Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-06-29
Assemble at Narragansett
Pier, Nearly 1900
in Number.
CARNEGIE GAVE LAST YEAR
More Than 100000 to
Fl! Libraries for Build
ing Purposes.

Narragansett Pier r. l., June %
The largest and probably most mpor-
tant annual conference Of the Amer-
can Library association ever held
opened mere today. II Is the twentieth
annual conference Of the organ.
ization. Last year the conference was
held in Portland, Ore, the year before
in St Louis. The association is ma
tional in character, and has about
800 members, who are Librarians and
their assistants, state library commits
sioners, trustees of libraries AMI men
and women who are interested in lib
rary work.
For the year 1905, Andrew Car
negie's gifts to libraries in the Unit
ed States numbered 21l, and amount
ed to over $4,000 900. Gifts to IL
braries for purposes other than the
purchase of books, including the Car
negie gifts, were about S5,Q00,000.
At the opening session today the
delegates were welcomed by Lieuten-
ant Governor Frederick w. Jackson
and Roland C. Hazard. Among those
in attendance are f. F. Hill, president
Brooklyn Public Library; eXPresi-
dent Richardson, Princeton Library;
L
gress; Tenry h. Tedder, London; A.
L. Bostwick, New York Public Lib
rary; w. |. Fletcher, Amherst; II. E.
Legler, Library Commissioner Wis
consin; Jmes II. Garfield Columbia
University; John Pendleton Kennedy,
State Librarian, Virginia; w. c. Kim
ball, Public Library Commissioner,
New Jersey; w. T. Porter, Cincin-
natl; F, E. J. Taggart, San Francisco;
c. f. Lummis, public library, Los An
geles; H. c. Buchanan, State Library
New Jersey; j. c. Dana, Newark; w,
H. Brett, Cleveland, and David \
Boody, Brooklyn.
Among the women who are in at
tendance are many who occupy high
places in library work The list in
cludes Miss Plummer. OF Pratt lnsti-
tute Library; Miss Hitchler, Brooklyn
Public Library; Miss Jackson, Car
negle Library, Pittsburg; Miss Hoag-
land of the Indiana Commission Mis-.
Downey, of the Ottuwa, Ia, Library
Miss Neeser, Free Library, Philadel-
phia; Miss Campbell, Passaic Public
Library; Miss Stewart Public Ii
brary, Boston; Miss Arnold of the
Indiana Commission; Miss Askew, O
the New Jersey Commission; Mis-:
Rathbone, of the East Orange, n. J.
Library; Miss Seers, of the Wisconsin
Commission; Miss Bullock, of the Ne
braska Commission, and Miss Ridge.
way, of Philadelphia.
Many important matters will come
up for consideration and discussion
during the sessions of the conference
which will last a week. Among tn,
subjects will be THE Public Librar.
as a Municipal Institute" planning
and Construction of Library Build
ings," Subjects Fit for Fiction,
Books for the Blind" Books for tn,
Foreign Population and "Librarie
and Settlement Work"
On Monday next there will be
special conference of the trustees
when the following interesting paper
will be read: THE Basis of Librar,
Taxation by DIR. James II. Garfield
Columbia University; The Who'll,
Duty of a Trustee, from a Librarian
Standpoint" by Arthur f. BostwicE
New York Public Library; "Th,
Whole Duty of Trustee, from a Trus
tees Standpoint" j. c. Rosengarten
Trustee of the Free Library, Philadel
phia; "The Carnegie Donations" b.
David A. Boody, president of III,
Board Of Trustees, Brooklyn Publi
Library; The Ideal Relation Betweel
Trustees and Librarians" by Melvi
Dewey president of the American ii
brary Institute; What An Edito
Thinks of Trustees" by Miss NJ. I
Ahern, editor of Public Libraries.