CHILDREN’S SECTION OF LIBRARY

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27404, 17 July 1954, Page 9

CHILDREN’S SECTION OF LIBRARY

NEW ISSUE SYSTEM NEXT WEEK Because of the increasing size of the children’s section of the Christchurch Public Library the system of issue of books will be changed. Up to the present the library has retained all the membership cards and marked all returned and issued books on them as the members come in. From Wednesday the children will keen their own cards and the system will oe the same as that in the adult section of the library. With the present membership of more than 5000, at busy times there is a long queue round the walls of the library composed of children waiting to have their returned books marked off, said the librarian of the children’s library (Miss Dorothy Bowsher). Under the new system returned books will be marked off on numbered files kept in the library and membership cards will have to be produced only as books are withdrawn. The change-over is expected to be completed in about a month, said Miss Bowsher, and it is hoped then that the older children can be allowed the issue of two books at a time. It is not thought that the library’s stock of easier books will make it possible to allow junior members to take out two books at a time. Miss Bowsher does not think that lost cards will prove a problem. “The children will perhaps have a greater sense of responsibility in the matter than the adults,” she said.