Librarianship in the Gilded Age: An Anthology of Writings, 1868- 1901

Contents: 

• Harvard College Library / Charles Ammi Cutter --
• American library journal / Melvil Dewey --
• Interlibrary loans / Samuel Swett Green --
• Publishers' slips for librarians / Charles A. Nelson --
• The work of librarians / John Fiske --
• The American Library Association / Melvil Dewey --
• The profession / Melvil Dewey -- C
• ommunication letter / Melvil Dewey --
• Classification / Josephus N. Larned --
• Progress of library architecture / William Frederick Poole --
• Selecting and training library assistants / James L. Whitney --
• Report on the reading of the young / Mary A. Bean --
• The work of the nineteenth-century librarian for the librarian of the twentieth century / Richard Rogers Bowker --
• The free public library in the United States : evolution and function / Moses Coit Tyler --
• The young writer's use of a library / William E. Foster --
• Report of librarian on the Enoch Pratt Free Library to the board of trustees / Lewis H. Steiner --
• Report of the state librarian to the New Hampshire Legislature / William H. Kimball --
• Melvil Dewey to Whitelaw Reid / Melvil Dewey --
• Library philanthropy / Andrew Carnegie --
• Are public libraries public blessings? / James M. Hubbard --
• Theodore Roosevelt to George H. Putnam / Theodore Roosevelt --
• Being a librarian / Ernest C. Richardson --
• Library work / William Frederick Poole --
• Mary Abbie Bean to Charles Evans / Mary Abbie Bean --
• Duties of trustees and their relations to librarians / Samuel Swett Green --
• The function of libraries and schools in education / William T. Harris --
• Promoting the free library movement / Grover Cleveland --
• Uniformity versus individuality in the arrangement and administration of public libraries / Lewis H. Steiner --
• University libraries : an address at the opening of the Sage Library of Cornell University / David Coit Gilman --
• Presidential address / William Isaac Fletcher --
• Salaries of women librarians / Mary Salome Cutler --
• The library of the United States / Ainsworth Rand Spofford --
• Shelving pamphlets in libraries / Willard Austen --
• Future of local libraries / Justin Winsor --
• Books and readers in public libraries / Caleb B. Tillinghast --
• School libraries / Horace E. Scudder --
• Bookbindings of the present / Brander Matthews --
• Hear the other side / John Cotton Dana --
• The new building for the Library of Congress / Bernard R. Green --
• Public documents / Francis A. Crandall --
• The public and its public library / John Cotton Dana --
• Address of the president / William Howard Brett --
• The care of special collections / Wilberforce Eames --
• The care of manuscripts / Herbert Friedenwald --
• College libraries in the United States / Ashton R. Willard --
• Moral and literary responsibility of librarians in selecting books for a public library / Richard Jones --
• Free public libraries and the community / Herbert Putnam --
• Special training for college librarians / George T. Little --
• Ainsworth Rand Spofford to William McKinley / Ainsworth Rand Spofford --
• Herbert Putnam to John Addison Porter / Herbert Putnam --
• Bookbinding of American publishers / Ellen D. Biscoe --
• Letter of resignation / Melvil Dewey --
• The Library of Congress / Herbert Putnam --
• Azariah Smith Root to Askel G.S. Josephson / Azariah Smith Root --
• Years of American library progress : address of the president / Reuben Gold Thwaites --
• Summer vacation cards / Sam Walter Foss --
• Qualifications of a librarian / Ainsworth Rand Spofford --
• Open shelves and public morals / Isabel Ely Lord --
• Collection development and best books / Charles Ammi Cutter --
• Herbert Putnam to Theodore Roosevelt / Herbert Putnam -- Timeline, 1860-1902.