Excerpt from Catalogue of Books
The Pittsburgh public schools and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, since the organization of the latter, have striven jointly and constantly to bring the pupils in the schools into close touch with good books. The Library was opened to the public in November 1895. Soon thereafter arrangements were made for teachers and principals of schools within the city limits to draw a number of volumes for class use. These books were drawn directly from the shelves of the Loan department and charged on schoolroom cards. The demand increased steadily and the Library found within two or three years that these calls could no longer satisfactorily be met from the shelves of the regular Loan collection, because the books most needed by the schools were so much in demand, and the calls coming from so many sources, that the volumes were too rarely upon the shelves. Therefore in December 1898 the Library set apart, for school use only, a special collection of duplicate copies of the most attractive books suitable for the purpose. That collection of duplicates formed the basis for this work and, with necessary changes and frequent additions, has been in active use in the schools of the city since that time.
In December 1899, at the invitation of the Pittsburgh Principals' Association, the librarian, Mr Edwin H. Anderson, addressed its members and urged that steps be taken to have the work of the Library with the schools more thoroughly organized and systematized. The principals were not less eager than the librarian to have this done, and a committee was at once appointed to cooperate with the librarian and his assistants in the preparation of a carefully selected and graded list of books most suitable for school use, apart from the ordinary text-books. To the general committee were added nine sub-committees to cover the following subjects: Art, Geography, History, Language, General literature, Kindergarten, Pedagogy, Nature and High School reading.
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