Now Ready. The Library Association Year Book for 1899. CONTENTS. THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: Memorandum of Information-List of Annual Meetings and Presidents -Royal Charter and Bye-Laws-Officers and Council-Standing Committees-Rooms of the Association-List of Fellows, Members and Associates-Examinations and Classes (including the Questions set at Examinations)—List of Acts of Parliament affecting Public Libraries, etc.-Preamble of the Association's Bill to amend the Public Libraries Acts-Branch and Affiliated Associations-List of Papers communicated to and published by the Association, with Index of Authors and Subjects-List of Principal Public (rate-supported) State, Collegiate, Endowed and Proprietary Libraries of the United Kingdom-List of the Association's Publications. To be obtained of the Publishers HORACE MARSHALL & SON, 125 FLEET STREET, E.C. PRICE ONE SHILLING NET. SECOND INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY CONFERENCE, TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS. 300 pp., 4to, cloth, top edge gilt. 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The CONTENTS SUBJECT INDEX TO GENERAL AND PERIODICAL LITERATURE (Price 76 m Subscribers before publication) now in course of compilation, and of which upwards of 700 copies have already been subscribed for, has been most favourably reviewed and commended by many of the leading litterateurs and literary reviews of the day. It is estimated that wher complete it will contain over 100,000 references and notes. It will, by permission, be dedicated to Mr. J. Passmore Edwards, who has done so much to promote the Public Library movement in this country. Full Information, Diagrams, Models, etc., of the above Library Aids can be obtained upon application to THE MANAGER, 166α ROMFORD ROAD, STRATFORD, LONDON, E Printed for the Proprietors (THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION) by A. KING & CO, BEING THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF The Library Association (Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1898) EDITED BY HENRY GUPPY All communications intended for the Editor, Library Catalogues, Reports and Books for Review should be addressed to him at THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY, MANCHESTER. London PUBLISHED FOR THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BY 125 FLEET STREET, E.C. PRICE ONE SHILLING |