Index:Library Work with Children (1917).djvu

PREFACE 5

HISTORY AND GENERAL DISCUSSION 11

Public Libraries and the Young. (U. S. Bureau of Education. Public Libraries in the United States, 1876, p. 412) 13

Boys' and Girls' Reading. (Library Journal, 1882, p. 182.).. 23

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.) ... 39

How Library Work with Children Has Grown in Hartford and Connecticut. (Library Journal, 1914, p. 91.) 47

A Chapter in Children's Libraries. (Library Journal, 1913, P. 20.) 65

The Children's Library in New York. (Library Journal, 1887, p. 185.) 69

The Work for Children in Free Libraries. (Library Journal, 1897, p. 679.) 75

The Growing Tendency to Over-Emphasize the Children's Side. (Library Journal, 1908, p. 135.) 91

Library Work with Children. (A. L. A. Proceedings, 1911, p. 240.) 99

VALUES IN LIBRARY WORK WITH CHILDREN.... 111 Library Membership as a Civic Force. (A. L. A. Proceedings, 1908, p. 372.) 113

The Civic Value of Library Work with Children. (A. L. A. Proceedings, 1908, p. 380) 127

Establishing Relations between the Children's Library and Other Civic Agencies. (Library Journal, 1909, p. 195.) .... 131

Values in Library Work with Children. (A. L. A. Proceedings, 1913, p. 275.) 135

Values in Library Work with Children 147

ADMINISTRATION AND METHODS; REFERENCE WORK; DISCIPLINE 157

The Children's Room and the Children's Librarian. (Public Libraries, 1898, p. 417.) 159

Work with Children in the Small Library. (Library Journal, 1903, p. C53.) l67

Personal Work with Children. (Public Libraries, 1906, p. 191.) 175

The Library and the Children : An Account of the Children's Work in the Cleveland Public Library. (Library Journal, 1898, p. 142.) 181

Picture Bulletins in the Children's Library. (Library Journal, 1902, p. 191.) 187

How to Interest Mothers in Children's Reading. (Public Libraries, 1915, p. 165.) 195

Reference Work among School Children. (Library Journal, 1895, p. 121.) 199

Reference Work with Children. (Library Journal, 1901, p. C74.) 203

Instruction of School Children in the Use of Library Catalogs and Reference Books. (Public Libraries, 1899, p. 311.) 211

Elementary Library Instruction. (Public Libraries, 1912, p. 260.) 217

The Question of Discipline. (Library Journal, 1901, p. 735.) 223

Maintaining Order in the Children's Room. (Library Journal, 1903, p. 164) 229

Problems of Discipline. (Wisconsin Library Bulletin, 1908, p. 65.) 237

SPECIAL METHODS AND TYPES OF WORK: STORY-TELLING; READING CLUBS; HOME LIBRARIES, PLAYGROUNDS, ETC 273

The Story Hour. (..Wisconsin Library Bulletin.., 1905, p. 4.).. 275

Story-telling in Libraries. (Public Libraries, 1908, p. 349.) . . 281

Story-telling A Public Library Method. (Child Conference for Research and Welfare, 1909, p. 225.) 285

Story-telling as a Library Tool. (Child Conference for Research and Welfare, 1909, p. 39.) 289

Report of the Committee on Story-Telling. (Playground, 1910, p. 160.) 297

Reading Clubs for Older Boys and Girls. (Child Conference for Research and Welfare, 1909, p. 13) 317

Library Clubs for Boys and Girls. (Library Journal, 1911, p. 251.) 325

Library Reading Clubs for Young People. (Library Journal, 1912, p. 547.) 331

Home Libraries. (International Congress of Charities, Cor- rection, and Philanthropy, 1893, Second Section, Report, p. 144) 339

Home Libraries. (Library Journal, 1896, p. 60.) 347

Library Day at the Playgrounds. (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Monthly Bulletin, 1901, p. 275.) 355

Library Work in Summer Playgrounds. (A. L. A. Proceedings, 1911, p. 246.) 359

The Selection of Books for Sunday School Libraries and Their Introduction to Children. (Library Journal, 1882, p. 250.) 363

The Children's Museum in Brooklyn. (Library Journal, 1910, p. 149.) 367

Work with Children at the Colored Branch of the Louisville Free Public Library. (Library Journal, 1910, p. 160.) 379

The Foreign Child at a St. Louis Branch. (Library Journal, 1915, p. 851.) 383