Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1911 — Improved Circulating Library. [ARTICLE]

Improved Circulating Library.

A new kind of circulating library is to be tried by Uie Belgian government At Brussels a central library consisting at the outset of 10,000 volumes' is to be created and any inhabitant of any part of Belgium who owns a postoffice savings bank book will be entitled to borrow from it and receive by mail any book for a fortnight upon having two cents checked off his account at the postoffice. His deposit serves as a guarantee for payment for books not returned. As there are about 1,500 postoffices in Belgium this will amount to the creation of a circulating library with some 1,500 branches, whose risks will be more than covered by the deposits in the savings banks. .