Germantown Quakers check the spread of novel reading -- A Librarian's work / J. Fiske -- Boston Medical Library dedicatory address / O.W. Holmes -- Brief item in The Nation on copyright in Germany -- The father of American libraries / B. Samuel -- Women in libraries : how they are handicapped / M. Dewey -- Columbia Library School / Proceedings of the fourteenth American Library Association Conference, Lakewood : The Woman's Meeting -- Librarianship as a profession for women / M. Richardson -- Improper books / G.T. Clark -- Hear the other side : 1896 ALA president's address / J.C. Dana -- The telegraph in the library / R. Garnett -- Library cooperation / L. Ambrose -- On George Iles' plea for a headquarters for ALA -- Wild flower show at the free library -- The library : its past and future / G. Biagi -- The library as social centre / G.A. Countryman -- Phones installed in free library -- Letter to the editor of The Nation on "The librarian who reads is dead" -- The heyday of librarians -- Note on 1913 ALA annual conference in The Dial -- The region of the unromantic -- First aid to the enquiring reader -- Some old-time old-world librarians / T. Koch -- The people's share in the public library / A.E. Bostwick -- Women assistants and the war