Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-09
BROADEN WORK
At THE LIBRARY
Free Use of Building Granted to
Approved Organizations
During Library Hours

In an effort to make the public IL
brary of the greatest service to the
people ,of this community the Board
of Trustees of the library last night
decided to permit the free use of the
building including the auditorium.
when 1t is completed, and the assem-
bly, room in the basement for any or
ganization that meets with the ap-
proval of the librarian and the pres
ident of the board. This is only dur
ing the hours when the library is
open. For the use of any part of the
building outside of library hours the
charges will be 81 an hour.
At the meeting last night a letter
was received from Mrs. Adrian Lyon,
who is interested in organizing a girls
club in connection with the War
Camp Community Service. asking
that permission be given for the use
of the meeting room in the building.
There are also girl scouts and boy
scouts that desire to meet at the IL
brary.
The trustees expressed themselves
last night as desiring to make the Ii
brary as useful to the community as
possible and they agreed that the
privileges to be offered there should
be granted free to any approved or
ganiZation during such time as the IL
brary is open.
The library has been used to a great
extent during the past year by the va
rious branches of the War Camp
Community Service, and the trustees
already hard pressed for money to
keep up the supply of books, began to
feel the expense that this involves.
1T was realized, however, that the city
seemed to furnish no other place for
such activities and it was finally de-
cided to make the building as useful
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community during the hours that the
library is open.
Being assured of an additional
Thousand dollars from the Board of
Aldermen for the coming year, steps
were taken last night to secure n
trained librarian to take charge of the
activities of the branch library in the
western part of the city. The work
there is to be developed during the
coming year as ii has not been posi-
BILE to do heretofore on account of the
lack of funds.
The condition of the children's
room is giving the library authorities
a great deal of concern. The BOOKS
are in constant use and the shelves
are practically empty all the time.
The librarian was authorized to make
larger purchases of books for the
children's room at once In an effort
to increase it's efficiency
The matter of cooperating with the
high school In having a branch main
tanned In the high schol building was
discussed and il is hoped that some-
thing along this line will be accom-
plished in the near future. Accord
ing to the state law, the school board
appropriates ten dallars for each
school building I'm the city and the
state board of education duplicates
that amount. This will furnish about
$240.
The high school already has some
five hundred volumes on hand and
with the books that the State Library
Association will lend for the purpose,
good start can be made. The prin-
cipal expense to the library board
will be the maintaining a trained IL
brarian to take charge of the work
1t Is thought that the matter can be
worked out satisfactorily in the near
future. The value to the community
OF having close cooperation between
the library and the schools is realized
and every effort will be made to fos-
ter the idea.
John II. Miller. who had Just been
reappointed to the board by Mayor
Dorsey. received the congratulations
OF his fellow members last night. Mr..
Miller has been the efficient secretary
of the board for several years.