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Library Work with Children
Classics of American Librarianship
Edited by ARTHUR E. BOSTWICK, Ph.D.
LIBRARY WORK WITH CHILDREN
REPRINTS OF PAPERS AND ADDRESSES
SELECTED AND ANNOTATED BY
ALICE I. HAZELTINE
Supervisor of Children's Public Library
St. Louis, Mo.
PREFACE
This second volume in the series of Classics of AmericanLibrarianship is devoted to library work with children.As stated in the preface to the first volume, on "Libraryand school," the papers chosen are primarily of historicrather than of present-day value, although many of themembody principles which govern the practice of today.They have been grouped under general headings in orderto bring more closely together material relating to thesame or to similar subjects. Several different phases ofchildren's work are thus represented, although no attempthas been made to make the collection comprehensive.
Book-selection for children has not been included exceptincidentally, since it is expected that this subject willbe treated in another volume as part of the general subjectof book-selection. In the same way, material ontraining for library work with children has been reservedfor a volume on library training.
The present volume is an attempt to bring together inaccessible form papers representing the growth and tendenciesof forty years of library work with children. ALICE I. HAZELTINE.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
HISTORY AND GENERAL DISCUSSION
Public Libraries and the Young. (U. S. Bureau of Education.
Public Libraries in the United States, 1876, p. 412)
WILLIAM ISAAC FLETCHER.
Boys' and Girls' Reading. (Library Journal, 1882, p. 182.)
CAROLINE MARIA HEWINS.
Reading of the Young. (U.S. Bureau of Education Papers
prepared for the World's Library Congress held at the
Columbian Exposition; ed. by M. Dewey, 1896, p. 944.)
CAROLINE MARIA HEWINS.
How Library Work with Children Has Grown in Hartfordand Connecticut. (Library Journal, 1914, p. 91.)CAROLINE MARIA HEWINS.
A Chapter in Children's Libraries. (Library Journal, 1913,
p. 20.)
ALICE M. JORDAN
The Children's Library in New York. (Library Journal,
1887, p. 185.)
EMILY S. HANAWAY.
The Work for Children in Free Libraries. (Library Journal,
1897, p. 679.)
MARY WRIGHT PLUMMER.
The Growing Tendency to Over-Emphasize the Children's
Side. (Library Journal, 1908, p. 135.)
CAROLINE MATTHEWS.
Library Work with Children. (A. L. A. Proceedings, 1911,
p. 240.)
HENRY EDUARD LEGLER.
VALUES IN LIBRARY WORK WITH CHILDREN
Library Membership as a Civic Force. (A. L. A. Proceedings,
1908, P. 372.)
ANNIE CAROLL MOORE.
The Civic Value of Library Work with Children. (A. L. A.
Proceedings, 1908, P. 380)
DR. GRAHAM TAYLOR.
Establishing Relations between the Children's Library and
Other Civic Agencies. (Library Journal, 1909, P. 195.) 131
CLARA WELLS HERBERT.
Values in Library Work with Children. (A. L. A. Proceedings,
1913