LIBRARIES' CONFERENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 69, 22 March 1910, Page 7

LIBRARIES' CONFERENCE.

§ THE LITE-——3iY -CLTJB-—______ . rj'py Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) j" ■ ■■ 'V-—___Sr_TON, this day. "The Juvenile Libraries' and Reading Rooms" is one of the; subjects for !dis- .'.' cussion at ■*— Libraries'-.Conferer— ; ; which meets ■*:_,fl>i_ied_. at Easter.' r ' Mr I _. Baillie, municipal librarian, who is ' an authority on libraries, and who will r .attend, the coming conference, informed ■l a/Tost"' reporter that during his recent : ; visit to America he took special note of ...the.vast development of the juvenile ... library in the States. In New York City and suburbs.,' alone there; is a cir- . culation of some 10,000,000 yearly. of • _ books for children. Tbe system. extends % to the schools, which are furnished periogf di— with parcels of (books sent out from the central .-.-■. These, again, :' ,-~_i—ulate among the children of the dif- : ferent schools. Mr Baillie thinks the system might ibe introduced, on a much -mailer scale, of course, into the schools '.-.:'ibere. .•£.. In regard to the suggestion coming ■/'both from Auckland and - Wellington for the establishment of a- literary;, society ■flin connection with each main library, .',"•: for the purpose of discussing subjects of general public or local interest, ,Mr Bailiie understands this proposal to' mean. P eo_ethin in the lines of -the American "Civic _ _>," a regular institution in I most of the large cities of the United ?..States. In many respects, it is like the 3 New Zealand Club in Wellington. Distinguished visitors or dist-cguished citi\i tens speak to members of • the club on H their favourite subject, of -which they | few." a special knowledge. "" Thus, Proy' -__or Hugo —;-_lsterfoerg, of Harvard University, delivered an address to the Chicago Civic- Club -oh- "Psychology and ; Crime," dealing -wit—, a. topic on which tie ds an authority. It is customary, too, in America where these 1«— are an insti-ti—ion of civic life, for el fee leaders in tbe affairs..of the .municipality, men like the mayor or the city •-gineer, to give :an outline of their pro- ■-;-. ■ gramme •— ■• the ' year. '.TKb...in itself is Regarded immense stimulus to pu_- -£ & interest in municipal '* affairs. _vie _—bs flourish in America, and publish ff Weekly bulletins of their proceedings, y firing the addresses delivered by tbe ;.;;:• •enators of the day. heir utility in a '}-. -smocrati-e community'is obvious. The -' geople of the black blocks ' have " to. ehI Sure many -hardships,' .but' one of the __ ;. Worst is their almost complete 1 severance '; from the ordinary current' of literature •—they are quite out of it. s In America, Sir Baillie points out, the' lib—Ties cater ; &r their needs -by sending away to -the .-:, IWtpo—s. of civilisation "collections ~of ~'• —travelling libraries, they are call-'-1;*i..':.. , The settlers pay something towards She .ost, but the rest. is : borne,..by... State. In New Zealand the State might ■:-■.;Well do something in the way of an adequate subsidy. ' The subject.'will-be o. Btughly discussed at media. f:■ ■••* : 'W ; "i : ■--■■.■■: \P ::■-" ■' --■■ :-. V--'»J-. :.i : ' ?-'.' *'{'■'■

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