A Library Primer

John Cotton Dana

Third Edition

Library Bureau, Chicago
1903




Copyright, 1899, by Library Bureau




To Samuel S. Green, William I. Fletcher, and Charles A. Cutter




PREFACE.

A library primer was published in the first six numbers of Public
Libraries in 1896. It was quite largely made up of extracts from an
article by Dr W.F. Poole on The organization and management of public
libraries, which formed part of the report on Public libraries in the
U.S., published by the U.S. Bureau of education in 1876; from W.I.
Fletcher's Public libraries in America; from Mary W. Plummer's Hints