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Show BOSTON LIBRARY STARTS NEW WORK Opens Reception Rooms to Give Information; Make Resources Available NKW YORK. Feb. 5. The Boston public Hbiary in uo effort tu make IU facilities aatiahle to the public has opened three receptions rooms on the I ground floor to brlna the public and the l.bmrj h ,O0U,UOi books together. The three rooms will be known as the Information Infor-mation office, government news service room and open nhelf, and are an attempt at-tempt to inuKe, ii jtossittie to answer without delay all questions which do not require the d f an expert, to put the people in close touch with ttie great st team of useful information constantly coming from thu various bureaus of the state and federal governments, and to enubl, reader with the least possible trouble to choose bojks to their taste from the classified collection In the open; .-helf, which are representative of tha library's thirty miles of shelves. The library in a bulletin on its new service; "The ourstiona whirr, the Information off U rc(tve9 may properly ba dlvtdvnl into tlirM claKrifH: KirHt. ihos culling; tor an:weri which can rtadtly be Kiven l without tha aid of the peculiar facilities of -the library, but requiring acquaint-; uncH with the city and its renouinea; 1 fecund, thope which require for the niowij part library experlem-a and library . rtn'a i 'mI n j?1 k injwlaly iff i Uiu ora-iTHiiitioii oi the library in which 1 thrt oitice ia located; third, those which' call lor the u of the current printed matter Indued by the gtvemmnt. and require a working knowledge of the (ti'u tions ot Its numerous uparunetiVat bureau find officea. "on the p he lve of the information ; office nia' be found dtiectortca of the larK'r cities of the I mteti btaten, a frroup of city telephone book, and a rtmall quick information collection In-r In-r Mid in The World Almanac, Who's Who In Amcr'ca, The istuteman Year Hook, llutrl Hed Honk Automobile Htue Ftook, etc. At the urk und in the drawer of the vertical fihna canea there ia be Inn ' accumulated ciaanifled Information on current topics, such aa courru-a in the FchoolM and colb-ares of the Hot ton dm-triit, dm-triit, Kuiib' booki to liupton and vicinity,' railroad tune table ami publisher's took listti. In a box marked 'Current Toplcn chpi'Ka ara filed. During the week preceding' the election the box eon turned plat forma of the partie. biographical j sketches of the. candidates, anern to voters' qiiffttionii, and a Pample ballot. "Krom time to time email collections, of books on special topics are placed In I the room; at present the shelves con-1 tain a (greup of books on the i,iig;rim, ' and a citizenship collection. "On the phetve of the government'' news service room ar the current bulle-: Hin of about i:0 tiovf 1 nnient hnreaim and offit-a arranged firnt iv department,! then by bureau; over fifty of the more, important periodical publications of the povernment hiV coii.-picuouHly displayed, in magazine racks. Thr same no 1 tees i which ale sent to the newsiwiers are re- ceived daily from the departineiits of thf, Interior, aKrlcultur. state, war, postoff ice j and treasury. There is a complete file of the Congressional Kecord of the 1atl session, with its index, together with' several hundred of the mote important j hearings on contented bilta. j "The open shelf room, to the left of, the information office, contains 2."0U se- lerted books. Thee volumes have teen selected for circulation In the endeavor to meet a long felt want of people who I desire to 'browse' among the books and ' to choose at leisure one which can be ' freely exam.oed wtthout use of the card: catalogue. ; . |