For Members of the Council (for five years) F. K. Walter, Vice-Director, New York State Library 145 Margaret Mann, Chief Cataloger, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh 144 W. W. Bishop, Supt. of Reading Room, Library of Congress 147 E. R. Perry, Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library 141 Caroline Burnite, Director of Children's Work, Cleveland Public Library 146 For Trustee of Endowment Fund (for three years) W. C. Kimball, Chairman, New Jersey Public Library Commission, Trenton, N. J. 146 JOHN F. PHELAN LLOYD W. JOSSELYN Tellers of Election. The PRESIDENT: I have had this beautiful gavel but a very little while, but it nevertheless gives me great pleasure to transfer it. Do you remember that Miss Kelso said that we should be able to produce evidence in the way of results for the value of our work? I am going to make a very distinguished, a very large claim: I think you owe the presence of the president-elect not here only but in the profession to the interest which was originally aroused in his mind in the Milwaukee public library. Mr. Legler, I have great pleasure in presenting the gavel for the meeting of 1913 to you as president-elect and in asking you to take charge for the remainder of this meeting. The PRESIDENT-ELECT: Madam President, Members of the American Library Association,--For the personal good-will which you have expressed, I give to you my thanks. In so far as your action attests confidence, it must be received as a call to service, and--if I may be so presumptuous as to represent in what I say those who have been grouped by you for the ensuing year into one official family--in that spirit we receive this gavel, not as a symbol of authority but of service. Without venturing upon the uncharted sea of prophecy, we shall endeavor to interpret in terms of action those mental images which have been crystallized for us by the strong, virile papers, fortified by the abounding interest and the contagious enthusiasm of all participants in this conference. The modern library movement, recent as has been its inception, has progressed through two strongly marked stages, and is entering upon a third. The first era was that of pioneering, the sowing of seed. The second may perhaps be termed the era of experimentation, out of which grew a few mistakes and some splendid results. But we have entered upon a third era, the period of constructive work, of careful patient planning, of building enduringly. If a year hence, when we yield into other hands the high commission which you have entrusted to us, we shall be able to say that some advancement has been made, we shall be proud and happy; and we hope that your work, which, of course, must be our work, will yield some realization of our high hopes and aims and aspirations.