East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-10-20
LIBRARY COMMISSION
TO ASSIST TEACHERS
WILL PLACE BOOKS
AT THEIR DISPOSAL
List Includes Professional Library,
Books on school Entertainments
Books for Teachers and Travelling
Libraries.

That the state library commission
is TO assist the teachers of the state
as well as cooperate with them in
supplying good reading matter for
pupils is evident by a recent commu-
nication received by County School
Superintendent Welles from Miss
| Cornelia Marvin, secretary of the
state library commission. According
to this communication the commits
sion has at the disposal of the teach
ers a professional library for the use
of teachers, books for teachers and
books on school entertainments.
The following is a portion of the
letter received:
The Teachers Professional Library.
We have asked the commissioner
of education, Washington, d. c., to
send you a copy of the printed list
of one hundred of the best books on
education called "a teachers profess
sional lbrary." We have ordered
these books with the exception of
those intended solely for colleges and
special high school work. We will
loan to you or your teachers, any
book on this list, cost of postage be-
ing the only charge. We hope you
will make this announcement at
your institute, and that the profess
sional library will be widely used.
The commissioner of education will
send copy of this catalogue without
charge as long as the supply lasts.
School Entertainments.
We have made large collection
of pieces to speak, dialogues, plays
ETC., to be used for school entertain
ments and on special days, Lincoln's
birthday, Christmas Thanksgiving,
Memorial day, etc. All good collec-
tions have been taken apart and
mounted on sheets so that the post
age will be very little. For five cents
in postage We can send sixteen pieces.
Any teacher may borrow these, MAX
ing application through the principal
or the county superintendent In
making the request, teachers should
give the number of pupils taking
part in the entertainment, with grade
or age. VIII you please tell them at
the institute that five cents in
stamps will secure the loan for two
weeks of fresh material for holiday
programs.
Books for Teachers.
We have some good collections of
teaching mature study, English and
geography. If you have teachers
who are weak in any of these lines of
work, they may profit by borrowing
a few helpful books. We can loan
number of good books for country
school teachers-Jean Mitchell's
School & Teaching a Country School.
One superintendent now has ten cop
les of one of these books to use in his
county for the next two months.
Would you like to have them next, so
that you may leave a copy with the
teacher who needs it? You will re-
member that we have some good
books on school building, school
hygiene and sanitation, school decora-
ton, teaching of agriculture in the
schools and manual training
Travelling Libraries.
We are about to order fifty new
travelling Libraries with fifty books
each These are the best books we
can buy. How many places in your
county should have one of these coll
lections every six months? If you
would like some circulars and appli-
cation blanks to take with you on
your visits, we will send them to you.
1t is a great thing to have good books
available in every community,