of The Nation on “The librarian who reads is deadâ€?
  • The Heyday of Librarians
  • Note on 1913 ALA Annual Conference in The Dial
  • The Region of the Unromantic
  • First Aid to the Enquiring Reader
  • Some Old- Time Old- World Librarians
  • The People's Share in the Public LibraryWomen Assistants and the War
  • How Far Should the Library Aid the Peace Movement and Similar Propaganda?
  • The Library's Primary Duty
  • Some Tendencies of American Thought
  • Librarianship: A Profession
  • The Larger Publicity of the Library
  • Human Interest in the Public Library
  • Great Reasons to Go to the New SF Main Library
  • Libraries Should Provide for the Reader Who Smokes
  • Ankles of Library Girls Seized as They Stack Books
  • Copyright and the Publishers: A Review of Thirty Years (and Reply)