The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-09-23
First Purchase of
Books for Library
Is Ordered Placed
Works for Juveniles Most
Needed, but Selection of
Latest Fiction Is Included
in the Order.

First orders for books for the Maui
County Free Library were authorized
at meeting of the library commits
sion Wednesday afternoon and are
TO be placed by the librarian at once.
Miss Morse was also authorized to
secure estimates for the shelving re-
quired in the new library building
and on other equipment that will be
required there.
Since her arrival Miss Morse has
been busy getting things in shape in
the old library rooms. She had to go
| over the books that are to be pur-
chased from the old library, to ascer-
tain what is available, before deter
mining what to order The order au-
| thorized is but the beginning. About
500 books make up the initial pur-
chase.
Urgent Needs Met
1t has been found that the most
| urgent need of the library is for
books for Children and. consequently,
works for Juveniles will preponderate
in the orders she is placing, there be-
| ing more than 400 in her list For
adults she is buying about so of the
latest works. mostly fiction In addi-
ton to such books for adults and
| those which are included in the old
| library collection, the librarian can
draw on the Library of Hawaii for
| books that are sought and the Terri
| torial Library will also send ship
ments from time to time from its
| Inter-Island department.
Thus far children have been the
| chief patrons of the reading rooms
| but, until application cards were
available, only those children who
| had previously taken books We're per
mitted TO take volumes out of the
room. Miss Morse notes steadily
| growing call from adults, one day
| this week 80 of them calling for and
| taking away volumes. She finds the
| reading room used by few grown
| ups during the day time and by more
in the early evening but after 7:45
| ii is almost deserted, ii being in
dicated that numbers stop in on their
way to the movies"
| Later Plans
| OF magazines that are to be kept
on hand list has been prepared and
will be ordered and will be put on
file as soon as the new building is
occupied. Branch service will also
have to wait until then. Miss Morse
expects to supply each school with
collections two or three times year
and she is looking forward to the
establishment of a dozen or more
branches through the county for SER
vice for adults.
| Preference. all things being equal,
will be given to Island concerns in
making purchases for the commission
passed a resolution that where bids
were received and Maui house was
equally low with any other, freight
charges included, preference be given
to the Maui house. So also in equip
ment if a concern in Hawaii meets
the bid of a mainland concern, f. o.
b., Maui, the Islands house gets the
order.
Home Concern Favored
| In bids for books, Maui Book Store
and a Honolulu concern offered the
same discounts from publishers
prices and the first order, except for
reinforced binding" books for chill
dren which have to be secured from
a concern in the Eastern States, goes
to the Wailuku concern.
| The matter of meeting or lounging
rooms for men and women was con
sidered. 1t may be there will be no
such room available for men but the
women can have such room if they
will supply the furnishings. How
ever, the librarian or the commission
should be notified before the start of
alterations on the new library home
and given requisite assurance that
the furnishings will be forthcoming
The board of trustees of the Maui
Library Association met yesterday
afternoon and voted to sell the books,
furniture and fixtures belonging to
the association to the Maui County
Free Library for $162.22. the known
Indebtedness of the association.