HELPFUL THINGS DONE BY LIBRARIES FOR TEACHERS AND CHILDREN
1 Graded lists (sometimes annotated) of books suitable for children are printed as part of the library's finding lists.
2 Bulletins of books for special days are printed.
3 Lists of books on special subjects are printed.
4 Topics being studied in the schools are illustrated by special exhibits at the libraries.
5 Study rooms in the libraries are maintained for the pupils of the high schools and the higher grammar grades.
6 Children's or young people's rooms are maintained at the libraries, where the children may come into personal contact with a trained children's librarian and with hundreds of books on open shelves.
7 Story hours or readings for children are conducted at the libraries.
8 Training in reference work, in the use of books and libraries, in the use of finding lists, card catalogs, indexes, etc., is given by library assistants: (a) to teachers at the library; (b) at the library to individual pupils and classes that come there; (c) at the schools to the pupils in their rooms.
9 Lectures on classification, bibliographies, and catalogs are given by members of the library staff for teachers and normal school students.
10 Special study rooms for teachers are provided.
11 Special educational collections are shelved for use by the teachers.
12 Cases of about 50 books (traveling libraries as it were) are prepared by libraries and sent to schoolrooms to remain for a year or less, teachers to issue books for home use.
13 Branch reading—and delivery—rooms are opened in schools, in charge of library assistants, with supply of books on hand for circulation and facilities for drawing others from the main library.
14 Assistant librarians are placed in charge of work with schools.
15 In large cities complete branch libraries are established in schools on the outskirts of the cities.
16 Special collections of books are furnished to vacation schools.
17 Special cards are issued to teachers on which they may draw more than the usual number of volumes at a time.
18 Teachers and principals are allowed to draw a number of volumes for (a) reading by children at school; (b) reading by children at home.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES.