Article December 3, 1949 Issue

Accessibility and Availability

[The paragraphs following are quoted extracts from letters and reports received from Reading Room librarians and church boards.]

Our Reading Room has been relocated on a busy corner frequented by pedestrians. The display windows are surely fulfilling their purpose and filling a need. Our librarians tell us that there is hardly a fifteen-minute period during the day when there are no readers. The study room is greatly appreciated by students of Christian Science in this neighborhood. The lending library has been much more active in our few weeks since the opening of the present Reading Room than in any three or four months in the former location. For the first time in many years we were completely sold out of the Christian Science Quarterly within the first month of the quarter. Formerly we would have from twenty to thirty-five Quarterlies to dispose of when the quarter was half over.

The ground-floor location of this jointly supported Reading Room with its attractive window displays is continuing to prove a blessing to many who are learning of Christian Science. Recently a window reader came in to study the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. On coming out of the study room some time later he purchased a copy. Sales of Science and Health continue to increase. One hundred and eighty-five copies have been sold during the past two and a half months. Three of these were French, nine German, seven Spanish, and one Swedish. The textbook has also been in great demand from those using our lending library, most of them newcomers to Christian Science.

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