Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-04-05 | Page 5 | Head of Library Banks on Appeal to Consciences

Head of Library Banks on Appeal To Consciences Book Borrowers Will Have Opportunity to Return Volumes Without PayI Paying Pay Pay- ing ng Penalties I Salt Lakes Lake's free public library is appealing to the consciences of perSons per per- Sons ons who have borrowed several hundred books without registering them hem Beginning Saturday and ing ng for one week means will be provided provided provided pro pro- vided these persons to return the books with no questions asked and no fines lines attached according to Miss Johanna H. H Sprague librarian Receptacles will be bel placed in the lobby obby of the State Stale street library and at the several branches Persons holding hold hold- ing ng the books may deposit them there Arrangements have been made with postal authorities for books to be deposited de- de posited d in mall mail boxes in the postoffice md and on downtown streets Miss Sprague gue said Persons taking out ut books on library cards ards and who have kept the volumes more than one month may check the books in without paying fines and their cards will wm be c cleared Miss Sprague prague said These hundreds of ot books taken over ver a period of many years Miss Sprague prague said represent hundreds of dollars ollars dollars some volumes being expensive sive ive technical books This is an experiment ex ex- and it is hoped it will work without the library having to resort to o more drastic measures Similar measures have proven suc sue in Boston Detroit and other cities cities where thousands of ot missing books were returned voluntarily she said aid Recently one bunch of at 23 missing books was returned to the the- Chapman branch ranch a at South Eighth West street street and the party who brought them in was asked no questions Miss Sprague prague said sai