Article September 1, 1951 Issue

Our Reading Rooms

Fulfilling Their Purpose

[Extracts from letters from branch church Reading Room committees and librarians]

Two newspaper releases telling the story of our new Christian Science Reading Room were submitted to local newspapers through our Assistant Committee on Publication. Both news stories were published. The second was run next to one of the advertisements for the Reading Room and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, which are obtained through the Publishers' Agent's office.

In March, 1950, a membership meeting in the interest of the Reading Room was called by our board of directors at the request of the Reading Room committee. The president, after the necessary preliminaries, turned the meeting over to the librarian and the committee. After readings by the librarian, members of the committee presented the work of the lending library, the study room, and the scope and purpose of the window displays. Questions from the floor, fruitage from Reading Room workers, and a report from a Reading" Room location committee, recently appointed, followed. The members voted unanimously that we proceed to procure a downtown, groundfloor location for our Reading Room, which was then in the church edifice. In May, 1950, the location committee presented to the members plans which had been submitted to them by a local businessman for the erection of a suitable Reading Room. These plans and the proposed lease were accepted by the membership.

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