Proceedings Volume 11-13 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ... education of the people, see that schools are only the first step in education. They are now laboring, not only for those who can go to higher schools and colleges, but also for those who must stay at home, and for those who, after leaving the institutions of learning, must come within our library field if they wish to continue their education through life. I know of no intelligent student of education who does not admit that the position is well taken that the library is the college for the people, that it reaches all classes of people, and that it reaches all through life. Education must go further than to give the little taste of learning here and there, as is done in the high school and college. Even at the best, those of us who look back know hovy little came from the college course, and how much from reading afterwards. The problem is to go on through life with one's education. If this is so, it is high time the State recognized it practically. The President has mentioned some very significant recent legislation in New York. The work is going forward. The question before us is, What can we do? One of the things I believe essential is the organization of State associations. Of this I shall have more to say on Thursday, at our N. Y. Library Association meeting, to which you are all most cordially invited. We shall then confer as to the work such associations can do. Lest some fail to understand our motive, I may say that we hesitated to organize any new body. I often think I would like to join one more society; that is, a society to prevent the formation of new societies. I hesitated many years before taking the steps which led to the N. Y. Library Association. We want to see what we can do for New York library interests Thursday. Our New Hampshire fri...