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Show Jf ? - . r vVjr t . X 1 . s. fyt ' i.)-1- 'illr ' -- ' t ' ( . . V V r Jt s : " ' ' v . K' .V 1 . V . - v' , ; . . J . . ; . f . : . U, p -, ..1 , Officiai Orjan $1.00 V . V ,. .;T - T I ,r: - ' . - ' i '.- - - 'I .J . " l" - I ; -- I ' , .. T co-operati- beendfevised', and - methodbf dibmiy control and management have been' perfected by debate in the annual conferences, and by papers contributed to library journals. Earnest librarians have ever had uppermost in mind the desire to make the library serve the noblest poses of which it is capable, and con- tribute to the highest development of its patrons. The eager demand of the people for light fiction was early noted, and yet the belief was generally. held that gradually a taste for better bpoks would ; be developed. Doubtless this was the case in a large number of instances, but i the librarians with the serious matter of a 75 per cent, circulation of .fiction in mind, could not remain . indifferent and passive, as mere mediums for the of books, but early de- means to create a demand for th&mbre solid books. In 1877 the -- , -- . - - j-- ,e. -- Pbg - -i , m . s " ",r : r1 t I i vf' ' ( r 'W Jr a, 4 . rf? 1 ' p 4 NO. 13 i v .k. i f- I S ; published its :iEnglish. .prose ; fiction, t. -- ' public .to;the;helyesbfthewJibiOT3r and the establishment of the child- , " ' ofnoVuncerwith books rens room ' V' f ' t t tain character. upon the shelves. ' - , suc- - ... . t i . : . "I , is the work all ; done? '.May the librarian now simply ; hand .out books and spend his spare moments in read is ing- "the ' treasures ' with, which he;, . t i ' the to surrounded, according popular conception of .a librarians . duties? Far from it. Eternal vigilance is the price of .liberty and the duty of all educators, especially of librarians dealing constantly with new books, new characters, and wavering human nature. The greatest care should be exercised in the purchase; of books; and worthless books, already owned, .should be removed from the library, There is need of the preparation, by of .competent persons, of a black-lis- t ' rm J - - 1 . , , fr1 . prepBlblipgraphjw, 1 - jnf eres by connecting l'x i ii " superintendent, The best chance for ; -- wHatthe library: contained on the dif-- fereiitsubjects.: A closer connection was sought to L' be established between the library and the public school, and the excellent opportunity of directing the reading.of the young was eagerly ' books deserving condemnation. The main features of the problem concern ;6' by Mr. the reading of women and children. Sawin, ofthePoint Street In 1877 an English librarian wrote: U.Mrl rianxa mkn '.'ArAmmav tnn Knl The younger members of our published :annualji; lists; of valuable; ries, almost without exception, read and' reliable books for young people. fiction, so do the female portion, In , 1897 an both old arid young. ... Year ilby. year hew methods liave of been devised and improvements made, American testified : Three-fourth- s such .as the t wo'boot rule, allow- - the readers in the libraries are women of two books instead and children, and women always, read ing Fortunately the rise. of, the of one, provided oriejsnota book. of novels. fiction; the rule that; books of fiction -- 'Womans Club is already creating a serious reading on the may not be. exchanged the same day:; ; taste tor more Paft of women. Furthermore, as has : the teachers card, permitting the iisp shown at the Crete public 'of six books at a time, to facilitate n d and elsewhere, by furnishing plementary readiiri choice books in attempting man her torical stories, brief biographies, and oft the. illustrated books on nature in place of before patrons; the admission ...... v '.the-- : i . - : , the-drawin- ,, . ; libra-distributi- sup.-bee- his-vise- the-jiiispiay:,- . . . - k . - J. ; 0 ' . J fcr. w (Tis i k .i . f U' y ,g gSTWT w of Stock Tinware, AT COST. . V Vv StandrOne-hal- f. l - j - - ar ShbAir-.MillineiiAl- STnTKtTKrr . . Lippaf &aderipUl J :i a. ' ;. : .. . theL, , We Will Move about April: aist.to Must be Sold. ; All Olothingi' All . ssraeg-s- 2, 1898. - ,v -- ; - ; fc r r ' r - - . J : : - m Cuf . )n6 the imaginative and historical renderThe.results ings of the'same theme. amply; justified - the position taken. At theV Providence public library the interest of patrons in current events v was stimulated by posting clippings .. from the 'newspapers, with carefully , pur-V!mPrPT??.ri?- " 1 P on. . r $ ;PEIGSi FIVE i OEISHTS; ' cess in inducing more caireful habits a waken - . ?. 'C:-- marked: ' . - . -- 'r' ? v . ; : - s . fc. ; ,v.r. library mo veme n t ; in America and in! fact in the world, is but fifty years old. It may be called the crowning event, of general public significance of the second half of the nineteenth century. The first half of this period was, in the nature of the case, formative, experimental, individualistic; the second has been that of development, expansion and preExceleminently oflent schemes of classification have u- - ; -- TKef;- - public . - historical out. notes pointing; jith; " ' sourcesof works of fiction. Mr Winf Justly re-- . sor,; the-- ; K t. - - i. .1 -- , v 1 ,1 - 4- .- - -- : . BostunYpu class iistsot ' - r ... y '.V . 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