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 fact, plainly define archive as one kind of a library.

The facts thus with which we have to deal are millions of collections of books or documents, large or small, kept for use as distinguished from those kept for sale or kept for the paper mill. The historical use and the technical modern archival use agree that all of these are libraries and only official documents, kept officially, archives.

The modern common sense too agrees with the historical sense and the technical sense in saying that a collection of books for use, large or small, official or humane, is a library, and that in most cases it is not an archive. Imagine, e.g., anyone going into any one of a hundred thousand schools in America and telling the scholars that their tiny school library, or perhaps their village free public library of 125, 199, 255, or 268 volumes (Gladstone, Garton Road, Rosenhayn, and