The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-02-02
the PUBLIC SCHOOL LIBRARY
Will he Opea for the Use OF rat
rons In the Near Future.

Believing that the books which
person reads are among the most po'
tential of all influences in the mould
ing and forming of character, either
for good or bad, and realizing the
perniciouS nature OF the literature
which many young people read, II
gives us great satisfaction to be aDie
to announce to the citizens OF Welsh
that we are soon to have our pubic
school library opened for the use OF
its patrons. A brief history OF the
origin and development of this library
movement will be of interest to many
of our readers.
Last summer at the close of the Hon.
+. F.. Robinson's fifth term OF Office as
MAYOR of Welsh, he set apart the
whole amount of the salary which he
had earned in Office during the pre-
ceeding five years, to go toward the
founding of public school library
This neat sum OF one hundred and
twenty-five dollars, was soon aug
mented by about fifty dollars, the net
proceeds of one of the most memoir
able ball games ever played in Sports
mems park. Agame between the rats
and Leans" in which the staid dignl'
J taries of Welsh, sprinted around the
1 diamond as though Father Time hac
rolled back his scroll for twenty years
and they we're again boys upon thf
4 campus of their Alma Mater.
From these two sources, together
D with some minor additions, the librar.
q fund amounted to about one hundred
2 and eighty dollars. This was rendered
9 to the city for the founding OF a schoo
3 library, with the recommendation tina
a library committee OF seven member
Q be appointed. This committee wa
9 appointed and consists of the follow
9 ing members: Ex-Mayor Robinson
. DR.. Jno. H. Cooper, DR.. G. i. Mente
q Rev. J. B. Brock, Prof D. r. Read
= Mrs. Field and Mrs. w. II. Hutche
o son. This committee met the latte
q part of June, at the school house,
9 which meeting it was thought best
. appoint committee on the Selectlo
& of books and one on rules. l..
= Robinson was chairman of the forme
. while Jno. H. Cooper headed the la
3 ter of these committees.
g After thorough investigation an
much earnest work on the part OF ii
De book committee, an excellent selectiC
9 ofbookswasmade. The books numbe
. ing about three hundred volumns, al
3 representing religion, history, scienc
9 poetry and fiction, are now in t
9 hands of the library committee a.
3 will soon be open for public inspf
q ton and use.
80 The committee on rules met in
Q beautiful library of the Robins
q home Monday evening, January
9 and agreed upon the rules for runni
Q of the library. At the same place a
q on the same date the committee as
9 whole adopted these rules which
Q as follows:
= ARTICLE l.
9 Section l. The books of this lib
. ry shall be in charge of librari
appointed by the library committee
q Sec. 2. The librarian may sci
zee an assistant librarian to whom II
mm be delegated such duties as may
n consistent with his ability to perfo
ARTICLE II.
n Sec. |. 1t shall be the duty OF
librarian to see to the labling OF
books donated or purchased for
library.
n Sec. 2. The librarian shall fur1
keep a permanent record, in b
H secured especially for that purp'
n of each book belonging to said lii
nv, in which the following data s.
n be recorded: Title of book, name
h author, name and location of publ
ers, source from which obtained,
of receipt, cost, accession mum
class number.
Sec. 5. 1t shall also be the
n of the librarian to keep u record 0
books checked out, in a book pre-
= ed for that purpose, keeping the
lowing data: Name, date, access
number of book, and further
make out for each member a i
nv card as hereinafter provided,
cording the following data on the
Accession number, date OF withd
al, date of return, to be recC