The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-05
EL|BRA.RIE5
ARE GREAT "A B. BOON IN.
State Library Board Has; 1.na'ul,--
gurated Travelling Library
4 System.
TWENTY ARE !. IN ! \ OPERATION j I: a /:
Every Community Can Secure q.
Library Without
Cost. Fl.


That free library privileges are neces-
sary to tho welfare and progress OF
community and to its general system OF
leducationl,s a belief being rapid " awak--
cned In those Interested in education IN
Virginia and the advancement Of the
State iii the front rank OF progress nd.
enlightenment. II !. vi
u 7 is only within the last few months,
however, that d practical efforts t' has
been made to give free access to good col-
51ectlors OF books to the Farmers and resi-
dents 81 small Villages. 81 II
4 The almost universal lack Of library
privileges II, rural districts has not arisen
50 much from a & lack OF appreciation Of
books, is from the difficulty and expense
attached TO maintaining public library,
and the method Of obtaining and the
general chnra ctcrH OF tho books supplied
at these libraries when Instituted.
" Travelling Libraries.
II; IT was with these and many other "a cts
before them that the State Library Board
undertook to meet the great need which
rs fclttthroughout the Commonwe til for
small librarl es, and with the aid Of a few
5philanthropc citizens has ir,augurated tho
travelling library system! as 1t is now III
operation, making 1T the best In existence
to-day. its M ESsS.
The blessings resulting from the use Of
tho travelling libraries have been so great;
IandSthe expense so small, in comparison,
that the movement has won friends ana
sympathy in a wonderful manner.
y AS the Legislature has as yet lnadesno
appropriation for this purpose, the State
Library has had to depend upon gifts
from private pa It les to supply tho books
fort these libraries, and through this
method has been able TO put in the field
between fifteen and N twenty collections
since September, 1904.
Each travelling library consists Of fifty
books. a handsome boo kcase a charging
outfit and a 5number,s tdfs small printed
catalogues IN 5
"A ',rhe collectlonSIs allowed to stay iii one.
place @until rea d.l usually from three Il TO-
six months. when It 4 is moved on and
another. takes It's place hen it reaches
a 'station#it is managed as fat is posi-
BILE ike a smallSpu bltc library. IS "
Application Of Ten. lS
It Is sent.$to community upon y the
application OF ten Of It'd stax- payers, who
constitute the library baard and appoint
a$libraman from theirinlh
TO secure the prese tipn and So fe.
return 81 the books, L q paper fixing the:
sliabllItYS at not more than one hundred
dollars ts required ttSs Figned; BY one
or more propart oW ne rs IN tho State
But further han this. here Is absolutely
no expense or liability attached IS to the
loan. 2i SD d y Il En- 81
State II braary, and the di fferent ralroads.'
with the most CONNIE BILE broad -miidl--
fedness, carry the outfit free of charge
The: scheme affords an Incompatible
opportunity for the phflanthropts for
by the gift of one library he offers thu
blessings d education and the joys Of
delightful Irecreation, NOT to a community,
but to every community which has q
station Every election OF ooks given
ablishes a new, sta ton, and this sta
$tion will receive in time,s Zach and every
Htraveling library IN the syst tenn. IN Il IN
"A u n order that each read err ma ~ know
who is interested In his or Ter eluca-;
ton and pleasure, the name$of the donor
is stamped 2}conspic ously in the back Of !,
each book. III vi L