Jack, Superintendent W. H. Schulz, and others. Rural patrons may hereafter obtain books from the public library free of charge. Previously a fee of twenty-five cents a quarter, or a dollar a year has been received.

Galesville. The men of the city recently gave a dinner for the benefit of the local library.

Madison F. L. Mary A. Smith, lbn. (38th rpt.-yr. ending Je. 30, 1913.) Accessions 3220; total number of books in library 29,521. Circulation 152,153. New registration 3273; total registration 16,324. Receipts $19,189.36.

For lack of a trained children's librarian work in the children's department has not been specially developed this year, but library instruction was repeated in all eighth grades in the schools. Sunday lectures were continued through the winter and spring, some of them in connection with exhibits shown. The library was used as a meeting place eighty-seven times by various clubs and committees.

Milwaukee. The Elizabeth L. Greene Memorial Library of Milwaukee-Downer College has received a bequest of about 600 books from Miss Julia Lombard Chaffee, who died in December. The books include fiction, history, poetry, religion and travel, and many of them are in fine bindings and in splendid condition. A conservative estimate puts the value of the collection at $2500.

Neillsville. Andrew Carnegie has definitely offered a $10,000 library building to the city, and the Common Council has passed an ordinance pledging $1000 a year for its support. Options are being secured on sites for the Carnegie building. A fund of $147 has been given toward the purchase of a site by the local Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

Waterloo. The Women's Club has recently conducted a donation campaign for the benefit of the local library. One hundred books of general literature have been given, together with yearly subscriptions to some of the popular magazines. A set of Stoddard's lectures has been purchased. A library clock and a fine hardwood library table, together with matting and pictures, have also been donated.

Waukesha. The new children's library, conducted by Miss Winifred Winans, has been formally opened, more than 500 children visiting the building the opening afternoon. Two hundred and fifty were present

during the story telling hour. There are about 375 books in the department. The department will be open every afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock, and on Saturdays it will be open all afternoon.

Waukesha. The Waukesha Women's Club must vacate the Carnegie Library, where it has met. In a letter from the Carnegie Corporation objection is made to the idea of a club utilizing the building.

West Allis. Work has been started on the new Carnegie Library building, and it is expected to have the building finished by the end of the summer.

MINNESOTA

Duluth. The West End branch of the Duluth Public Library has moved to 20 North Twentieth avenue west. The new quarters are in a store building on the first floor with a front window. The hours for readers have been changed and lengthened. The library will now be open from 1 to 9 p.m., daily, except Sundays, when the hours will be from 3 to 8. Sunday opening is a new departure in the West End. Miss Maud Grogan, the lirarian, will be in charge.

Minneapolis. The tenth annual exhibition of the Minnesota State Art Society was held in the public library April 1-22.

Minneapolis. The library board has bought from Thomas P. Wilson the three lots at the northwest corner of Central and Twentysecond avenue NE., for $6000, giving a library building site of 114 x 150 feet.

Minneapolis. Mayor Nye has made a tentative offer of the mayor's reception room in the city hall to house the proposed business men's library. Quarters similar in size and general convenience have been offered to the Library Board at an annual rental of $2400. The mayor's reception room is used for other purposes, but these for the most part are the holding of meetings, and other provisions could be made in other rooms in the building. If investigation shows that the reception room is available there seems no reason why that $2400 rental should not be saved to the taxpayers. The members of the board and Miss Countryman, the librarian, are to look into the proposition thoroughly.

Minneapolis. To compete with motion picture theaters that attract hundreds with their bright signs, the Public Library will instal an electric sign that can be seen from Tenth street to the new Great Northern Station.

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The turn in Hennepin avenue at Tenth street affords opportunity for placing a conspicuous sign, the library board decided. A thorough overhauling of the main library will be undertaken as soon as the new art museum is finished and works in the art gallery at the library are transferred. museum now on the third floor of the building will be moved to the rooms occupied by the art gallery and the third floor will be devoted to enlarging the library departments. The board has conferred with a representative of the Civil Service Commission, and it is decided that all employes of the library with the exception of the librarian and assistants who have received training in library work will come under civil service rules.

Minneapolis Athenaeum. Katherine Patten, assist. lbn. (Rpt.—yr. ending Dec. 31, 1913.) Accessions 2281; total number of volumes in library 65,806; total number of photographs and prints 3000. Expended from Spencer Fund for books and periodicals $7287.05; from general fund for photographs and prints $196.68.

St. Paul. The contract for the new public library building has been awarded to the Thomas J. Steen Company of New York City. It will be built of Tennessee marble, the cost being approximately $430,000.

Thief River Falls. The city council has passed a resolution providing for the purchase of a $2000 site for the new Carnegie Library. The site is three blocks from the center of the city and within one block of the municipal auditorium and court house. The work on the library, for which $12,500 has been contributed by the Carnegie Corporation, will start this spring.

IOWA

Davenport P. L. Grace D. Rose, lbn. (11th rpt.-1913.) Accessions 3005; total number of volumes in library 37,791. Circulation 172,674. New registration 1714; total registration 10,251. Receipts $29,674.70; expenditures $20,646.79.

A new deposit station has been opened in Friendly House, special efforts have been made in the line of publicity and a second tier of stacks has been erected in the book

room.

Des Moines. Contracts for supplying shelving for the new medical library department in the Iowa State Library have been let by the state executive council to the Art Metal

Construction Company of Jamestown, N. Y. The contract price is $760.

Dubuque. Carnegie-Stout F. P. L. Lillian B. Arnold, lbn. (11th rpt.-1913.) Accessions 1210; total number of books in library 31,017. Circulation 99,432. New registration 1009; total registration 11,946. Receipts $9503.75.

Branch libraries are a necessity in a city the size of Dubuque, which covers 11.5 square miles, but with the limited income received they are out of the question, and the circulation is gradually decreasing in consequence. Through the coöperation of the principal of the Lincoln School and the Board of Education a branch station was opened in the school. The Board of Education furnishes the room with heat and light, and the other expenses, including the library assistant's salary, are borne by individuals in the community. The branch is a success, and a movement has been started for a similar station in another ward of the city.

Independence. In the will of F. Munson is a clause providing for the immediate erection of a library building to become later a part of the equipment of the projected Munson Industrial Training School.

NEBRASKA

Lincoln. State L. H. C. Lindsay, lbn. (Rpt.-biennium ending Dec. 1, 1912.) Accessions 3523; total number of volumes 65,871, not including 26,154 volumes of Nebraska Supreme Court reports. Out of the appropriation of $3000 for general office expenses, about $1375 was spent for binding and rebinding some 1800 volumes. All binding has been done in buckram at an average cost of 76 cents per volume. The greatest present need is a fireproof building for the library. For some time there has been talk of erecting a new capitol building, and the suggestion is made that one wing, for the library, Supreme Court, etc., should be built at once. A second suggestion is for the erection of a fireproof building of marble or granite on land just east of the capitol, belonging to the State Historical Society, which land the society will deed to the state providing an appropriation is made for the building.

COLORADO

Denver. The Library Board and the members of the Colorado Electric Club have a movement on foot to establish a business men's branch of the Public Library in the downtown district. The Electric Club has agreed to equip a room at the Chamber of Commerce Building if the Public Library will furnish the books. The nature of the library is to be chiefly reference, and all fiction will be eliminated except the monthly periodicals.

The South West

MISSOURI

Paris. Heirs of the late W. H. Dulaney of Hannibal, have made the announcement of a gift of $30,000 to erect a memorial library at Paris. Mr. Dulaney's gift is unconditional, save as to site. He formerly

lived in Paris.

St. Louis. Thirty-six women members of the graduating class of the Library School of the University of Illinois visited this city the last week in March. Every spring a tour is made either to Chicago or St. Louis for practical training. Frances Simpson, assistant director of the school, accompanied the party. The visitors inspected the Central and branch libraries, the Art Museum, the library at Washington University and the Mercantile Library and Missouri Botanical Garden.

St. Louis Mercantile L. Assn. William L. R. Gifford, lbn. Acces(68th rpt.-1913.) sions 4985; total number of volumes in liCirculation brary 142,848. 119,195. Total registration 3299. Receipts $64,992.14; expenditures $61,663.67.

Trenton. With the extension of the parcel post to include magazines and books, the Trenton Public Library has broadened its field. Patrons on rural routes or getting their mail at the postoffice in Grundy county, who hold cards for library books, may order books by telephone or mail.

ARKANSAS

Eureka Springs. The new Carnegie Library was recently opened for visitors. It is one of the finest library buildings in this section of the state.

LOUISIANA

New Orleans. Following its policy of making reprints from time to time of matter relating to the state and city found in forgotten books, the Howard Memorial Library has recently had printed a hundred copies of the

account of a journey made to the Mississippi Valley in 1833. The reprint, like the original, is in German, and relates the adventures of one Friederich Arends, who started with his three children from Friesland in July, embarked for America at Bremen, and reached New Orleans the latter part of October. There is an interesting description of the passage up the river, and of the city as it appeared at that time.

KANSAS

Arkansas City P. L. Mrs. A. B. Ranney, lbn. (5th rpt.-1913.) Accessions 429; total number of volumes in library 4644. Circulation 18,275. New registration 673; total registration 2916. Receipts $3074.54; expenditures $2748.64.

Fort Leavenworth. Congress has appropriated $60,000 for a school library building at the army service schools. The building will be located east of the school buildWork ing, overlooking the Missouri river. on the building will start about July 1.

Fort Scott P. L. M. L. Barlow, lbn. (Rpt. -Dec., 1913.) Accessions 356 (231 juveniles). Circulation 22,425. Book purchases cost $298.53, and magazines $52.85.

Hutchinson. An architect's drawing, showing the proposed $18,000 addition to the public library, has been sent to the Carnegie Corporation. The library is badly cramped in its present quarters, and the proposed addition would just double the room. It is planned to have the main entrance on Fifth street, if the improvement is granted.

Junction City. George Smith P. L. Garnette Heaton, Ibn. (6th rpt.-1913.) Accessions 339; total number of volumes in library 9399. Circulation 29,437. New registration 559; total registration 3700. Receipts $5314.22; expenditures $4330.14.

Leavenworth F. P. L. Irving R. Bundy, lbn. (14th rpt.-1913.) Accessions 1559. Circulation 66,086. New registration 211; total registration 4652. Receipts $7680.61.

Topeka. During the past year the library of the Kansas State Historical Society has been increased by the addition of 1403 books, 1240 volumes of newspapers and magazines and 6969 pamphlets, making the total number of pieces in the library 228,643. No count of manuscripts received during 1913 has been kept, the work being delayed until the society should be installed in its new quarters, when better methods for handling them will be adopted.

After an interval of three years Texas Libraries has been revived and will be published quarterly. The copy for the first quarter of 1914 contains the library laws of Texas as well as news notes of various Texas libraries, data from the latter in many cases including statistics for 1911, 1912 and 1913.

Houston. A petition has been filed at City Hall, asking for an annual appropriation from the city funds of $13,500, instead of the $7800 allowed at present for the public library. At Dallas the annual library allowance is $16,000-they have 9500 borrowers; Fort Worth allows $12,000 for its library, which has 12,000 borrowers; San Antonio's library costs $14,000 a year, with its 10,000 borrowers, while Houston has a list of borrowers totaling 13,454, and can only keep its doors open on the $7800 allowed. New books cannot be bought with this appropriation. For the past year 112,585 books were circulated by the Houston Library. The library was ten years old the first of March.

Wharton. The city council by unanimous vote has decided to maintain a Carnegie library. A mammoth petition signed by taxpayers of the city was presented by members of the New Century Club, a literary organization, holding membership in the State Federation of Women's Clubs, asking that the city authorize the setting aside of a fixed amount for the maintenance of a $10,000 building. This building will be erected on the site of the club, which it is proposed to give to the city, with all books and equipment accumulated during the ten years' effort.

Pacific Coast

WASHINGTON

Seattle. The Seattle Public Library opened on Jan. 1, 1914, its eighth branch library, located on Queen Anne Hill. An interior view is reproduced in this month's JOURNAL. The building is a gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, being Seattle's fifth branch from this source, and is English scholastic Gothic in design. The material used was red burlap

brick, with terra cotta trimmings and slate roof. The main floor is partly divided by glass, each side of the delivery desk, into a children's room and an adult reference room, the open-shelf room being back of the delivery desk. Also on the main floor are the story-hour room, a small work room and the librarian's office and staff room with kitchenette.

Semi-indirect lights are used throughout. In the basement is an auditorium, with outside entrance, seating 120 people.

Seattle. Mayor Gill recently attempted to remove Miss Adele M. Fielde from the library board. In a letter dated March 23 and marked confidential he asked for her resignation, to which she replied that as she had every reason to believe her work on the board was approved by the public, and as her term of office still had several years to run, she would in no case resign "on a confidential or secret demand. It is true that I openly opposed your election as mayor," the letter, published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, continues, "and if you wish to retaliate therefor let it be by an open and not a 'confidential' demand. 'A public office is a public trust.' I shall not immediately resign from the public library board." In his reply, also published in the same paper, the mayor writes: "The reasons for your removal were not political at all. I did not even know that you supported Mr. Cotterill. In my opinion there has been a consistent course of favoritism in the public library board; a large number of employes have been brought from the East to Seattle, to the exclusion of local taxpayers, and in the appointing of employes, in my opinion, local people have been discriminated against. I think the salary of certain favorite employes are essentially too high, while the salaries of minor employes are ridiculously low. From what I can learn you have consistently upheld this line of discrimination upon the part of the librarian, and these are my reasons for your removal, and I shall this day file the same with the city comptroller." In an interview on the library situation the mayor is quoted as saying: "I understand that the board stands 4 to 3 to put through Librarian Jennings' policy of paying easterners high salaries. I will not approve such work. The taxpayers of Seattle must be given preference to outsiders. If the board undertakes to recognize Miss Fielde as a member I will appoint a new board of seven members."