St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-06
LIBRARY BOARD SPICE.
Prof OftedaI Gets His Money
Delivery Stations Will Be Tried.

Prof OftedaI Gets His Money
Delivery Stations Will Be Tried.
The meeting of the library board yes
terday began with all members present
except Thomas Lowry. Right at the
start dash of acidity added zest to the
entire session. At the last meeting of
the board some business was transacted
while quorum was not present. Pres
ident Northrop moved to approve the
action of the board taken at that time.
A. Il. Ankeney thought it unnecessary,
and objected further that it would leave
the assumption that the board had acted
illegally. He remarked to Northrup:
you may know how 10 run a college,
but don't think you know very much
about running library board"
THANK YOU" said Northrop. "Bnt
while am here | shall run this as
think it should be run"
NorthIop's motion was adopted, and
the remainder of the meeting passed off
quietly. DR.. James K. Hosmer, the
new librarian, sat through the proceed
ings at respectful distance from the
table and beamed mildly through his
spectacles.
Prof. Oftedal will get pay for his
work as acting librarian. The COM
mittee appointed to consider this
matter reported that Prof. Ofte-
dial should be paid $500 and that A.
NJ Goodrich be paid $50. There was
difference of opinion on this matter of
compensation. Some of the members
of the special committee thought that
he should get $500. but Mr.. Ankeny.
Prof. Moore and others were in favor of
accepting the report of the committee.
President Northrop wanted to see
Oftedal paid $500, and asked the
professor to eXpess his views on the
matter. Oftedal was exceedingly non
committal. He did not want to say
that he thought $500 too little. but his
tone indicated that he esteemed his
services worth more than that. lie will
get only the $500. The board expressed
itself as pleased with the manner in
which ne had handled the business of
the library while he was i'll charge.
The plan of delivery stations will be
tried. Vogelli Brothers, druggists at
Washington and Hennepin, have
offered the board space for delivery
station free of charge for reasonable
length of time as an experiment. The
| board decided to accept the offer and
make the experiment with q central
station before adopting the plan as a
permanent system. The only expense
attached to the plan will be the salary
of an attendant, $40 a month. A Mrs.
Ellison was appointed attendant. The
delivery station will be opened as soon
as possible. 1t will be managed much
as the branch Libraries now are, except
that there will be no reading rooms.
Persons can get books there and return
them there without going to the central
library.
The Academy of Natural Sciences
asked the board to hire curator TO
mount and properly label the specimens
that are coming from the Menage eXpe-
dition to the Philippine islands and
hire a room for the exhibit of all the
specimens of the academy in the library
building. AS matter of fact. the acad-
envy asked the board to take the Acad-
envy of Natural Sciences and make it a
part of the library, the library board to
pay all the expenses of adding 10 it, la
being exhibits, caring for them and
employing some one to attend to them
and explain the exhibit to visitors. This
the board declined to do. In the first
place. it was thought that such action
would be outside the scope of the
board. The board is willing to render
any incidental assistance to the acad
envy, such as buying cases and giving
room for the exhibit, as it has done il
the past, but it does not like to go fur
Their. 1t has no money for an enterprise
like this now, anyhow. The curator
would be employed on these exhibit:
two or three years. President Walker
told Prof. Hall that he would pay the
expenses of a curator for six months
The Academy of Science must do some
thing with those Philippine islanC
specimens soon. The moths have go
into some of the best skins and viii
spoil them unless stopped before no
weather comes. These exhibits are
given to the academy conditionally
Unless they are properly cared for and
exhibited they will go TO st. Paul orto
Washington. 1t will form one of the
most valuable collections in the whole
country. During the discussion of thi!
matter it was remarked that the Statu
airy would have to be movedlf the specl
mems were exhibited i'll the library, an(
Prof. Hall said that many had com
planned of the location of the statuary
as young children did not look upon
good many of the casts merely as type
of art j. B. Atwater said it would b,
we'll for the parents of such children t
keep them at home.
Hereafter unrestricted access, by th'
public, to the book shelves during ccr
tain hours of the iday will not be al
lowed.
MTNNETONKA'S ANNUAL