Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1905-08-27

quite reasonable in view of the fact
that the regular course Of study at
such schools is from two to three
years in length. The work would and
must be burdensome until additional
assistance could be procured, and
this point was emphasized, for we
wished no misconceptions to arise,
when once the work had been begun.
The committee naturally wished the
term of service to be long, for the
library has suffered through recent
designations. but this point was not
/ assisted upon and, of course, could
not be.
Such service merited far larger
compensation however, than 100000.
the regular appropriation in recent
years for the work. But whatever the
pay. the University has never been
accustomed = Bear the expenses of
4 the preliminary training of any of it's
instructors. The sum the Committee
was authorized to offer, but added
thereto the promise that they would
urge that the salary be increased as
soon as possible to $1,000 or $1,000.
and that the success of the commit
tee in obtaining such increase would
depend upon the character of the SER
vice rendered. Miss Doten felt, how
ever, that the requirement of an i'm
mediate absence of one year for prep
aration was an insurmountable OBJ
stacle to her acceptance of the offer.
The position was next offered to
another Nevada graduate on the
same conditions and would have beea
accepted had her mothers health per-
mitted, 1t was also offered to another
resident of Nevada, also under the
on account of other duties she would
not accept.
Then the Committee entered into
correspondence with trained librarians
but were unable to find any satisfac-
tory person who was willing to &C
cept the compensation offered. There
fore. on our urgent solicitation two
hundred dollars more was appropriat-
ed from our already cramped general
fund of the University.
But librarian fitted by natural
endowment and training to be the
counsel and helper of the young men
and young women of the University
in the pursuit of their studies and il
research work could be obtained only
at higher salaries than the University
; could at present afford to pay.
Therefore, after long search, it was
with a trained city librarian until a
} sufficient increase in the appropriation
for the Library could be made to OBJ
tain a librarian especially prepar n
for university work and place the Il
brary on a plane with the other de
| partments of the University.
l When such time comes, the Com
: mittee will recommend the appoin1-
: ment of the first assistant librarian OF
:, che cf the largest universities of the
United States, man of long years
: of experience and genius for library
management. The University is ex
5 tremely fortunate in having such
y man who is willing to accept the ser
a vice, especially at this time when the
p munificence of friends of the Univer
a sity "a being DIRECTED toward the
g construction of such needed library
l. building.
a Tie present Librarian, Miss ARE
e strong, appointed to serve in the III
= term, comes after an experience Q
g four years as assistant librarian an
le eight years as librarian of the ca
e negie Public Library at Fresno {
tie city of 10000 population. The energ
e and knowledge of library managemer
displayed by her since coming to r
m no gives promise of most efficie.
D. service
a, Very respectfully submitted,
ea j. E. CHURCH, Jr.,
Ell romano ADAMS