ANDREW CARNEGIE. This volume should not close without special reference to the favors that the library movement in Ohio has enjoyed through the enlightened philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie. On preceding pages will be found descriptive sketches of the library buildings he has given to East Liverpool, Steubenville, Sandusky and Greenville. Recently he has given the city of Ashtabula $25,000 for a building, the foundation of which has already been laid. Canton is favored with a $50,000 gift for the same purpose, the city to pay annually $5,000 for the support of the library a condition already complied with. As the last pages of this volume are passing through the press, the newspapers of Columbus announce the glad tidings that the capital city of our state is to have a splendid library building. The following letter in answer to a communication addressed to Mr. Carnegie is self-explanatory: FLORIZEL SMITH, ESQ., Columbus, Ohio: ANDREW CARNEGIE, 5 West 51st St., New York. DEAR SIR: Yours, Dec. 21st received. Mr. Carnegie does not believe in great central library buildings these days, because branch libraries are found to be essential. Besides this, he thinks that the building should be plain, dignified and of course pure in style, that it should say: "My treasures are within." Mr. Carnegie is not giving as much money as before for central buildings, but looking more to branches, in cities as large as Columbus that are expected to grow. Mr. Carnegie does not think that more than $150,000 shouid be spent upon the main building, and he would be willing to give this sum if a suitable site were secured and the city pledged itself by resolution of council to spend at least $20,000 a year in maintaining its library system. When the time came for branch libraries that would be another matter. December 31, 1901. Respectfully yours, JAS. BERTRAM, Sec'y. The city council of Columbus, with commendable promptitude, has pledged the support required, and the building is now practically assured. Mr. Carnegie has also given Washington C. H. $12,500 for a library building. Surely Ohio owes a debt of lasting gratitude to this generous patron of the free public library, an institution which has been fittingly styled "the people's university." INDEX. Adelbert College Library, 114. Akron Public Library, 81. Alden, Rev. E. K., bequest of, 232. American Association for the Advancement of Americana, early, 226. Anderson, General Thomas, 111. Art room, Cincinnati Public Library, 99, 102. Baldwin, Philura Gould, 83, 85. Baldwin University, library of, 83. Belpre Library, 10, 11. Berea, Library of German Wallace College, 83; Bexley Hall, 191. Birchard Library, 188. Blind, (see Ohio Institution for the Education of the Blind). Bliss Library of Latin and Greek authors, 296. Briggs Library Institute, 206. Brumback County Library, 265; dedication of, Brumback, John Sanford, gift of, 266, 271. Buchwalter, Edward L., gift of, 198. Buckingham Library, 291. Bucyrus Memorial Library, 86. Burritt, Elihu, 14. Cadiz Public Library, 87. California Free Library, 89. Canfield, Northeastern Ohio Normal College Li- brary, 89. Capital University, library of, 174. Cardington Public Library, 90. Carnegie, Andrew, 87, 185, 187, 244, 260, 293, 294, Carnegie Library of Steubenville, 260. Case Library, 116; Case family and its gifts, Children's Library League, 129. Cincinnati, first public library in, 10; public li- Cincinnati Public Library, 96; art room, 99, 102; Circleville Public Library, 106. College libraries, 13. Colonel William E. Merrill Library, 296. Columbus Public Library and Reading Room, Columbus Public School Library, 140; a typical Columbus reading room and institute, 153. Coonskin Library, 10. Co-operation between schools and libraries, 16. Corwin, Thomas, 210. County traveling libraries, 72, 80. Corning Book Exchange, 174. Cox, General Jacob D., library of, 232. Dayton Library Society, 10. Dayton Public Library and Museum, 175; first Deaf and Dumb, institution for, 173. Delaware City Library Association, 178; organ- 101. Denison Scientific Association, 196. Denison University Library, 195; growth, 195; Deshler alcove, 160. Dewey, Nancy, gift to Cadiz Public Library, 87. (367) |