John Cotton Dana Day. Rutgers-Newark's main library, opened in 1967, is named after Dana. The American Library Association offers the John Cotton Dana Award to libraries with exceptional public relations. The NJ Associations of Museums has an annual award in his name, presented to an individual "for outstanding contributions to the New Jersey museum profession." The highest honor of the Special Libraries Association is the John Cotton Dana Award , recognizing an information professional for lifetime achievement. Dana is recognized in the Library Hall of Fame. Selected publications A Library Primer, 1896. The New Museum, by John Cotton Dana. ElmTree Press, Woodstock, Vermont, 1917. The Gloom of the Museum, by John Cotton Dana, ElmTree Press, Woodstock, Vermont, 1917. Installation of a Speaker, by John Cotton Dana, ElmTree Press, Woodstock, Vermont, 1918. A Plan for a New Museum by John Cotton Dana, ElmTree Press, Woodstock, Vermont, 1920. American Art: How it can be made to Flourish by John Cotton Dana, ElmTree Press, Woodstock, Vermont, 1929. "The Museum as an Art Patron" by John Cotton Dana. Creative Art, March 1929. "Art is all in Your Eye" by John Cotton Dana. The Museum, January 1927. "In a Changing World Should Museums Change?" by John Cotton Dana. The Museum, September 1926. Dana, John Cotton, and Henry W. Kent, eds. Literature of Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Chicago: A. C. McClure, 1906–07; reissued Metuchen: The Scarecrow Reprint Corporation, 1967. References Sources John Cotton Dana: The Centennial Convocation, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1957. Cahill, Edgar Hoger, "The Life and Work of John Cotton Dana". Americana Illustrated, January 1930, volume XXIV, Number 1, pages 69–84, The American Historical Society. Duncan, Carol. (2009). A Matter of Class: John Cotton Dana, Progressive Reform, and the Newark Museum. Pittsburgh: Periscope Publishing. Grove, Richard. 'Pioneers in American Museums: John Cotton Dana'. Museum News, Volume 56, Number 5, May–June 1978, pages 32–39 & 86–88. Hadley, C. (1943). John Cotton Dana: A Sketch. Chicago: American Library Association. Hanson, C. A. (Ed.) (1991). Librarian at Large: Selected Writings of John Cotton Dana. Washington DC: Special Libraries Association. Johnson, Hazel Alice. 1937. “John Cotton Dana.” Library Quarterly 7 (January): 50–98. Mattson, Kevin. 2000. 'The librarian as secular minister to democracy: the life and ideas of John Cotton Dana'. Libraries & Culture. Volume 35, Number 4. The Museum, Volume II, Number 10: October 1929, tribute to John Cotton Dana. (Various authors.)