ies.
(_Library Journal_, 1887, p. 395.) 401
MINERVA AMANDA SANDERS.

Presidential Address, Lake Placid Conference. (_Library
Journal_, 1894, Conference No., p. 1.) 411
JOSEPH NELSON LARNED.

The Library as an Inspirational Force. (_Public Libraries_,
1899, p. 102.) 419
SAM WALTER FOSS.

The Use of the Public Library; Ryerson Library Dedication
Address. (_Library Journal_, 1904, p. 592.) 425
JAMES BURRILL ANGELL.

COMMUNITY CENTER SERVICE 431

The Library as a Social Centre. (_Public Libraries_, 1906,
p. 5.) 433
GRATIA ALTA COUNTRYMAN.

The Library and the Social Centre. (_Wisconsin Library
Bulletin_, 1911, p. 84.) 439
LUTIE EUGENIA STEARNS.

Where Neighbors Meet. (From St. Louis Public Library
report, 1916-17.) 443
MARGERY CLOSEY QUIGLEY.

What of the Future? (_Library Journal_, 1897, Conference
No., p. 5.) 453
FREDERICK MORGAN CRUNDEN.

INDEX 459

THE LIBRARY AND SOCIETY

Recent progress in all directions--political, educational,
industrial, hygienic--has been marked by the growth and
strengthening of a social consciousness. It is this chiefly
that has differentiated the modern library from its
predecessors and has made prominent our present insistence
on the reader as well as the book, as a fundamental element
in what we are doing. At first evident only in a general and
somewhat vague recognition, by writers and speakers, of a
vital relation between libraries and the communities that
they serve, it later crystallized into definite discussions
of their reciprocal service--that of the community to the
library, consisting of financial, material and moral support
expressing itself partly in the appointment of adequate
boards of trustees and their proper backing, and that of the
library to the community, showing itself largely in the
provision of books, the collection of information, the
control and guidance of reading, and s