Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-02
MAINE LIBRARIES.

The library association Of Danforth
has rented a part Of the Baptist churcn
| in that town to use for a library. and
have secured the services OF II. w.
| Cummings a. librarian for the present.
| A unique book has lately been donat-
| Cd tn the Paris Hill library, THE Rioe-
ripfIy and Writings of Caleb =. DAT
| Yis.' The DOpi. is mad" OF selections
frnr liens Advocate on the lite and
works &c MIR. Davis, second pastor OF
! aris baptist church. III" work w&s
done by -drH. Z. i. Tnayer and given
to the library by her son. Rev. Henry
o. Thayer, of Brooklyn, New York.
The Harrington Library, which is
greatly priced rs q local institution,
contains 500 volumes, and has within the
past year had its catalogue enlarged
By fifty or more volumes comprising
the latest standard works, and contri-
buttons from the field of fiction. A
movement is being put in process by
the ladies Of the village to provide a
more commodious building than the
present, and in furthurance OF the
object. leading citizen has offered
a contribution OF $3.50, and another q
building lot.
The book committee Of the Brewer
Free Public Library association reports
good success attending the efforts to
collect books for the library. over 100
volumes have been collected and about
100 more are offered, but have not as
yet been sent for. The list includes
fiction, biography. history and political
science. Among them are such books
as THE Personal Memoirs Of General
Grant" Macauley's History Of Eng
land" "Livingstone's Travels Bour-
rienne's memoirs of Napoleon and
other standard works. The list of 1ic-
ton includes Scott. Dickens, Marion
Crawford, Anna Catherine Green, Win
ston Churchill, Stewart Edward White,
Gilbert Parker, G2boriau's detective
stories, Mary f. Wilkins. Mary Hal
lock Foote, Edna Lyall, James Lane
Allen. Richard Harding Davis, Mark
Twain, s. Weir Mitchell and many
other III The latest and best fiction
writer's So far the committee, thanks
to general interest in the library, has
not had to expend single cent in
gathering books which could not have
best is that the books sent in have beer
good, almost new copies Of standard
and popular works. Tie soliciting
committee has met with good success
III securing membership fees and many
contributions 10 the library funds and
the prospects ara that Il very liberal
sum will be in hand by the time the
committee concludes its canvass of
the uppen wards Of the city. One Of
the donations received during the past
week was contribution of SIS from
one Of the business men of the city.
Hon. James Phinney Baxter. presi-
dent OF the Portland public library.
makes the following report on the work
OF the library the past year: The re-
port Of the librarian gives you in de-
tail the history OF the library. since our
last meeting, and shows that the past
year has been a fairly prosperous one.
1 do not propose to review the years
work as this would be but echoing the
words CT the librarian, yet among the
many Interesting items to which our
attention is called are TWO, which
should be particularly gratifying to US.
1 refer to the use of the reference and
4
ported to have had 1928 and the latter
Il 444 visitors during the year. The ref
erence room is being used largely in
our public schools, and the young PEG
pies room by the younger school chill
dren. We have always hoped to see the
public library become an important
adjunct to our school system. and 1t Is.
of course, gratifying to see the relation
ship between them becoming more and
more intimate. In this connection
can do TO better than quote from the
address Of the state superintendent OF
schools at the session of the Maine Lii
brary association last October. The Ii
prary and the school, he said. are dis
tinct branches Of the public service.
each engaged in its own work. but each
related to the other in many essential
ways. The cooperation which should
exist between these two institutions
must be established by the persons re-
sponsible for their management, the
teacher On the one side and the libra
rian on the other. They are the stew
ards who should See that the agencies
they represent perform their work for
the greatest good of the people of
whom and by whom they are support
ed The library needs a larger appro-
priation by the city to enable it to car
~ on its work properly. We are hand
icapped in many ways by lack of
means and unless We can have more
money we shall be obliged to curtail
our work which would cause serious
loss to the educational interests of the |
community. What shall be done? I \
submit the question to you for serious