The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

BOSTWICK, Arthur Elmore, American librarian and author: b. Litchfield, Conn., 8 March 1860. A student of Yale University, he received his Ph.D. degree in 1883, and taught for a short time, before engaging in literary work on Appleton's &lsquo;Cyclopedia of American Biography,&rsquo; Appleton's &lsquo;Annual Cyclopedia,&rsquo; Funk & Wagnall's &lsquo;Standard Dictionary&rsquo; and, with J. D. Champlin, edited a popular &lsquo;Young Folks' Cyclopedia of Games and Sports&rsquo; (1890). He received the appointments of chief librarian New York Free Circulating Library in 1895; of the Brooklyn Public Library in 1899; of the circulation department of the reorganized New York Public Library in 1901; and of the Saint Louis Public Library in 1909 when he also became president of the American Library Institute. He is the author of &lsquo;The American Public Library&rsquo; (1910); &lsquo;The Different West, as seen by a Transplanted Easterner&rsquo; (1913); &lsquo;Earmarks of Literature&rsquo; (1914); &lsquo;The Making of an American Library&rsquo; (1915).