Classified List of Current Periodicals: a guide to the selection of magazine literature. L.A. Series, 8. 1906. Manual of Practical Bibliography. Routledge. Subject Classification. 1906, Libraco. Second edition, 1914, Grafton. 1907. The Small Library: a guide to the collection and care of books. Routledge. 1909. Guide to Librarianship: reading lists, methods of study, etc. Grafton. (Supersedes the “Annotated Syllabus.”) 1912. Library Classification and Cataloguing. Grafton. (Incorporates much of the matter in the “Manual of Library Classification” in revised form.) 1913. A British Library Itinerary. Grafton. WORKS WRITTEN IN COLLABORATION 1897. _With_ Stratton, S. S. British Musical Biography: a dictionary of musical artists, authors and composers born in Britain and its Colonies. Birmingham: Stratton. 1901. _With_ Moffat, Alfred. Characteristic Songs and Dances of all Nations. 1915. Stewart, J. D., _and Others_. Open Access Libraries: their planning, equipment and organization. With Introduction by J. D. Brown. Grafton. (This work was planned by Brown.) INTRODUCTION LIBRARIANSHIP IN GREAT BRITAIN. THE PRESENT SCOPE OF THE LIBRARY PROFESSION. METHODS OF THIS BOOK I. Library economy is a term covering every branch of work concerned with libraries; and libraries may be defined in a phrase as institutions devoted to the collecting, conserving and exploiting of literature. Originally the prevalent character of libraries was that of conserving rather than exploiting institutions, and much of the technical equipment of the modern librarian has come into being as a result of their progress from their original “museum” to their present “workshop” character. Our subject, then, covers the founding, organizing, administration and routine of libraries. It is one of much wider compass than is commonly supposed. Whatever may have been the original intention, for example, of the pioneers of the municipal public library movement, and there are still many who seem to regard that movement as a counter-attraction to the seductions of the saloon bar and similar places of recreation, the present public library is a many-sided, active civic institution, making its appeal to all classes of the community as a centre of education, culture and recreation, with a trained service to direct it. Nearly every other type of library also is most concerned with the best means of attracting people to make use of literature, and is an active force in the community rather than a passive one.