The Bulletin Of The Free Public Library Commission And Of The State Library

Author : Vermont. Free Public Commission
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230022239
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the Vermont Free Public Library Commission written by Vermont. Free Public Commission and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... by a location on the street floor rather than in the cellar which it occupied previously. There the library stayed until the Aidrich building just across Elm street was completed a year ago, and the Barre public library was merged with the Aldrich library. During all these years Mrs. Boyce maintained a constant interest in the welfare of the all but homeless child, and it was largely due to her efforts that the public library idea was kept from being smothered in Barre. She has been connected so long with the institution that she will be greatly missed from her accustomed position." Mrs. Boyce was an active member of the State Library Association, and a faithful attendant at the meetings which she will continue to attend as her active interest in library work has not ceased. Miss Evelyn Lease of the KelloggHubbard library, Montpelier, has just returned from several weeks leave of absence which she has spent visiting the large libraries in Newark, Pittsburg and Cleveland. Mrs. E. M. Goddard has been assisting at the loan desk and Miss Rebecca Wright of Montpelier has begun the revision of the catalog. Personal Mention. Miss Edith E. Clarke, for the past eleven years the efficient and faithful librarian of the University of Vermont Library, Burlington, finished her work there the last of June and has gone to Germany and Switzerland where she will spend the year with friends. Miss Clarke was widely known and beloved in library circles throughout, the state and her helpful presence will he greatly missed at the meetings of the Library Association of which she was Secretary and Treasurer, and which she seldom failed to attend. Miss Helen B. Shattuck, for two years chief cataloger at the University of Minnesota, conies to succeed Miss...