WAR LIBRARIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 265, 8 October 1940, Page 7

WAR LIBRARIES.

PALMERSTON NORTH DONATIONS

Donations received at the Palmerston North Municipal Library for the War Library Service last month reached wliat is easily a record figure since the inception of the scheme under the Country Library Service, soon after the outbreak of war. A featured the donations last month was the high state of repair of the books and magazines in general. One of the biggest donations was the complete library of the Post and Telegraph Department employees’ social club at this centre, and since then about 800 copies of a monthly literary review have been received, this being one of the most acceptable types of literature for the service. Thus the current month’s collection has been started well.

So heavy was the quantity of reading matter received last month that assistance was sought from the Women’s Auxiliary, 1025 books being forwarded, together with 358 magazines and periodicals. The donations last month also contained fewer copies of women’s magazines and books written by women, which, it is stated, are not popular with the troops.