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    188 Fleet Street : September 15, 1885.

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    188 Fleet Street : September 15, 1885.

    188 Fleet Street : September 15 , 1885 .

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    it the should Encyclopedia ¦ " be stated Britannica . The — Americana - " " ••¦¦ ¦ " ^ ' . . luaiuj

    , were the first in the field of organisation 1853 j general in this respect meeting aaicc : for of oi there , as early

    as a convened . o . w ^ , , a u , by gcii Professor ^ x Jewett uiiig and librarian n orarians Mr . W * y » j « L Poole , the latter being the keeper of the

    Chicago /~ H 1 ^ _ Free T 71 Library T * 1 , and the . •• ori ginator of the useful ' Index to Periodical Literature 7

    — - — vv ^ uvm ^' The American Library Association , however was was not not properi properly y constituted uoiistiLULea until until the the xr *» l

    1876 . In the following year a conference year of librarians was held in Londonthe president

    , being Mr . J . Winter Jones . This conference was attended by librarians from many parts of

    the world , and in its published transactions may be found matter of an exceedingly valuable

    character relating to the construction and management of libraries . The forming of the

    Library Association of the United Kingdom however , , was the princi -mm pal —w result of the — ...

    meeting . Since then annual meetings of the

    Association have been h < -ld in different towns throug ^— ' hout the country ¦¦*¦ , and already ^/ the

    volumes containing the reports of the proceedings at these meetings will be found to

    contain a vast store of information and instruction as well as suggestions for

    improvement in connection with the care of books . Nearly all the chief librarians of the countryv

    are now attached to the Association , and on every % / hand , in public a . and private j _ libraries ,

    evidences may be found of the adoption of plans brought forward at its meetings .

    If we may be permitted to single out a particular advantage accruing to the work of the

    association , it is the successful contradiction oi the ancient notion that anyone scan become a

    librarian . Formerly the ranks of the profession were too often recruited from among

    a class of individuals whose careers had proved haps failures inactive in other life departments Indeedan c of « A & incapacity ^ active ^^ , or per for

    -JL JLCU | . / lsJ AlACVUUii » * - * Xli . V * . -A- A X V- » . ^/ V- * * - * awv . ^ other work was frequently advanced , as a valid reason wha man lUll should tM £ lfor j . ¦ a " position

    it-OjOUlJ . VVJ . JJT y C * ^ OIJIVUXU app JjJM . y v ^» - A - as superintendent or assistant in a library . JN "NT ow nw . however linwfivfir . thp the > case fin , sfl is is altered altered . . Throug imu" » " .

    the e , fforts of , the Association the unhealthy obstacle to progress has been removed , and we the organised advance tlUailV of a useful m *

    OCO see U 1 J . O ( . U ^ rUlJLiSDU V ; O KJi . »« — , fluential , and , we may almost say , a new profession The librarian . of public KA KJXt library x * . * J * ' *~~ is one ot .

    - JLJ . J . O XLUJLtXl . XiXll KJJ . a Cb ^ J -Kj - j - the chief educators of the people . If properly is pursued enabled , his to mission counsel is and a noble direct one those , as who fountains

    are athirst and know not the true of sperity knowledge will continue . We therefore to follow hope the operation that pro s - lw

    of the Library Association . It is a ^ Z ^ ; "" ^^

    HILE the Aberdeen meeting of the British WAssociation is attracting universal attentiona less imposing but nevertheless a highly

    , important body has begun its conferences in the extreme south-west of the country . To-day

    the Library Association of the United Kingdom ; meets at Plymouth under the presidency of

    Mr . James , the Mayor of the town . The meeting will last for four days . Its programme Jfc

    1 , ^ W . *— ' shows that the Association has very wisely refrained from following the dangerous

    example of other societies which , for discussion , * have allowed the introduction of subject matter

    foreign to their declared purposes . Judging from the papers . & . JU that are announced for reading ¦»—¦ ,

    the librarians seem to adhere pretty closely to the 1 original intention which prompted them

    to to unite unite all all persons nersons engaged en orated or or interested interested in in library work , for the purpose of promoting tlie best possible administration of libraries . ' The

    encouragement of bibliographical research was likewise one of the main objects of the union .

    During the course of this meeting the latter subject will receive important contributions in

    the papers c Proposals for a Bibliography of National History / by Mr . H . H . Tedder

    ( Secretary of the Association ) ; and ' The Bibliography of Sir Walter Raleigh , ' by Dr .

    T . N . Brushfield . Some points in the practical par . A . t of a librarian ' s work will be submitted in

    * The Printing of Library Catalogues , ' by Mr . W . May ; * Classification , ' by Mr . W .

    Archer ; ' On Classification for Scientific and Medical Libraries , ' by Mr . J . B . Bailey ; and

    ' Science and Art : a Th ' eory of Classification , ' by Mr . J . Brownbill .

    m Accounts of various local libraries will be read , and some of the more notable of these

    libraries—such ns Saltram—will be visited . Connected with special institutions , the

    following papers arc promised , ' Our Town Library : its Success and Failures , ' by Mr , James Yates ;

    and ' The Alpine Club Library , ' by Professor F . Pollock . Contributions of more general

    interest will be ' Extension of the Free Library System to Rural Districts , ' by Mr . Silvanus

    Trevail ; * ' Free Libraries from a Bookseller ' s Point of View , ' by Mr . W . Downing ;

    ' Libraries for the Young , ' by Mr . J . P . Briscoe ; and ' Our Boys : what do they Read ? ' by

    Mr . W . H . K . Wright . The merciless title of Mr . W . Roberts' paper , 'Publishers'

    Subterfuges in the Eighteenth Century ' inclines us to anticipate some singular disclosures .

    At the present time it is interesting to recall some of the circumstances relating to

    01 the United formation King of dom the . Library The facts Association are clearl of y

    eefciorth in the luminous article on libraries in ; . « 3 M o j ;

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Sept. 15, 1885, page 874, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15091885/page/2/