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the same winter, and this was probably
the BEGINNING OF such Legislation In any
and towns, claiming the same permis-
sion, the law was made general. The
interest in libraries excited throughout
England by a Parliamentary. investiga-
ton was perhaps the immediate cause
of similar legislation In that country;
hut the leaders of the movement there
confessed that the idea came to them
British COMPLIMENTS.
The British Parliamentary Investigat-
port which says hat "our younger
brethren, the people. of the United States
of America, have already anticipated us
appears that in the United States there
are above 100 such institutions; of these
q large proportion are entirely open to
I'm 1853" continued Mr.. Cole, $50 great
had become the interest in the public
Library, question. that a library
was called. 1t met in New York City
and was attended by many active IL
brarians, whose names ave since be-
bers. of our profession.
THE next year qS54) saw hte. opening
March and I'd of May, respectively, a
library which, on the first day of the
present month, has opened it's doors to
beautiful library buildings in the world.
RAPIDITY OF THE GROWTH OF THE
IDEA.
according to Mr.. ". J. r Rh ssss, T there,
we're 1853 libraries described as state.
City or Township Libraries, With rare
public, and many We're accessible to
borrowers. One hundred and eleven of
these Libraries contained IT, rs volumes.
The returns showed for the same year
3I6 proprietary libraries, with an aggre-
gate of l :2S5, 075 volumes. So rapidly had
the free library idea prevailed that these
libraries contained; within. a decade af-
ter its origin. nearly two-thirds as man
volumes as did the proprietary libraries
which had been in existence from the
time of the one founded by Benjamin
Franklin in this city.
the twenty-three years following. the con-
partly as a. result of its work, and the
series Of events which led up o 1T, more
than 1000 libraries were established in
vancement made in library management,
administration and photography. They
We're years Of hard, quiet, steady work.
in the second great awakening Of library
interest"
,CATALoGUING SYSTEM.
Free Library, Mr.. Cole enters at length
into the work of the State bureaus and
he Interchange, system between these
ca~taloguing. This he illustrates by say
"Thi work was rendered especially
full and complete in the case of cur
rent publications, by avs which had
been passed by Congress requiring ev-
cry printer n publisher, either private
or public, to forward to MS State Bureau
an advanced copy of every work for
official cataloguing and classification.
After this was done and the work re-
ported back to him, the publisher was
compelled to issue all necessary cards,
printed according to fixed rules, upon
standard sized cards, which must be
furnished to the. purchaser of the work.
old or out-of-the-Way books acquired
by libraries that had not been previous
~ catalogued by the Bureau, were sent
in small packages by mail to the Bureau
been passed by the transportation Of
books to or between libraries at the rate
of one cent a pound. AS soon as the
Bureau had catalogued the work, books
and cards Were returned to the library
In the same manner as they had been
sent.
1.-THE saving effected by this method.
over the old and a~ntiquated ones in
vogue a century age, Is simply en-
ormous.
All catalogues of libraries n biblio-
graphies are now printed by the State
Bureaus in editions to suit the needs of
the libraries asking for them and are
supplied at actual cost. Copies of such
catalogues are by law obliged to be sent
to every other library in the State and
70 the National Bureau, as we'll as to
those Of other States. BY this method
each library has a complete set Of all
its patrons can easily learn where in
the State any given work is tn he done -.