Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24
EDUCATION OF PUBLIC
THEME FOR DISCUSSION
Speakers Will Consider Ways OF
Making Books More Useful to
Average Man.

time in home study under the sympa-
thetic guidance of the librarians of
the country.
The American Library Association
opens a f1ve-day conference here to-
morrow. Delegations are coming in by
every train and are being made COM
Portable by DR.. George F. Bowerman,
local librarian. who is chairman of the
arrangements committee. and by George
r. Utley of Chicago. secretary of the
American Library Association, who ar
rived here last evening.
These librarians of state and city
public libraries and of special libraries
sre coming here for the purpose of eX-
changing ideas and considering meas
tires designed to make the public and
other libraries more useful.
Delegates From Distant Points.
Delegates have been registered from
the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, AL
herta and Saskatchewan, Canada and
from nearly all of the states of the
Union. including Washington, Oregon.
California and New Mexico. The most
distant delegate comes from Edmons-
ton. Alberta.
The American Library Association has
more than $500 members scattered
city and many small towns in the
United States Canada and some for
eign countries.
Several closely affiliated organizations
will hold sessions concurrently. among
them being the Normal and High
School Librarians, Special Libraries As
ISOLATION. American Association of Law
Libraries and League of Library Com
missions. Separate meetings also will
be held of the agricultural libraries
section on library work with children.
catalogue section. trustees section and
college and reference section.
In connection with the convention
there will be an interesting exhibit at
the Washington Public Library. show
ing all the latest and most improved
labor saving devices, an exhibit of
school libraries. brought togethe 'by
and an exhibit of the work of the
Washington Public Library. Sixty
three large manufacturers of these la
bor-saving devices have installed ex-
hibitS.
To Extend Formal Welcome.
DIR. Herbert Putnam, librarian of Con-
gress. will extend the formal greetings
to the delegates at the opening of the
first general session Monday evening.
to which Edwin H. Anderson, director
of the New York Public Library and
president of the association, win re-
spond.
Immediately afterward Mr.. Anderson
will make his annual address as presi-
dent speaking to the topic THE Tax
on Ideas" The libraries of Washing
ton will be shown in an illustrated lee
ture by H. H. B. Meyer, chief of the
division of photography. Library Of
Congress.
All arrangements for the conference
have been made under the direction Of
Dr. George F. Bowerman, librarian Of
the Washington Public Library. and
the exhibition of labor-saving devices
has been arranged by c. Seymour
Thompson. assistant to Mr.. Bowerman
OF the four general sessions Of the
American Library Association the
opening meeting tomorrow night and
the meetings of Tuesday and Wednes-
day will be held in the auditorium of
Memorial Continental Hall. The clos
ing general session, Friday afternoon,
will be held at the New willard Hotel.
All other meetings of the American Lii
brary Association and of the Special
Libraries association will be held at
the New Willard. The National Asso-
citation of State Libraries and the
American Association of Law Libraries
viii meet at the New Ebbitt.
Plan to Avoid Conflict.
The meetings of the affiliated organi-
cations and the various sections will
be held mornings and afternoons SO as
not to conflict with the general ses-
sions. ....
The second general session, Tuesday
evening. will include the following ad-
dresses: THE Need of National Archive
Building" by DIR. j. Franklin Jane
Son. director of the department of his
torical research, Carnegie Institution
of Washington. The Library and the
Immi grant." by John Foster Carr, di-
rector, Immigration Education So
ciety, New York city, and Libra ries
for Rural Communities" by DR.. p p
Claxton. United States commissioner Of
education.
The third general session will dis
cass papers by c. X. Bolton, librarian
OF the Boston Athenaeum. on the
Wootten. librarian Carnegie Library.
Atlanta. Ga, on Recent Library De-
yeiopment in the South. and Robert
w. de Forest. president, and Miss Leila
Federation of Arts, The Educa-
tional Work of the American Fedora
ton of Arts"
An Interesting paper on Prestige"
VIII be presented at the fourth session,
Friday afternoon, by w. y. c. Carlton,
librarian Newberry Library. Chicago.
Miss Agnes Van Nalkenburg, instructor
of the Library School of the New York
readings from recent fiction. The re-
rainder Of the afternoon will be de-
voted to business and the receipt Of
the report Of the tellers of election.
Membership Embraces Europe.
The Special Libraries Association, which
Will hold supplementary sessions. was
organized in 1909. and now has a men,
hership of 3o9, in which are represented
Libraries In England. Hungary. Belgium,
india and Germany. as we'll as in practi-
ally all the states of the Union.
These librarians are associate with
business Organizations such as fire in
surance companies, public service cor
porations. municipal reference libraries
engineering firms, banking associations
and houses, gas and electric companies,
social service organizations. auton obile
and other manufacturers, financial in
situations, and civil. electrical me-
"haHical and chemical engineering
houses.
The president of this organization is
j. y. Handy of the Insurance Library
ASSOCIATION, Boston. and the secretary
treasurer Is Guy +. Marion Of the Arthur
L. Little Company. Boston. During the
week there will be papers from Eugene
II. McPike, manager of the Central Fruit
Dispatch. Chicago. G. w. Lee of the
Boston Cooperative Information Bureau;
Brainerd Dyer of the National Carbon
Company. Miss 0. NJ. Imhoff of the Inter
national Health Commission, E. c. Wolf
of the Curtis Publishing COMPANY Miss