Library Work with Children

Classics of American Librarianship
Edited by ARTHUR E. BOSTWICK, Ph.D.




LIBRARY WORK WITH CHILDREN

REPRINTS OF PAPERS AND ADDRESSES

SELECTED AND ANNOTATED BY
ALICE I. HAZELTINE
Supervisor of Children's Public Library
St. Louis, Mo.



PREFACE

This second volume in the series of Classics of American
Librarianship is devoted to library work with children.
As stated in the preface to the first volume, on "Library
and school," the papers chosen are primarily of historic
rather than of present-day value, although many of them
embody principles which govern the practice of today.
They have been grouped under general headings in order
to bring more closely together material relating to the
same or to similar subjects. Several different phases of