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Show Some now obsolete Plan made to discard dated library books At the invitation of Springville Spring-ville Library Board, Russell L. Davis, director of the State Library, Salt Lake City, and members of his staff are in Springville this week, to evaluate evalu-ate the books in the public library. li-brary. Working with them have been Mrs. Hal Clyde, secretary of the library board, with local librarians in attendance. As result of the evaluation, a number of obsolete books are being discarded. Some have been found to be beyond repair re-pair while others have become outmoded and useless as newer, new-er, more easily read up-to-date books are available on the same subjects. In going over the books on the shelves, some areas have been found where new books are needed, while in some instances in-stances books occupy space on the shelves and have not been used by the public enough to make them worth the space they occupy. The visiting officials, all of whom have Masters degrees in Library Science, pointed to the cost of maintaining books on the shelves which are not read. They stressed a point that through the present evaulation of the books in which every book in the library will be carefully gone over, will come many new books. As a result, re-sult, the public is expected to take advantage more often of the material offered at the library. li-brary. The visiting librarians commended com-mended the fine work of the Springville librarians and said that the Springville library was found in much better con-continued con-continued on page 9, col. 2) Plan made to discard obsolete library books (continued from page one) dition than most libraries visited. vis-ited. Librarians however, do not have the time in most cases, cas-es, to make the necessary check-over of all books and often for sentimental and other oth-er reasons, books may take up space which could be used to a better advantage, they stated. Mr. Davis reported that the evaluation is a state-wide service and would take two or three days in Springville. The librarians have covered about a third of the state todate. |