Excerpt from Cataloging as an Asset: An Address to the New York State Library School, May 1, 1915 Instead of attempting to answer this question dog matically, we may perhaps find it profitable to glance hastily at some phases of What is popularly referred to in professional circles as the library movement. Those of us whose memory goes back even a quarter of a century or who have studied at all carefully the his tory of libraries in the United States have seen, or noted, a good many changes. The library world has had its Shifting fashions, not to say its fads of the hour. And, just as in more common matters of clothes and manners, the striking novelties are sure to attract a good deal Of attention and to get themselves much advertised. In the earlier years of the public library movement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.