The Coconino sun., 1925-10-23
HIRAM MEMBERS LEARN
ABOUT OUR CITY LIBRARY
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dren. That isn't by any means true.
Our records show that about one
fourth of the books borrowed are
children's, the rest adults. When you
consider that each of the schools have,
libraries you can readily see how these
figures are possible.
'Itss hard for me to keep from
talking of dreams and aspirations that
| have for our library. | think the
greatest need right now is an ade
quate building. 1t is very unfortun-
ate that so far Arizona has no coun-
ty library law. One of the crying
needs of Coconino county is a county
library service. We do as much of
this as possible from our little city
library, but it's unfair to bothsthe city
and country patron to be so limited.
/ have been here three years and |
have people to whom / have sent
books all this time that I have never
seen. Aside from this service, all our
worn out books and magazines, no
matter how dilapidated, are sent out
with the country teachers to the far
out communities and the reports that
come to me of how they are apprec-
lated are really pathetic.
.sNdt all these people want light
reading material. Ever so many of
them are studying or preparing them
selves for something better and they
want references and books of all sorts
on every conceivable subject. / hope
the time win come when we can send
a box or bag of books to each school
district of the county for the teacher
to distribute among her people.
''If you could make a survey of the
names of our summer residents You
would find I'm safe in saying nine
tenths of them registered at the Ii
brary: a lasting impression of the
town is given these people through
the facilities of the library I'm sure
no other organization of the town is
so impressed on their minds. Tour
lists from. other states are eager for
descriptive information on Arizona
They never visualize anything about
the state until they arrive and then
they want all the information they
can possibly get crammed into a few
short weeks. Then of course the
Teachers college library is also made
quate for the summer rush and we
get the overflow
"The average attendance is close to
so people per day. The high school
depends on us largely for English
course required reading, also for ref
erences, debate material, etc. It has
a library, but as yet it isn't working
we'll enough to fulfil its needs. Often
in the evening we have as many as
25 students wanting information on
anything under the sun.
"a rough estimate of our shelves
reveals that between 35 and 40 per
cent of our books are non-fiction, so
you see we are not essentially a fic-
tion library, as so many are led to
believe"
Miss Louise G. Freeland made
splendid talk on the proper home de-
of the child and the ne
cessity of keeping the young mine
along proper lines. Miss Freeland in |
sisted that the parent of today takes
too little interest in school |
matters and that usually too little
discretion is used in the selection of
teachers.
MRS. Lorna JeSSup auQed TO the /
pleasure of the occasion by piano
solo and she also presided at the
piano while Chester F. Deaver sang
.wo catchy songs.
The quarterly ladies' day of the
,lub is to be celebrated on October
30, when the program in charge of +
Alex Johnston will open with din
ler at 6:45 p. M, to be followed by
musical numbers, dancing and cards. /
G. A. Pearson will be chairman at
,oday's meeting of the club.