Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-19


can study forestry. The Library says
to the public, "No matter who you are
or what you work or business, We can
| help you-come to u.s."
Atlanta library conducts the hes.
training school for librarians in the
South, and their work with the child
rem is well known. Recently the third
| branch was opened, which is called
very appropriately the Uncle Remus
Branch.
Colored branch libraries have come
to be one of the greatest aids in the
solution of the so-called race ques-
ton. Successful branch Libraries
have been established at Nashville,
Atlanta, Galveston, Jacksonville, and
! Dallas. At Louisville, Ky, part Of
the money was raised for the purch
ase of a site by the colored people.
and the building, a Carnegie gift will
! be erected at cost of $4,000. For
a long time Louisville had the dis
! tnction of having the only colored
library and this is the second branch.
! In Houston a colored debating club
first felt the need of reference books
and started the movement among the
| negroes. They purchased lot, Mr..
| Carnegie gave the building, and the
architect is a negro from Washington,
! D. C. 1t is an attractive dwo-story
brick, for which the council appro-
| PIRATES 81 800 The Importance of such
an institution for the. happiness, 10y
| atty, and broader patriotism among
F., this race cannot be measured by sta
! tistics. Birmingham is now raising
| 900 for libraries and expects to
have 81 900 month to spend just for
books
Texas is doing magnificent work
in her libraries, Galveston has $47,919
to Unrest every year. Many Southern
libraries maintain lecture courses of
lecture, notably Memphis and Calves
ton. Some of the subjects for the past
year at Galveston were:
Drama of Today; six lectures with
printed reading list of books to be
found in the library, on Ibson Rost-
and, Maeterlinck Shaw, Galsworting
and Jno. Borrie; another series,
Charles Dickens. and Efficiency in
City Government, and Music in it's
| relation to life.
Chattanooga receives $4,000 from
| the county making total of nearly
| $4,000 annually. Last year the circu-
lation reached 103,293 v. A great
| work is being Go1e in cooperation
with the parochinol and public school
Requests for more books are con-
| stantly received and colored branch
| is maintained in the Howard school.
| Here also a musical library is par
Gicular geature. Montgomery, Ala
| bama sends regularly assignments of
| books to Bell Telephone & Telegraph
! Co.. for the use of operators whose
| hours of duty prevent them from call
ing at the library, and for others who
wish to draw books.
Travelling libraries are simply col
| lections of books sent to communi-
| ties or individuals for circulation.
They are sent out by the State
Library Commission generally, by the
State librarian, as in Virginia, or in
a large city, by the public library
The rural community may borrow a
travelling library, the school or debat-
ing society, package, the farmer a
book on agriculture or road building,
or the housewife volume on house.
hold sanitation. The slogan of Mis-
souri, is library in every county, and
they are fast realizing their hope.
Maryland's book wagons are far
| famed.
OF the greatest Importance is the
work among the children. Very
little can be done to direct the read
ing of adults as their habits are
fixed, but the children are plastic and
the best results are obtained with
them. Story telling is one of the most
successful means of Introducing
children to books.
Miss Andrews of Seattle gives these
rem:
l. To give familiarity with good
English.
2. To cultivate the power of sus-
tanned attention.
3. To establish friendly relation
between child and story teller.
! 4. To cultivate literary stand
ard by which child may Judge
other stories.
5. To develop a right sense of
humor.
6. To cultivate Imagination.
z. To develop sympathy-an out
come Of imagination.
| 8. To give clear impression of
moral truth.
| 9. To lead to books-the best
books.
i Everyday we have examples of the
glorious opportunities children's
department offers to the child Of today
I believe Ehat the schools and the
Library are doing more to eradicate
illiteracy than any other present day