Article June 3, 1950 Issue

For Local Decision According to Individual Need

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

The Reading Room committee handled the advertising and the invitations for our Open House and prepared the two releases published in our local weekly newspaper.

The librarian was responsible for the Open House displays. Two members of her staff and the board contact member for the Reading Room found the co-operation and unfoldment of ways and means for bringing the displays to a satisfying appearance the happiest demonstrations of the program. During the Open House itself the staff and members of the Reading Room committee served in shifts, with five workers on duty at a time. The librarian and her assistant were on duty throughout the eight hours (we held Open House from two until ten) with the exception of the dinner hour. The co-ordinated work of Reading Room committee and stall was an inspiration. Such unity could only bless this community.

The total number of visitors was somewhat near our average attendance for one month. No sales were made during the Open House, but orders were taken. As a result the sales for the month following were one hundred and forty-five dollars higher than those for the same month the previous year and one hundred and twenty-five dollars higher than those of the previous month. Five more library books were loaned than in the average month. Evening use of the study room showed a marked increase over the activity of the two previous months.

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