Excerpt from Fourteenth Annual Report of the Toronto Public Library, 1897 Pursuant to a direction of the Board, the Chairman attended the annual meeting of the American Library Association, held in Philadelphia in June, 1897, and was much interested in the discussions which took place on many subjects of importance to Libraries, Librarians and Library Boards. The informa tion derived from the attendance at these meetings is undoubtedlyof benefit to the Libraries represented. A full report of the meeting has already been submitted to the Board. 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.