America, travelling libraries, 156 American Library Association, 211 _Ancient Libraries_, 11 Andersonian Institute, Glasgow, 8 Antwerp, Institute of Commerce, 77 _Apparatus_, Library, 219 _Apprentice Classes_, America, 220 Archbishop Tenison’s Library, 12 Architecture, library, 219 _Assistants_, 212, 217-219 “Athenæum”, The, 181 Baillie’s Institution, Glasgow, 23 Bath, adoption of Library Act, 22 _Bibliography_, 131, 171, 220, 223, 225 Birkbeck, George, 8 Birkbeck College, 8 Birkenhead Public Library, 22, 64 Birmingham Commercial Library, 80 Birmingham, library rate, 27 Birmingham Public Libraries, reference library, 45, 48, 50 Bishopsgate Institute, reference library, 51 Blackburn, adoption of Library Act, 22 _Blind_, libraries for the, 91-95, 171 Board of Education, 208-209 Board of Education as central authority, 200-201 Bolton Public Library, 21, 80 Book issues, 25, 40, 41 _Book selection_, 34-36, 54, 97, 129-130, 179, 215, 223, 224, 228-235 _Book selection_ for children, 68, 70-72 _Book selection_, periodicals, 57, 59 _Book supply_, 41-43, 70, 105, 142 _Bookbinding_, 42, 180-181 _Bookbinding demonstrations_, 218-219 _Book-box system_, 138, 139, 141, 142, 144, 146, 149, 164, 165 _Books_, requirements of good, 72, 180-181, 227 Bootle Public Library, lectures, 101 _Borough councils_, 173 _Borrowers’ restrictions_, 40-41 Bradford Commercial Library, 80 _Braille system_, 93 _Branch libraries_, 37 Bright, John, 18, 21 Brighton, Local Act, 1850, 21 Brighton Public Library, 120 Bristol Commercial Library, 80, 81, 86, 85-87 Bristol Public Library, 11, 45, 50, 101 British Museum, 12, 13, 14, 170, 182 British Museum Library, 34, 54, 55, 195 Bromley Public Library, lectures, 101 Brotherton, Joseph, 13-19 Brougham, Lord, 1, 4, 9 Brown, James Duff, 54, 55 Buckinghamshire, village libraries, 135 _Bureaucracy_, dangers of, 7, 208, 222 Burslem, adoption of Library Act, 22 Bury, William, 11 _Business librarians_, courses for, 216 Camberwell Public Library, 22, 101 Cambridge, adoption of Library Act, 22 Canterbury, 16 Canterbury, adoption of Library Act, 22 Cardiff Public Libraries, 22, 45, 50, 89, 101 Cardiganshire Rural Library, 140 Carnegie, Andrew, 23, 25, 77 Carnegie Rural Library Scheme, 31, 139 Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, annual report, 140-141, 145-146 Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and Central Library for Students, 145-146, 190 Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and National Library for the Blind, 92-93 Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and rural libraries, 31, 139 Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, Scotland, 139-142 Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, and training in librarianship, 213 _Catalogues_, 39, 40, 171, 182, 226, 232 _Cataloguing_, 179, 218 _Central clearing house_, 170 Central Library for Students, 111, 170, 177, 188, 190