Chapter I: Front Matter

LIBRARY TRACT, No. 10

Revised Edition of Tract No. 1

WHY DO WE NEED A PUBLIC LIBRARY?

MATERIAL FOR A LIBRARY CAMPAIGN

Compiled by CHALMERS HADLEY Sec'y American Library Association

AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION PUBLISHING BOARD 1 WASHINGTON STREET, CHICAGO 1910

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LIBRARY TRACT, No. 10

Revised Edition of Tract No. 1

WHY DO WE NEED A PUBLIC LIBRARY?

MATERIAL FOR A LIBRARY CAMPAIGN

Compiled by CHALMERS HADLEY Sec'y American Library Association

AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION PUBLISHING BOARD 1 WASHINGTON STREET, CHICAGO 1910

Compiled from articles and addresses by

Sir Walter Besant 7

E. A. Birge, dean University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 18

William J. Bryan 38

John P. Buckley 32

Waller Irene Bullock, chief loan librarian Carnegie
Library, Pittsburg, Pa. 43

James H. Canfield, late librarian Columbia University
Library, New York 40

Andrew Carnegie 25, 41

Winston Churchill 16

Frederick M. Crunden, ex-librarian Public Library,
St. Louis, Mo. 4, 28, 47

J. C. Dana, librarian Free Public Library,
Newark, N. J. 10, 12, 37, 42

Melvil Dewey, ex-director N. Y. State Library, Albany 21

William R. Eastman, chief Division of Educational
Extension, State Library, Albany, N. Y. 22, 45

Mrs. S. C. Fairchild, ex-vice director New York State
Library School, Albany, N. Y. 10

W. I. Fletcher, librarian Amherst College Library,
Amherst, Mass. 6

W. E. Foster, librarian Public Library, Providence, R. I. 44

Chalmers Hadley, secretary American Library Association,
Chicago, Ill. 3, 29

Joseph Le Roy Harrison, librarian Providence Athenaeum,
Providence, R. I. 27

Caroline M. Hewins, librarian Public Library, Hartford,
Conn. 5

F. A. Hutchins, University Extension Department,
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 13, 19, 26, 36

J. N. Larned, ex-librarian Public Library, Buffalo,
N. Y. 20, 22, 34

Henry E. Legler, librarian Public Library, Chicago,
Ill. 17, 30

James Russell Lowell 18

William McKinley 30

Theodore Roosevelt 37