LIBRARIES, PUBLIC. 



LOUISIANA. 



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society has not the means for undertaking this 

 work on a larger scale and satisfying all requests. 



It is noted also 

 that the late Mr. 

 Oswald Ottendorf- 

 er founded inZwit- 

 tau, Austria, in 

 1891, a free pub- 

 lic library on the 

 plan of the New 

 York Free Circu- 

 lating Library's 

 branches. 



Dziatzko, writ- 

 ing on German li- 

 braries, says that 

 the Prussian Min- 

 istry of Education 

 in 1892 took a step 

 toward greater uni- 

 formity by issuing 

 WILLIAM HOWARD BRETT, Rules for the Con- 



CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY. strUCtion of the 



Alphabetical Cata- 

 logue. There is increasing liberality in library 

 regulations, making the collections more accessi- 

 ble. As the libraries are usually intended for 

 cholars (all this, of course, refers to university 

 libraries and the like) the conditions for entrance 

 ire quite severe. The act in regard to qualifying 

 for trained library service was published in the 

 Jentralblatt fur Bibliothekswesen (vol. ii, pages 

 17-79). Germany, Switzerland, and Italy have 

 lational conferences of librarians. 



Italy is startlingly modern. Its system of inter- 

 ibrary loans is so liberal that it will send a rare 

 nanuscript from one city to another at Govern- 

 lent expense. 



A. Chevalley described the poor condition of 

 public libraries in France in the Library Journal 



1899, page 21. 

 Statistics for 1893 show that 1,277,436 volumes 

 vere used in the many free circulating libraries 

 stablished by the city government of Paris. 



Poole's Index has now found its counterpart in 

 Germany and France in Bibliographic der Deut- 

 schen Zeitschriften Literatur (vol. i, 1896) and D. 

 Jordel's Repertoire bibliographique des princi- 

 pales revues frangaises (first issue for 1897) re- 

 spectively. 



In England the contest over " open access " has 

 iged fiercely. The Clerkenwell Open Lending 



Library, for exam- 

 ple, offers free ac- 

 cess to its shelves. 

 As to Britain's 

 colonies, the Libra- 

 ry Association of 

 Australasia was or- 

 ganized in 1896, 

 and the traveling 

 library system has 

 been introduced in 

 British Columbia 

 and New South 

 Wales (1899). 



The free library 

 movement has ex- 

 tended to the Ori- 

 ent. Thus a free 

 library was estab- 

 lished in Bangkok, 

 Siam, in 1896, and 

 the Manila Public 



INA COOLBRITH, 

 FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY. 



Library in 1900. 

 It must be remembered that such institutions 

 are usually due to American or English initiative 



and support, and are practically libraries for Eng- 

 lish-speaking people in foreign lands. In Japan, 

 excluding the Imperial Library, there were, in 

 1899, 30 public and private libraries, containing 

 346,342 volumes, and these libraries were visited 

 by 46,243 persons in 1897. 



The Library Journal and Public Libraries have 

 notes on foreign 

 libraries each 

 month. There are 

 also various foreign 

 periodicals devoted 

 wholly or in part 

 to library affairs, 

 although, owing to 

 conditions indi- 

 cated, their con- 

 tents differ in char- 

 acter from those of 

 our own journals. 

 Among them are 

 the Centralblatt 

 fttr Bibliothekswe- 

 sen (vol. i, 1884) ; 

 Rivista delle Bibli- 

 oteche (vol. i, 

 1888) ; Revue des 

 Bibliotheques (vol. JOHN COTTON DANA, 



i, 1891); The Li- SPRINGFIELD (MASS.) CITY LIBRARY. 

 brary (vol. i, 1889; 



organ of Library Association of the United King- 

 dom) ; Revue Internationale des Archives, des 

 Bibliotheques, et des Musees (first year 1897). 



LOUISIANA, a Southern State, admitted to 

 the Union April 30, 1812; area, 48,720 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial census 

 since admission, was 152,923 in 1820; 215,739 in 

 1830; 352,411 in 1840; 517,726 in 1850; 708,002 in 

 1860; 726,915 in 1870; 939,946 in 1880; 1,118,587 in 

 1890; and 1,381,627 in 1900. Capital, Baton Rouge. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers this year until May, when the newly 

 elected administration came in : Governor, Murphy 

 J. Foster; Lieutenant Governor, R. H. Snyder; 

 Secretary of State, John T. Michel; Treasurer, 

 A. V. Fournette; Auditor, W. W. Heard; Attor- 

 ney-General, M. J. Cunningham; Superintendent 

 of Education, J. V. Calhoun; Adjutant General, 

 Allen Jumel; Commissioner of Agriculture, Leon 

 Jastremski; Commissioner of Insurance, J. J. 

 McCann; Bank Examiner, F. G. Freret; Railroad 

 Commission, C. L. DeFuentes, R. N; Sims, W. L. 

 Foster. The Secretary of State and the Superin- 

 tendent of Education were re-elected. The other 

 State officers for the remainder of the year were: 

 Governor, W. W. Heard ; Lieutenant Governor, 

 Albert Estopinal; Attorney-General, Walter 

 Guion ; Treasurer, Ledoux E. Smith : Auditor, 

 W. S. Frazee; Registrar of the Land Office, J. M. 

 Smith; President of the Board of Control of the 

 Penitentiary, C. Harrison Parker; President of the 

 State Pension Board, J. A. Chalaron ; Quarantine 

 Physician, J. N.Thomas; Commissioner of Agricul- 

 ture and Immigration, Jordan G. Lee; Jury Com- 

 missioners, J. R.Todd, L. H. Joseph, E. S. Maunsell. 

 All the State officers are Democrats. Chief Justice 

 of the Supreme Court, Francis T. Nicholls; Asso- 

 ciate Justices, Newton C. Blanchard, Lynn B. 

 Watkins, Joseph A. Breaux, Frank A. Monroe; 

 Clerk, T. M. C. Hyman all Democrats. 



The term of the State officers is four years. 

 They are elected in April of the years of presi- 

 dential elections. The Legislature meets bien- 

 nially in May of the even-numbered years; the 

 session is limited to sixty days. 



Population. The population by parishes, ac- 

 cording to the census of 1900, was as follows: 





