No. of
Votes
For President
Henry E. Legler, Librarian, Chicago Public Library 151
For First Vice-President
E. H. Anderson, Assistant Librarian, New York Public Library 143
For Second Vice-President
Mary F. Isom, Librarian, Portland (Ore.) Library Association 145
For Members of Executive Board (for three years)
H. C. Wellman, Librarian, Springfield City Library Association 145
T. W. Koch, Librarian, University of Michigan 148
For Members of the Council (for five years)
F. K. Walter, Vice-Director, New York State Library 145
Margaret Mann, Chief Cataloger, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh 144
W. W. Bishop, Supt. of Reading Room, Library of Congress 147
E. R. Perry, Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library 141
Caroline Burnite, Director of Children's Work, Cleveland
Public Library 146
For Trustee of Endowment Fund (for three years)
W. C. Kimball, Chairman, New Jersey Public Library Commission,
Trenton, N. J. 146
JOHN F. PHELAN
LLOYD W. JOSSELYN
Tellers of Election.
The PRESIDENT: I have had this beautiful gavel but a very little
while, but it nevertheless gives me great pleasure to transfer it. Do
you remember that Miss Kelso said that we should be able to produce
evidence in the way of results for the value of our work? I am going
to make a very distinguished, a very large claim: I think you owe the
presence of the president-elect not here only but in the profession to
the interest which was originally aroused in his mind in the Milwaukee
public library.
Mr. Legler, I have great pleasure in presenting the gavel for the
meeting of 1913 to you as president-elect and in asking you to take
charge for the remainder of this meeting.
The PRESIDENT-ELECT: Madam President, Members of the American Library
Association,--For the personal good-will which you have expressed, I
give to you my thanks. In so far as your action attests confidence, it
must be received as a call to service, and--if I may be so presumptuous
as to represent in what I say those who have been grouped by you for
the ensuing year into one official family--in that spirit we receive
this gavel, not as a symbol of authority but of service. Without
venturing upon the uncharted sea of prophecy, we shall endeavor to
interpret in terms of action those mental images which have been
crystallized for us by the strong, virile papers, fortified by the
abounding interest and the contagious enthusiasm of all participants in
this conference. The modern library movement, recent as has been its
inception, has progressed through two strongly marked stages, and is
entering upon a third. The first era was that of pioneering, the sowing
of seed. The second may perhaps be termed the era of experimentation,
out of which grew a few mistakes and some splendid results. But we have
entered upon a third era, the period of constructive work, of careful
patient planning, of building enduringly. If a year hence, when we
yield into other hands the high commission which you have entrusted to
us, we shall be able to say that some advancement has been made, we
shall be proud and happy; and we hope that your work, which, of course,
must be our work, will yield some realization of our high hopes and
aims and aspirations.
What is the pleasure of this conference?
I am advised that Mr. Burpee has another pleasure in store for us, and
we shall be glad to hear from him.
Mr. BURPEE: Mr. President and friends of the American Library
Association: On behalf of the local committee I have asked our friend
Mrs. Herbert Ault, of Ottawa, to try to express to you our feelings in
bidding you farewell. Mrs. Ault will sing the old Scotch song, that you
all know so well, "Will ye no come back again."
After the singing of this fine old song, Mrs. Ault led the audience in
the singing of "Auld Lang Syne," whereupon the president-elect declared
the Thirty-fourth Annual Conference of the American Library Association
adjourned.