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Show Use Of Union High Likary rawing Steadily Union High School's library, one of th fastest growing school libraries in the state, is becoming becom-ing a reftrence center for the Roosevelt area, said Mrs. Blanche Murphy, librarian. Not only do an average of some 200 students per day make use of the libiary facilities, but also a growing number of residents resi-dents of the area are using reference materials in the library li-brary to solve technical and other problems, Mrs. Murphy reported. More than 300 of the library's 2000-plus volumes are being kept in circulation at the present pres-ent by students doing research work and reading for pleasure. Growing at a rapid pace, the library has purchased more than $25000 worth of new books in the past two' years. A number of volumes have also been added add-ed from collections previously housed at Alterra and White-rocks. White-rocks. Union's library subscribes to 48 magazines and periodicals and one daily and two weekly newspapers. It also regularly receives current literature and technical journals connected with work in the school's var ious instructional departments, and government bulletins and publications. A card filing cabinet has been ordered, and by the beginning of next school year all books will be cross-indexed by library card system, Mrs. Murphy announced. an-nounced. All volumes already have been classified according to content. The library's excellent reference refer-ence section includes three encyclopedias en-cyclopedias and dozens of volumes vol-umes on trades, professions and general information. Periodicals in the library are indexed by the Abridged Readers' Read-ers' Guide. All books are pur- chased according to the Standard Stan-dard Catalog for High School Libraries. Books not available at the Union library are obtainable from other libraries through an inter-library loan service, Mrs. Murphy said. Ample room for expansion has been provided in the library with only a fraction of available shelves now filled, but additions to the collection are being made on the basis of quality rather than quantity, Mrs. Murphy added. In a visit to the school last year, Dr. Gerrit de Jong (cqt), dean of Brigham Young University Univer-sity college of fine arts, lauded the Union book collection as a "fine start" towards a high-I high-I quality high school library. |