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Show Library hopes to recover lost, damaged books during week With the advent of National Book Week ne:ng observed throughout the nation Novem-ber Novem-ber 7 to 11. the Springville Li-brary Li-brary board reminds patrons 0f the City Library of the benefits obtained through the use of the library, and of their obligation toward it. It has recently come to the attention of the board that tliere have been incidents during dur-ing the past year involving mfsuse and defacement of some 0f these prized books. The librarians li-brarians state that two volumes vol-umes of expensive reference books the Encyclopedia Americana Amer-icana and the Encyclopedia Bri-tannica Bri-tannica have been removed from the library and not returned. re-turned. Also missing is a reference refer-ence book on music, and some other books of this type are either missing of have been defaced. de-faced. It has been found that someone has removed pages and even entire sections from some of the volumes, and pictures pic-tures have been cut from pages- Needless to say, this has made many of the references useless for many purposes, and has cost the City a great deal both m money and time. Most of the books taken or defaced are not replaceable, or can be replaced only through purchase ol an entire set. This is not only expensive but time-con-summg, Since they are not readily obtainable. During National Book Week members of the library board urge every adult citizen parents par-ents and students to look thru their homes and see if there are any library books which have not been returned, and in case books are found, damaged or in good condition, that they be returned re-turned to the library. During this Book Week all fines will be cancelled, and it is hoped that many stray books will thus be recovered. , The books and the library belong to the people. Both are paid for by city taxes and the fees paid for the use of certain cer-tain books. Springville has one of the best libraries of its size in the area ,and a competent library staff on hand to serve the citizens, citi-zens, young and old, who seek knowledge through the use of books. There are many thousands thou-sands of volumes available both for reading pleasure and for reference. Most of the books can be taken out on cards, but there are also some excellent and somewhat scarce volumes, mostly reference type such as encyclopedias, which must be used at the library. This is necessary because of their limited lim-ited number, and the fact' that they are in constant and heavy demand; therefore they must be kept available at all times. This is also true of the many complete files of back issues of foremost magazines and newspapers, which are of great value to students and others engaged in research. There is no perfect preparation prepara-tion for war, regardless of expenditures. |