Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-10-06
LIBRARY NEWS
New Vocational Material


The library through the coopera-
ton of the Board of Education is now
able to subscribe to several publica-
tions of the Science Research Asso-
citation. These publications deal with
the latest trends in vacations. They
are up to date, cover wide field in
vocations, and are written most inter-
estingly and thus should be of great
value to everyone. The monthly pub
LEGATIONS are a magazine, Vocational
Trends; and in occupational mono
graph, the September issue of which
is "Highway Jobs" There will also
be reprints from articles and books
on vocations and the Vocational
Guide" which provides running sum-
mary of the best occupational refer
ences. These monograms will de-
scribe training, qualifications, working
conditions, opportunities, disadvantages
and various other phases of vocational
life. Through a general knowledge
of vocations a student may be in
fluenced in detecting his own life
work and will at least have broader
vocational outlook.
Library Lessons
This year in the English classes
there will be series of six lessons
on how to use the library. The first
lesson will take up the parts of the
book, i. e., the title page, copyright
date, perface, glossary, etc., and their
uses. There will also be lessons on
encyclopedias, dictionaries, and var
ious other types of reference books.
Likewise there will be lessons on mag
azines and newspapers telling of their
value and proper usage. This year
the cataloguing of the books is being
completed and the students will re-
ceive instruction on the Dewey Deci-
NAL Classification and the uses Of the
card catalogue. In connection with the
lessons numerous exercises will be Civ
en- through which the pupils will have
an opportunity to practice what they
have learned. These lessons will
make our small library much more
useful and easier to use.
This year the problems of Democ-
racy class is keeping bulletin board
in the library on current events. Last
week there were some very interest
ing articles about war. This week
the bulletin was arranged by Charles
Jones and featured war cartoons.
This week the library received a
supply cabinet. This cabinet has
been needed for long time as we
have no place to keep the supplies
and other material 1t will be useful
to the librarian and the club members
in their effort to keep the library neat
and attractive.
Magazine Survey
On the first day of school Miss
Jones, the librarian, submitted short
QUESTIONABLE on magazines to the
sophomores, juniors and seniors. Thru
these questions the librarian was to
find out which magazines, received in
the library last year, were useful and
enjoyable to the pupils. The results
of the questionnaires which will be
considered when subscriptions are or
dered for this year are as follows:
1. The Magazines were popular in
this order: Life, National Geo.
graphic" American Boy, Saturday
Evening POST, Readers Digest,
Popular Science, "Time", "Ameri-
cam, Current Hisotry", Nature"
Better Homes and Gardens, "Scrib-
ners", Scientific American, "Scho-
lastic Coach, Scholastic Editor, and
"Wilson Bulletin" 2. Only thirty
five pupils stated that they had ever
used the abridged Reader Guide,
(Note: The librarian feels that many