Show LIBRARIES IN They Are Rapidly Being Established and Used Even in the Smaller the last two years many places within the state have opened and are maintaining free public libraries and reading or have established or voted the tax for one both of these while a still larger number have these project's now under In addition to the libraries previously notably those in Salt Brigham City and other during the last two years free public libraries have been opened in Cedar Forest Dale and At the latter city an armory-gymnasium building that cost was- formally dedicated to public use ten months The Tooele city library is practically with plans laid also for a Panguitch and other towns have organized their libraries without waiting for the erection of a-special library A library or gymnasium or has been voted by the following and no doubt other municipalities in In the following towns the school libraries have been rendered accessible to the Pleasant Heber Park and other The time has gone when we can either expect the schools to complete the general education of the people or ask the working and especially the to discover and then purchase the books they may require either for satisfactory progress in their respective vocations or for acquiring those more general conceptions of good citizenship and noble living which the state is determined that they shall In the language of Chancellor the average preparation of an American boy for citizenship today is compressed into a five years' course of It is not That is why the public library is an It stands to supplement and complete the work of ideal library is the ideal tempter of American The best books are the best men and women at their A few pennies will put the most the the best informed and the best men of our times at the elbows of your children at the I can conceive of no greater force that administers to the intelligence of the public than a public It is the best investment of dollars and cents that any community can ever It contributes to the welfare of any It raises the standard of citizenship of its The commission believes that the closest relations should be established the library and school To encourage the superintendent of schools or the supervising principal of the high in the cities and towns of is by virtue of his office a member of the library This arrangement promises a close alliance between the two great educational For years past there has been a library section of the National Edu- a attended by teachers and while at the meetings of the American Library association the subject of libraries and schools receives much attention from year to V The library supplements the school at every Books should be sent to the schools in the outlying so that no child will be debarred by distance from library The librarian should keep informed of the work done in the several and n should set aside books on the various topics for the A use of teachers and Debating and literary societies should be encouraged by assistance from the library Special cards may be given to teachers upon which a number of books may be drawn for class room Teachers should be encouraged to read wholesome books to the thus creating a love for the good in All this can be if we keep at Considering how recent the library movement is throughout the the man- ner in which the people of this state are hold 6 of it is truly |