Instruction is given in each department of library 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, and to the people as organized bodies and as individuals.

It is the purpose of the University to graduate librarians who are not 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."

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 encouraged from 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.

PUBLIC DOCUMENTS

This is the only Library School which gives an extended course on the use and cataloging of public documents. This knowledge is necessary in small as well as large libraries, in public as well as college libraries.

LOCAL LIBRARY COOPERATION

The Library of the University of Illinois and the Champaign Public Library have systematic plans for coöperation through the Library School, in the interests of the clubs

and the schools. Each woman's club in Champaign and Urbana sends its program for the year to the Library School, where a reference list is made on each subject, specifying in which library the material is to be found. A copy of each list is posted in each library. The students also make lists for the various grades of the public schools. The branch of the Champaign Public Library is entirely in charge of Library School seniors. Seniors also spend a definite time in the children's room of the Champaign Public Library, where they develop their own ideas as to advertising methods, picture bulletins, decoration, reading lists, etc. Each student gives a talk to the children upon some timely topic, and invitations to these talks are posted in the schools. All special holidays are observed by bulletins and reading lists, and birthdays of distinguished people are called to the children's attention.

EQUIPMENT

The most valuable equipment is the working library of the University.

The Library School has the complete collection of manuscript notes and problems which have been prepared since the School opened in 1893. As text-books are so few, this collection is invaluable. A collection of library reports and catalogs and of mounted samples, showing methods of administration in all departments, is carefully classified and is continually increasing. A collection of card catalogs of various forms has been made, including the book forms from Leyden, Holland; Cassel, Germany; and Florence, Italy; and the modern forms approved by the American Library Association. Other forms are represented by photographs.

The School has a collection of printed blanks and forms illustrating methods of administration in different types of libraries, many labor-saving devices, and samples of fittings for all departments. The School received much material from the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and is con

stantly receiving additions from librarians and manufacturers throughout the country.

A collection of cataloging rules and of classification systems is making for comparative study. A number of devices and patents, such as temporary binders, pamphlet cases, newspaper files, etc., have been contributed by inventors and manufacturers.

REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION

Credit for 65 hours, including the prescribed military and physical training, in addition to two years' prescribed technical library work, is required for graduation. The technical work is of junior and senior grade, and must be taken at the University, but the work of the first two years covers general university studies and may be taken at any college from which credits are accepted.

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION

Required for the degree of B.L.S.

The work of the first two years may consist of any of the courses offered in the University, the requirements for which students can meet.

THIRD YEAR

1. Elementary Library Economy (Lib. 1); Elementary Reference (Lib. 2); Selection of Books (Lib. 3); Elementary Apprentice Work (Lib. 4).

2. Elementary Library Economy (Lib. 1); Elementary Reference (Lib. 2); Selection of Books (Lib. 3); Elementary Apprentice Work (Lib. 4).

FOURTH YEAR

I. Selection of Books (Lib. 3); Advanced Library Economy (Lib. 5); Public Documents (Lib. 6); Bibliography (Lib. 7); History of Libraries (Lib. 8); Advanced Apprentice Work (Lib. 11); Thesis (Lib. 12).

2. Selection of Books (Lib. 3); Advanced Library Economy (Lib. 5); Bibliography (Lib. 7); Advanced Reference (Lib. 9); Book-making (Lib. 10); Advanced Apprentice Work (Lib. 11); Thesis (Lib. 12).

SCHOOL OF MUSIC

FACULTY

ANDREW S. DRAPER, LL.D., PRESIDENT.

WALTER HOWE JONES, DIRECTOR, Piano.

ALISON MARION FERNIE, R.A.M. (London), P.A.M. (Phil

adelphia), Voice.

HENRY CARL SCHELD, Violin.

JESSIE YOUNGE Fox, Piano.

EMMA QUINBY FULLER, Voice.

FACULTY

The School of Music offers courses leading to the degree of bachelor of music.

The courses are widely varied. Although regular courses are laid out, students may spend an indefinite amount of time in the study of an instrument or of the voice.

The course in the history of music, as well as the work in the University Orchestra and the University Choral Society, may be taken by regular students in other depart

ments.

A course of artists' concerts is given each season under the management of the University Choral Society. In these concerts, to which an admission fee is charged, only artists of the best reputation appear.

The instructors in the School of Music give recitals and lectures on musical subjects during the year.

REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION

Credit for 130 semester hours, including military and physical training credit, together with an acceptable thesis, is required for graduation with the degree of bachelor of

music. The thesis required for graduation must be on a topic related to music.

Students who are not working for a degree in music may receive a certificate of work done by complying with the following conditions:

Students of the piano, organ, or violin must complete the entire course specified for these instruments; must also complete the work offered in harmony, covering thirteen hours, and must take one year's work (ten hours) in either German or French.

Students of the voice must complete the entire course offered in vocal work, the thirteen hours' work in harmony and two years' work on the piano, besides taking one year (ten hours) of German or French, and one year (four hours) of Italian.

Special and preparatory music students are required, in addition to their practical work in music, to pursue other lines of study sufficient to fill in their spare time.

Students enrolled in the department of music only pay no semester fees, but must pay the music fees. (See p. 297.)

CLASSIFICATION OF SUBJECTS.

PRESCRIBED

Music 1; 2 hours (see page 181).

Music 2a; 13 hours.

Music 2b; 3 hours.

Music 2c; 3 hours.

Music 2d; 3 hours.

Music 3b, 4b, 5b or 6b; 56 hours.

French or German; 10 hours.

Italian 1; 4 hours.

Mathematics 4; 2 hours.

Military 1, 2; 5 hours.

Physical Training—

Men, 1, 3; 21⁄2 hours. Women, 7, 9; 3 hours. Physics 2; 5 hours. Rhetoric 1; 6 hours.