"The U.S. Office of Education and Libraries"

Remarks Delivered at a Meeting at the White House Tuesday, September 9, 1975

Abstract

The role of the Office of Education in promoting libraries and librarianship goes back to the second commissioner, General John Eaton, who first started including library statistics in his annual report eight (8) months after his appointment in 1870. For the next six years Eaton pushed education at all levels and pointed out the federal government's role in aid to education in a variety of ways, e.g. grants of public lands, Northwest Ordinance, territorial libraries, land grant colleges, aid to colored and Indian schools, etc.