ment of circulation, will be expended
to greater advantage than many times the amount devoted to a large number
of small collections on the same subjects in schools.

These are the considerations that have governed the New York Public
Library in its effort to be of assistance to the teachers and pupils in
the public schools of the city. Stated formally, these efforts manifest
themselves in the following directions:

(1) The making of library use continuous from the earliest possible age,
thru school life and afterwards;

(2) Cooperation with the teacher in guiding and limiting the child's
reading during the school period;

(3) Aid within the library in the preparation of school work;

(4) The supplementing of classroom libraries by the loan of books in
quantity;

(5) The cultivation of personal relations between library assistants and
teachers in their immediate neighborhood;

(6) The furnishing of accurate and up-to-date information to schools
regarding the library's resources and its willingness to place them at the
school's disposal;

(7) The increase of the library's circulation collection along lines
suggested and desired by teachers;

(8) The granting of special privileges to teachers and special students
who use the library for purposes of study.

Toward the realization of these aims three departments are now
cooperating, each of them in charge of an expert in his or her special
line of work.

(1) The children's rooms in the various libraries, now under the direction
of an expert supervisor.

(2) The traveling library office.

(3) The division of school work, with an assistant in each branch, under
skilled headquarters superintendence.

When our plans, which are already in good working order, are completely
carried out, we shall be able to guarantee to every child guidance in his
reading up to and thru his school course, with direction in a line of
influence that will make him a user of books thruout his life and create
in him a feeling of attachment to the public library as the home and
dispenser of books and as a permanent intellectual refuge from care,
trouble, and material things in general, as well as a mine of information
on all subjects that may benefit or interest him.

Some of the obstacles to the immediate realization of our plans in full
may be briefly stated as follows:

(1) Lack of sufficient funds. With more money we could buy more books, pay
higher salaries, and employ more per