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experts were at work planning and collecting the Library, so that, a year later, when the Institute opened, the Library should be in readiness. Rooms were set apart on the first floor of the Main Building, embracing the area now devoted to the General Office and, in anticipation, was ready for action as the Library of Pratt Institute. A few months later, in February, 1888, its doors were opened freely to the people of Brooklyn. The need at once asserted itself for a staff of librarians who should be other than willing workers and attendants. The first Library School having been opened at Columbia College three years before, a related effort, beginning with a “cataloging class,” took root at the Institute in 1890. Thus was founded the second Library School in America, expanding into its place of influence as the Pratt Institute School of Library Science.
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The High School, for which a separate build- ing was erected, was an effective plea for man- ual training in common school education. It was a high school dedicated to a “higher kind of use than the common public sees.” After sixteen years of successful demonstration under capable leadership, when the principle of the manual training high school became recognized and adopted in public education, the High School had fulfilled its fruitful mission in 1905. An equa lly effective demonstration of an educational need was the Kindergarten De- partment, later the School of Kindergarten Training, which, also in its own building, on the corner of Willoughby Avenue, was out- standing as a pioneer in its field, until the uni- versal acceptance of the kindergarten in pri- mary education in 1917 deprived the school of its reason for being after a quarter century of pointing the way. The charter of Pratt Institute provided for the establishment and maintenance of a Free Library—the one specific purpose the Founder therein expressly stated. In the autumn of 1886
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