The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-07-10
PLAN TO EXTEND
LIBRARY SYSTEM
Directors Are Arranging
For the Establishment OF
Branch Libraries In
Outlying Wards.
BOOKS FOR EVERY One
Story-Hours Will Cultivate a Taste
For Good Literature Schools Will
Cooperate A Chance For
Self Education.
BOOKS FOR EVERY One
Have you little library in you.

Have you a little library in your
ward9o
This question will shortly become
very pertinent in Kenosha as result
of a movement recently inaugurated
whereby the scope Of the Gilbert M.
Simmons Library will be so widened as
to bring books, the best books, into
every home in the city.
The plan comprehends the use Of the
one mil tax, provided for in the city s
contract with the late z. G. Simmons,
for the establishment of branch Ii
braries at points in the city to be de-
termined by special library survey.
The latter will be conducted in early
September by an expert sent from the
offices of the state library commits
sion at Madison, who after a careful
INVESTIGATION Of conditions in sKenosha
will recommend the districts in which
the new book-centers can best be To-
Gated so as to reach the most people
with the least inconvenience to them.
The new libraries will cater especial
ly to Kenosha IS foreign-born citizens
who have not as yet given large pa
tronage to the main library in the
park.
Eff they will not come to the Ii
brary'', the Honorable James Cav
anagh remarked today, 1--WE will bring
the library to them. We will interest
their children first with story hours
that will cultivate taste for the best
in books and thereafter with the chill
dren converted to the library system it
W. II be only matter Of time until their
parents will follow their lead and pat
ronize the branch libraries
In this way, = he continued, 1--WE
will have adapted the library to the
peculiar needs of Kenosha and will
have made it a powerful educational
force working toward the complete
Americanization Of our foreign born
population
In its attempts to extend the scope
Of the library the board of directors
has been assured the hearty co-opera-
zion Of both schools and factories.
The former have already demonstrate
ed that the idea is practicable by the
experiment. at the Balm School. Here
q small library was recently establish
cd under the direction of Miss Ger
trude Senne formerly Of the main IL
brary staff. During the six months in
which it has been in operation the chill
dren have manifested a deep interest
in its story-hours and have subsequent
~ clamored for books containing more
stories of the same type. These have
been supplied and literally read to
pieces by little folk anxious to know all
there is to know about fairies, COLLINS,
and other things that live in the whole
some lore of childhood.
At the Simmons factory small
branch library has also been estab-
lished. Books and magazines on tech
nical subjects have been in high de-
mand here but few romantic novels
have also had their day not to mention
several nights when the midnight juice
burned complacently on into the small
er hours of the early morning.
" Wherever branches have been es-
tablished, Mr.. Cavanagh asserted,
.they have been patronized and that
is the reason we are so anxious to ex-
tend the idea until we have practically
|libraried the whole city.
ITO be sure,' he concluded, cit
will mean more books and more IL
brarians but all of these viii be pro-
vided as fast as they are needed