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of copies are printed. This department also exchanges apparatus, 

 pictures, etc., for purposes of instruction." 



Library school. — It is now almost a ruh' in the United States that 

 everj'one who seeks employment in a li))i'ary shall have attended one 

 of the seven library schools which are located in Albany (New York 

 State Library), Brooklyn (Pratt Institute), Philadelphia (Drexel Insti- 

 tute), Champaign (Illinois State Library School, University of Illi- 

 nois), Washington (Columbian University), Madison (University of 

 Wisconsin), Los Angeles, California, Amherst, Massachusetts, and 

 Cleveland, Ohio. The four latter are only summer schools. Regular 

 lectures on Inbliography and library science are also delivered in a 

 number of universities and colleges (Bowdoin, California, Colorado, 

 Cornell, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Wellesley). 



The first school of the kind to which all others are more or less 

 indebted for their existence was founded in 1887 at Columbia Uni- 

 versity, New York, by Melvil Dewey, who was at that time director 

 of the university library, and removed to Albany in 1889. It includes 

 a faculty of ten instructors, each of whom represents and teaches par- 

 ticular branches of library science. Six of the instructors are women, 

 an example of the great attraction this branch has for women in 

 America. The special l)ranches are : Library economy, cataloguing, 

 lending system, reading, ))ibliography, classification, history of li])ra- 

 ries, advanced cataloguing, reference work, binding, library printing 

 and editing, dictionary cataloguing, library building, indexing. The 

 number of pupils is limited to 50. For admission an examination or 

 the possession of a certain college degree is required. Pupils under 

 20 years of age are not received. The course is for two years, and 

 lasts for thirty -eight consecutive weeks in the year. The weeks con- 

 sist of five working days of eight hours each. Every pupil receives a 

 table with all lil)rary appurtenances, at which he may work from 8 

 o'clock in the morning until 10 in the evening. The tuition fee for 

 two years amounts to from $80 to $100. The expense of one year's 

 attendance at the library school in Albany, including tuition fee, room, 

 board, books, official study, travels, etc., amounts to from $325 to $625. 



Instruction consists of the following: (1) Lectures by prominent 

 librarians, publishers, booksellers, printers, bookbinders, and the like, 

 and by the instructors of the school. (2) Reading and reports from 

 books belonging to the special library school on the subjects of study. 

 (3) Solving of difficult problems relating to cataloguing, bibliography, 

 aids to readers, and the like, with debates. (4) Seminary exercises. 

 (5) Practical training in the State library itself, as well as in the small 

 libraries of tlie city. (0) Visits for the purpose of study to the libra- 

 ries of New York, Boston, etc., to the great publishers, printing offices, 

 bookbinderies, art institutes, bookstores, book auctions, secondhand 



a See Handbook No. 1, Outline, pp. 36 and 37, and No. 10; Study Clubs, p. 13. 



