Helen M. Moore

===Librarian in Manhattan===

===Librarian in Manhattan===

By 1890 Moore and her family had moved to Manhattan where Moore became the first paid librarian for [[University Settlement Society of New York|University Settlement Society]],{{Cite book |last1=Library |first1=New York Public |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8i8vIn25MoQC&q=%22helen%20moore%22 |title=History of the New York Public Library: Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations |last2=Lydenberg |first2=Harry Miller |date=1923 |publisher=New York Public Library |language=en}} a charity organization that assisted immigrants in the city. Moore's annual reports and firm belief for the need of children's books were often quoted in the press. She wrote ''"Tenement Neighborhood Idea – University Settlement"'' that was included with other authors and published in 1893, in a book titled "The Literature of Philanthropy".{{Cite book |last1=Goodale |first1=Frances Abigail Rockwell |url=http://archive.org/details/literatureofphil00goodiala |title=The literature of philanthropy |last2=Bellamy |first2=Blanche Wilder |last3=Lowell |first3=Josephine Shaw |last4=Spahr |first4=Jean Fine |last5=McLean |first5=Fannie W. |last6=Moore |first6=Helen |last7=Damon |first7=Mary B. |last8=Brennan |first8=Agnes L. |last9=Doolittle |first9=Laura M. |date=1893 |publisher=New York : Harper & brothers |others=University of California Libraries}} The New York Times published an article in 1896 "''Work Among the Poor''" where Moore said "''The twelve months just passed have been a history of progress and prosperity. Since January we have received a sufficient number of volumes, so that admission is no longer refused for actual lack of books. Now, when children are turned away, it is because the capacity of space and our slender resources are taxed to the utmost, and half who apply cannot be admitted.''" She concluded her report with "''It is the cry not only of the children that we hear, but of the young citizens, who, oppressed by the standards of civic life that surround them, consciously reach out for the records of noble deeds - 'the lives of great men' - that shall teach them how to make their own sublime''."{{Cite news |title=WORK AMONG THE POOR; Annual Meeting of the University Set- tlement Society. INTERESTING REPORTS READ Mr. Reynolds and Miss Moore Tell What They Have Done and What They Need -- Address by President Low. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1896/01/16/108217859.html |access-date=2026-04-09 |work=The New York Times |language=en |issn=0362-4331}} Before leaving University Settlement Society in 1900, Moore had established a library that began with 400 books and had grown to a collection of 5,000. Three years later the library was absorbed into the [[New York Public Library|New York City Public Library]].{{Cite book |last1=Library |first1=New York Public |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8i8vIn25MoQC&q=helen%20moore |title=History of the New York Public Library: Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations |last2=Lydenberg |first2=Harry Miller |date=1923 |publisher=New York Public Library |language=en}}

By 1890 Moore and her family had moved to Manhattan where Moore became the first paid librarian for the [[University Settlement Society of New York|University Settlement Society]],{{Cite book |last1=Library |first1=New York Public |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8i8vIn25MoQC&q=%22helen%20moore%22 |title=History of the New York Public Library: Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations |last2=Lydenberg |first2=Harry Miller |date=1923 |publisher=New York Public Library |language=en}} a charity organization that assisted immigrants in the city. Moore's annual reports and firm belief in the need of children's books were often quoted in the press. She wrote ''"Tenement Neighborhood Idea – University Settlement"'' that was included with other authors and published in 1893, in a book titled "The Literature of Philanthropy".{{Cite book |last1=Goodale |first1=Frances Abigail Rockwell |url=http://archive.org/details/literatureofphil00goodiala |title=The literature of philanthropy |last2=Bellamy |first2=Blanche Wilder |last3=Lowell |first3=Josephine Shaw |last4=Spahr |first4=Jean Fine |last5=McLean |first5=Fannie W. |last6=Moore |first6=Helen |last7=Damon |first7=Mary B. |last8=Brennan |first8=Agnes L. |last9=Doolittle |first9=Laura M. |date=1893 |publisher=New York : Harper & brothers |others=University of California Libraries}} ''The New York Times'' published an article in 1896 "''Work Among the Poor''" where Moore said "''The twelve months just passed have been a history of progress and prosperity. Since January we have received a sufficient number of volumes, so that admission is no longer refused for actual lack of books. Now, when children are turned away, it is because the capacity of space and our slender resources are taxed to the utmost, and half who apply cannot be admitted.''" She concluded her report with "''It is the cry not only of the children that we hear, but of the young citizens, who, oppressed by the standards of civic life that surround them, consciously reach out for the records of noble deeds - 'the lives of great men' - that shall teach them how to make their own sublime''."{{Cite news |title=WORK AMONG THE POOR; Annual Meeting of the University Set- tlement Society. INTERESTING REPORTS READ Mr. Reynolds and Miss Moore Tell What They Have Done and What They Need -- Address by President Low. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1896/01/16/108217859.html |access-date=2026-04-09 |work=The New York Times |language=en |issn=0362-4331}} Before leaving the University Settlement Society in 1900, Moore had established a library that began with 400 books and had grown to a collection of 5,000. Three years later the library was absorbed into the [[New York Public Library|New York City Public Library]].{{Cite book |last1=Library |first1=New York Public |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8i8vIn25MoQC&q=helen%20moore |title=History of the New York Public Library: Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations |last2=Lydenberg |first2=Harry Miller |date=1923 |publisher=New York Public Library |language=en}}

===Research, social policy and later life===

===Research, social policy and later life===