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Caption: Course Catalog - 1899-1900
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146 LIBRARY SCHOOL administration. Stress is laid upon simplicity and economy, although elaborate methods are taught to enable students to work in large libraries where bibliographic exactness is required. The higher side of library work is emphasized throughout the course, and students are taught their responsibility to the schools, to the clubs, to the factories, to university extension, and to the people as organized bodies and as individuals. It is the purpose of the University to graduate librarians who are no.t only trained, but educated; librarians who are not only equipped in technical details, but filled with an appreciation of their high calling to furnish "the best reading to the greatest number at the least cost." The School offers a course of twelve lessons, open to all students of the University, on the use of the library and the ordinary reference books. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION There are so few text-books on library economy that instruction is given almost altogether by lecture and laboratory methods. References to books and periodicals are given for collateral reading, and individual research is encouragedfrom the start. Lectures are illustrated by the collections of forms and fittings and each student is expected to do a certain amount of practical work in the University library each day. Before completing the course, each student must have had actual experience in every department of the library. Class room work is tested by problems, and examinations take the form of problems wherever practicable. LOCAL LIBRARY CO-OPERATION The Library of the University of Illinois, the Champaign public library, and the Urbana public library have systematic plans for cooperation through the Library School, in the interests of the clubs and the schools. The club work is in successful operation. Each woman's club in the two towns
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