The record-union., 1891-10-10
THE CIFT'S GUESTS.
To-Day's Reception Of the Visiting
Librarians.
10 be Met at Truckee This Morning
Programme of the Annual Ses-
sion at San Francisco.

~ASSOCitN"iOh, SOl1Ie u1Iy III nuInDer, Will
arrive here at 1:15 o'clock this afternoon,
en- route to attend the annual session Of
The association to be held in San Fran
cisco, commencing on Monday next.
The party will be met at Truckee this
morning by subcommittee of the Citi-
Zens' Committee appointed to receive and
entertain them, and escorted to this city.
The committee, consisting Of State Lii
0rarian Perkins, ex-State Librarians
Cravens and Wallis, and Messrs. w. G.
FITCH, b. G. Atkinson and j. A. Wood
son, left here yesterday on the noon train
Tor Truckee. In addition to the welcome
which they will tender the visitors. will
De supply of choice fruits from the
orchards of this vicinity.
The party will be received at the depot
Dy committee of citizens who will, un-
der the Marshalship of George G. Nc
Mullen, escort them about the city in car
riages. Visits will be paid to the Art
Gallery and museum (where an address
of welcome will be delivered by the
President of the Museum Association,
The State Capitol, and other points of in
rerest. AT the Capitol-the Governor be-
ing notwithstanding of State Waite will
receive the city's guests in the Senate
Chamber, which will be tastefully decor
ated for.the occasion.
The members of the San Francisco Re-
ception Committee, who are to meet the
visitors here and escort them to the me-
lropolis, will also be guests of the city
during their stay, and will accompany
the party about the city. They and the
librarians will leave for San Francisco at
P. NJ.
THE ANNUAL SESSION.
Following is the programme of exer-
CiseS and order of business prepared for
iT1S Go
Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock-An-
nouncements. Consideration of the re-
port of the proceedings of the
last meeting as printed. Reports
OF Secretary, Treasurer, Committees
of the Executive Board, STANDING.
Finance, Cooperation, Library and
School, Public Documents, Endowment,
Trustees of the Permanent Fund Conn
nittee on the Revision of the Constitu-
uon, Committee on the Exhibition of the
american Library Association at the
Worlds Columbian Exposition.
Announcement of Committees on Re-
CeptiOn and Resolutions.
Reports on Aids and Guides for Visit
ors, by William G. Lane, Assistant
Librarian ofthe Harvard College Library.
Report on Gifts and Bequests, Miss c.
NJ. Hewins, Librarian of the Hartford
Library, Hartford. Conn.
Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock-Re-
ception to the members of the associa-
ton. Address, General w. II. l.. Barnes
OF San Francisco; reply, by the President
OF the American Library Association;
poem, by John Vance Cheney, Librarian
OF the Free Public Library, San Fran
cisco.
Tuesday afternoon at o'clock-Presi-
dents address; report on Binding and
-3inderies in Libraries," by ID. Y. r.
Johnston, Sub-Librarian OF the State Lii
brary, Albany, n. Y.
Home Libraries" !" by John NJ. Glenn
Manager and Treasurer of the New Mer-
camille Library, Baltimore. Md.
tuesday evening at $50 o'clOck-Popu-
lar meeting. Addresses by California
speakers and visiting members of the Lii
brary Association, on the value of libra
lies TO communities, and the importance
Of providing them with good buildings
and other working facilities.
w Wednesday forenoon at $50 O'Clock
Elementary Library Architecture" by
Charles {. Soule, Trustee of the Public
Library, Brookline, Mass.
Consideration of the Subject of Lii
brary Buildings" by William T. Poole,
Librarian of the Newberry Library. Chi
cago; Charles A. Cutter, Librarian of the
Boston Athen@um; X. a. Linderlelt, Ii
brarIan OF the Public Library, Mil
Waukee, Wisconsin, and others.
How the re-classification and re-num-
herring 60,0G0 volumes was done in the
Detroit Public Library without closing
the library or stopping the circulation Of
books, by Henry NJ. Utley, Librarian of
the Public Library, Detroit, Mich
General questions and informal dis
cussiOn.
Wednesday evening at 7:3O o'clock
Libraries and Schools" by Samuel
SWEET Green. Librarian of the Free Pub
lie Library, Worcester, Mass.
Use and Exchange OF Library Books
IN the Schools and Shops of Cleveland.
o." by William II. Brett, Librarian Of
the Public Library, Cleveland, 0.
Discussion Of the subject.
Report on Library Legislation" by
Thorvald Solberg, late Assistant Ii
Washington, d. c.
The Best Library Legislation" by
William 1. Fletcher, Librarian of Am
herst College, Amherst, Mass.
Thursday forenoon at $3.50 o'clock
Access to the Shelves, by users OF Lii
braries."
Papers by Herbert Putnam. Librarian
oi the Public Library, Minneapolis. Min
nesota, and William Fl. Brett, Librarian
Gf the Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio
Discussion.
kive-minute talk on "a Prehistoric
Poole" by J. c. Rowell, Librarian of the
University of California.
Report on contagious diseases and their
dissemination through the use of library
looks. by Gardner NJ. Jones, Librarian
Of the Public Library, Salem, Mass.
Exhibition of blanks ard plans.
Thursday evening at 7:30 O'Clock lin
rooms of Starr King Fraternity, Oakland.)
Public support Of public libraries, with
particular reference to the treatment of
the subject in "a Plea for LIBERTY, by
William +. Foster, Librarian Of the Pub
l.c Library, Providence, X. 1. Discus
sion.
Impressions in foreign libraries and
notes on the recent meeting of the Lii
Er1ry Association of the United King
com, by Miss Mary $. Cutler, Vice Di-
rector Of the Library School, Albany,
J.. y.
State Library Association. by Charles
Il. Cutter and Miss Harriet L. Green of
the Boston Atheneum.
General questions and informal discus
sion.
Friday forenoon, at 10 o'clock-Elec-
ton of officers; selection of time and
place of the next meeting.
Unfinished business.
Should uniformity mark the arrange
Inent and administration of our public
libraries, or should individuality be al
lowed to assert itself in each? BY Lewis
il. Steiner, Librarian of the Enoch Pratt
Tree Library, Baltimore, Md.
Five-minute talk on methods of cata-
loguing the United States public docu-
ments and the periodicals, by John Vance
Cheney, Librarian of the Free Public Lii
brary, San Francisco.
y word on card and printed catalogues
from the students standpoint, by Paul
Leicester Ford, editor of the Library
Journal.
Economical, educational and selected
catalogues, by Willis X. StetSon, Libra
Iian of the Free Public Library, New
Haven, Conn.
Books and libraries and their treatment