Library Association and school libraries, 13 Library Association, Subject-Index to Periodicals, 181 Library Association on technical libraries, 198-201 Library Association Education Committee, 211 _Library authorities_, 173, 174, 175 _Library authority_, parish council as, 137 _Library committees_, 28, 173, 175 _Library economy_, 213 _Library extension_, 96-134, 219, 224 _Library provision_, 136, 139 _Library rate_, 15, 18, 19, 26, 136, 137 _Library schools_, 211-220 _Library service_, 14, 32-95, 138 _Liberal education_, 217, 222 Lichfield, adoption of Library Act, 22 _Light literature_, _See_ Fiction Literary and Scientific Institutions, 33 Literary and Scientific Institutions Libraries, 12 _Literary history_, 228 Liverpool Commercial Library, 80 Liverpool Public Libraries, 16, 37, 45, 48, 50, 91, 100, 102 Liverpool, Special Act, 1852, 21 _Loan Collections to schools_, 122, 124-125, 133 _Local collections_, 51-52 Local Education Committee, 31 Local Education Committee as library authority, 201 Local Government Act, 1894, 27 _Local records_, 52 London, City of, 20, 22 London Education Committee, 127, 175, 192 _London libraries_, 22, 47-48 _London libraries_, lectures, 101 _London libraries_, reading rooms, 60 _London libraries_, reference libraries, 45, 49, 50 _London libraries_, special collections, 50-51 _London libraries_, statistics, 178 _London libraries_, and students, 195-196 London library, 34 London, Library Act, 1877, 24 London Mechanics’ Institution, 8 London School of Economics, 211-212, 225 London, University of, School of Librarianship, 213, 216, 218-219, 222 London, University of, University College, 191, 213 McKillop, John, supplemental library scheme, 191-197 _Magazine rooms_, 55 _Magazines_, _See_ periodicals Maidstone Public Library, 22, 101, 163 Manchester, 13, 15 Manchester College of Arts and Sciences, 8 Manchester Commercial Library, 80, 81 Manchester Commercial library, contents, 83-85 Manchester Commercial library, vertical file, 225 Manchester, library rate, 27 Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 8, 61 Manchester Public Libraries, 21, 38, 45, 48, 49, 101 _Maps_, 43, 52, 58, 82, 119 Marylebone, adoption of Library Act, 22 Massachusetts Agricultural College, 161 Massachusetts Free Library Commission, 185-6 _Mechanics’ Institutes_, 5-10, 26 _Mechanics’ Institute Libraries_, 5-10 Meredith, George, on fiction, 230 Metropolitan Association of Mechanics’ Institutions, 8 Middlesex, rural library scheme, 163-164 Ministry of Reconstruction, 30 Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 23 _Monastic libraries_, 11 _Motor service_, 38, 141, 146 _Museums_, 15-16 Museums Act, 1845, 15, 18 Museums and Gymnasiums Act, 1891, 27 _Music_, 43 National Art Library, South Kensington, 178 National Home-Reading Union, 112, 119