Excerpt from The American Library Institute: Papers and Proceedings, 1918

In view of the entrance of America into the war, the interest of this meet ing is naturally focused on the patriotic service which such as Association as this, and the libraries which it represents, can render in the national emergency. The afternoon session is given up wholly to this matter, and the main part of the usual President's address, which will be devoted to the war service of libraries of learning, with some special emphasis on the matter 'of censorship, will therefore be reserved for this afternoon.

The war does not, however, put an end to our usual activities, and the morning session is dedicated to some of those topics which we have to con sider whether in peace or in war. The bulk of the program will be given to what may be counted the livest practical topic within the field of the A. L. I. At the present moment; that is, the higher education of librarians but we are fortunate in having one of Dr. Koopman's characteristic contributions to suggest the other extreme of our field from either that of the practical operation of libraries as represented in this morning's session or the prac tical service of those libraries in world work as represented in the afternoon. It is our symbol today for the manuscript field, and, like several of the topics for this afternoon, a symbol of research, a term which has come to express perhaps the most distinctive aspect of the work of this Institute and of the Bibliographical Society, as differentiated from the work of the American Library Association, whose distinctive work is in promoting education and the dissemination of knowledge. Further suggestive research matters are also touched in the pages on Small libraries and Index aids to research, also in three lists of historical periodicals and in a substantial addition to the collections of materials for library history in the matters of the libraries at boghaz-keui and at Pergamon.

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