Report of Executive Board 192 Report of Council 195 Report of resolutions committee 201 Memorial to Frederick Morgan Crunden 203 Report of tellers of election 204 Social side of the conference R. G. Thwaites 205 Day in Toronto M. E. Ahern 208 Day in Montreal Carl B. Roden 209 Post-conference trip Julia Ideson 211 Sections: Agricultural libraries 213 Catalog 227 Children's librarians' 247 College and reference 268 Professional training 295 Trustees' 302 Public documents round table 307 Affiliated organizations: American association of law libraries 312 League of library commissions 316 Special libraries association 329 Attendance summaries 354 Attendance register 355 Index 367 Note: The minutes of the National association of state libraries have not been received in time to be included in this volume. They will be separately printed by that association. OTTAWA CONFERENCE JUNE 26-JULY 2, 1912 PRELIMINARY SESSION (Wednesday evening, June 26, 1912, Russell Theatre) The association convened in a preliminary session on Wednesday evening, June 26, with Dr. James W. Robertson, C. M. G., chairman of the Canadian royal commission on industrial training and technical education, presiding as acting chairman of the Ottawa local committee. Hon. George H. Perley, acting prime minister of Canada, was introduced and welcomed the association to Canada on behalf of the Dominion government. The speaker called attention to the hundred years of peace between the two countries and the plans being formulated for celebrating it, and said that international conferences such as this were the best guarantees of peace; that the more we know of each other the less liable we were to get into trouble.