Excerpt from The Library List: Being a List of Public Libraries in the United States and in Canada of Over 1000 Volumes, With Classification by Size and Name of Librarian

The library list is a compilation based on the list of libraries compiled by the United States Bureau of Education, and forming part of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, now the Hon. N. H. R. Dawson. It differs from that, however, in eliminating the minor libraries of under a thousand volumes, in adding the names of Librarians, and in classifying, by means of types of different face, libraries of corresponding numbers, as over over over 5000, and over 1000. There is also added a supplementary list of libraries, made partly by the Bureau of Education and partly from the records of the oflice of the library journai In the present shape, with the opportunity given by the printing on alter nate pages for correcting and extending the list to any date, it is hoped that this library Lls'r may be of service to all concerned with the library interest.

The library list includes also the Libraries of Canada and the other British North American Provinces, for which it is indebted to the enterprise and courtesy of jame's Bain, jr., Librarian of the Free Public Library, Toronto. This is an addition which we believe will be of great value and interest, as it is, we think, the first careful census of Canadian Libraries. It was at first proposed to add schedules of Libraries of Great Britain and of other countries, but the facts that the present material is inadequate, and that Messrs. H. R, Tedder and E. C. Thomas, whose list in the fourteenth volume of the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is the best existing authority, are now at work upon a similar undertaking for Great Britain, has precluded the inclusion of foreign libraries.

The distinction by means of type will enable those who have occasion to com municate with libraries to address few or many as they prefer, and many libraries will find it peculiarly useful for exchanging their reports and publications with libraries of corresponding size. The Brooklyn Library, for instance, has used this list, as origi nally published in the library journal, to send its annual report and its musical bulletin to all libraries of over volumes in the country.

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