摘要：Mr. Spofford in his"Book for all readers" said: "When it is considered that the purposed object of book binding is to preserve in a shape at once attractive and permanent, the best and nioblest thoughts of man, it rises to a high ranik among the arts. * * * It is the art of book binding which renlders libraries possible. What the author, the printer and binder create, the library takes charge of and preserves." As your Medical Library Association has met in Washington to consider the many phases peculiar to your special field of library work, eaclh delegate bringing from his owIn experienee knowledge to enrich the more perfect uniderstaniding of the various topics brought up for discussion; so this gathering devoted to the subject of book binding gives us the opporttunity for an exchanige of ideas, on a subject, that concernis libraries of all sizes and classes.
