Article January 7, 1956 Issue

Enlarged Concepts of Them Expand Their Activity;

[Note: Extracts from a report prepared for the Reading Room Division by the librarian of a branch church]

Montclair, New Jersey

The expansion of our Reading Room was greatly desired by the Reading Room committee and church members. So in March, 1953, the executive board appointed three members to a special Reading Room improvement committee to study and report on three recommendations: (1) To improve our present quarters; (2) To find other suitable quarters to rent; (3) To investigate the possibility of purchasing property and building a Reading Room. After extensive work, the committee reported that the present quarters were too small to warrant the expense of remodeling; that no other suitable quarters were then available to rent; that no property was for sale in a location suitable for a Christian Science Reading Room. Things seemed to be at a standstill.

However, the expansion of our Reading Room was kept uppermost in thought, and in June, 1954, the store adjoining our Reading Room was vacated. At the July membership meeting it was voted to rent this space in addition to our present quarters. A ten-year lease at a nominal rent was signed. A three-member Reading Room expansion committee was appointed to take charge of the remodeling, decorating, and furnishing of the new room. An architect was engaged, and plans were drawn up for converting the two stores into a representative Reading Room. Partitions were knocked out, the ceilings were lowered, and air conditioning and complete soundproofing were installed.

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