The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-14
People Can Get Music in Same Way
in Which They Take Books
Now, Under This
New Plan.
WILL BE READY SOON
Work Of catalosuins This Section
Will be Done at Once and Music
Can be Taken Out
Soon.

Good music obtainable at the pub
lie library exactly as good literature
is available there, by every resident
of KeoKuk at any time.
That is the latest thing to place
Keokuk in a front rank among Ameri-
can cities.
Hereafter, anybody desiring good
musical composition may go to the
public library, get it in sheet or book
form as the case may be, depending
on whether it is a song or an opera,
take 1t home like a book and keep it
"a week like novel.
The library trustees ordered this
new plan installed at the last meeting
of the board and it will be in working
order as soon as the cases to contain
the music can be obtained.
The real credit for the innovation
belongs to the Monday Music club,
library authorities stated yesterday.
That club suggested the idea, offered
to do lot of work and furnish a
lot Of material fer installation, and
promised to assist the librarian in
every way possible.
The first collection of music in
stalled for circulation like books is
the donation of the Monday Music
club. It is fairly large and of excep
tional quality. The club intends to
enlarge it very much, gradually and
steadily, in the future. In this good
work, it asks the assistance of ev-
!erybody in Keokuk.
Those Old Music Piles.
Some notable additions to the
music now on hand are In sight. But
much more may be added, it is be-
llieved, if people will look through the
thousands of music racks in town
and select the sheets and books
which are no longer Of much interest
to the owner-but of great value to
other persons to whom they may be
new or favorites.
If all such music in town-the good
music-were to be collected in the
public library for circulation, like
books. 1t is believed that there would
be sufficient to supply the people Of
Keokuk through the public library for
a long time. Miss Martha Baldwin
has consented to act as clearing
house between the donors Of such
music and the public library.
Everybody in Keokuk having music
new or old, of good quality, is re-
iquested to sort it over, decide what is
not needed at home any more, and
telephone Miss Baldwin about it.
She will give directions about how to
make that unused music available to
all Keokuk through the public library.
More Boons Than Books.
'Music costs quite as much as
books" said a library man yesterday,
"and there are hundreds of music
lovers in Keokuk who can no more af-
ford to buy the music they like than
to buy all the books they want to
read. Hereafter, they can get music
from the public library exactly as
they have been getting books. l con-
slider this the greatest step in ad-
vance the Keokuk library has ever
taken since it became the public IL
brary."
ut will be some little time before
we get the music installed in it's
cases and catalogued ready to issue
on cards like books" said Mamie p
Fulton, librarian, but that will not
take long and by the first of March
we expect to be circulating good
music exactly as we are now circulat-
ing good books.'