Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1929, Page 6

6 LIBRARY HAS FEW | LOSSES ON BOOKS Dr. Bowerman Reports High Standing of Institution in This Respect. Library patrons in Washington are eonscientious | This on the word of Dr. George F. Bowerman, librarian of the Public Li- brary. For while librarics in many parts of the country are experiencing great difficulty in getting back books waned and are tuffering considerable less in consequence. the Public Library of Washington pursues the even tenor of its way with a total loss of less than one-tenth of 1 per cent. t recent figu reveal a total cuwculzucs volumes, either from_tnc main library or brances, from which | not more than 14,792 books were either | lost or necessarily drawn from circula- | tion. These figures are the more un- | usual, since they include books loaned to children by the juvenile department, which takes no inventory. Method of Recovery. i At a conference held by the repre- " of libraries tnroughoul tne Chicago a few years ago Dr. deciared (he nume.t by his insticution Ll with the number cir ca s oulen cost e nger service lor tha secoverv of those books than the value of the books themselves. Were it not for the fact that the Public Library has a duty to perform in safeguarding. so far as possible, Government property it would be more pratiasia Lo stand the occasional losses Az1an 16 attempt a recovery of the book: A few hgures quoted by Dr. Bower. man showed the total circulation of | the adult department of the Central | Library, exclusive of branches, to be | 370,000 volumes for the ficeal year | 1924-| Out of this number all were voluntarily returned by the hoid- ers within the time specified except $.000 volumes. or about 2! per cent. ~ne mailing of letters of reminder to the delinquent holders further reduced the number of unreturned books to 2,079, or one-half of 1 per cent By resoriing to telephone calls or mailing the “messenger card threaten- ing to dispatch a messenger to the| homes of tne holders, the number was | reduced to 513, or bne-fifth of 1 per’ cent. Finally the messenger service, or last resort of the Library, succeeded in | recovering all but 330. This left less than one-tenth of 1 per cent unrecov- ercd. and a loss. While the figures quoted were com- | posed of a numper of years ago, the| proportion of wastage has not mate- | rially changed, Dr. Bowerman declared. | Present Policy. The present policy of the Library is | to send letters of warning to holders of | books one week overdue, and if there is no result, to attempt to reach them by telephone before resorting to the mes- | senger. The laiter is sent, perhaps, to| the office of a delinquent or to the home. If the delinquent is in Government em- | ploy, an appeal may be made to the chief of bureau. | Attempts have been made by Dr. Bow- erman to obtain the passage of & law making it a theft punishable by fine, imprisonment or both not to return a | book borrowed from a library within a| definite time. She Finds People Unchanged. To learn whether people of today are different from those who provided the pligrims of the Middle Ages with beds and meals, a young Swedish newspaper woman recently hiked over the route between Sweden and Rome used by the pilgrims. On her arrival at Rome she reported that men and.women have DISTRICT GRADUATES Alpin, j P OF FLORIDA SETTLE QUARREL Factions Mend Difficulties Over Patronage Control in State. A | | THE SUNDA Y STAR, VFASHINGTOXN, p. C. JUNE 2, 1929—PART 1. AT ANNAPOLIS | | Upper, left to right: John Volnev Mc- and George Herrick Wales. ° Center, left to right: Edward Clark Stephan and Arthur Sinclair Hill. { Lower: Raymond Fowler Crist, jr., ‘Washington boys among the 1929 grad- uates of the United States Naval Acad- emy. TEXAS FLOODLOSS REACHES MILLIONS Thousands of Acres More In- undated as Crests Move Toward Gulf. | by committing suicide. 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