The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-18
Woman sWorld
NEW CLUBPROGRAMs
Question Of Books Being Canvassed
in Nearly All Clubs. :.
.BENEFIcENT STUDY LIBRARIES
Supply Of Material Must BE Assured
Before Intelligent PrOgra
Making Can BE Begun.

The chairman of the Minnesota Federation
reciprocity bureau, Mrs w. G.. Gooding, OF
Minneapolis, is beginning to receive many in
quirles for assistance and suggestions for
program making next year. She sends out
from her stock of yearbooks those likely to
be helpful to each applicant and makes spe-
cifc suggestions and answers questions be-
sides r.. -ss
One of the most important points to be con-
sidered by every club in it's program aking
is the available material for reading and
study. If there is public library in the
town, its material should be considered,
especially it's reference books In the same
way there should be preliminary stocktak-
ing Of the material available in the private
libraries of members Should the search re-
veal an insut1ciency of material, provision
must be made for that before any intelligent
work can be done on program. 1t is essen
tial that a program committee shall have a
clear idea of the books that can he secured
before it begins it's labors
Provision for materials may be made in
several ways. One of these available for a
limited number is to secure one of the travel
ing reference libraries circulated by the state
library commission. There are eight Of these
libraries, for which the fees for use a whole
season are 81 or 81, according to size.
The libraries include English painting, %
books; Italian painting, p books; German,
Flemish and Dutch painting, % books; col
onial history, % books; French history, 10
books; Russian history, Is books; English
history and literature, So books, and United
States history, 80 books. T. 49,.
| These books will be available about June
l. so that the program committee and mem
bers may have them to work on during the
| summer. Applications for them should be
| made at once to Miss Clara Baldwin, librarian
Of the state library commission, Masonic
Temple, Minneapolis. These libraries have
all been gifts to the commission from gener-
Gus clubs, who wished to share their oppor-
tunities for study with clubs less favored
with libraries. 1t is the wish of the COM
mission that none of these reference libraries
go into a town where there is a public
library, as there are many places that are
! wholly without library facilities a.
The need. for these libraries for study clubs
is so urgent that all Of the clubs who realize
this are DESTROYS of helping to supply it. 1t
| is said that the Art History club Of Winona
that gave the admirable Dutch and Flemish
art library, is contemplating making another
similar gift and movement is on foot to get
| the travel clubs of Minneapolis to unto in
| supplying one or more libraries on travel,
as there is none on this subject, which is the
| most popular one now pursued by the clubs
| of the state.
| Any club thinking of making a gift of this
| kind for the use of the study clubs, would
| do we'll to communicate with the state lbrar-
| ian at once in order that she may prepare the
| book list and have the library ready by early
summer It would be a fine thing both from
| the library and the club standpoint, If an even
dozen new study libraries could be put at the
disposal of the commission. In5no other way
could more be done to bring about the care
| full reading of serious and profitable books.
! Not all Of the clubs can be provided for
| by either public or travelling libraries and
will be obliged to depend wholly upon them
selves. There is but one course open to
these clubs-to buy their own books-and the
absense Of library facilities is not without
| it's compensation, for 1t induces personal