Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-05-21 | Page 10 | Salt Lakers Are Reading More Library Books and Keeping Fewer, Report Shows

Salt Lakers Lukers Are A re Reading More Library Books and Keeping Fewer Report Shows I More books of the Salt Lake LaIe City library are arc b being ing read and the library Is losing loing fewer of them it was revealed in a 1 circulation report report re re- re port released ed Tuesday by Miss Mis Joanna Joanna Jo Jo- anna Sprague of oC the thc city library system Circulation on from Crom January to May of this year was more than greater than during the correspond correspond- ing 1934 period the report said A slight ht decrease In the circulation tion d during r ng April was attributed to the fact that people were reading less because they were working more and that sickness s had prevented pre pro vented a number of children in the city from using the library Durin During Dur in ing April books were loaned by the library The year two inventory of the library sh shelves recently completed has revealed that fewer books arc missing than there were two years ago The library authorities credit a iI checking system stem for the decrease dc e eIn in lost books bools While fiction Is still the mo most moct t popular ty type of reading according to the borrowers' borrowers taste political c 11 and monetary works are arc increasingly popular the report said