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Show "books for the f REE LIBRARY Volumes Now on the Shelves Have a Remarkable Circulation Many Books Are Destroyed by ' Sanitary Department Library in Need of More Books Campaign of Publicity. If plain and unadorned facts have i any power to awaken the people of j Ogden to the realization of the won- J derrul work the little Carnegie library libra-ry is doing, the following items taken irotn the librarian's report should Indeed In-deed do wonders. - There were ou June 1st. 1910, G.821 volumes in the Ogden library, and during the year from June 1, 1000, to June 1, 1910, 39,931 books were drawn from the library by the library li-brary users. There are but few II-biarles II-biarles in the world that circulate Their books on an average o six and a half times a year. When you pause to consider that many of the better histories, biographies and scientific books do not naturally go out as often n;3 the more popular and standard works of a lighter nature, you reul-ize reul-ize why it is that the library cem-tnlns cem-tnlns sa many badly worn books. They are lu almost constant use. There are at preseut 5.900 borrowers' borrow-ers' cards lu active use. During tho past year this number has , been growing rapidly. Two hundred new 'borrowers' cards were issued last month. The revenue of the library Is such that the number of volumes in the library is hardly growing at all. 1 took 8 are b&lng worn out. or destroyed, de-stroyed, because of being in homes wherein there is contagion, almost as rapidly as they are purchased, anJ all the time tho general volume of books I is, by constant use, being more and more worn. Now, if Ogden continues to grow as it hns In the past few years, and new borrowers' cirds continue con-tinue to be issued, it means tnat the little stock of books will have to do a still more constant service, and be worn all the more. From this we note two conditions: First, Ogden has a large number of citizens who do&ire good books aud who look to the Carnegie library to supply their literary wants. The board believes that it is an honor to the town to have so great a number of reading citizens and the board further fur-ther strongly believes that the people peo-ple of Ogden have a right to look to. and expect the :ity library to furnish them with au abundant choice of good books. What greater privilege or influence in-fluence can a town have than to of-ler of-ler good books freely to thoso who Bock them. Second, tho conditions noted above must convince all that our lending library is not nearly adequate to the present demands. Some plan should be devised to multiply the present number of books. The board, therefore, there-fore, is preparing for a campaign of publicity intended to arouse the interest in-terest of the entire community in tho library, to the end that more funds may be obtalued for the purchase of bcoks. |
