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Caption: Booklet - Katharine Sharp Appreciation (1914)
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gro\N Part one of this report WM printed in 1906 and part five was issued from the University Press in 1908. No state has probably received sc complete a treatment of its library history as Illinois in Mis* Sharp a report, and whatever future volumes may be written this report must always form the foundation. Owing to the lack of a state library extension commis sion in Illinois for many years, Miss Sharp offered to allow the School of which she was the head, to serve as an informal bureau of information on library matters, thus placing herself and all her resources at the service of the citizens of this state. Indeed the w o r k of this informal bureau was by no means restricted to the state of Illinois, as examination of the files of correspondence at the Library School Office will show. Miss Sharp was not only one of the original members of the organization before whom I have the honor to be speaking, but she served it as its President in 1903-04, and represented it on various important committees, especially in the oft repeated efforts to secure additional library legislation. T o enumerate all of Katharine Sharp's services to her Ntate and to the library profession might tax unduly y o u r patience and my strength, and I must pass over almost without mention her wider service to the national organization, stopping only to say that for ten years (1895-1905^ she served on the Council of the American Library Association, and for two different years U898 and 1907) as its vice-president. When Miss ! noil in 1907, ^he h was devoted I » the interests of I Of which shflh VJ< e»presi<!ent sh<- had become. flection will) I ike Placid CI y4 temporarily ew Y who Though her duties in conAn i
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