Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-04-12
LIBRARIANS TO
MEET IN MAY
interesting Program for sss-
sion at Asbury Park.

The New Jersey Public Library
Commission, which has arranged fol
an institute of library science at AS
bury Park from Monday, May 1, to
Saturday, May g., inclusive, has pre-
pared an attractive program. 1t will
be under the direction of Miss Sarah
B. Askew, and Miss Edna B. Pratt
the commissions organizers. The
course win be open to librarians In
charge and to library assistants.
The program for the MORNING ses-
sion will include the following lee
lures: Psychological Aspects OF
Reading for Boys and Girls Between
the Ages of Twelve and Eighteen"
by G. Stanley Hall, president of
Clark University; Social Forces in
Children's Literature" by Montrose
]. Moses; THE Art of Printing and
Social Progress" by DR.. J.. P. Lich-
tenberger, professor of sociology in
the University of Pennsylvania;
Literary Values" by Hamilton w.
Mabie. The lecture or Mr.. Mabie
will include a discussion Of the fol-
lowing questions: The responsibility
Of the library to the community on the
question of morals; how far can we go
in offering inferior books7 what on.
%stitutes a real books
Other features of the morning ses,
sions will be a lecture on "Sha&e.
speare,' by DIR. Nathaniel Schmidt,
professor of Semitic languages in Cor.
nell university; and an illustrated lee.
ture on "Child Welfare Work." by
E. II. Anderson, assistant director of
the New York Public Library.
In the afternoon there will be lec'
lures and rOund-table talks on a num-
Der of selected subjects. These will
include: "Book Buying" by Frank
P. Hill, director of the Brooklyn Pub.
lie Library; publishers" by Adam
Strohm, librarian of the Trenton Pub.
lie Library; "Book Ordering" by f.
w. jenkins, of Scribner's; "Catalog
uing," by Miss Theresa Hitchler, head
Of the cataloguing department of the
Brooklyn Public Library; "Children 5
Work" by Miss Annie Carroll Moore,
supervisor of children's work III the
New York Public Library.
Besides these subjects, there will be
afternoon discussions on Government
Documents, Their Care and the Mater
ial to Be Found in Them by Miss
Jane Donnelly, director of the Drexel
institute library and library school, and
Miss Adelaide R. Hasse, in charge OF
government document work in the
New York Public Library; "Book Sc
lection" by Arthur L. Bailey, of the
Wilmington Institute Free Library;
"Reference Work." by w. P. Cutter,
librarian of the Technical Library of
the United Engins ering societies Of
New York city.
Other features will include lectures
"Bookbinding," by Cedric Chivers,
and "Book Mending," by Miss Muir
ray, who is in charge of that work
in the New York Public Library.
Other permanent exhibits at the in.
stitute will include a model children's
room, furnished by the library bureau,
and containing from other sources pic
ture bulletins, picture books and COM
all kinds of library supplies, loan col
l~ections of books and supplementary
pictures, an exhibit of magazine bind.
ers, a series of cuts showing the evo-
luton of an illustration, photograph
collections in use in various libraries,
F'The Physical Book" loaned by the
Newark Public Library; various aids
to Librarians in the away of regular
and occasional publications, and a dem.
onstration of economic book buying.