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T HE LOVE OF BOOKS.—“The 
place to form intimate companion¬ 
ship with real books,” says Samuel Mc- 
Chord Crothers in a recent article, “is 
in the home. Happy is the child who 
has made the acquaintance of books that 
have been his father’s and his mother’s 
friends. They will always hold a pecu¬ 
liar place in his affections. As the years 
go by he will make new friends, and so 
the circle will be enlarged, but he will 
never forget those that have been ‘in 
the family.’ ” If you will go into the 
children’s room of any public library 
either in a city or a small town you will 
see many joyous youngsters poring earn¬ 
estly over fairy tales, stories of adven¬ 
ture or whatever most appeals to them 
at the moment, and you will go out say¬ 
ing, somewhat as Mr. Crothers has, 
“Happy is the child who may browse un¬ 
disturbed in a public library.” The Uni¬ 
versity of the State of New York believes 
that every child as well as grown-up has 
the right to know good books. With this 
idea in mind the Department of Educa¬ 
tional Extension determined to extend 
library privileges to those who live in 
the country, especially those far removed 
from such privileges, and in 1891 the 
first traveling library was sent to Charl¬ 
ton in Washington County. 
Traveling Lirraries are small col¬ 
lections of books which will be sent to 
any place in New York State, preference 
being given to places where it is difficult 
to provide good books for free circula¬ 
tion. Perhaps the most useful variety is 
the library of 25 volumes for general 
readers. These libraries contain books 
on all subjects, and are made up in fixed 
groups, or according to the wishes of the 
borrowers. As one of the librarians re¬ 
marked : “They are a mighty good-look¬ 
ing lot of books, too.” On application, 
lists of these books will be sent to any 
tax-payer. There are special lists for 
adults and for children, and one may 
have a combination of the two if desired. 
The conditions for obtaining the hooks 
are very simple. Application must be 
made by five taxpayers on a blank 
which will be furnished on request. 
Twenty-five volumes will be sent free, 
transportation both ways paid by the 
State and an oak bookcase furnished if 
needed. When more books at a time are 
wanted, a fee of 50 cents is charged for 
each additional 25 volumes. These books 
should be kept at some convenient place 
which must be open for free circulation 
during not less than three hours each 
week, with due public notice. If any 
group of taxpayers is interested in a 
special subject, such as agriculture or 
transportation, a library on that subject 
will be made up. These libraries may 
be kept six months and then exchanged, 
so that one may always have a supply 
of good literature on hand. There is 
available also a limited number of books 
in Italian, Polish, German, French, Hun¬ 
garian, Spanish, Danish and Swedish. 
Additional purchases will be made as 
funds permit. 
A House Library. —Suppose you live 
too far from any community center to 
obtain books easily. Why not send for 
a House Library? These consist of 10 
volumes which will be lent for three 
months for a fee of $1, with the privilege 
of renewal for three months for 50 cents 
additional. Any two or three neighbors 
may pay the fee together and share the 
books. Either send for the catalogue 
and select the books you wish, or inform 
the Division as to the ages and tastes of 
the readers, and leave the selection to the 
librarian. 
The Study Club. —An interesting 
feature of the Winter life of many small 
towns is the study club. The Division 
of Educational Extension registers those 
which agree to carry out an approved 
course of study and assists them in pre¬ 
paring programs and by lending travel¬ 
ing libraries, pictures and lantern slides. 
A fee of two dollars is charged for any 
library lent to clubs. Granges or private 
schools, so that the use of the books may 
he restricted to their own members. Re¬ 
quests for application forms and addi¬ 
tional information will always be prompt¬ 
ly answered, as the Department is anx¬ 
ious to extend the work as rapidly as its 
means permit. In the famous fire in 
1911 50,000 volumes were lost. Per¬ 
haps it is more interesting to know that 
more books from this department than 
from any other were saved because 45,- 
000 had gone traveling. 
Visual Instruction. —Working with 
the Department of Educational Exten¬ 
sion and of scarcely less importance is 
the Department of Visual Instruction. 
This Department will loan lantern slides 
and photographs on a great variety of 
subjects, and to schools and libraries wall 
Books For The Blind. —Of special 
interest is the Library for the Blind- 
This collection contains over 3500 volumes 
printed in embossed type. It includes 
text books and music, periodicals and 
general literature. Any blind reader in 
the State may borrow from this library 
without personal expense, the books being 
carried free in the mails. Through a 
special appropriation the library is able 
to add a few titles each year to the num¬ 
ber of books printed for the blind. Of 
the 96 books so printed all are in New 
York point, which is the type of the 
greater part of the collection, and the 
one taught in the New York State Schools 
for the blind. American and English 
Braille, line letter and Moon types are, 
however, fairly well represented with 
over 1000 volumes. 
Extent Of The Work. —Last year 
1114 traveling libraries and more than 
200,000 lantern slides were sent through¬ 
out the State, chiefly to rural commu¬ 
nities. The library answered several 
thousand inquiries by mail. Other poo- 
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pictures. The State pays transportation 
both ways. These lantern slides are in¬ 
teresting to young and old. They are 
useful in connection with school work 
or study club programs, or to illustrate 
lectures. If any minister or school 
teacher wanted to give a series of lec¬ 
tures during the Winter—and why 
shouldn’t he, using the schoolhouse as a 
“social center?”—the Department would 
help him by sending reference books and 
the slides with directions as to their use. 
“The chief difficulty in helping people 
in the rural districts,” says Mr. A. W. 
Abrams, who is head of this Department, 
“is that they do not tell us definitely 
enough what they want, and that they 
lose the catalogues.” The catalogues are 
not printed annually and the supply, 
since the Education Department, like 
other people, must live within its income, 
is somewhat limited. Mr. Abrams sug¬ 
gests that some one person in each com¬ 
munity, perhaps the secretary of the lo¬ 
cal Grange, shall make himself thorough¬ 
ly familiar with what (lie Education De¬ 
partment can do for country dwellers, 
and keep on hand a complete file of all 
the catalogues and handbooks issued by 
the Department. If these could be kept 
at some central place, where interested 
readers could consult them it would 
greatly aid the Department. 
The Reference Library. —Something 
new is Reference Library, which is prov¬ 
ing of great help to High School girls 
and boys and to debating societies is the 
Debate Collection. This material is in¬ 
tended to supplement what is in the pub¬ 
lic and school libraries of the State. It 
consists of newspaper clippings, maga¬ 
zine articles, pamphlets and books on 
timely subjects which will be loaned for 
four weeks, with the privilege of renewing 
for four weeks unless the material is 
needed by other debaters. The borrower 
pays postage. A few of the subjects 
suggested for 1914 are Reserve Banks, 
Marketing Produce, Workmen’s Compen¬ 
sation Act. Parcel Post and the Currency. 
The Reference Section of tho Library 
will answer inquiries by mail concerning 
the books and manuscripts in its pos¬ 
session, and will send lists of authori¬ 
tative material on any subject within 
its scope. It will also look up particular 
facts in history if the question does not 
demand extended research. A handbook 
describing its work in detail will be sent 
on request. 
pie are taking advantage of what the 
State can do for them, why should not 
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