The Librarian's Manual, a Treatise On Bibliography
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Historical sketch of the Library of Brown University, with regulations
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History of Brown University with Illustrative Documents
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History of Brown University: With Illustrative Documents (Classic Reprint)
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Several errors, partly typographical, have been discovered while the sheets were passing though the press, reminding me of what a modern bibliographer has said: If you are troubled with a pride of accuracy and would have it completely taken out of you, print a catalogue.
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Reuben Aldridge Guild was an American librarian, secretary of the alumni association, member of the common council of Providence, member and secretary of the school committee. He took a prominent part in the Librarians’ Convention of 1853 and was one of the founders of the American Library Association. His Librarian’s Manual was a standard work for many years.
Background
Reuben Aldridge Guild was born in West Dedham, Massachusetts, United States on May 4, 1822, the second of the eleven children of Reuben and Olive (Morse) Guild, and the sixth in descent from John Guild, who emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1636 and settled in Dedham.
His father began life as a blacksmith and became a carriage maker, proprietor of a livery stable and omnibus line, undertaker, and superintendent of the village cemetery.
For forty years a deacon of the Unitarian church, he yielded at the age of eighty-four to the Baptist principles of his children and was rebaptized by immersion in the Great Pond at Dedham.
Education
Reuben Aldridge Guild attended academies in Wrentham and Worcester, and, since his teachers had all happened to be Brown graduates, entered Brown University.
Career
Guild’s first employment was in a variety store opposite his home. Later he was clerk for two years in a Boston drygoods house.
Upon his graduation in 1847 he was appointed assistant librarian and was promoted the next March to librarian in succession to his former teacher, Charles Coffin Jewett, who had been called to the Smithsonian Institution.
Guild was already as deeply rooted in Brown University as his ancestors had been in Dedham.
By giving readers free access to the shelves, then an almost unheard-of procedure, he did his full share to make Brown a nursery of scholars.
In the autumn of 1877 he traveled in England and Scotland. One of the memorable days of his life was February 16, 1878, when the new University Library, made possible by the bequest of John Carter Brown, was dedicated.
The next morning he solemnly carried a handsome copy of Bagster’s Polyglot Bible from the old library and deposited it as Book One on Shelf One in Alcove One of the new building. Subsequently, he catalogued almost unassisted the 48, 000 volumes housed there.
He grew learned in the history of the University and of the state in which it is the chief institution of higher education.
For the Publications of the Narragansett Club he wrote “A Biographical Introduction to the Writings of Roger Williams” and edited “Letter of John Cotton, and Roger Williams’s Reply”, and Williams’s “Queries of Highest Consideration”.
He was also editor of Literary and Theological Addresses of Alva Woods (1868) and William R. Staples’s Rhode Island in the Continental Congress (1870), and author of Life, Times, and Correspondence of James Manning (1864), History of Broum University (1867), History of St. John’s Commandery (1875), Chaplain Smith and the Baptists; or, Life, Journals, Letters, and Addresses of the Rev. Hesekiah Smith, D. (1885), Early History of Brown University, 1756-1791 (1897), and of numerous historical and biographical sketches.
He continued to live in Providence after his retirement in 1893.
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Religion
Reuben Aldridge Guild was active in the work of the Baptist church.
Membership
The warm friend of all Brown men, he was secretary for fifteen years of the alumni association. For seven years Reuben Aldridge Guild served as a member of the common council of Providence and for fifteen years as a member and secretary of the school committee.
Connections
Knowing himself settled for life, Reuben Aldridge Guild married Jane Clifford Hunt on December 17, 1849. At his death in his seventy-eighth year he was survived by his wife and four of his six children.