Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1918 — Selection of Books From Lists Will Fill Gaps in the Children’s Libraries [ARTICLE]

Selection of Books From Lists Will Fill Gaps in the Children’s Libraries

There are gaps on the children’s book shelves —books are missing that have been worn out by fingers, too eager to be careful, or, worse still, there are staring spaces that you have been unable to fill, -writes Charlotte A. Baker. Ton are planning to fill these gaps gradually, but you have little time to give to the work. This means that you must depend upon lists, and that you must know your lists are reliable. Recently the Michigan library commission gave the Colorado library commission a generous supply of the lists they had worked out for their dis-, trict, rural, and high school libraries.. The selections in these lists are made by Miss Effie L. Powers, children’s librarian in the St Louis public library and supplemented by Miss Mabel C. True. The first list a book of 234 pages,, covers .the first eight grades and ha* in addition lists of reference books, and special lists of vocational guld-, ance, school hygiene, education and: boy scouts. The supplementary list has 106 pages. This describes books for adults as well as children, and suggests a list for the camp-fire girls.'