Excerpt from Public School Libraries for All the Grades: Including a Special Library for High Schools and a Reference Library for Teachers of English

The University of Oregon has books in its library, an annual fund of $400 from the Henry Villard gift, besides special appropriations from its general fund and it is one of the four hundred and eighty-one repos itories of the government. Its library is constantly growing but it has great need of more books. It wants a library building well filled with books to enrich the learning, culture, and, character of the state. More than books it wants students from all the counties who have learned to know well and thoroughly a few masterpieces of English and American literature; who have formed a habit of reading; who hunger and thirst after good books; who by dwelling with great authors and meditating upon their thoughts shall become a power in this commonwealth.

A desire to aid in bringing about all these results prompted the prepara tion of this pamphlet; also a desire to cooperate with the State Board of Education and County and City Superintendents in the work they have been doing for many years. It was thought that it would be of interest and value to present books for grades accompanied by the names of one or two cities where they had been tested and approved. It was also thought that the names of authors, publishers, and prices would bring be fore the young teachers in the school districts, the boys and girls, and the homes, another source of information about books and added encourage ment to send for them for home and school libraries. It was also hoped that teachers well informed about books and publishers might often, in the crowd of work, find the information planned of immediate and practical value.

With these hopes and desires in mind, something over three years ago the Department of Rhetoric and English Literature began to correspond with State Boards of Education, Superintendents of Instruction, Principals of High Schools, teachers of English in public schools, and librarians throughout our country, and also with publishers, about lists of books that had been found by experience to be well adapted to children of different grades and about libraries for grammar grades and high schools. Gener ous responses came from New York to San Francisco in letters of infor mation, lists compiled by the government, catalogues, courses of study, public school libraries, and township libraries.

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