Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 18, 1900, Page 25

OF LIBRARIES EXTENSION Beasons Why the Btate 8honld Promot Them in Bmall Communities, EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF GOOD BOCKS w for a State Comminston the Work Along Prace ans for Prop The Nebraska legislature of 1 asked to consider & bill which has for its object the furtherance and spread of the library movement in Nebraska. It is pro posed to create a library mi y provide for a system of traveling librarics and to make an appropriation suffi-ien carry the law into effect. The Nebrasks Federation of Woman's Clubs, the Nebrak Library assoclation and other rocle enlisted fn the cause, comm appointed aud they hope to recolve the a tive co-operation of every tional progress in the st to be derived from the & law are 80 obvious as to need only to he t forth briefly in order mmand the ipport of the citizens of the statc It Is no untrodden path into which state 1n asked to venture enteen states have already cstablished Iibrary commls slons and thirty-thres states are enjoying the advantages of some form of traveling lbrarics. The states having library com misslons are as follows: Colorade, Con mecticut, Georgia, Indlana, lowa, Kausas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, »w Hampshire, New Jersey, New York Ohle, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Wiscon sin. It is high time Nebraska joined so goodly a company. Theso commissions are composed of peo ple who serve in nearly salary and whose sole efforts the intellectual and moral standards of their respective commonwealths, It {s the business of a library commission to foster the growth and establishment of fres pub- lic libraries, to assist in raising the stand ard of library management and to co-oper- ate with all the educational forces of the state in the spread of intelligence by tho use of books. Methods of Promotion. Thero 1s no need of argulug as to the de sirability of establishing free public 1ibra ries. Rather, it has come to be considerod & reproach to a town of any slze If It has vot a public library. A man having a choice s are tees have been 1 of educa The ation of such benefits the to raise us to whero his family shall live will, if ho | I8 wise, prefer a town that has a publie library to one that has not. It is one of the dutles of a library commission to en courage tho establishment of fres publio libraries. There aro many ways of doing this. Many towns are without public libra. rles merely because people are too busy to find out what are the legal steps required by the stato laws and how to go to work to creato sentiment fn favor public library and se re funds to support it when estublished. The library commission will publish and circulate the library laws of the state, will study out and disseminate ways of creating public interest and secur- ing funds, will send its members or officers, 1f 80 desired by a commuulty, to aid in ad- vocating the establishing of a public 1j- brary and will at all times be on the alert to foster the growth of the library move- ment. There s much that the commission can 4o to assist libraries already started and those whose establishment has already been decided on. Whenever requested, the library commission shall be prepared to Kive advise as to the best methods of se- lecting, buying, cataloguing and circulating books; also as to general library manage- ment, rules und regulations, cholce of Nibrarian and everythiug pertaining to the most approved dovelopments of Ilibrary sclence. It shall send its members, if ro- quested, to study the needs of a given lbrary, instruct the librarfan in methods and ald fn every possible way in giving the community improved library service, library bulldings, ete. In this way small lbrarles with limited tunds and untrained Hbrarian may bo spared expensive mistakes, as well an belng made increasingly effective. It fs one of the duties of a library com- misslon to publish und circulate library in formation, lists of hooks and other matter that would be helptul—particularly to the small libraries—which, In Nebraska, mean all the libraries except those In Lincoln and Omal When demand for such a school comes, i1 is the duty of such a commission to hold a brief school of instruction In library methods fn order that librarfans whose salarfes will not permit of attendance at any of the distant 1lbrary schools, may learn better methods of library management Tt is also the duty of library commis- of establishing o sion to study the needs of the state in the | way of library leglslation and to report the results of such study to the governor from time to time. Traveling Librarie, Bo far the work of the commission reaches enly the cities aud towns, but there is much that the library commission can do for the rural districts by me; of a system of traveling libraries. These collectfons of books are purchased by the commlission from money appropriated by the state for that purpose ind received from philanthropie | wources. Uuder rules prescribed by commisslon, these traveling libraries are went out wherever In tho state there Is a demand for them, and are kept from three o six mouths. This makes it possible for an fsolated rural district fn the thinly sottled part of the state to enjoy the use of the world's best books. en In progres- sive Nebraska there are communities where the MEN CURED Without Drugs or Electricity by Our VACUUM ORGAN DEVELOPER 75,000INUS I Our Vacuum Organ 0 orything ores smiall, oper cures whero Yo a3 aud hope by doud: 1t re- ek organs, lost power, failing s, errors of youtll, ete, $te ocele permanently cured in 1 to to ruin the stomach, No Electrle r and buzn. Our Vacuum De- L troatment applied diroctly to disordered 'paris, Tt &lves strangth and pment wheraver applieds Old mon with Iowt: or filing manhond e the young wnd middio aged Who e eaning (e WIS OF YOULhTul 8PS, eXcesn bF wrbr otk quiekly sto H ulth nud strength, Our iy vy & plivaicians in the ALe8 AT HOW Facom b g ONF Applfe ce in the severest cases where every other known device has failed, on will see and foel its benofit from the first y for it 1s applied diseetly at the seat of the rder. It makes vo difference how severe the iar world, United all cases without | 1 where the people | it which books are | 4 which a where the advent of & book is a godsend Plcture t the benefit such a community | a wisely selected travel- | thinking citizen of Ne. | in declaring that | on traveling libraries | vell gpent and would yield | rtion to the amount | a good book 1s never s y of finding n have no w good an re not be monc of pr % libraries will be the means of h small libraries, where an be added each year out when people have | nts of a library that | fresh supply of books More than this, | help to create a | that nothing but public libraries will | library an elo As a result of the | ton, with its strong libraries, Nebraska or managed public | libraries and private | itbraries, more endowed lbraries and better library bullding nd equipments L tienl Esamples, tllustration, suppose that of schools at B -y inhabitants, attends the lation meeting at Lin- } from the library | ures u priuted circular con- | talning the libra laws of Nebraska and some hints on starting a llbrary and goes home to t with the people he {8 sure | | will be interested. Shortly afterward these people send for some representative of the commission to come to B , and they Fold a public meeting, which results in the establishment of a public lbrary. This library is helped along by the presence of traveling libraries until somebody, who would never have thought of it if there had been no publie library in B , en- dows the book fund or gives money to erect | @ library bullding. The library board of | B peals to the library commission | for suggestions as to plans for buildings, ‘hnr| the result gives B a marked ad- | | vantage over towns having no public libra 1?“ %, which, In turn, stimulates these other | towns until they vie with B in provid- | {ng educational facilities for their citizens. | In th rural districts the mere presence | of the traveling libraries will ba an argu- | ment for more books in the schools and | | the home. When people live hundreds of | miles from a book store they cannot be | expected to buy books or to know what | books to buy. Many a family that has | abundant means to buy good books is | without them because they do not huow what to buy or where to buy them. The traveling library will open a new world to | | such people and will transform many « | home. The library commission will pub | Hsh and send out with the traveling librarie and in other ways lists of books | Buitabl private purchase in rural com- | munities. ~The county newspapor and the | ferd book will cease to be the only printed malter in many a home. Much of the world’'s best literature | ticularly that in periodical f is stowed | away In the garrets of Nebraska or has | | been set aside by Mbraries that have re- | | celved It by donatlon because 1t duplicates things already in the libraries. By means of the library commission this literature | will be encouraged to leave Its hiding places, exchanges will be effected and the magazines placed where they will do the | most good. | The library commission will co-operato with the state superintendent, the teachers | of Ncbraska, the conductors of farmers’ | fostitutes, the study clubs and other edu- | cational societies in advancing the educa- | tional standards of the state. Its members | and officers will habltually attend educa- | tional meetings, study educational methods | | and possibilities, to the end that there | | shall be the closest co-operation between tho libraries and the schools. | Time for Actlon. Much more might be sald as to the pos- sibilitles of the work of a library com- mission, but is not this enough to con- | vinee the most obdurate that Nebraska {must no lonker delay I this work? With | |searcely a score of free public libraries in the state, can anyone doubt the wisdom of taking steps to encourage the establish- t of more libraries and the strengthen of those already established? With stretches of unsettled territory to which it 1s desired tq fnvite the best class of settlers, who would have the temerity to say that braska does not need travel- ing librari A reading people are a con- tented people. Let us soften the solitude | of the dwellers of the sandbill country lest they seek more alluring flelds; let us give the children of Nebraska the opportunity to continue their education on through life; let us put into the hands of the chil- | dren of the foreign-born ploneers—those settlers whom, for their industry, courage and sturdy manhood and womanhoed, we welcome to the hardships of pioneer life— tho books that will enable them to over- come the disadvantage of their parents’ unfamillarity with our language, literature and history; let us put within reach of the farmers the latest and best books res lating to their profession, the profession on which the materfal prosperity of the state depends, and In 50 doing thereby make glad | the waste places until, from Richardson to Sloux, and from Kimball to Dixon, thero in ot @ waste place, in any sense of the word, in fair Nebraska The friends of this movement will have meet several objections. 1t will not take long to find the man who opposes the | creation of any more commissions. He is easily disposed of. There may be good and | bad commissions, but they are not all bad, |and even the bad ones are generally n sary evils. Ta the evolution of a state | [there has to be a diviston of labor, hence | commissions. The citizen whose patriotism book | nt v and then will to thirst for the establ quench, quent work right will 1ibr ® 18 mis of the commlis arm of travellng more and bet hool As a conc the superin: A town of State Teacher: hears commission, an address fo par- | v g wide | to cos- NOT ONE FAILURE NOT ONE RETURNED case or how long standin, | to our treatment as the su | 'The blood is the lifa, the fertilizer of the hu- man body. Our is(rument forces the hlood into_circulation where most needed, giving strength and development to weak and 1ifelass parts, The Vacuum Organ Developer was first ntroduced inthe standing armies of Furope 8 fow years ako by the Freneh spacialist, De Bousse its remurkablo snccoss in these Loca! Appliance Co. to secure rol o iis sale on the Wostern neo its | ction iuto this rkable cures have nstounded the entire 1t has restored | thou ol lncurablo by | harmlessly, and it is as sure to yield is to rise. nt detention from | ember there i |angiother Eehem or 1. | ANGE COMP | developed to some extent | tibraries in | found tho $2,000 devoted to that purpose en- | the bible say we should love our neigh- | play with the little boy next door. | after they die, can they? THE OMAHA DAILY takes the turn of anta nism to commis- slons simply has to su t to the lnevitas ble, and would do well to expend en ergles in finding out just what commissions the state really necds No Polities In 1t The only other serious objection, from the financial one, will come trom those who fear that the commission will be com- posed of political partisans, who will use their positions to spread their own particu- lar doctrin This sort of opposition has in the last two legislatures, when the matter was being | considered. Nothing could be further from the intentions of the supporters of this movement. Nothing could be so fatal to the purposes of a library commission as to have the faintest tinge of partisanship in its membership. It s proposed to draft into service as ex-officio members the state superintendent, state librarian, chancellor librarian of the university, with pos- ly one or two other members. Thelr services are to be entirely unremunerated, the actual work being done under their di rection by an officer of their own selecting, who shall receive such compensation us they direct. The chancellor and etato superin- tendent are already entrusted with the chiet educational functions of the state and the two librarians preside over the two largest the state—which ought to be sufficient answer to this objection. The economical objector must also be reckoned with. lowa appropriates aunually $4,000, the Minnesota commission has $5,000 a year and the coming legislature is to be asked to raise it to $10,000 a year, Wiscon- sin has $7600 a year for the commission alone, without any traveling libraries, and many of the other states having Ibrary com- missions epend considerable sums on the work. A traveling library of fitty volumes, carefully selected, prepared and packed in @ strong shipping case costs, on an average, ot less than An annual $2,000 would | #upply only twenty-six libraries to meet the | demand that, beyond a question, could not adequately be met with 100 such libraries The work of the commission as outlined would require at least another $2,000 a yoar to make it effective. Iowa has already aside tirely inadequate, Nebraska could not hops to put this work on a firm basis for less than Towa can do it, but the friends of this movement would undertake to make an an- nual $4,000 yleld results in excess of any other annual $4,000 spent by the state for educational purposes Anyone who wishes to co-operate with those who tnuugurated this movement could not do so more effectively than to call the attention of his nelghbors to it, and one and all to urge 1t upon thelr representatives in the legislature, MRS. BELLE M. 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In ars it {s expected that o New York npleted a railroad to | that | 1d mules and thou- | sands of men and women are engaged in | bearing burdens to Quito and other towns. It takes sixteen Indfans about thirty days to convey a pi uador's capital from the nearest point The I r Quito, app two syndlc ty and the A contract time piece costing b It {8 to havi 1o Ktriking attachment ind no {iumin dial and I8 not at all satisfactory. It see now the citizens will fo'low the example of | 8t Joseph, Mo., where the same kind of a deal was ‘attempted, A protest went to Washington caused the “village” clock to be ordered taken to Wilmi n. N. C., for service and ‘i up-to-date one substituted at 8t. Joseph, total cost of the Pan-American ox- sition to be held in Buffalo next vear fa estimated at $10.000,00, and John N. 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