Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-22
FREE LOAN LIBRARY
MOVE CONSIDERED
Government-Paid Project Is
Abandoned, but Committee
Named for Local Unit.
special ptspatch to The star.

special Dispatch to The star
FAIRFAX, Va, November 22.-
Eighteen representatives from different
sections and organizations of Fairfax
County met yesterday in the Board of
Supervisors room to consider with Miss
Leslie Stevens. in charge of extension
for the Virginia State Library, ways
and means of establishing in the county
a free loan library After Miss Stevens
had outlined the requirements for a
standard, unsupported county library,
which would entail either a tax levied
by the Board of Supervisors or an APP
preparation by them from funds already
received. members adopted resolution
offered by Mrs. John Warnock Echols
of Vienna thanking Prof. Ormond Stone
of Centerville for bis efforts in getting
this project started on a large scale,
but expressing the feeling that it was
impracticable at present to consider
asking the supervisors for funds.
To Start on Small Scale.
Upon advice of Representative r.
Walton Moore, temporary committee
was appointed from among those in at
tendance at the meeting to consider
ways and means of establishing q
county free loan library on a small
scale, using as headquarters the room
in the old clerks office building donated
pending on gifts of books, money and
volunteer services to get the project
started. This committee, composed of
one member from each magisterial dis
trlct, elected E. G. Gibbs of Mount
Vernon district as its chairman. H. B.
Derr to represent Providence district,
Mrs. M. D. Hall, Lee district; Mrs. H.
M. F. Palmer, Centerville district; Mrs.
@. Ashley Money. Dranesville district,
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district. Mrs. Palmer, who is herself a
trained librarian and who was employed
In the Library of Congress before her
marriage, offered her services in cata-
Toying and general library management
In getting the project started.
A standard county library system.
into which it is hoped this Fairfax
County unit will eventually develop. in
cludeS one central library, generally
located at the county seat, with num-
Der OF branches located so as to serve
most economically every section of the
county. The present town libraries at
Mclean. Falls Church, Herndon and
Vienna could later be made part of this
county system if diSired when funds are
avalabl- to give them service in ex-
change. In order to cover the entire
county and give free use of books to
every adult and juvenile, a book truck
- dNNLoCa W AGdCu Tie SeCIlOnS most
isolated.
COST soc Per Capita.
Help from the Julius Rosenwald fund
is predicated on an equal amount to be
raised by the county, with service given
equally to white and colored races.
This grant would be on five-year basis.
The minimum for which a county
library could be established under this
system would be so cents per capita
resident, or at least $12,5O0 for Fairfax
County'S approximately $4,000 inhabi-
tantS. Miss Stevens stated that the
State Library Association is asking the
next legislature for authority to assist
county libraries on the same principal
but but not in as large amounts as the
RoSenwald fund provides.
1t was felt by those present that
even small free-loan library such as
is planned can be made of great service
to the county. and will grow in influence
and value as its facilities increase.
Miss Stevens promised that the State
library would afford it the use of travel
ing libraries, containing $50 to $50 books
each, which can be kept for four. six
or eight month periods and then ex-
changed.