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Editors: J. Y. W. MacAlister Thomas Mason
Library Association of the United Kingdom.
This Association was founded on 5th October, 1877, at the conclusion of the International Conference of Librarians held at the London Institution, under the presidency of the late Mr. J. Winter Jones, then principal librarian of the British Museum.
Its objects are: to encourage and aid by every means in its power the establishment of new libraries; to endeavour to secure better legislation for rate-supported libraries; to unite all persons engaged or interested in library work, for the purpose of promoting the best possible administration of libraries; and to encourage bibliographical research.
The Association has, by the invitation of the Local Authorities, held its Annual Meetings in the following towns: Oxford, Manchester, Edinburgh, London, Cambridge, Liverpool, Dublin, Plymouth, Birmingham, Glasgow, Reading, Nottingham, and Paris.
A small Museum of Library Appliances has been opened in the Clerkenwell Public Library, Skinner Street, London, E.C., and will be shown to any one interested in library administration. It contains Specimens of Apparatus, Catalogues, Forms, &c., and is the nucleus of a larger collection contemplated by the Association.
All communications connected with the Association should be addressed to Mr. J. Y. W. MACALISTER, 20 Hanover Square, London, W. Subscriptions should be paid to Mr. H. R. TEDDER, Hon. Treasurer, Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, London, W.
COTGREAVE'S LIBRARY INDICATOR.
SOLE AGENT AND MANUFACTURER: W. MORGAN, 21 CANNON STREET, BIRMINGHAM.
Cotgreave's Rack for Periodicals and Magazines.
MANUFACTURER: WAKE & DEAN, 111 LONDON ROAD, LONDON, S.E.
Cotgreave's Solid Leather Covers for Periodicals.
MANUFACTURER: W. MORGAN, 21 CANNON STREET, BIRMINGHAM.
N.B. Any special information required may be obtained from the inventor, A. COTGREAVE, Public Libraries, West Ham, London, E.
Used and endorsed as the best everywhere. The following is one of the strongest testimonials which could possibly be received:--
AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION.
OFFICERS:
President, JAMES W. SCOTT--Chicago Herald. Vice-President, E. H. WOODS--Boston Herald. Secretary and Treasurer, L. L. MORGAN--New Haven Register.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
W. C. BRYANT--Brooklyn Times. C. W. KNAPP--St. Louis Republic. J. A. BUTLER--Buffalo News. M. A. McRAE--Cincinnati Post and St. Louis Chronicle. A. S. PEASE--Woonsocket Reporter.
Address all communications to the Secretary, care NEW YORK OFFICE, 206 POTTER BUILDING.
NEW YORK, MAY 11, 1892.
GENTLEMEN,
The undersigned, a committee appointed by the President to investigate into the merits of the various typewriting machines with a view to the adoption of some machine for the use of members of this association, respectfully report that in their judgment, all things having been considered, the "Remington" is the machine which they would recommend for adoption, believing that in its superiority of design and excellence of workmanship, its great simplicity, durability and easy manipulation, it is more desirable for use in newspaper offices than any other. In addition, the fact that it is understood and operated by a great many thousands of young men and women, that the use of it is being taught not only in the public schools, but in commercial schools and colleges throughout the land, and, its being generally referred to as the standard: the large number of offices which the company have scattered throughout the country, making it easy to have repairs made at the least expense, have all had some effect in basing their judgment.
L. L. MORGAN, J. S. SEYMOUR, W. C. BRYANT.
Library Association Series
EDITED BY THE HON. SECRETARIES OF THE ASSOCIATION
No. 1.
LIBRARY APPLIANCES
BY JAMES D. BROWN
THE ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRESS.
The Library Association Series
EDITED BY J. Y. W. MACALISTER AND THOMAS MASON HON. SECRETARIES OF THE ASSOCIATION
No. 1.
A HANDBOOK OF LIBRARY APPLIANCES:
THE TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT OF LIBRARIES: FITTINGS, FURNITURE, CHARGING SYSTEMS, FORMS, RECIPES &c.
BY JAMES D. BROWN CLERKENWELL PUBLIC LIBRARY, LONDON
PUBLISHED FOR THE ASSOCIATION BY DAVID STOTT 370 OXFORD STREET, W. LONDON 1892
PREFACE
The Council of the Library Association have arranged for the issue of a series of Handbooks on the various departments of Library work and management. Each Handbook has been entrusted to an acknowledged expert in the subject with which he will deal--and will contain the fullest and latest information that can be obtained.
Every branch of library work and method will be dealt with in detail, and the series will include a digest of Public Library Law and an account of the origin and growth of the Public Library Movement in the United Kingdom.
The comprehensive thoroughness of the one now issued is, the Editors feel, an earnest of the quality of the whole series. To mere amateurs, it may appear that it deals at needless length with matters that are perfectly familiar; but it is just this kind of thing that is really wanted by the people for whom Mr. Brown's Handbook is intended. It seems a simple matter to order a gross of chairs for a library; but only experience teaches those little points about their construction which make so much difference as regards economy and comfort.
With this Handbook in their possession, a new committee, the members of which may never have seen the inside of a public library, may furnish and equip the institution under their charge as effectively as if an experienced library manager had lent his aid.
The second issue of the series will be on "Staff," by Mr. Peter Cowell, Chief Librarian of the Liverpool Free Public Libraries.
THE EDITORS.
LIBRARY APPLIANCES.
THE TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT OF LIBRARIES, INCLUDING FITTINGS AND FURNITURE, RECORDS, FORMS, RECIPES, &c.
BY JAMES D. BROWN, LIBRARIAN, CLERKENWELL PUBLIC LIBRARY, LONDON.
This Handbook bears some analogy to the division "miscellaneous" usually found in most library classifications. It is in some respects, perhaps, more exposed to the action of heterogeneity than even that refuge of doubt "polygraphy," as "miscellaneous" is sometimes seen disguised; but the fact of its limits being so ill-defined gives ample scope for comprehensiveness, while affording not a little security to the compiler, should it be necessary to deprecate blame on the score of omissions or other faults. There is, unfortunately, no single comprehensive word or phrase which can be used to distinguish the special sort of library apparatus here described--"appliances" being at once too restricted or too wide, according to the standpoint adopted. Indeed there are certain bibliothecal sophists who maintain that anything is a library appliance, especially the librarian himself; while others will have it that, when the paste-pot and scissors are included, the appliances of a library have been named. To neither extreme will this tend, but attention will be strictly confined to the machinery and implements wherewith libraries, public and other, are successfully conducted. It would be utterly impossible, were it desirable, to describe, or even mention, every variety of fitting or appliance which ingenuity and the craving for change have introduced, and the endeavour shall be accordingly to notice the more generally established apparatus, and their more important modifications. It is almost needless to point out that very many of the different methods of accomplishing the same thing, hereinafter described, result from similar causes to those which led in former times to such serious political complications in the kingdom of Liliput. There are several ways of getting into an egg, and many ways of achieving one end in library affairs, and the very diversity of these methods shows that thought is active and improvement possible. As Butler has it--
"Opiniators naturally differ From other men: as wooden legs are stiffer Than those of pliant joints, to yield and bow, Which way soe'er they are design'd to go".
Hence it happens that all library appliances are subject to the happy influences of disagreement, which, in course of time, leads to entire changes of method and a general broadening of view. Many of these differences arise from local conditions, or have their ex
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