Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
EDUCATIONAL
BUILDING URGED
DR.. Montgomery Says That 1t
Should Be Provided by State
Government Soon

plea for the development of the
proposition for construction of an edu-
cational building on Capitol Hill, for
which the last Legislature appro-
'priated $4,000 to have plans made, is
made by State Librarian Thomas
Lynch Montgomery in his annual re-
port which was made public here to-
day. DR.. Montgomery says that the
demands for information from all over
the State require much correspond
ence aid that the continued and neces-
sary use of ''the typewriter and tele-
phone are not conducive to that
quiet which a student needs in such
an institution as the library.
1T is hoped" he says, that the
first move towards real educational
building with ample accommodations
for students, magazine room and
quiet quarters for those doing re-
search work, where they may collect
the material without fear of molesta-
ton or interruption, may be made
during the session of the Legisla-
ture."
The appropriation was made for
plans in 1915, but the Board of Public
Grounds after a long delay referred
the proposition to the State Board
OF Education, which found that ex-
perts were engaged in making a study
for Capitol Park Extension and the
idea of an educational building would
be considered in treatment of the
park district, now being rapidly
cleared.
DR.. Montgomery reports 170,742
volumes in the library. In the year
covered there were. S,114 books
bought, 1921 secured by exchange
and 246 presented. The Pennsyl-
Vania collection was increased by 457
and all told S1,469 circulated for home
use. The library and museum are
oVercrowded, he says. There is no
room for the birds and beasts of the
state, the space for the historical COL
lectlons is too small and the newspa-
per collections have filled all of the
space assigned to them in the attic,
while the geological and mineralogical
exhibits and the forestry and botany
displays can not be made.
Dr. Montgomery also notes that
some valuable flags, including one
from Revolutionary days have been
placed in the State Museum and that
tnefe nave been complied nineteen
Nolumes or Northampton county rec
ords and eleven from Bedford, which
nave been handled by the division of
pubic records, while militia records
from 1920 to 1910 have been made
available together with some births
ana deaths records of counties DATING.
back many years.
=, Compliments are given to DR.. II. Fl.
Shehk' the new chief of records, and
I,S,s nUso r Rothrock, curator of the
museum, who prepared the Pennsyl-
Nahla animal and bird groups which
nave attracted so much attention.
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