OUR PUBLIC LIBRARY.
[To tlie Editor of the Herald.] Sib, — Probably as influential and vigorous a Committee was selected on Saturday evening, to take charge of and further the affairs of a Public Library, as could well be found m the Borough. We may, therefore, calculate on immediate and desirable arrangements, The first thoroughly needed change is m the hours, m which the institution, even such as it may come down to, should be open to the public or subscribers, which ever it may be. A library and readingroom should be open daily, at least from say 9 a. in. to noon, and from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. The mode hitherto of three evenings per week, from 7.30 to 10 p.m. was comparatively useless, except to the yellow-cover novel reader. A circulating library should be disconnected with the reading-room and reference library, and supported by subcription ; the means derived from which, would m itself, far more than enable the Committee to .engage thejen tire services of a competent and industrious Secretary and Librarian. Much m respect to above may be done, . pending the course necessary to be taken m bringing the institution under Parliamentary subsidy. — I am, &c, Bookwokm.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 835, 15 July 1879, Page 2
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200OUR PUBLIC LIBRARY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 835, 15 July 1879, Page 2
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