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TRAVELLING LIBRARIES.
Buchanan's Special Report
to the Governor Gives
Interesting Infor-
nation.
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TRENTON, Feb 10, 19Oo-State Librarian
Henry C. Buchanan has submitted to
Governor VOORHEES, for transmission to the
Legislature a supplemental report on the
States travelling libraries, Of which there
are now twenty-seven in operation Tne
librarian has been authorized py tne
Library Commission to ask the Legista-
ture for an appropriation of $3.50 this
wear to continue the work begun. A re-
quest will be made that this DE put IN
the supplemental appropriation bill, 50
that the funds will be available at once,
thereby allowing the institution OF more
Of the little libraries without interrupt
tions
Mr. Buchanan, in the report Just pre-
pared says:-'fSdnce the date Of the an
nual report of the State Librarian, TWEEN
ty-eight of the travelling libraries pro-
vided by the Commissioners of the State
Library have been made up, and twenty
seven of them have been sent out to towns
and villages whose residents first made
apr cation and complied with the require
ments of the Commissioners. The twenty.
eighth has been retained to facilitate the
making of exchanges, in order that there
may Cbe no delays when a library is re-
turned.
.sWith the appropriation Of 81 500 made
by the Legislature last year, .s45 volumes
were purchased for the libraries at a cost
of 81 .166. %. Besides these there were con-
trfbuted fifty-two volumes on kindergarten
work by Miss May McKeen of Camden,
on behalf of the New Jersey State Fed
GRAFTON of Women's Clubs twelve vol
umes by Mrs. Charles B. Yardley Of
East Orange. and Mrs Washington A.
Roebling, of Trenton. on behalf Of the
New Jersey State Board of Lady Man
ayers of the Worlds Columbian Expo
sition; two volumes by Mrs. RoelbliEg,
and seventeen volumes of the Famous
Tales, series by the Isaac H. Blanchard
Company, of New York, making In all
], ,42S volumes Each of the libraries made
up contains fifty volumes, and there re-
main on hand twenty-eight volumes.'
Libraries have been sent out to the
following towns:-Freehold, Fair Haven,
and Eatontown, Monmouth County;
Blairstown, Belvidere and Washington.
Warren county; Branchville and Ham
burg, Sussex county; Pompton and
Bloomingdale, Passaic county; Belle
ahoe and Wildwood, Cape May County;
Pennsgrove and Woodstown, Salem
County; Stockton and Rosemont Hunt
erdon County: ,,,s Shiloh Cum6erlsnd 6enn1S
Pemberton, Burlington County; Millstones
Somerset County; River Vale, Bergen
County, and Lawrenceville, Mercer
County. The counties not represented are
Atlantic, Hudson, Middlesex, Ocean and
Six other applications for the libraries
Monmouth County; Holly Beach. Cape
May County; Bellemeed, Somerset
County; Three, Bridges, Hunterdon
and DiIs Asbury, WAR warren G County. u si - -'''''
The applicants. the report says, have
been notified that no more libraries can
be furnished until another appropriation
is made by the Legislature for the pur-
chase Of books. No attempt has been
made to create a demand for the libra
ries, and from the inquiries received 1t
is evident that the fact that there is q
law creating the travelling libraries is
not generally known in some Of the
counties
The members of the New Jersey State
Federation of Women's Clubs, who were
so greatly interested in securing the act
establishing the travelling libraries, have
work Mrs. Charles B. Yardiey, Of East
Orange land Mrs. Washington A. Roeb-
ling and Mrs. Hook, of this city, assisted
in selecting the books Mrs. b. B. Hor-
ton of Crawford, secured from twenty
seven of the women's clubs of New Jer-
sey lists of titles of books recommended
Tor purchase, ana MISS Mary Mckeens
of Camden, purchased and forwarded to
the State Library the fifty-two volumes
on kindergarten work.
In making up the catalogue not more
than twenty-five works of fiction were
placed in any library, the remaining. VOL
ulnes being of history. biography, science
and other subjects. In purchasing the
books an effort was made to get all of
those OF some of the standard authors and
SERIES in order to make the work Of se-
lection easier thereafter.
Mrs. Horace Kimban, President OF the
Rasares Club, of Plainheld, notified tha
librarian that the members of her club
had voted to contribute fifty volumes for
a library. These books were received at
the library yesterday.
The first of the libraries were sent on
Decem ber Is, and the last on January 3.
Reports have been received from two of
them in connection with requests for ad-
ditional supplies Of catalogues and cards.
At Shiloh, Cumberland county, there 1ra
fifty-eight readers, and there are seldom
more than six or eight volumes in the IL
brary at time. At Branchville, Sussex
county fifty7five persons are attempting
to get books from the library of fifty vol
umes.
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