SCHOOL LIBRARY

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1935, Page 10

SCHOOL LIBRARY

ADDITION OF OVER 2000 VOLUMES. SUPPORT FROM THE OLD GIRLS. When the boys and girls’ departments separated in 1912, the already well established school library remained in its bld quarters but, even before the school had direct prospects of finding a permanent home, a movement Was on foot to supply the deficiency. In October, 1913, the Girls’ High School library was established. Over 100 titles of English and French classics were on the shelves, mostly given by Mr. W. W. Smith, Mrs. J. E. Wilson and Misses E. Andrews, A. Bollinger and E. Evans. Constance Penn, a student of the school at that date was most active in the establishment of the library and, besides purchasing books for it with her own pocket money, spent much of her spare time numbering and classifying the books already on hand. In the- years that followed, old .girls, friends of the school and staff added gradually to the store until to-day the library is a well established and important part of the school’s life containing more than 2000 volumes which include most good standard works of fiction and an excellent section of travel, biography and criticism. Few magazines in the last 20 years do not record substantial additions by donation during the year,