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Show LIBRARY NEEDS MORE VOLUMES . Number of Children's Books Inadequate; General List Short, Librarian Reports There were 22,352 books In the Carnegie Car-negie Free library of Ogdon on June 1. 1922. according ton the annual report re-port for tho year ending Mnv 31 rom- pleted yesterday bv Grace W HarTl-.. librarian. There were p." 4 books ad- I , ded by purchase un.l 112'. by donation. . th report sets forth. The circulation at the Mound Fort branch Is 861 books. The total circulation during the fiscal fis-cal year wa 14.1.309 volumes. , ,j HER OBSEItl 1 IONS Observations contained In the report, re-port, written by the librarian, and j submitted to the board of directors of l the library follow: i , "We have enjoyed n most successful ' year, our useful activities hiving been hampered only by the rcductle.n in th-book th-book fund, making it impossible to buy the books wo need to satisfy the many "demands made upon us. We 1 ha. added to the library 2229 volumes, vol-umes, only 964 of SPhJflh were purchased, pur-chased, (if this number over holt .were purchased from the Go'den Bplks I fund, which may be, used only for hooka on railroad history, railroad engineering, en-gineering, western history and travel. leaving q very smjll total of books paid irc.r from the general fund t,. add to 1 " lour collection on other subject. IlM , I books were withdrawn. Ii ih( r. fore evident that had it not been for many igcneroLu gifts, the library would hav had less cooks at the end of the year than at the beginning. BOOKS ( 'i l I I il i "Realizing the necessity of gettina , more books to supplement the limited numbei that caul, be purchased, voui ! i f librarian cooperated with the "high I school librarian, the superintendent of schools. und the principals of the grad. schools in planning and carrying through a book drive, in which each school chile! was urged to collect as i man., books as he could, the spirit of rivalr;. being stimulated between ilo schools. An Immense number of hooks were collected and. after sorting and discarding 114 useless about two-thirds II I III ; of the books, the remaining volumes , I were divided among the public and school libraries our library received as Its share about 1200 books. or 1 which 821 were entered on our rec-' rec-' orde Most of the remainder were placed in circulation without catalog-I catalog-I Ing. binding anel paper being too poor to Justify us in spending much time In preparation. About 300 were sent . to Isolated communities where gifts of ' discard) d book.-: bad 1 n requested. "An Important donation was made ' -.is. -v . eonuon, w no gave us Uio library of her lata husband. Dr A. S. Condon. Many books In this collec- ' Hon Which were duplicated In our library li-brary were given to the high school and Central Junior high school libraries, li-braries, giving us a remainder of 120 spl 1 ill. I volume-. Mr- Helen A. Gllck donated 75 valuable books, and Superintendent Super-intendent Hopkins gave us 53 children child-ren - books. Uhcr ge nerous gifts en-ableil en-ableil us to total 1 129 donations for the year. i ED CHILDREN'S BOOKS "HowevSr, the close of tho year shows that we have nTl less children's hooky than a year ago. We, can 111 afford af-ford to lo'si aiiv children's books, as the number we have Is entirely lnade-qunt.v lnade-qunt.v We have not been able to send as many books to the schools a In 1 former years, and next year tho num- I ber must be still furtiior reduced uti- im less new bonks are purchased. This M results in decreased sohbol circulation. "During the past y.ir we have clr- ' I eulated 142,209 books, an Increase of 2S0C over last year. We have regis- ( II ter.-,i Jft6 new borrowers, with a pres- I ent total of 1-1.27-1 readers. ' ! l R ill ROAD I iilH.VKY I ."We taks pleasure in teknowledglng j '.! our Indebtedness to the Ogden Chap- j jl ter of tho American Association of .' Engineers for assistance In selecting tho books for our Golden Spike collec- J Hon. The library committee of this H SSSOi iatlon has rend, red Invaluable aid In preparlnvj lists of books rccom- 1 1 mended bv experts on railroad engl- 'Al nei ring and Is helping us to build up l one 01 the best railroad libraries Jn lh- ; ! west. This committee has prepared ill and printed lists of all railroad books lihjj In the library, which have boon dis- tributed to all employes of railroads t l running into Ogden. in an effort to i get these booVs read bv- the men who - j 1 ' need them We consider this service 1 i vl of Intlm Lblo valu. ." iJ |