The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-11
ARRIVAL OF
BOOK MEN.
The Association Ready for Its
Annual Meeting.
The Convention Will Last One Week-Prog
ress Of Subjects to Be Discussed
and Entertainment

J. Vance Cheney, Librarian of the Free
Public Library, and A. E. Whitaker of the
Mercantile Library, left San Francisco yes
terday morning for Sacramento for the pur-
pose of meeting the delegates of the Ameri =
can Library Association who had stopped
over at the State capital to view its sights
prior to their arrival here to attend the thir-
teenth general meeting of the association.
The entire party, numbering some fifty
persons, arrived in the city last evening and
was escorted to the Palace Hotel, where ac-
cOmmodations had been previously secured.
The general headquarters will be in the la
dies reception parlors on the ground floor,
while Room 1856, on the first floor, will be
used for the headquarters of the local Ex-
ecutiye Committee.
An extensive, interesting and varied pro-
gramme has been arranged for the enter
tainment OF the visitors, while the addresses
and papers that will be heard during the busi-
ness sessions of the association Will be interest,
ing not only to the librarians but TO the general
public who are invited TO attend.
HOW THE DAYS WILL BE SPENT.
To-day will be spent by the visitors In rest and
recuperatlOn from their long journey. TOmOr.
row morning vtslt .will be made TO ~, me S GIN
tertained by Mr.. Sutro. The afternoon Will be
occupied with business session, which will con-
Sst OF tne reports OF the OIlceTS ana committees
of the association. The evening will be devoted
TO a reception in the parl0rs Of tho Palace HOTEL
The addresses OF welcome Will be delivered by
w. II. l.. Barnes and the response by S. SWEET
Green, President of the association, who will be
followed By j. Vance Cheney With poem on the
occasion.
bay Oh the 1iburon in the morning, u usiBess
session In The afternoon and popular session
In the evening. Wednesday-Busuess session
during tile morning hours, visit 10 Palo ALTO In
the afternoon and to the Leland Stanford Jr.
University, TO close with a reception rendered by
Senator aud Mrs Stanford. Another business
session will be held during the evening. Thurs
day-The morning Will lie devoted 10 Il business
session; afternoon, visit 10 Berkeley, Oakland
and Piedmont, with a reception and supper In
the rooms of the Starr King Fraternity and
business session at the same place durlug the
evening.
Friday morning beginning at 10 o'clock, a
business session viii be held until late In the af
ternOon. At night there will be a banquet at the
Palace Hotel. Saturday Will be devoted 10 an
excursion TO Monterey and Santa Crus, where
the various points Of interest will be visited.
reception will be held In the Big Tree Groves
and luncheon spread.
SUBJECTS UNDER DISCUSSION.
The subjects 10 be heard and discussed during
the meeting are: Binding aud Blnderies in LII
braries"; Home Libraries The Value OF
Libraries TO Communities; "lmpOrtance of
Suitable Buildings aud Appliances; Element
ary Library Architecture; THE Recassltica-
lion OF Il 10000 Volume Library-How IL Was
Done Without Closing the Library or Stopping
the Circulation; Use and Exchange of Library
Books IN Shops and Schools; Library Legisla-
tom; Contagious Diseases aud Their Dissem-
ination Through the Use OF Library Books;
impressions ON Foreign Libraries"; state Ii
brary Associations; "Boots and Libraries and
Their Treatment Fifty Years Ago"
Among those who viii be heard are: ID. V. r.
Johnston OF the New York State Library at AL
bany; John NJ. Glenn Of New Mercantile Library
at Baltimore Md; Charles c. Sou!e of tile Tub
lie Library at BrooKline, Mass; William +.
Poole Of the Newberry Library at Chicago;
CHARLES A. Gutter OF the Boston AtheuRum; X.
A. Linderfelt of the Milwaukee Public Library;
Henry M. Ctley Of the Detroit Public Library;
S. SWEET Green of the Worcester (Mass.) Free
Public Library and President OF The association;
ThOIyald SolOeIg, late Assistant Librarian at
Washington, ID. g.; w. l. Fletcher of The AM
herst College Library; Miss Mary S. Cutler OF
the Library School at Albany, n. y: Miss HAr-
riet Green OF the Boston Atlieneum, aud Henry
Barnard, late United States Commissioner of
EducaI ion.
The following members OF the party have ar.
rived and are now al tue Palace:
VISITING LIBRARIANS.
SIS. Green. Worcester, Mass; w. T. Poole,
Chicago; X. X. Browner, New York; c. q. SOue,
Boston; William Goodwin, Philadelphia; w. II.
Boston; J. II. Bean and Miss NJ. A. Bean, Brook
line, Mass; Miss &. NJ. Hewins, Hartford Conn;
Daniel Beckwith aud Miss Julia Lippett, Provi-
dence; g. 6: E: Siicseri, New York 3p H. +. jerks
Mass; Miss Alice b. Crook, Miss ID. X. Sher-
man and Miss L. A. Taft, YonSers, n. Y. Miss l..
s. Cotton and Miss E. c. Marble. Florence, Mass;
Miss Ii. b. Prescott, Miss E. g. Harris and Miss
Anna Mitchell, Woonsoeket, II. l.; Nus. NJ. +.
Ahearn, Indianapolis; IL. II. Cook and +. Ii.
Held, Chicago. H.; DR.. Z. j. Nolan, Philadel-
phia; G. X. Dudley and Miss L. A. Dexter, Dem
yer; L. B. Gilmore, Mrs. L. S. Gilmore and H. NJ.
Uthy Detroit; Miss NJ. w. PIummer, Brooklyn;
A. W. Whlpley, Cneinnati Ohio; Miss Jessie
Allen, Omaha; f. b. Hill. Newark n. j.. DR..
q. L. Wise, Chicago; J. G. Damn, Denver; Mrs.
II. F. Bender. New York; j. /. McWllliams,
Philadelphia.