Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1924-02-01
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Aid To Them And Their Pupils.
More Are Demanded.


At the January meeting Of the State
Library Commission held in the SUI
preme Court room in the State House,
the annual report of the librarian was
presented and read as follows:
Travelling libraries: Comparing the
reports of 1922 and 1928 we find that
in the latter year one hundred and
! twenty-five more books were loaned.
and five more libraries were sent to
schools. The total number of libraries
sent to schools was one hundred and
twenty-five and the number of books
sent was 1868; fifteen libraries and
Dol volumes sent to other Organiza-
lions, including clubs, associations,
Sunday schools, etc.; and five hundred
and thirty-seven individuals borrowed
1925 volumes, making a total of 677
requests for travelling libraries and
books, and 1879 volumes loaned from
the Office of the State Library Com
mission in 1928. During the year two
of the travelling Libraries were lost by
fire, when Browns Neck and Hartly
school buildings were burned. At the
close of the year there were more ap-
plications on file than available Ii
braries. AS a library is loaned from
three to six months they are not only
sent out but are coming in all the
time, and it is hoped all applications
can be filled before the close of the
school year.
The records from rural school for
less than two months are rather inter-
esting-sixty-twO of the library books
were read in school and forty-nine out
Of school-One hundred and eleven in
all. Another teacher wrote that it
would be impossible to say how much
help the library had been to her, and
how much the children had enjoyed
having the books. The teacher of a
rural school in Sussex county says:-
please send application blanks for
another library. We find these librar-
les give much pleasure and informa-
ton, and We are gladly awaiting the
arrival of another"
In December last the commission |
one hundred dollars worth of |
books GO volumes) from the state
through the State Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs. Through the kindness of |
friends interested in the work, the
has been the recipient al
so of a large number of books and
magazines, the latter for distribution
IN the book routes in the state. The
Fidelity Trust Company of Philadel-
)hia sent copies Of their pamphlet
Constitution of the United States, and
many of the commissions in other
tates sent reports and bulletins.
Book Wagons Ii
The following is a report for the
ear 1928 from the records of the
light book wagons librarians in
harge of the work in the state. Ow-
ng to the reduction in the, appropria-
ion of the State Library Commission /
y the last General Assembly, the s
lumber of books routes was reduced {
q July last from tWenty-eight to
Wenty, and the number of months the q
ook wagons were in operation from q
en- to six months, with one exception
the Greenwood route made ten I
lonths. New Castle county had three i
Outes; thirty-one trips were made; In
lie homes were visited eight hundred b
nd seVenty-eight times; two thOus- C
nd eight hundred and fifty-six vol V
mes were loaned. n
heuL county QdQ elSQC rOuJ0Ss sew n
lty-two trips were made; the homes g
ere visited one thousand eight hun b
ed and ninety-one times, seven Il
ousand seven hundred and forty-one
'oks loaned.
There were nine routes in Sussex o
'unty; seventy trips were made; the
'mes were visited three thousand L
70 hundred and forty-six times; sew
thousand and forty-nine volumes "
ere loaned; making a total of one
inbred and seventy-three trips; six M
ousand and fifteen visits, and sew
teen thousand six hundred and for CT
six books loaned during the year 81
%. We have had more than one far e
er's wife tell us she did not know by
lat she would have done without
2 books, and a man, busy farmer, 10
d us that he sat up until midnight
aiding a Man for the Ages" These I.
2 but a few of the expressions of
and interest we are con- Ca
ntly hearing.
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