Colorado Libraries Tabulated Statement, April, 1894. Work in a Library. The Public Library, Denver. Reprinted from the Colorado School Journal Of April, 1894. Colorado Libraries, Tabulated LOCATION. NAME OF LIBRARY. Founded. Free or Subs No. Vols. 1890 Subs 600 1882 Free 125 Public 74 1886 500 1880 44 1500 tt Y. M. C. A 44 800 1892 44 165 Black Hawk 1880 44 450 1891 44 114 1878 46 9000 66 1876 44 1217 Breckenridgc Public School ... 1889 358 50 Buena Vista 1890 Free 250 State Reformatory 1894 150 1891 Subs 210 C. C. L. Ass’n 1886 1900 Free 100 1500 100 Colorado City .... Bancroft 1891 Free 300 Colorado Springs Coburn 1894 Subs 10000 U 61 El Paso Club “ “ El Paso County Teachers 1892 Free b6 (6 Free 1885 ”2666 64 66 1892 • 4 6 6 6 6 1892 1200 “ “ School for Deaf and Blind, 1880 ! Free 1000 Y M C A 300 Como 1894 St 125 U P R R Employes 1880 Subs 500 Crested Butte Public School 1888 Free 345 Del Norte Public School .... 1891 “ 150 Delta Public School 200 Denver Broadway School Dist. No. 1 Free 240 Ebert School 44 “ 1886 290 <*• Gilpin School “ “ 1883 4. 1500 46 High School “ “ 1260 4* High (Manual Train 1 “ 388 4* Longfellow “ “ 1885 Free 200 Twenty-Fourth St 41 44 1891 150 •6 Whittier 4 4 4 4 1883 46 1200 Wyman 44 “ 1893 46 40 Dentra.l Dist No 2 1891 85 Elmwood 4 4 44 1893 Free 160 6; Fairmont 44 44 66 Franklin 44 4 4 1884 44 550 6k Garfield 4 4 44 ... .. 1890 46 375 High “ 44 1881 44 1700 Lincoln 4 4 4 * 1893 44 144 Logan 44 44 1890 46 225 4* Sheridan 44 44 1892 44 125 44 Washington 4 4 4 4 1891 44 260 Ashland School Dist. No. 17 66 300 44 Boulevard 44 4 4 ti 125 4 * Bryant 4 4 4 4 66 | 550 44 Columbia *• 44 66 65 Edison 44 44 46 70 High 4 4 4 4 . 66 1000 Louise M. Alcott 4 ’ 44 ...... 46 75 44 Ballenger & Richards 66 150 44 City . . . 1886 w 6 25811 44 College of the Sacred Heart 1888 Private 6879 44 College of the Sacred Heart .... 1888 844 Colorado Historical Soeiel.v Society 200 Colorado Scientific Society . ! Free 1350 Colorado State L 1870 10000 Colorado S"preme Court 1860 “ 10481 4t Ernest & Cranmer . . 1890 Private 8500 Gross Medical College 1892 Free 44 H. B. Stephens Subs 7050 4 4 Matthews Hftll and Bishop Spaulding 10000 Public 1889 Free 20000 Kerr B. Tupper 1891 Private 4000 44 Symes Law 1884 Free 6500 44 Wolfe Hall 1868 1500 44 Woman’s Alliance 1886 It 200 Y. M. C. A., ("Central Dcp’tV. 1 “ 1400 44 Y. M. C. A (Railroad Dep’t) 1882 1074 High School 1888 1 “ 500 Librarian or Officer Reporting. J. S. Wheeler Geo. A. Miller D. E. Stephenson W. T. Eddingfield Kate Ruth Nettie Davis J. M. Seright Geo. L. Harding Chas. E. Lowrey C. M. Kingsley Chas. S. Steele Mrs. R. G. Leake Alfred Durfee Mrs. S. F. Megrue P. H. Hammond J. H. Troendly R. A. Knott Mrs. Maggie Hill H. S. Murdock C. O. Finch C. O. Finch M. L. Cowles Geo. B. Turnbull .. ... C. O. Finch John E. Ray W. A. Lloyd A. J, Cushman Wm. Wooler A. E. Phillips Earl Whedon Lillian Lewis Z. B. McClure G. L. Arnold Frona R. Houghan Wm. H. Smiley C. A. Bradley A. W. Elder A. C. Courtney R. H. Beggs Geo. B. Long Kate Hinman H. W. Zirkle Geo. W. Wyatt W. E. Knapp Miss A. N. Miller Ed. F. Hermanns J. H. Dodds O. S. Moles H. S. Phillips L. P. Nor veil F. E. Phillips T. B. Bird R. W. Strong Darius Conrad W. F. Mack Clara Newcomb J. M. Erwin Ballenger & Richards . Chas. R. Dudley A. M. Mandalari, S. J. A. M. Mandalari, S. J. Chas. R. Dudley P. H. van Diest S. I. Goodspeed Jas. A. Miller Garrett Owens Dr. T. M. Burns H. B. Stephens Rev. W. C. Bradshaw . . John C. Dana Rev. Kerr B. Tupper .. F. T. Henry Rev. W. C. Bradshaw. Miss G. E. Watson — Edward Grace Leroy Burdick T. 0. Baker MTt? 0 7 . 1 •* H £4113 Colorado Libraries, Tabulated {CONTINUED.) LOCATION. naivJe OF LIBRARY. Founded. | Free or Subs No. i Vols. Librarian or Officer Reporting. Durango 1891 Free 759 i Nu.thfl.ii H. Hawkins Elizabeth Public School 125 i Geo. J. Blakeley Fairplay Public School 1892 58 i E. Kesner Florence Public School . (4 150 1 Florence B. Ruddick.. Fort Collins High School 1885 1300 State Agricultural College 1879 il 4311 Celia M. Southworth.. Fort Morgan Fort Morgan Public 1892 44 500 Public School 75 Georgetown High School Free 300 A. E Barker Golden Public School lOuO W. Triplett 44 1891 800 G. A. Garard State School of Mines 1887 ,, 3000 E. G Moody Grand Junction.. Western Colorado Academy 1881 it 1200 Henry Nichols Greeley Greeley Public 1885 tt 2380 Mrs J D Page “ SchoofDistrict No. 6 500 W. H. Brock way State Normal 1889 Free 4U00 W T. Ynpn.r Weld County Teachers’ Ass’n 25 O. Howard Gunnison Public School 1891 Free 200 Gypsum Public School 25 Idaho Springs... Public School Free 300 A. E. Barker Jefferson Public School 32 Geo. A. Miller Julesburg Public School 1889 Free 6 A. Graham 44 Public School 1890 Subs 20 Kiowa Teachers’ Circulating 1890 78 E. P. Clark Lafayette Kiowa Circulating 1893 150 F. J. Francis La J unta Public School . . . 1886 Free 7180 Miss Clara Sherwood Lake City La Junta 1893 150 R. C. Drake Lamar High School 1891 Subs 200 Mrs. Mabel 1. Maxwell Leadville King’s Daughters 1322 Ralph Robertson Public School Longmont Y. M. C. A 1892 Subs <:50 C. F. Paimer Longmont Academy 1888 220 Miss Tnez Clark Loveland High School 1887 159 Gertrude E. Smith.... Manitou Public School 1390 Free 300 L. B. Grafton Meeker Public School 1894 71 W. II. Young Moffat Public School O. C. Skinner Montclair Jarvis Hall Academy 1867 Free 900 B V. Cissel “ Montclair 1892 Subs 10UO Clara E. Lowell Monte Vista Public School Morrison Public School J S Facie I nn Mosca Public School 1893 Tilmou Jenkins Ouray Public School 1885 Subs 200 C E Filkins Parachute School 1893 36 Chas. M Osbnrn Pueblo Central Block Law 1893 Subs 2175 Sara, M "R.eed 44 Central High School 1888 Free 200 P. W Search 44 D. & R. G. Employes 400 John Brunton 44 McClelland Public 1891 t; 4000 J. W Chapman 44 Public School, District No. 1 1882 tt 1000 Chas J Tjing 44 Public School, District No. 22 n 250 Mrs. M. K. Colbert 44 Teachers, District No. 1 1893 tt 40 Jas S Modim g 44 Y. M. C. A 1889 tt 350 G. C Huntington Red Cliff Red Cliff 1889 Subs 1000 Miss McCabe Rocky Ford Rocky Ford Free 1892 Free 300 J E Tonrf.elot.tfi Roswell Public School 1893 111 T, C Ormes Saguache Public School tt 150 O C Skinner Public tt 2000 Salida High School . . . 1885 Subs 450 Miss Clara L. Hamilton Silver Plume Free 100 It W Bullock Steamboat Spr’gs Denison 1891 1000 Rev. J. Wallace Gunn. Sterling Sterling Town 10o Frank Smith Telluride Circulating Subs 700 II Woodall Trinidad Free Public Free 8000 J W i n so r 44 Public School 300 E t C Stevens Teachers’ 75 E C Stevens Tillotson Academy 1000 E. Floyd University Park. University of Denver 1885 Free 3500 Louise Foucar Villa Grove Public School 100 O. C. Skinner Villa Park Public School 44 Walsenburg Huerfano County Library Ass’n 1889 Subs 3 0| Nelson Rhoades, Jr. .. Westcliffe Public School 1386 200 J. W. Scott 423,874 WORK IN A LIBRARY. J. C. DANA. [ Part of a Talk before the Teachers of Denver , March 3 , 1894. ] It is still the common belief that if one has a pretty taste for books and is so well posted that she knows that John Milton and Augusta Evans Wil- son are both dead, and that Ben Hur did not write the “Fair God,” then is she excellently equipped for library work. It must be a pleasure, they tell us, to be able to buy so many nice books and then just to sit back and read ’em. 1 propose to give, as briefly as may be, an outline of one part only of the work of the librarian, — the buying of a book and the putting it on the shelf. This is a process that rarely comes to the attention of the public. It is not the part of the running of a library that arises most to the surface. To the public it is unimportant and would generally be said to call for little la- bor and less skill. The librarian of a growing library, growing in size and the number of its users, selects and purchases, let us say, three to six thousand volumes per year. To do this properly he has ac- quainted himself, through ten to twenty-five years of rather constant reading, with a few of the leading facts in English and American literature. (I am referring to librarians as I learn of them through their reports and their journals.*) He not only knows about certain authors, perhaps a good *The Library Journal, monthly, the official or- gan of the American Library Association. Chiefly devoted to library economy and bibliography. $5 a year. 28 Elm St., New York. This journal is easily the first in the world of its kind. Every librarian should have it and read it, no matter how modest his library. many, and their works; he knows, also, something of their relative standing in the world of letters. And his ac- quaintance extends beyond the field of literature, properly so-called, into the fields of science, philosophy, art and religion. He can tell in a general way of the merits and demerits of some of the more prominent produc- tions in these lines. In addition to this general literary knowledge of men and their books he has a large fund of catalogue knowledge. He knows to what books to turn to find answers to these questions: 1. Has a certain man written any books? What are they? Who pub- lished them? What do they cost? Have they any value? 2. Was ever a book printed with this or that title? Who wrote it? Who published it? What does it cost? Is it good in its line? 3. What books have been written on a certain subject? By whom? Pub- lished by whom? What is their cost? Which of them are the most relia- ble? _ This bibliographical knowledge, it should be noted, is not primarily or directly knowledge of books, but of the vast library of books about books. Some one, not very well acquainted, perhaps, with the possibilities of the English language, once said something about the advisableness, would you im- prove your style, of spending days and nights in the study of Addison. So I might say that would the librarian properly extend his bookishness he must spend his days and nights in the reading of book catalogues. He is perhaps not a true librarian who does not prefer the latest catalogue to the latest novel. To the bookman proper books are very pleasant as an occasion- al pastime; catalogues are daily food. This reading of literature and this bibliographical study, give one infor- mation about the books that were written twenty, forty, fifty, a thousand years ago. To-day, in the growing li- brary, the careful buyer must keep himself informed as to books pub- lished this morning. To do this he must read current books and criticisms. We all know where Marion Crawford stands, let us say, and can tell pretty accurately what his next book will be like before it is printed, how thin it will be; how many literary-soda-water inebriates will grab for it. But who shall tell us of Sarah Grand and the ‘‘Heavenly Twins?” The good critics try to. So the li- brary man patiently, not to say eager- ly, if he is to the manner born, patient- ly goes through the “Critic,” and the “Dial,” and the “Book-Buyer,” and the “Publishers’ Weekly,” and the “Publishers’ Circular,” and “Book News,” and “Book Chat,” and the “Nation,” and the “Atlantic,” and perhaps the London “Spectator,” and “Speaker,” and “Athenaeum,’ and “Academy, and a few other such lit- erary journals, as they come each week and month, with occasional excursions into the book notices in technical journals and magazines on electricity, mining, railroads andscience in general. This book notice and catalogue read- ing the librarian does, you understand, jTThe Critic,” a weekly review of literature and art, 289 Fourth Ave., New York, M a year. “The Dial,” a semi-monthly journal of literary criticism, discussion and information. 24 Adams St., Chicago. $-2 a year. “The Book Buyer,” a monthly summary of American and foreign literature. ^$1 a year. Scrib- ners’ Sons, New York. “The Publishers’ Weekly,” the. American book trade journal. (Indispensable to the book buyer.) $5 a year. 28 Elm St., New York. “The Publishers’ Circular,” weekly, booksellers’ record of British and foreign literature, l Is a year. Low, Marston & Co., London. “Book News,” monthly, information about new books, scope, worth, prices. 50c a year. John Wanamaker. Phila. (Excellent for the price.) “Book Chat,” monthly, notes on new books.and index to magazine articles. $1 a year. Brentano’s, 5 Union Square, N. Y. “The Nation,” weekly, devoted to politics, liter- ature, science and art. (The best of its kind.) *3 a year. Box 794, New York. The above list includes only a few of the many good journals devoted largely or entirely to books and authors. If one does much reading he can well afford to subscribe to one or two of them. If one buys books for a library, if only a few in a year, he can not afford not to read several of them. between whiles. It is not his work; it is his pastime. He reads, or has read, as everybody well knows, all the books already pur- chased and on the shelves. He oversees the daily work in the library. He answers questions, or tries to, about the color of Lowell’s hair when he was a boy, and the age of the cliff- dwellings, and the virtues of the income tax, and the position of the center of the universe. He looks after the library ac- counts. He quells public insurrec- tions arising from an assistant’s refusal to permit some one to carry off the whole library at once. He writes and answers innumerable letters and makes himself useful in a variety of other ways. Meantime and between whiles he endeavors to keep informed as to Dr. Chas. R. Briggs’s latest denial. Prof. Ely’s last economic sweetmeats, the differences, if any, between “Dodo” and “Dora Thorne,” etc. , etc. But with all his reading and study he is not yet ready to buy the books for his library. He must first take into consideration not simply the standing of the book among other books of its class, and its fitness to fill out a weak place in the library, and the condition of the finances of the library, — he must especially keep in mind the character of the constitu- ency of the library, the number of adults and juveniles in it, its degree of intelligence, its probable rate of increase, the general character of the community, and its leading occupa tions and interests; the stage of growth of the library — is it seeking friends and readers or can it afford to buy the best books even though at present they do not attract new readers? All these things and others does he bear in mind. And he is perhaps fairly ready now to decide to buy a book. He has met in his reading, to take a specific example, a note to the effect that Macmillan & Co. are to publish soon a history of the United States by Goldwin Smith. lie already knows in a general way who Goldwin Smith is. He is sure that “An Outline of Politi- cal History of the United States” by him will be worth reading. He is well aware that the department of United States history in the library has always been too small for the calls made on it. A one volume political history of the United States in these times of great interest, on the part of both sexes, in political matters, will be very acceptable. On a slip of paper kept for the pur- pose he makes an entry thus: ‘‘Smith, Goldwin. History of U. S., Macm. ’93. $2.00.” This is filed with others containing entries of other books feprtt . ^3 'YVvaXK. ( r \X/^jjjuL