Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-05-21
FOR
 PUBLIC LIBRARY Elected at Meeting Last Night When Association
 Was Perfected.
MISS LYONS ADDRESS
Was Feature of Session :O.OO0 Car negie Library to Be
 Asked For.

Miss Dorothy Lyon, corresponding secretary of the State Library Asso- citation and librarian of the Carnegie. Library at Little Rock was the prin- cipal speaker at the meeting of the Pine Bluff Library Association at the i Chamber of Commerce assembly room last night and the address will serve to aid the local enthusiasts in more readily reaching their goal-the est ablishment of Carnegie Library, not to cost less than $50,o00.
 nights meeting and the organization was perfected at the early session. Frank Roane was elected president of the Association, Joseph Jasin, $. c. Alexander. Captain s. Geisreiter, j.. B. Speers and N. J. Can't .Jr, vice presidents; Mrs. c. w Pettigrew, sec retary and Miss Mary Geisreiter, treasurer. A book reception will be held in a few weeks, the date to be announced later. A letter. congratu- lating Pine Bluff on its public library movement, was read from A. D. Me- Nair, president of the State Associa- ton.
 Miss Lyons address was one over- flowing with valuable information an,l many helpful suggestions. She dis played by her knowledge of library af- fairs that she had given the inter for working of libraries much study and thought and her experience prov ed most valuable to those who were eager to get some insight into the workings of an institution of this character. Miss Lyon is a brilliant young woman and at the conclusion of her address she was rendered a vote of thanks for her interest in the local library movement and for her l lilOoI HClpluI dAAI Coo.
 Miss Lyon congratulated the Pine Bluffians on their good start Fort Smith and Little Rock, she said, are the only two cities in the state tha, have Carnegie libraries, maintained by the cities themselves. There are several subscriptions libraries over the state, however The old time li- braries, she said, were for students. The libraries of today are different. They keep up with the modern ideas and serve as educators and instruct ors. She reviewed the classification of books in the big libraries of the country and the system used in them. I "A public library is not charity" she said. ''It should not be regarded as luxury, but a necessity. It has to have cooperation and the best eX- ample of cooperation it between the public schools and the libraries. The school teacher can do much to make library success and this has been demonstrated in Little Rock, where the superintendent and all the mem- bers of the faculty cooperate to the good of the library and the pupils"
 Miss Lyon told of how the school children are won over to books in the library by reviews of the different | ,fo iv, hot hal tAr them, finally resulting in a general demand for the right kind of reading
 matter on the part of the younger
 patrons of the library. The bulletin system is also used in this direction
 with success, Saturday morning story telling sessions being featured for the grammar grade pupils at the Carnegie
 Library there. She termed the libra ry of today "The Peoples University and said that such institutions often ,l serve to help educate children who do not want to study or think. Books on electricity and surveying are just } as popular, she said as books of fic- tion. The library should not only supply the demand, but it should ere ate the demand.
 'l After her address Miss Lyon ans- wered many questions of those pre-. sent, who were anxious to become ia. miliar with the inner workings of g } public library, how it is conducted etc. She said the Carnegie Library was big success where it could be