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Table of Contents
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Andrew Carnegie . . . . . .
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-6
A
character sketch by Hamilton W. Mabie.
II.
Method
of Giving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . .7-16
The "Gospel of Wealth." - Mr. Carnegie's library creed -
Colonel James Anderson of Allegheny and his Library Institute. -
The Anderson Memorial. - Methods of giving. - President Roosevelt
on Carnegie libraries. -The maintenance requirement - The value of
Mr. Carnegie's example. -quoted. - Carnegie Corporation organized.
- Total benefactions to Jan. 1, 1917.
III. D ocuments
Relating to the Establishment of the New York City Branches .
. . . . .19-33
IV. The
Architecture of the Manhattan Branches
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
34-41
The nature of the branches. - The architecture a compromise. -
Uniformity of design. - The general type described. - Conditions
imposed by the trustees. - Text of the agreement between the
architects 'and trustees.
V. C arnegie
Libraries and Good Learning, By Arthur E. Bostwick . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . .42-49
The growth of the library movement - The increase in reading. -
The need for metropolitan branch libraries. - Quality of the
reading done. - The percentage of fiction. - The development of
circulating libraries in New York.
VI. R eaching
the People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
50-61
The
opening of the frst of the Carnegie branches in New York City. -
Opening of the Hudson Park Branch. - Work oh the East Side. - The
open-air reading room. The Yorkville and Rivington Street
Branches. - Hudson Park, Mott Haven, and other branches.
VII. T he
Brooklyn Branches .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 62-73
Report
of the consulting architect. - The determination of the type of
branch buildings to he erected. - The question of uniformity of
style. - The number of architects and the method of their
selection. - Instructions to architects.
VIII. E astern
Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79-94
Melrose
and Clinton, Mass. - Norwalk, Conn. - Philadelphia, Pa. - Syracuse
and Binghamton, N.Y. -Johnstown and Amsterdarn, N.Y. - East
Orange, N.J.
IX.
The Public Library of the District of Columbia .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95-103
History of the Library. - The work under way. - Children's room.
-Lecture hall and study room. - Reaching out among the people. -
Plans for the future. - Remarks of President Roosevelt and Mr.
Carnegie at the dedication.
X. The
South . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104-121
The traveling library of Hagerstown, MD - Carnegie Library of
Atlanta, GA- Nashville and Chattanooga, TN. - Norfolk, VA -
Tuskegee, AL -- Jacksonville, Florida.
XI. Pittsburg
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .122-138
Carnegie Institute physically the largest of the institutions
founded by Mr. Carnegie. - History of the library movement in
Pittsburg. - Branch libraries. - The enlargement of the Institute.
XII. O hio
and Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139-151
Branch libraries in Cincinnati. - Development of branch libraries
in Cleve land. - Work with children at the Broadway branch. - The
Miles Park and the Woodland branches. - Home libraries. - Port
Huron, Michigan.
XIII. W isconsin
and the Middle West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152-165
Madison, Wisconsin. - The essentials of library architecture. -
Elkhart, Indiana. - Freeport and Streator, Illinois. - Kaukauna
and Baraboo, Wisconsin.
XIV. Iowa and the
Far West. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166-182
Carnegie libraries in Iowa. - Monticello, Marshalltown, and Eldora
as typical of small libraries designed by Patton & Miller.
Davenport, Iowa. -Leavenworth, Kansas. - Lincoln, Nebraska. -
Springfield and Sedalia, Missouri.
XV. T he
Southwest and the Rocky Mountain Region.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .183-193
Dallas and Port Worth, Texas. - Cheyenne, Wyoming. - Colorado
Springs.
XVI.
California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . ..194-206
San Diego. -
Oakland. - Alasneda. - San Jose. - Riverside. -Pomona. -Santa Ana.
XVII. L ibrary
Planning . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 207-220
Responsibility of the library board. - Necessity for cooperation
between architect and librarian. - First work must be done by the
librarian. - Considerations entering into the planning of the
library. - Circular of information issued by the Carnegie
Corporation. - The essentials of a small building. -Mr. John
Cotton Dana's view~ - Location of the stacks. - Location of the
librarian's room. - The question of the auditorium. - Planning for
a $20,000 building. - Planning for a $50,000 building.
-Conclusion.
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Text . . . . .
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-- List of PlatesSource:
Theodore Wesley Koch.
A Book of Carnegie Libraries. Publisher: The H. W. Wilson Company /
White Plains, NY / 1917 |
