Show OPEN THE TIlE LIBRARY ON SUNDAY The discussion begun by The Telegram yesterday yesterday yester yester- day daj of t the he subject of opening the Salt Lal Lake e public lib library larJ on Sun Sunday ay promises to be he not very verJ heated healed There Ther appears to be an immediate popular response to the sn suggestion Time The only thing in the way of opening the time library doors at once is the thc fact that the library occupies s the time county building which cannot be bc opened on Sunday When hen the time new library building build in ing shall have been completed doubtless access will be le given to the thc reading and rooms reference luring during seven days lays of the week weck Similar institutions in other cities cHips do not on Sunday circulate looks hooks for fOl home nse use and amid it will hardly be e done lone here The matter of open shelves where readers may browse for themselves es is a comparatively new question in iii American rican free flee li libraries But it is in use nse in man many of them and with mall marked ed success It has been heen found that the cost saved on attendance and service about pays for fOl the time loss through purloining of the books It is only the that steals literature literature lit lit- and he lie is a ram rara avis We Ve believe that even with the time present accommodations it would be he well to give mO most t of the readers of our public library direct direct di di- Ii- Ii lect access to the shelves Such privilege is granted in the time cramped little rooms of the free library of Washington Cit Oily City and no doubt will be continued when time the splendid Carnegie building there is iR opened The experiment is worth trying in our li li- li Ii-I Ii |