ASSISTED BY
OTHER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION PUBLISHING BOARD
78 East Washington Street, Chicago
1914
Copyright, 1914
by
American Library Association Publishing Board
This index, the plan of which is similar to that of the well knownGranger index to recitations, was suggested by demands from St. Louiskindergartners for the location of songs for which they were searching.The idea is due to Mrs. Harriet P. Sawyer, Chief of the InstructionDepartment in the St. Louis Public Library, and valuable preliminarywork was done also by Miss Effie L. Power, Supervisor of Children'sWork, and by Miss Margaret Curran, Children's Librarian at the DivollBranch. The Librarian has had nothing to do with it except to giveadvice occasionally in matters of policy.
It was expected at first that the St. Louis Public Library would publishthe index, but it has proved to be larger than was anticipated, and thePublishing Board of the American Library Association has kindly relievedus of this part of the enterprise.
ARTHUR E. BOSTWICK,
Librarian St. Louis Public Library.
Three types of books are indexed:—those containing only kindergartensongs, those containing both kindergarten and folk songs, and thoseincluding folk songs only.
The collection indexed includes the following classes of books:
(1) Books recommended by the Kindergarten Normal Department of the St.Louis Board of Education; (2) Books of songs and games given in theA.L.A. Catalog, its Supplement and the A.L.A. Booklist; (3) All otherkindergarten-song books in the collection of the St. Louis PublicLibrary.
Sixty-three books are indexed. The list aims to be comprehensive but isnot recommended as a discriminative check-list for purchase. Nokindergarten magazines have been indexed.
The index is patterned on Granger so far as the form of entry isconcerned. The entries, all in one alphabet, are by composer, firstline, title and author of the words when he is at all important. Thereare no subject headings in the main index, although a separate list ofsongs for special days will be found at the end.
Whenever there is a variation, whether in composer, first line or title,this is brought out in parenthesis below the entry. The variationsappear in every entry of any given set. In groups where it was notpossible to determine which was the parent song and which the versions,each song has been called a variant in accordance with the practice ofthe American Folk-lore Society.
An asterisk indicates that the first line and the title begin with thesame words.
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