Field and Future of Traveling Libraries Author:Melvil Dewey General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1901 Original Publisher: University of the state of New York Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Boo... more »ks.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: This plan lately undertaken, is marked by much enthusiasm and we believe that the necessary effort will increase the appreciation felt for the literature furnished by our clubs. We have 25 schools in this county. 5 have already filled the requirements and we hope to be able to supply the demand as it is made. In each 'case we send 35 books. County libraries. In 30 counties in Georgia traveling libraries of 60 volumes each, given by Hoke Smith of Atlanta, circulate among the rural schools. The plan is explained by the following circular letter sent by Mr Smith to each county superintendent of schools: While in Jones county a few weeks ago the idea was suggested to me that a well selected, small library, prepared for the patrons and children of our rural schools, could be used to great advantage in the following way. The superintendent of schools of the county will take charge of the library and place it under control of a teacher in a school for one or two months, the books circulating under the rules prescribed by the superintendent. After the library has remained a specified time in a particular school, it is then moved to another school, and then to another school, till gradually it travels over the entire county. I desire to see what good can be accomplished in this way and to try the experiment in several counties, hoping that it may lead to establishing libraries within reach of all children reared in rural districts. I have selected your county as one of the counties to which I wish to give one of the libraries, and I write to ask if you w...« less