Show AN N advantage offered by the U niver A fi JL sity but probably less less' patronized than any other is the library We have havea a goodly number of books thousands and five hundred students yet the average average aver aver- age circulation of books is only a week What brings about about this unnatural state of affairs True the majority of students are preparatory and normal those in the college grade being in the great minority but even so ought not every student do something outside k reference work every day The semi- semi room nary has taken much of the burden burden bur 1 den off the library but there is something something something some some- thing not as it should be that the library L is not called into requisition more often than it is We have been observing y f ads this for some time and believe it ca can can i be accounted for in this way First and foremost there is to use a colloquial but very expressive e term too much tape red-tape to be gone through with in getting a book out When one has fifteen minutes or a half hour it really t seems a vast effort to go and make out outa a slip etc etc until finally you get a book Then very few of the students ts have an idea of the general contents of the library and the list of books well books well it is within the sacred precincts and to toj j cross the threshold of that one feels very much as he might feel the first time he was out of sight of land larid or to put it somewhat milder as though he were stepping across the border between x t the United States and Mexico it is a strange indefinable feeling that comes over one And then perhaps the student student student stu stu- dent has three or four odd hours half during the day which which which-he h he would gladly devote to reading if he is a boy it is I all right though if a pretty girl were t installed as second assistant librarian they would probably haunt the alcoves j but if a girl she is apt to be too conscious conscious conscious con con- of the fact that there is a good- good looking young assistant librarian and v prefers not to be e hovering about the books in spite of her fondness for them And last but n least least the library has no money Now the question to b be 1 v k considered is how may these evils b be remedied We must have mone money From Froma r- r a recent exchange we clip the following following following follow follow- ing note A A friend of the University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania last wee week gave to increase the library facilities Where are Utah's rich men We hear ear a vast of talk about bout patronizing patronizing patronizing patro patro- home industries and ang even read it among the familiar and often read signs on on the street car Is s there here any home ome industry that can be helped with greater good to r the multitude multitud than the University and is not the library one of the mos most important departments departments of r it Students take an i interest est in the library Make others take an interest in ins in's l it j. j Suggest plans for raising money or fo for for making improvements Go to it and take out a book if you do nothing more than look over the table of contents If we are to advance the learn learning ng of the world and we believe and hope that each student aims to do that if ever so little we must found our work upon the progress of the ages before This can be done only through the medium of books for books are the legacies that genius leaves to mankind Show the interest you take in the books and soon by force of necessity the library will have to be pe rearranged on the same plan planas as the Seminary room is now conducted This plan has been found practical i iother in other libraries I In the University of California shelves containing sixty thousand volumes are at the easy access of the student In the Denver Public Library the entire library library- with the exception of the fiction is at the service of any anyone one who goes there Tables and chairs are provided and conveniently placed among the alcoves so that one need waste fio 80 o valuable time in going through a useless form which is a relic of the Dark Ages before the book maybe maybe may may- be consulted We can a assure assure sure the Faculty th that t we will take it t upon upon our own responsibility responsibility responsibility re re- that the boys will not convey convey convey con con- con con- vey the books beyond the limits of the room concealed in their foot-ball foot bangs or r mustaches and the girls will be willing will will- ing fo to give a written pledge not to inveigle inveigle in in- in-e in a book into the voluminous folds of their mandoline sleeves This plan would would require a rearrangement of the shelving for the present alcoves are too narrow to accommodate many of our gentle eds co-eds with the present width of sleeves sleeves' and skirts This brings us back again to the point from which we started we we want money How ow shall we get i it That any iny plans which h would result in the ge general benefit of the students would receive the the sanction of the Faculty we fe feel l assured for they cannot but recognize recognize recognize nize the inestimable good results which would accrue accrue from our closer intimacy with those those ships ships of thought as Bacon Bacons so s finely calls them voyaging through the sea of time and carrying th their ir precious freight so safely from generation generation gener gener- to generation f |