Book selection, 17, 125; Raising standard of, 141 Book-taught Bilkins, 106 Books, Distribution of, 30; Love of, 97; Waste of, 163; Influence of locality on stock of, 411 Booksellers’ League (N.Y.), 85 Boston Public Library, 186 Boston Transcript, 419 Bowdoin College library, 394 Branch dep’t., Jurisdiction of, 233 Branch libraries, 93, 421; Gifts of sites, 178 Brooklyn Public Library, 12; Scheme of service, 189 Bryan, William J., 270 Buildings, Future, 81; Standardization of, 415 Bulletins, Picture, 31, 402 Business man’s library, 269 Ca’Canny policy, 155 Carlyle, Thomas, quoted, 64 Carnegie, Andrew, Gifts of, 90; quoted, 105 Carnegie Committee, Requirements of, criticized, 417 Cash-registers, 11 Cataloguing, Local modifications of, 419 Catholics and the library, 300 Censor, Librarian as a, 121 Center, Definition of, 111; Functions of, 114 Chance, Definition of, 374 Charging systems, 420 Chestnut Hill Branch, Phila., 416 Children, Work with, 85 Children’s department, Jurisdiction of, 233 Christian Scientists and the library, 301 Church and library, 299 Churches, Duplication of, 344 Circulation, Statistics of, 75; At long range, 221 Civic League, St. Louis, 405 Civil Service Commission, N.Y., 190 Civil Service in libraries, 183 Class-percentages, Comparison of, 148 Classification of work, 222 Clippings, 399 Closed-shelf issue, 221 Commercial system in libraries, 160 Conflicts of jurisdiction, 231, 351 Connecticut State Library, 415 Contract system, 94 Cost of libraries, 85 Cyclopedia, Library as a, 146 Dana, John C., quoted, 261, 317 Decameron, criticized, 137 Delivery service, Frequent, 228 Delivery station work, 221 Detroit branches, 416 Distributer, Library as a, 29 Dont’s, for book-selectors, 150 Downtown branch, 228 Drudgery, 102 Duns on postal cards, 13 Duplication, Sin of, 341 Education, 257; Through libraries, 59, 87; University of, 111 Educational center, Library as, 111 Educational results, 52 Efficiency records, 199; quoted, 385 Eliot, Charles W., quoted, 80 Envelopes for filing, 400 Ephemeral books, 34, 89, 104 Examinations, 186 Exclusion of books, Grounds for, 122; Of readers, 242 Exhibits in a library, 397 Expenditures, Division of, 418 Experiments, 370, 389 Expert advisers for book-selection, 125, 145 Experts, Control by, 40, 49 Exploitation of libraries, 321 Extension of library service, 365 Falsity in books, 123 Feed-wires, Compared with books, 168 Fiction, Appraisal of, 23; Selection of, 147 Finance, 51; Statistics of, 73 Fines, 4 Forbes Library, 419 Force, Fields of, 115 Forecasts, 310 Foreign books, 133 Formalism in libraries, 290, 320 French ideas of propriety, 132 Genius, Definitions of, 64 Gerould, Mrs., quoted, 291 Gifts, Undesirable, 173 Gil Bias, criticized, 137 Glennon, John J., 274 Godard, George, 415 Grades in the staff, 186 Grant, Ulysses S., Life of, 380 Greenwich Village, New York
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