Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-05-02
wOMAN'S CLUB.
Report of Travelling Lii
brary Committee Read at the
Regular Annual Meeting
of the Club.

of the Club.
MADAM PREsIDENT:-In presenting
the annual report of the Travelling
Library, your Committee feels deep
ly grateful that this noble work is
meeting With the encouragement it
SO richly deserves; that the Travel
ling Library of the Goldsboro Wo
mans Club is now an assured fact,
and that we have TIE inner con-
sciousness Of performing a great and
noble service to our town and State.
In other sections Club women
must grapple with the various So
cial problems. Here in our State,
where education, and the Travelling
Library must be our most powerful
weapon in reaching the corners of
the State that have, heretofore, been
destitute of books.
We must make special effort to in
duce locations of Library Stations
in the very poorest illiterate portions
of the country.
We must seek out the crossroads,
and the village, as the center of in
fuence, and under the charge of a
good librarian make the Travelling
Library a constant power for good.
BENEFITS OF THE TRAVELLING 1BRAR
1st. The Library Stations form
new centers for the upbuilding of a
better social anG intellectual life.
End. It makes good literature
easily accessible; it keeps up a con-
tinual interest in the books by fire.
quent exchanges and keeps each
family alert to learn about the best
books and to get them promptly.
3rd The responsibility of caring
for a library and extending it's USE
fulness make it a common bond for
a high purpose and a new basis for
union for the best citizens in rural
neighborhoods.
4th. The Travelling Library gives
the people good, wholesome reading
at no expense. It does not close on
Saturday, Sunday or for long vaca-
tions. 1t instructs, inspires and
amuses old and Young
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Your Committee respectfully urges
the adoption of the following:
That our members join in this
service and that they study the ad
vantages and possibilities of the Lii
brary movement.
We strongly advise the appoint
ment Of al Educational Committee,
who shall acquaint themselves with
the rural districts and appoint a IL
brarian who will be interested in the
work.
That meetings of the town and
rural librarians be held at frequent
intervals to talk over the work and
the pleasures, sharing experiences
and benefits, thereby establishing a
bond of mutual sympathy, BROADEN
ing influence and a common endeavor
between the town and the country
woman.
And lastly your Committee now
asks that you, to-day, become an en-
thusiastic co-worker, promising your
individual social Club, Society or
neighborhood to fill one box with
books by next fall. /
Appoint a Committee on this work,
whose duties it shall be to collect
books.
Book-giving must be encouraged,
1t IS the only way our work can grow
and there is a constant demand for
good literature.
BOOKS AND, LIBRARIES:
It is an encouraging and stimulat-
ing fact that in the year now closing,
have received from members and
friends outside of the Club, one hun
dred and sixty-seven (16O books.
Besides this, I feel glad to announced
q new contribution Of one hundred
>1O0) volumes. Where last year we
had only three cases of old, worn
put looks, this year we have six (6)
cases of good, well bound, whole-