Woman's enterprise., 1922-11-24
LIBRARY GETS QUARTERS

ing, Nov. Ia for the library commit
tee Of Joanna Waddell Chapter Of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
and presented plan which had been
arrived at by her committee and the
bar association, for the library to
occupy the quarters in the court
house, which had beenu set aside for
the bar library. 1t was agteed that
the library would be moved at any
time the bar library became large.
Committee agreed to care for the
books Of the bar. B. B. Taylor, chair
man Of the court house commission,
approved the plan.
Mrs. Babin also presented long
petition signed by large number of
Baton Rougeans, approving the plan,
and showed that there was some o.
carried without dissenting vote.
Other members Of the Joanna Wad-
dill Chapter on the library committee
are Mines. j. D. Began, M. P. Robert
son, A. G.. Grant, T. P. Singletary,
and A. P. Miller.
On the advisory board chosen by
this committee from the public are:
Hon. T. H. Harris, Hon. Howell Nor
gan, Hon. C. Ricaud, Rabbi H. Rein
hart, DR.. B. C. Tucker, Col. A. tt
Prescott, Messrs. I. NJ. Causey, T. L.
Small. Hy. Puckett, Mrs. J. A. Tucker
and Miss X. Doherty.
The following is the petition:
Baton Rouge, La, Nov. IA, 1922.
TO the Honorable Members Of the Po-
lice Jury,
East Baton Rouge Parish.
Gentlemen:-
We come before you representing
the public library now housed on the
End floor of the Allen building, cor
ner of Church and Florida streets.
We earnestly request that you give
space for temporary headquarters for
. library in the new court house
building. Either of the two suggest
ed places that your body and the new
court house building committee may
indicate will be acceptable; our COM
nittee has been both. One is the un-
finished space on the 2nd floor, south,
but this is larger than necessary; the
other is, the library Of the Court
OF Appeals on the 3rd floor, west. In
case that the place last mentioned
should be loaned US we would be glad
to have charge Of and take care Of
the books belonging to the Court Of
Appeals, making them Of better SER
vice to those using them.
II this place is loaned us and the
time should come when it is needed
fes the Court Of Appeals alone we
would vacate to another part Of the
building, say, the unfinished part.
Even this would be asked for tempo
rarily, because Baton Rouge will have
. real library building, built by the
city or the city and parish.
Our borrowers Of books each
month are between two and three
Thousand. With good roads, the num-
her Of rural readers has increased
and is steadily growing. Not only
are rural folks invited to read from
the library, but conditions under
which they may do so, for a long
time, have been made easier for them;
for instance, rural borrower may
keep books two weeks, and town
reader may keep them only one week.
The latest school using books from
the library is haywood. The prin-
cipal comes at intervals and takes
'out books for his school and in due
time he brings them back. This is
The plan followed by number Of
'sout-of-town schools and neighbor-
hoods.
Our desire is to serve as many
readers as possible, both rural and
urban, filling the capacity as well as
the limited means at hand will per-
NIT, both Of the municipal and par
ish library.
When the city or parish will have
provided for proper housing and
maintenance of library, all the IL
fbrary possessions Of Joanna Waddill
chapter will then become the property
of the public with a regular board in
in charge Of committee from the
public.
Gentlemen, we petition you for
temporary space for the library in the
nsw COURT house building.
Respectfully submitted,
tSigned) The Library Committee.
The committee: Mrs. J. D. Began.