The Library at the Exposition

Excerpt from The Library at the Exposition: A Survey of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in the Interest of the American Library Association and Affiliated Organizations Acting upon the double suggestion of the Director of Congresses of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition and the Secretary of the American Library Association, a member of the staff of the University of California Library undertook the compilation of a booklet describing those exhibits at the Exposition containing matter of professional interest to librarians. When the original compiler was forced by illness to relinquish this task, it proved impossible in the time remaining to complete the survey on the scale on which it was begun. Accordingly it has been brought to a conclusion, rather lamely it is feared, by another hand, with very little added to the original notes. This necessity is the more regretted because many exhibits installed since these notes were compiled are perforce omitted; others here represented have since been extended. Nevertheless it is hoped that the survey, fragmentary as it is, will prove of use to librarians attending the Berkeley Convention of the American Library Association, and of interest to others. 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.