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 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
 
 ROBERT J. ROULSTON, President 
 
 GEORGE B. AR^ISTRONG, Vice-President 
 
 GRAHAM TAYLOR 
 
 JULIUS STERN 
 
 ANTONIO LAGORIO 
 
 FREDERICK H. RAWSON 
 
 MORTIMER FRANK 
 
 HENRY V. FREEMAN 
 
 HORATIO L. WAIT 
 
 HARRY G. WILSON, Secretary 
 HENRY E. LEGLER, Librarian 
 

 The Chicago Public Library p, ^ 
 
 The Chicago Pubhc Library is a free pubHc institu- 
 tion, estabhshed under the lUinois Hbrary law of 1872, 
 and maintained by the city as part of its pubhc educa- 
 tional system. It derives its revenue from an annual 
 library tax of approximately four-tenths of a mill, and is 
 governed by a Board of Directors of nine members ap- 
 pointed by the JNIayor and holding office for three years. 
 It is housed in a building built entirely at the public ex- 
 pense, which ranks among the largest and finest library 
 buildings in the country. It is accessibly situated on a 
 tract of public land half a square in extent, on ]\Iichigan 
 boulevard, fronting eastward upon Grant Park, at a point 
 almost equidistant from the north and south Hmits of the 
 city. 
 
 The Library owes its origin to a movement started in 
 England, after the great fire, by Thomas Hughes, the 
 famous author of 'Tom Brown's School Days." Mr. 
 Hughes and those associated with him made an appeal to 
 authors, publishers, scientific societies, and literary insti- 
 tutions of Great Britain, which resulted in the donation 
 of about 7,000 volumes. These books, each of which bore 
 a book-plate stating that it was presented to the city of 
 Chicago toward the formation of a free library, after the 
 great fire of 1871, as a mark of English sympathy, formed 
 the nucleus of the Chicago Public Library. When the 
 donation w^as received in Chicago in 1872, the books were 
 temporarily stored in the 'Tank," a part of the tempor- 
 ary city hall building, known as the ^'Rookery," at Adams 
 
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 and LaSalle streets. On January 1, 1873, a reading-room 
 was opened in the third story of the City Hall, adjacent 
 to and connected with the "Tank." 'Mr. W. B. Wicker- 
 sham, who had been appointed secretary on July 20, 18T2, 
 was placed in charge. On October 25, 18T3, Dr. William 
 F. Poole w-as appointed librarian, a position that he held 
 until August 1, 1887, when he resigned to take charge 
 of the Xewberry Library. Mr. Frederick H. Hild was 
 appointed to succeed him on October 15, 1887, and was 
 succeeded by Mr. Henry E. Legler, the present librarian, 
 October 11, 1909. 
 
 On Alarch 16, 1874, the Library was removed to the 
 southeast corner of ^ladison street and Wabash avenue, 
 v\diere the circulating department was opened on May 1, 
 1874, with 17,355 volumes. On ]\Iay 27, 1875, the Li- 
 brary was removed to the third and fourth floors of the 
 Dickey building, at the southwest corner of Lake and 
 Dearborn streets, where it remained until Alay 24, 188G, 
 wdien it again found new quarters in the fourth story of 
 the City Hall, to accommodate its 120,000 volumes. Here 
 it remained until the removal, in September, 1897, to its 
 permanent home in the new building. 
 
 The Chicago Public Library building occupies the rec- 
 tangular site formerly known as Dearborn Park, bounded 
 by iMichigan avenue, W^ashington street. Garland court, 
 and Randolph street, its longest facade being on the 
 avenue, wdth a court in the rear for future extensions. 
 Its extreme dimensions are 352 1/2 by 146 1/3 feet, and 
 the top of its cornice is 90 feet above the sidewalk, ex- 
 clusive of the crowning balustrade. It contains three 
 
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 principal stories, with two intermediate floors and a base- 
 ment. 
 
 The exterior is of Bedford Hmestone with a granite 
 base. The foundation rests on piles, the tops of which 
 are driven to an average depth of 74 feet below the side- 
 walk. The walls are of solid masonry construction, and 
 the floors are of steel beams and hollow tile arches. The 
 building is practically incombustible. 
 
 The general treatment of the exterior of the building 
 is a harmonious combination of various styles of archi- 
 tecture, the lower part being in the neo-Greek stvle with 
 wide arched windows, and the upper part in Grecian style 
 with pillars and columns separated by windows. The 
 entablature is of pronounced Roman character, with 
 heavy projecting garlands and lions' heads sculptured on 
 the frieze. The two entrances to the building vary great- 
 ly in style, the Washington street entrance being a wide 
 arched portal leading directly to the grand staircase hall, 
 \yhi\e the Randolph street entrance is a portico with mas- 
 sive Greek columns before the three doorways opening 
 into a spacious corridor, with the north staircase and ele- 
 vators leading to the Grand Army Memorial Hall and the 
 reading-rooms above. Entering the building from Wash- 
 ington street, the visitor finds himself at once under the 
 massive elliptical arch of the main staircase, at the foot 
 of which, embedded in the green and white mosaic tloc^r, 
 is a large bronze replica of the corporate seal of Cliicago. 
 The ascent is by means of wide marble steps, with bal- 
 conies at easy distances, and ends in the Delivery Room, 
 which is entered by three open archways at the top land- 
 ing. Italian statuary marble from the famous quarries 
 
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 of Carrara is used in this portion of the Iniilding, richly 
 inlaid with mosaics of glass, mother-of-pearl, and semi- 
 precious stones, and in the balustrades on the staircase, 
 with small centerpieces of the rare and beautiful Con- 
 nemara marble. On the third-floor landing panels of 
 mosaic design, with suitable inscriptions and the names 
 of great writers, are set in the walls. 
 
 The Delivery Room proper, which extends across the 
 entire width of the building, with a length of 134 and a 
 depth of 48 feet, is divided into three parts by a rotunda 
 in the center, surmounted by a beautiful stained-glass 
 dome. Elliptical arches rise from the marble piers at the 
 four corners, and the walls above are elaborately covered 
 with mosaics, into which are worked the devices of the 
 early printers and other appropriate designs. The wings 
 ot the Delivery Room are wainscoted in Carrara marble, 
 above which extends a frieze of glass mosaic, containing 
 large panels of green serpentine marble inlaid with white 
 inscriptions in ten different languages, and also in various 
 characters, from Egyptian hieroglyphics to modern 
 Roman. Four large book-rooms, equipped with three- 
 deck steel stacks with glass floors, and having a capacity 
 of 350,000 volumes, open directly into the Delivery Room. 
 The west end of the room comprises the Open Shelf De- 
 partment, and the corresponding east end is occupied by 
 the Registry Department. The Information Desk and 
 tables for the users of finding lists are also located here. 
 On this floor, also, are the administrative rooms of the 
 Library. 
 
 The floor above is occupied by the Reference and 
 Reading Rooms. The former room, 138 feet long, 38 
 
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 feet wide, and 30 feet high, with accommodations for 225 
 readers, is situated on the east front of the building, and 
 is directly over the book-rooms, with which it is con- 
 nected by means of automatic electric lifts, thus insur- 
 ing rapid service. It is reached from the south staircase 
 by a long corridor, and adjoining it on the south are the 
 public card catalogue room, the room for special stu- 
 dents, and a three-story stack room for bound periodicals. 
 Here the scheme of decoration is much less elaborate than 
 on the floor below, the only noticeable coloring being in 
 the low wainscoting and baseboards of beautifully mot- 
 tled Siena marble. On the top floor, at the south end, 
 are the exhibit rooms and the rooms for art books. 
 
 The great Reading Room for periodicals and news- 
 papers, 142 feet long and 55 feet wide, seating 450 read- 
 ers, occupies the entire north front of the building on the 
 fourth floor, adjoining the Reference Room. Richly 
 decorated in warm browns and greens, with verde-an- 
 tique marble pilasters and wainscoting, this is one of the 
 most imposing rooms of the building. Directly under it. 
 and of nearly the same dimensions, is the Grand Army 
 Memorial Hall, a splendid and dignified apartment, in 
 which again the deep green of the verde-antique marble, 
 combined with the general color scheme of red and 
 brown, produces an effect of great beauty. Plaster re- 
 liefs of ancient accoutrements of war are introduced in 
 the frieze, flag-cases of bronze are placed at intervals 
 around the room, and cases for relics occupy the center 
 oi the hall. The handsome lobby leading into the hall is 
 lighted by a dome similar to that at the south end of the 
 building. Council rooms and antc-cham1)crs, all luxur- 
 
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 iously furnished, complete the suite occupied by the local 
 posts of the G. A. R. The remaining rooms of the 1)uil(l- 
 ing have been finished with a view to their utility rather 
 than for artistic effect, though the heavily veined pink 
 Tennessee marble used in the north staircase, and in all 
 subsidiary corridors and rooms, is not without attractive- 
 ness. 
 
 The Library building contains a complete mechanical 
 equipment for the generation of light, heat, and power. 
 The devices for washing the air used in ventilating the 
 building and the apparatus for distributing the same are 
 modern and up-to-date. The elevators in the building are 
 operated by electricity generated on the premises, and 
 there is special provision for protection against damage 
 from f^re which might break out in the buildings west 
 and north of the Library. 
 
 The cost of the building was about $2,000,000, which 
 - includes the furniture, book stacks, and machinery. To 
 Mr. Charles A. Coolidge, then resident member of tlie 
 firm of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, is chiefly due the 
 credit for the design and construction of the buddmg 
 and for its decorations. 
 
 ' On January 1, 1911, the Library contained 110,000 vol- 
 umes and about 75,000 unbound pamphlets. The annual 
 expenditure for the maintenance and operation of the 
 Library is about $350,000. The number of employees 
 in all the departments is 260. 
 
 How to Become a Book-borrower.— The right o 
 drawing books from the Public Library belongs to all 
 who reside in the city of Chicago, and also to those who 
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 Cook County and are regularly employed in the city. In 
 order to become a book-borrower it is necessary only to 
 file an application giving the name and residence of the 
 applicant and bearing the signature of a second person, 
 who must be an actual resident of the city, appearing 
 as such in the latest city directory. This person becomes 
 the "guarantor" to the Library for the proper observance 
 of the library regulations on the part of the applicant. 
 These regulations merely provide that books drawn for 
 home use must be returned within the stated period, and 
 must not be defaced or injured. It is therefore a simple 
 matter to find a friend, a neighbor, or an employer who 
 will co-operate to this extent with any one desiring to 
 use the Public Library. 
 
 The cards that are issued to the appHcant, after due 
 examination of his application, entitle him to draw two 
 books, w^hich may be retained for two weeks, and may 
 be renewed for the same period. The cards remain in 
 efifect for three years from the date of registration, at 
 the expiration of which term a new application must be 
 filed. 
 
 What the Library has to Offer.— The 425,000 vol- 
 umes which are contained in the Chicago Public Library 
 may be broadly classified as follows : 
 
 Histor}^, biograph}', and travels . . . 53,000 
 
 Fine and practical arts, and sciences . . 47,000 
 
 Poetry, drama, essays ..... 14,300 
 
 Mental and moral science, religion . . 14,500 
 
 Language, literature, bibliography . . . 18,500 
 
 Political and social science .... 14,000 
 
 Dictionaries and encyclopaedias . . . 6,500 
 
 Periodicals and newspapers .... 47,000 
 
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 25,000 
 
 Government and state publications . 
 
 English prose fiction, and juvenile . . . 126,000 
 
 Books in foreign languages .... 58,000 
 
 Books for the blind ..... 1,200 
 
 A somewhat closer analysis will reveal the especial 
 strength of its collections in certain departments, de- 
 veloped to a higher degree of completeness than the rest, 
 without, however, impairing the efficiency of the general 
 library. 
 
 Foremost among these is the department of American 
 history, general and local, American travel and biography 
 and the whole range of topics included in the term 
 ''Americana," comprising accounts of early voyages of 
 discovery and exploration, narratives of early settlers, 
 the history of the American Indians, and the history of 
 all sections of the country; of states, counties, and cities, 
 together with a very large and complete collection of Civil 
 War literature, including the regimental histories of hun- 
 dreds of the volunteer regiments. 
 
 Another department to which particular attention has 
 been given is that of the fine and the industrial arts, em- 
 bracing painting and sculpture, the theory and practice 
 of the arts, architecture, design, decoration and orna- 
 ment, tapestry, furniture, costume, ceramics, photography, 
 illumination of manuscripts, printing, illustration, and 
 bookbinding, and many other branches of the arts and 
 crafts. Reproduced in sumptuous volumes, preserving 
 all their original beauty of color and detail, the works of 
 the masters are here made available for the guidance of 
 teacher and student, and the inspiration of artisan and 
 amateur. 
 
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 Almost equally strong are the resources of the Public 
 Library in the departments of the useful arts, technology, 
 natural science, and kindred subjects; particular atten- 
 tion being given to the popular side of these studies, to 
 books designed for younger readers, and to works adapted 
 for home study and use by the layman; leaving to Chi- 
 cago's great scientific library, the John Crerar, the task 
 for which it was specially organized, of providing for the 
 expert and the practitioner. In English drama, also, the 
 Library is unusually rich, while its Shakespeare literature 
 is so voluminous and so important that it has been made 
 the subject of a special bulletin, recording, among other 
 things, no less than fifty editions of that author's com- 
 plete works in^seven languages. 
 
 Worthy of mention, too, are the periodical section 
 (47,000 volumes), comprising many volumes and com- 
 plete sets of great value and rarity, and the foreign 
 section, with its large and well-chosen collection of dis- 
 tinguished writers, among which the literatures of fifteen 
 European peoples are represented. 
 
 It is unnecessary to add, that in developing these speci- 
 fic collections, the symmetry and usefulness of the Li- 
 brary as a general repository has not been allowed to 
 sufifer. Keeping abreast of the times and the latest liter- 
 ature in all departments, it aims to serve all its patrons 
 impartially, and to be able to offer something to every 
 one who comes in good faith to use and profit by its 
 treasures. 
 
 Drawing Books for Home Use. — Having obtained 
 a card after the manner described, it is necessary to be- 
 come familiar with the method by which books may be 
 
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 drawn for home use. This is exceedingly simple, and re- 
 quires little explanation. 
 
 As guides to the literature on its shelves, the Lil)rary 
 publishes finding lists, each embracing the works in a 
 particular class or group of classes : History and Biology, 
 Fiction and Juvenile, German Literature, French Litera- 
 ture, etc. These finding lists, which may be consulted 
 at the main Library and at the stations, or may be pur- 
 chased at prices ranging from five to fifteen cents, give 
 the authors and titles of the books, in alphabetical order 
 under each subhead, together with a letter and number 
 annexed to each title, which is the Library shelf mark 
 for the book in question. Having made a selection of 
 books that one desires to read, the letter and number 
 (not the author's name or title) are written an a slip, 
 which is handed to a clerk in the Delivery Room.* The 
 first book found is brought and charged to the borrower 
 on his borrower's card, which is stamped with the date 
 oi issue. Books so drawn may be retained for fourteen 
 days. If at the end of that period the borrower desires 
 the same book for a longer time, he may have it "re- 
 newed" by presenting his card at the receiving desk or 
 at the nearest delivery station, and having it re-stamped. 
 This allows the book to be kept for a further period of 
 two weeks. But a fine of three cents per day is charged 
 against every borrower who retains a book longer than 
 the stated period without having secured a renewal, it 
 should also be noted that there are some books, recently 
 
 *In the Open Shelf Room and in all the branches, patrons 
 make selection by personal examination of books on the shelves, 
 to which they are given unrestricted access. 
 
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 purchased and in great demand, which may be kept for 
 seven days only, and may not be renewed. They bear a 
 label to this effect on the front cover. 
 
 While only one book is issued upon each card, a pa- 
 tron may secure the use of a number of books at one 
 time by presenting the cards of friends or relatives, as 
 the use of the cards is not limited to the registered hold- 
 ers only. The latter, however, remain responsible for 
 any delinquency. A special card is issued to the teachers 
 in public or parochial schools, enabling them to draw as 
 many as six books at one time for use in the work of the 
 school. Special groups of books for use without renewal 
 for periods of six weeks, and classroom libraries of fifty 
 volumes each which may be retained six months, are also 
 provided. 
 
 The Delivery Stations. — Mention has been made of 
 the delivery stations, by means of which the Library 
 reaches many readers in remote sections of the city who 
 could scarcely be supplied at the main Library. These 
 stations are established in small shops, under the care of 
 the shop-keepers, wdio are paid for their services. The 
 service is interchangeable. A borrower, having drawn 
 a book at the main Library, may return it at a station, 
 and vice versa, or he may draw books at one station and 
 return them at another. Order lists for books may be 
 left at any delivery station by any card-holder. These 
 lists are sent to the Library and books are returned by 
 automobiles making daily deliveries. New cards are also 
 issued through the stations, and finding lists arc on file 
 to aid patrons in making their selections. There are at 
 present ninety-three delivery stations maintained at con- 
 
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 venient points throughout the city, from Rogers Park 
 on the north, to South Chicago and west to Austin. This 
 service is entirely free to card-holders. 
 
 The Reference Department. — Co-ordinate with the 
 Delivery and Stations Departments, whose mission it is 
 to supply books for home reading, is the Reference De- 
 partment, designed to serve and assist readers who may 
 come to pursue their studies within the Library building. 
 This department controls the entire resources of the Li- 
 brary. No card or guaranty of any sort is required, the 
 only condition being that books shall not be taken from 
 the room. All books that circulate for home use may 
 be used here, and in addition many thousands of volumes 
 not adapted to general circulation, by reason of their 
 size, their costliness, or their rarity, are at the free dis- 
 posal of the patrons of this department. A staff of 
 trained assistants is ready to lend aid, whether wants in- 
 volve the selection of a course of reading, the prepara- 
 tion of an essay or a thesis for the school, the study- 
 class, or the club, or merely the answer to a single ques- 
 tion, the source of a quotation, or the portrait of a celeb- 
 rity. But most of all, the Reference Department oft'ers 
 opportunities to the enterprising student for acquiring 
 such familiarity with books and with bibliographical tools 
 and "books about books'' as will quickly render him in- 
 dependent of the services of the staff', and inspire him 
 with a degree of self-confidence and satisfaction that will 
 add greatly to the pleasure and profit of his studies. 
 
 On the open shelves which line the entire west wall of 
 the Reference Room he will find, freely at his disposal, 
 about 2,000 volumes of reference books, comprising the 
 
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 standard dictionaries and handbooks in all departments 
 of knowledge, general encyclopaedias in English, JM-encli. 
 German, Spanish, Scandinavian, and Bohemian, diction- 
 aries of the classical and of all the modern languages, 
 guides to history, literature, science, art, and religion, 
 biographical dictionaries, directories of the principal cit- 
 ies, and many other works of general information. In 
 addition, he will soon learn to use and value the man\- 
 bibliographies, readers' aids, and indexes helpful to the 
 student, which may here be consulted. With the idea of 
 directing his attention to this highly useful class of time 
 and labor saving works, the titles of a few of the most 
 comprehensive may be mentioned. 
 
 The most inclusive are the annual lists of all books 
 published in various countries. The American Catalogue 
 and its predecessors cover this field for American pub- 
 lications ; the United States Catalogue gives a list of all 
 American books now in print. The English Catalogue. 
 1835 to date, Kayser's Biicherlexicon, 1T5()-11)UG, and 
 Lorenz's Catalogue General de la Librairie Francaise, 
 1840-1905, with their continuations, are the correspond- 
 ing publications for England, Germany and France, re- 
 spectively. The immense mass of valuable matter cur- 
 rently appearing in periodicals is admirably indexed and 
 digested in the w^ell-known Poole's Index, covering tlie 
 period from 1802 to 190(3, and continued in the Annual 
 Literary Index, the Magazine Index, and the Readers' 
 Guide to Periodical Literature, which keep the Poole in- 
 dex closely up to date. The A. L. A. Index to General 
 Literature is a useful key to books made up of collec- 
 tions of articles upon many subjects, and as a help in 
 
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 finding a fugitive essay or sketch. It gives references to 
 countless titles, dealing with a variety of topics hidden in 
 the collected works of writers or in volumes of miscel- 
 laneous essays. Sonnensche-'n's ''Best Books" and "A 
 Reader's Guide" are excellent aids in the choice of hooks. 
 Larned's "Literature of American History" is a hihlio- 
 graphy of American historical literature, annotated and 
 appraised by a group of experts, and puljlished Ijy the 
 American Library Association. Similar bibliographies, 
 of varying excellence, exist for many other branches of 
 literature. A useful guide to these and to reference 
 books generally is the Kroeger's "Guide to the Study and 
 L^se of Reference Books." This excellent manual will 
 give the student a very clear view of the best of the 
 helps ready at his hand, and will inevitably lead liim to 
 cultivate a closer acquaintance with them. All of these 
 works are to be found in the Reference Department of 
 this Library. 
 
 The Public Card Catalogue. — One of the great and 
 indispensable aids to the usefulness of a large library is 
 a complete and properly arranged catalogue. Printed 
 finding lists, while possessing many advantages of econ- 
 omy and convenience, have distinct limitations ; the new- 
 est books can never be included; each successive list is 
 "out of date" almost in the week of its issue, and a con- 
 stantly multiplying number of supplements becomes a 
 hindrance rather than a help. To overcome this diffi- 
 culty, libraries have for many years availed themselves 
 of the "card system," now so generally used in business, 
 and the library card catalogue, easily kept up by the ad.- 
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 shelves, is always the final and most complete key to its 
 resources. The card catalogue of the Chicago Public 
 Library which is open for the public use is situated in 
 a room immediately adjoining the large Reference Room, 
 on the fourth floor. It is contained in two large cases, 
 aggregating over 1,000 drawers, and comprises over 500,- 
 000 cards. It is arranged strictly in one alphabetical se- 
 quence, from A to Z, and contains references, to every 
 book in the library, (1) by its author's name, (2) by its 
 title, and (3) by the subjects of which it treats. A reader 
 who desires to find the number of a book entitled "The 
 Russian Advance," without knowing the name of its 
 author, has only to look through the cards under "Rus- 
 sian," where he will find a card which tells him that this 
 book bears the shelf number I, 8425 in this library, and 
 that it is the work of Albert J. Beveridge. In exactly 
 similar manner the reader who remembers that Senator 
 Beveridge has written a book about Russian interests 
 ill the Far East, the title of which he cannot recall, will 
 find the card under Beveridge, which gives him the in- 
 formation he is seeking. Again, the student of the East- 
 ern question, or of the economic conditions of Russia, 
 will find cards under these headings for the same book. 
 In this manner the contents of the Library have been 
 indexed, carefully and exhaustively, and withal so simply 
 that it requires no more skill to find an author, title, or 
 subject in the card catalogue than to find a name in a 
 directory or a word in a cUctionary. 
 
 The Art Room. — This room, auxiliary to the refer- 
 ence department, contains not solely books on "art." but 
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 works, editions de luxe, and all books that by reason of 
 their rarity, their costliness, or their beauty require spe- 
 cial care and somewhat closer supervision in their use 
 than is exacted in other departments of the Library. 
 Among the expensive products of modern book-making 
 there are many volumes, indispensable to the equipment 
 ot a large public library, whose use is necessarily sur- 
 rounded with certain precautions, requiring special fa- 
 cilities. For the accommodation of such, the Art Room 
 was established. Here are portfolios of beautiful en- 
 gravings, copies of the treasures of the world's great gal- 
 leries, the finest products of the modern graphic arts, 
 costly works on painting, pottery, costume, furniture, 
 gold and silver-smithing, and many other departments of 
 art work. Here artist and student, designer, and dilet- 
 tante congregate to derive instruction and inspiration 
 from the splendid collections assembled for their use. 
 Excellently lighted, commodious and quiet, this room is 
 in every detail admirably adapted to its functions, and 
 forms one of the most interesting departments of the 
 Library. 
 
 In connection with the Art Room accommodations 
 have been provided for those who desire to use cameras 
 for the purpose of copying pictures, or, as is frequently 
 done, to secure fac-similes of printed pages of some of 
 the rare works in the library. 
 
 The Young People's Rooms. — The well-grounded 
 conviction among librarians that one of the wisest and 
 most far-reaching of a library's activities is that of in- 
 teresting and providing for the younger element in its 
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 for the Public Library's early benefactor, himself the 
 author of a juvenile classic. Conducted as a reading 
 room, and adjacent to the adult reference room, on the 
 fourth floor, administered by a special staff, and equipped 
 with a carefully chosen collection of books, this room 
 is planned to meet the demands and the desires of the 
 juvenile patrons of the main Library; to offer aid and 
 counsel in the preparation of school work, essays, and 
 debates ; to direct and attract their tastes toward whole- 
 some and sane channels ; and perhaps incidentally, to 
 provide a pleasant and inviting retreat for the scant leis- 
 ure of the great army of juvenile bread-winners em- 
 ployed within the radius of a mile from the Library. In 
 the small hall adjoining, occasional illustrated lectures, 
 talks, and readings are given, and reference is made to 
 the available literature of the subjects treated, by way of 
 teaching the use and value of books in daily life. Oral 
 story-telling, a method of interesting children w^hich has 
 been adopted with great success by libraries, is employed 
 niore freely in the numerous branch reading rooms estab- 
 lished in the residence districts than in the Thomas 
 Hughes Room, since the patronage of the latter is. nat- 
 urally and properly, limited to older children, and no ef- 
 fort is made to attract the very young to the central build- 
 ing '*dow^n town." 
 
 The Reading Room.— The Reading Room for cur- 
 rent periodicals is one of the largest rooms in the build- 
 ing occupying the entire north front on the fourth tloor. 
 Nearly twelve hundred publications are regularly received 
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 and English periodicals, reviews, and weeklies, a selec- 
 tion of the best publications in German, French, and other 
 continental languages, and daily newspapers from every 
 important city in the United States and every capital 
 and many other cities of Europe. Trade and professional 
 journals of many kinds are also included. Files of all 
 periodicals, dating back to the beginning of the current 
 year, may be consulted in this department. The bound 
 volumes of earlier years are kept in the Reference De- 
 partment. 
 
 Files of bound newspapers are stored in a special room 
 on the first floor, and may be had for reference in the 
 Patents and Documents Department. 
 
 Patents and Documents Department. — The contents 
 of this department, as its name implies, include the re- 
 ports of patents granted for inventions in the United 
 wStates since 1790, in Great Britian since 1617, Germany 
 since the foundation of the empire, France since the time 
 of Napoleon I, and Canada since 1873. Copyright and 
 trade-mark records of the United States and Great Brit- 
 ain are also to be found here. These publications, num- 
 bering thousands of volumes, many of them high-priced 
 and scarce, are of exceeding importance to inventors and 
 patent solicitors in determining priority of invention or 
 the state of the arts. Much of the patronage of the de- 
 partment is composed of this class. 
 
 The Chicago PubHc Library is a ''depository library" 
 designated to receive all government publications as is- 
 sued. These embrace the complete journals of the trans 
 actions of Congress, the messages of the Presidents, re- 
 ports of the various departments and bureaus, and an 
 
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 immense mass of special documents as well as accounts 
 of first-hand investigations and experiments conducted 
 by government experts in all the various fields and 
 branches of political, industrial, and scientific activity 
 covered by our national government. Added to these 
 are the publications of many of the states of the Union, 
 and of foreign countries, frequently of the highest value. 
 The mining reports of some of the western states are 
 veritable text-books of mineralogy; the agricultural re- 
 ports give at first hand the results of experiments in the 
 production of crops and the conditions of climate, soil, 
 and water in various sections. The British government 
 has issued several splendid series of reprints from its 
 archives, which are invaluable to the student. All these, 
 and many more, are to be had in this department. This 
 room has also been made the repository of a valuable 
 collection of early Chicago newspapers, dating back to 
 the days of small beginnings. Complete files of many 
 ci the dailies of the city, of the London Times since 1873, 
 with partial sets of a few New York papers, containing 
 such interesting matter as the contemporary newspaper 
 record of the Civil War and other historical events, are 
 included in this collection. 
 
 Books for the Blind. — The Library possesses an at- 
 tractive collection of 1,200 volumes of books for the 
 blind, including two current monthly magazines, printed 
 ill four systems of raised characters, known as the Moon, 
 Braille, American Line, and New York Point systems. 
 These books may be used in the Patents and Documents 
 Department, and may be drawn for home reading from 
 the main library or through the Delivery stations. A 
 
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 special catalogue of these books, with annual additions, 
 may be had at the main library and at all its branches. 
 
 The Branch Reading Rooms.— The wide distribu- 
 tion of Chicago's population has made it necessary to 
 provide small branch or deposit libraries in the residence 
 districts, thus, in a measure, carrying the benefits of the 
 Library to those who cannot conveniently come to it. 
 These are established at convenient points throughout 
 the city and were formerly housed in rented quarters, 
 frequently in narrow stores which possess the one ad- 
 vantage of being the only procurable space in the neigh- 
 borhood. But arrangements recently made with park 
 boards have enabled the Library to install attractive little 
 reading rooms in suitable quarters set aside in the field 
 houses of many of the small parks that are being created 
 ill congested sections. These small segments of the Pub- 
 lic Library, each containing from one to three thousand 
 volumes are open daily from 1 o'clock to 9 p. m. A good- 
 l)- portion of well-chosen juvenile books serves to at- 
 tract the children of the neighborhood, whose interest is 
 further enlisted by means of an occasional story hour, 
 when stories of the famous myths and heroes of other 
 times and climes are told by an expert children's librarian. 
 An assortment of current periodicals, usually selected 
 with reference to the nationalities of the vicinity, is kept 
 on file, and a delivery station is maintained in connection 
 with each branch reading room. By agreement with the 
 Board of Education the Library has opened two branch 
 reading rooms in public school buildings, where quarters, 
 suitably and accessibly situated, and supplied with light 
 and heat, were tendered by the School board, the Library 
 
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 board undertaking to provide the books and supervision. 
 These rooms serve the double purpose of libraries for 
 the schools and reading rooms for the general public, the 
 hours of opening being the same as those for the other 
 reading rooms. A full list of the branch reading rooms 
 will be found in the appendix. 
 
 The T. B. Blackstone Memorial Branch Library.— 
 This beautiful structure is worthy of particular mention, 
 not only because it is one of the finest and costliest library 
 buildings of its size in the world, but also because it 
 marks the beginning of the branch library system in Chi- 
 cago. The location is a triangular lot at the intersection 
 of Lake and Washington avenues and Forty-ninth street. 
 The building covers a rectangular space of 100 by 45 
 feet, with entrance on Lake avenue. It is constructed of 
 white granite in the pure Ionic-Grecian style, modeled 
 after the famous Erectheum at Athens. The interior em- 
 bodies a book-room on the left, with a capacity of 20,000 
 volumes, a reading room on the right, and a small read- 
 ing room for young people at the rear, all opening from 
 a rotunda that is finished in pure Italian statuary marble, 
 and is surmounted by a dome embellished with deco- 
 rative panels by Oliver Dannatt Grover. The interior 
 finish is of the finest mahogany and marble, the book- 
 stacks being constructed of bronze, with mahogany 
 shelves. The structure, fully equipped, together with the 
 lot on wdiich it stands, were the gift of Mrs. T. B. Black- 
 stone, in memory of the late Timothy B. Blackstone, a 
 prominent and wealthy citizen of Chicago. It is operated 
 as a branch library, having some 15,000 volumes on its 
 shelves, which are circulated for home service, or may be 
 
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 used in the beautiful reading room in the building. Di- 
 rect connection with the central Library is secured by 
 means of a telephone and a deHvery station, so that books 
 required for a special purpose may be quickly transferred 
 from the larger collection. 
 
 The Library and the Public Schools.— What the Li- 
 brary can do for the public school depends largely upon 
 the degree of receptivity and interest manifested on the 
 part of principals, teachers, and pupils. The Library 
 now issues special cards to teachers, upon which six 
 books may be drawn at one time. It also honors requisi- 
 tions for large numbers of books for use in the school- 
 room, when made by the principals of high, grammar, 
 and primary schools. The books so issued will be con- 
 veyed between the Public Library and the respective 
 school buildings at the expense of the Board of Educa- 
 tion. 
 
 Through its Reference Department, the Library is 
 ready to assist teachers and pupils engaged in collateral 
 reading, in preparing essays or debates, and in looking 
 up references. Teachers are invited and urged to avail 
 themselves of the resources of this department at all 
 times, and especially to bring their classes whenever addi- 
 tional study or illustrative matter upon a given topic is 
 desired. Notification sent to the Library in advance of 
 such visit insures the reservation of specially assembled 
 collections of books upon any designated subject. The 
 attention of the older pupils, especially, should be called 
 to the Library and its resources, and the habit of inde- 
 pendent research should be encouraged and stimulated 
 whenever possible. As the Reference Department is open 
 
38 The Chicago Public Library 
 
 until 10 o'clock p. m., on every week day, the evening 
 hours would seem unusually convenient for teachers and 
 pupils of the higher grades, particularly as other demands 
 upon the staff are generally lighter at this time, and more 
 attention can be given to the individual students. 
 
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 NAMES AND INSCRIPTIONS IN THE 
 CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY 
 
 WASHINGTON STREET ENTRANCE 
 
 IRVING 
 
 LIVY 
 
 HAWTHORNE 
 
 HORACE 
 
 BRYANT 
 
 VIRGIL 
 
 WHITTIER 
 
 CICERO 
 
 EMERSON 
 
 PLATO 
 
 LONGFELLOW 
 
 HOMER 
 
 DELIVERY ROOM, OUTER HALL 
 
 POE LOWELL BANCROFT MOTLEY 
 
 STOWE HOLMES PRESCOTT PARKMAN 
 
 BORN MDCCVI DIED MDCCXC 
 
 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 
 
 FOVNDER OF THE CIRCVLATING LIBRARY 
 
 A GOOD BOOK IS THE 
 PRECIOVS LIFE BLOOD 
 OF A MASTER SPIRIT 
 SWIFT JOHNSON EMBALMED AND 
 
 SHERIDAN LAMB TREASVRED VP ON 
 
 PVRPOSE TO A LIFE 
 BEYOND LIFE 
 
 MILTON 
 
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 THE REAL VSE OF ALL 
 KNOWLEDGE IS THIS, 
 THAT WE SHOVED 
 DEDICATE THAT REA- 
 SON WHICH WAS GIVEN 
 VS BY GOD FOR THE VSE 
 AND ADVANTAGE OF 
 MAN BACON 
 
 COLERIDGE 
 MOORE 
 
 HOOD 
 
 DE QVINCY 
 
 A LIBRARY IMPLIES 
 AN ACT OF FAITH 
 SCOTT W^HICH GENERATIONS 
 
 BVRNS STILL IN DARKNESS 
 
 TENNYSON HID SIGN IN THEIR 
 
 GRAY NIGHT IN WITNESS OF 
 
 THE DAW^N 
 
 VICTOR HUGO 
 
 THACKERAY 
 ELIOT 
 BVLWER 
 DICKENS 
 
 WORDSWORTH 
 POPE 
 BYRON 
 SHELLEY 
 
 HE THAT LOVETH A 
 BOOK WILL NEVER 
 WANT A FAITHFVL 
 FRIEND, A WHOLE- 
 SOME COVNSELLOR, 
 A CHEERFVL COM- 
 PANION, AN EFFECT- 
 VAL COMFORTER 
 
 ISAAC BARROW 
 
 MACAVLAY 
 GIBBON 
 CARLYLE 
 HVME 
 
The 
 
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 DELIVERY ROOM 
 
 
 
 BOOKS ARE THE LEG- 
 
 
 
 ACIES THAT A GREAT 
 
 
 
 GENIVS LEAVES TO 
 
 
 CHAVCER 
 
 MANKIND WHICH ARE 
 
 DANTE 
 
 SPENSER 
 
 DELIVERED DOWN 
 
 TASSO 
 
 SHAKSPERE 
 
 FROM GENERATION 
 
 GALILEO 
 
 BACON 
 
 TO GENERATION AS 
 
 CERVANTES 
 
 MILTON 
 
 PRESENTS TO THE 
 
 MOLIERE 
 
 BVNYAN 
 
 POSTERITY OF THOSE 
 
 CORNEILLE 
 
 DRYDEN 
 
 WHO ARE YET 
 
 VOLTAIRE 
 
 NEWTON 
 
 VNBORN 
 
 GOETHE 
 
 DEFOE 
 
 ADDISON 
 
 SCHILLER 
 
 
 EGYPTIAN INSCRIPTION 
 
 TRANSLATIONS OF INSCRIPTIONS IN THE EAST AND 
 WEST WINGS OF THE DELIVERY ROOM: 
 
 Men are equal ; it is not birth but worth that makes 
 the difference. Voltaire. 
 
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 Open thy mind to what I now unfold, 
 
 And give it inward keeping. Knowledge comes 
 
 Of learning well retained, unfruitful else. 
 
 Dante. 
 
 Whatever things were written aforetime were written 
 for our learning. Rom. xr. 4. VnJgatcc. 
 
 Oh sweet voice ! Much welcome sound 
 Of mother tongue in foreign land. 
 
 Goethe. 
 
 Thus every man of real learning 
 
 Is anxious to increase his lore ; 
 And feels, in fact, a greater yearning 
 
 The more he knows, to know the more. 
 
 Yriarte. 
 
 I will make thee to love literature thy mother ; I will 
 make its heauties pass before thee. 
 
 Proverb of Tuauii-se-KliartJnii. 
 
 And the book is delivered unto him that is not learned, 
 saying, Read this, I pray thee. Isaiah .v.vi.v. 12. 
 
 They who by genius and by power of brain 
 The rank of man's enlighteners attain, 
 Not even they emerge from this dark night, 
 But tell their dreams and fall asleep again. 
 
 Omar Khayyam. 
 
 He who from day to day recognizes what he has not 
 yet, and from month to month does not forget what he 
 has attained to, may be said indeed to love to learn. 
 
 Cofifueius. 
 
 The advice which their friends have not the courage 
 to give to kings is found written in books. 
 
 Plutarch. 
 
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 REFERENCE ROOM 
 
 BOOKS ARE THE BEST THINGS WELL VSED 
 ABVSED, AMONG THE WORST 
 
 EMERSON 
 
 HE READS MVCH, HE IS A GREAT OBSERVER 
 AND HE LOOKS QVITE THROVGH THE DEEDS 
 OF MEN SHAKESPEARE 
 
 KNOWLEDGE IS OE TWO KINDS. WE KNOW 
 A SVBJECT OVRSELVES OR WE KNOW WHERE 
 WE CAN FIND INFORMATION VPON IT 
 
 SAMUEL JOHNSON 
 
 READING ROOM 
 
 WE ARE AS LIABLE TO BE CORRVPTED BY 
 
 BOOKS AS BY COMPANIONS 
 
 FIELDING 
 
 THE WORLD IS FOVNDED ON THOVGHTS 
 AND IDEAS, NOT ON COTTON OR IRON 
 
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