Help is given to schools in selecting books for purchase. The smaller the sum to spend, the more important the selection.
One hundred and nineteen teachers have special teachers' cards for school use, including forty county teachers. City teachers may have ten books at a time; county teachers may have five.
The Art Club, Women's Reading Club, Educational Club and Sketch Club meet regularly in the club room at the public library. In addition to this the Good Government League, debating teams and clubs of college and high school, committees of the Woman's Park Club and Young Women's Club have appreciated the use of the room.
The day of largest circulation was February 12th, when 388 books and periodicals were loaned for home reading.
Twelve hours every week day your public library is "at your service." Sunday afternoon the library is open for reading only—often every chair is taken.
Useful arts, next to literature, was the most popular class of non-fiction circulated last year. Are you one of those who has profited by the helpful books on salesmanship, bees, advertising, poultry, etc.?
When you go on your vacation next summer take ten library books with you—loaned for three months. Three hundred and ten volumes circulated on vacation cards last year.
You own more than twelve thousand volumes. The one you've been looking for, the one that will tell you something new about your business or a new way of advertising it, is among them.
Six hundred and seventy-four books were washed with ammonia and water and then shellacked.
WHAT WE HAVE DONE WITH YOUR MONEY