Show I AMERICA LEADS WORLD IN ITS LIBRARY WORK London Loudon Jul July 18 I. I V V W. Sutton the chief chIle librarian of 01 Manchester who re recently ro- ro returned from the United States where ho bo visited 88 libraries great and small amalI In different parts of the country country coun coun- try said Id in a lecture Jecture that America was leading th the world In the fertility of new ideas applied to library wo wok k Fifty years ears ago he said America was behind England in libraries but butan butan butan an enormous advance had bad been boen made The leaders of library reforms in tho the United States were minded large mon men I who aimed not only at ot he the uplifting of ot tho the profession of ot tho the librarian but of his work so ISO that the library should become an Indispensable educational institution and a factor in the thc production production tion of or good citizens Mr Sutton said that a curious feature feature fea fea- fea- fea ture tare of ot American of-American n libraries was the tho absence absence ab ab- ab- ab sence BenCe of ot newspapers which apparent apparently ly were considered to possess neither educational nor nur literary value |