The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-16

RESOLUTION IS PASSED

just ~ long as they are aoie To per
form the duties assigned to them the
memhets Of the state library staff
are IT, be allowed 10 do whatever
work they please out ef office hours,
according to a resolution ADOPTED ny
the library boald Tuesday night
1t had been ut first suggested that
as every member 81 the sian was en-
ployed on salary he should he reQuif-
ed to give his whole time to tho
library and could not even at home
at night do other work.
Fearins that such TN order would
he promulgated the stat united Ia u
letter IL the board asRing mat no
such rule iie made. VERY little work
has been done by any Of the star.
but occasion sometimes ariaes wilrri
extra money can be maae without
causing iess of lime or work from
the library.
Membet nj the staff in their appeal
to the board held taat II would not
be proper 10 pay them for seven
hours work and insist upon twenty
four hours duty TIE time III home
IL was admitted VAS not strictly Non
duty" but as it bad beef. held that
as the members 81 the staff were al
WAYS either working or resting So
they could 81 back To work. they be-
lieved that IL prevented from dong
anything other than library work they
should be sufficiently temunerated FOR
what they might thus lose
The board. however. put an end
10 the whole matter BY deciding that
the staff mem bers could do as Trey
have done ali the time. fsnt few Of
them have up 10 this time done any
outside worn IL amount - anything
and the board thus .aii that the pas
sage OF he proposed rule would meet
"a situation before it came into eXis-
I tenee.
Dr, Henry Mellwaine state
librarian, feels confident that under
the compromise ruling the library
Will continue to prosper. The insti
tuition under his administration has
! reached Ners high state Of excellence
and value and through has efforts II
/ becoming greater factor IN the edu-
eatiouai life IT the State every DAY
! Boards Resolution.
] The resolution agreed 10 and adopt
+ ed by the hoard regarding the out
s,dt3 work matter was as follows:
Resolved. In response tn the state
ment Of the employees Of the library
board with reference to said employees
doing work outside AZ their duties in
connection with the library
THAT II IN the sense af the hoard,
and il Is 80 ordered. that employees 0l
the library should nnt undertake work
whose execution is To hss during the
regular hours Whsn the library is open
and It's employees or any of them are
required to b III the library
Further. that He outside work
should be done h. employees af tne
! library outside 81 library hours OF steh
d public character as would ha cal
culated To cause u raisa pprehnnsion in
| the mind ~ the public as to whether
such employees are properly dlseh8rg~
I ing their official duties
Further that Said employees should
not undertake outside work az such
/ character az would tend to diminish
! their efficiency in alseharging their
! duties III the library
To Rtsnosats Pictures
: The contract far reifoSat5ng thu pic
lures IN the library gallery WAS award
+nena Smith. Of Naw
( ork.- The last Legislature arpropriat
ed 81 600 fer this work, and MIR Smith
viii begin retouching snd recleaning
the portraits Immediately.
t According n the ruling of the hoard
no books san te sent to the t'atnysba
sanatorium, as the library is not au-
siiorized IL eivs AWAY hookS even To
State Institutions. The sanatcri0rt
realizing thai no. KS sent there eould
NO. he returned tssnitarv reasons pre-
1 venting, asked that collection he
given,