Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1911 — Books May Be Borrowed From The Public Library Commission. [ARTICLE]

Books May Be Borrowed From The Public Library Commission.

The long winter is coming on and there will be ample time in the house hold for reading. In this connection The Republican desires to call the attention of its readers to the fact that a choice lot of good books may be borrowed from the state for from three |o six months. Read tfie announcement which has been sent out by the state librarian and avail ourself of the generous offer: Twenty-three thousand books have been lent to the citizens of Indiana through the traveling library commission since Oft. 1910. These book* are all subjects and are yours for the borrowing. Are you one of these borrowers? If not, you are missing a privilege which is yours by reason of your citizenship in the Hoosier state. Any five or more persons may form a traveling library association and borrow books by making application to the public library commission, Room 104 State House, Indianapolis. The round trip transportation is the only charge. The books are lent for three months and may be once renewed. For club or school study they may be retained for one year. General libraries are in 40 volume collections. Open shelf books on all subjects are lent in larger or smaller groups as desired. Think what it means to you and your community to have books in your home, club room or Sunday school, school house, or wherever your association deems it best to keep them. All of the privileges of a public library may be had in your own neighborhood. These books are the property of the state of Indiana and are for your use Borrow a collection, read the books and return them to the commission to be cleaned, fumigated, and repaired for a visit to another group of Hoosiers, and get a new collection for yourselves. If you are interested in what the book world has to offer, make yourself known to the public library commission, which was established by the legislature for your benefit and for th* benefit of every citizen of Indiana. Every neighborhood should have one of these collections of traveling library books unless the people of the community all have access to a free pub He library.