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Show I LIBRARY GROUP ! PROGRAM IS AT ! HALF-WAY MARK The Milford High School Library Li-brary Association is nearing the halfway mark in its attempt to bring the high school library up to standard. At the start of the campaign last fall, the association asso-ciation set a goal of 750 additional addi-tional volumes of fiction and biography bi-ography to be secured this year. As of March 15, townspeople had donated 280 books, including includ-ing 176 of fiction and 11 of biography. bi-ography. Other typos included 16 poetry, essays and plays, 59 history and personal reminis-censes, reminis-censes, and 18 miscellaneous. In addition to the above are I the 128 books referred to in last I week's newspaper account. These are all new books ordered or-dered for use of junior high school students. They include 1 of play, 71 fiction (sports, dog and horse stories, classics, historical novels, other novels, I and a very few science-fiction). Also included are nine of biog-i biog-i raphy, 35 history and historical accounts', 5 socialscience reference, refer-ence, and 7 other references. Last fall the library contained, con-tained, in addition to a fair se-I se-I lection of usage and good ref-( ref-( erenco material, about 250 fic-j fic-j lion and biographies that are on the lUts of books accepted by the accrediting associations. I There were also about 200 i other fiction of doubtful qual-t qual-t ily which are not acceptable, together to-gether with a large number of textbooks, movly out of date. A number of these texts, stamped "discard," have been referred to the classrooms as permanent classroom reference material. No other books have been discarded. dis-carded. Should tin' lime ever come when the library i--, justi-lied justi-lied in culling unsuitable books, any books discarded will be old textbook'- and doubtful fiction, especially those that are not used by the students. |