People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1893 — A MILLION-DOLLAR LIBRARY. [ARTICLE]

A MILLION-DOLLAR LIBRARY.

In Easy Reach Of Every Home. Cost one Cent a Day. The statement at, the head of this item will strike every one. at first sight, as incredible, or amazing. When the simple explanation shows how easy it is to make it true, the amazement will be that it was not done long <igo. * The American Cooperative Library has recently been organized with a a view to securing to every book reader in America better facilities than are. now enjoyed outside of the reach of less than ten of the largest libraries in the principal cities, as follows: You pay into a local Cooperative Book Club, which may consist of two or two hundred members, an initiation of any sum you please from sl.(Xi to SIO.OO. You are then entitled to receive immediately from the Library any books wanted from the entire realm of the world’s current literature, suitable for general circulation, to an amount not exceeding in cash value the amount of the initial payment. These books any or all of them, you can retain as long as you please or return as soon as you please, in exchange for other books from the Library of equal : value, by paying an additional charge of , one cent a day for the use of each dollar** wortli of books. As thousands of the best books of the world are now to be had at a cost of 26 cents to 50 cents each, the leading of good books thus costs next to nothing; a 25-eent book costs but one cent for four days, a fifty cent , book costs one cent for two days. If yon want high-priced books, or many books you can get them and pay in.propoition. When books received by the loeal Book Club from the mam Library are no longer wanted, they are returned to the headquarters in i\ew York and exchanged for other books of equal value (and are sent out to some other local club), less a charge of one cent for each two dollar’s worth of books—ha if the price paid by members to their local BookUlub; the difference will pay cost of transportation, a local librarian, If one is wanted, or may be divided as .profits among the members of the local Club s You see how simple and easy cooperation ol J ala T\ B<?ale , “ akes the whole matter. Who. that cares for good books, is too poor to pay one cent a day for unlimited access to the world s current literature? Yet millions of intelligent readers are to-daf nractically without library facilities because such a plan has not been adopted before. A catalogue of choice books. 160 pages, may be. had by any applicant for a 2-cent stamp; members are not limited to this, but may order tiny book in current literature. Ad«h Airiln R M Co °p®«ative Library, John B. Alden, Manager, 57 Bose st., New York Every lover of good books ought to join thia Cooperative Library movement.