REPORTS OF THE

Oklahoma Library Commission

July 1, 1922 - June 30, 1923

July 1, 1923 - June 30, 1924

and

Survey of Public Libraries

of Oklahoma

REPORT OF T H E

Oklahoma Library Commission

JULY 1, 1922 - JUNE 30, 1923

AND

Survey of Public Libraries

of Oklahoma

CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING CO., GUTHRIE, OKLA..

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

To His Excellency, Hon. M. E. Trapp,

Governor of Oklahoma, and

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Tenth Legislature

In Session, January 1925:

The Oklahoma Library Commission has the honor to submit herewith its reports.

Respectfully submitted,

M. A. NASH,

President

To the Members of the Oklahoma Library Commission:

Traveling Library service has increased over 60 per cent in the short period since these statistics were compiled, and reference requests have steadily multiplied.

The whole state is awakening to the importance of the careful selection of books, especially for the young. This is bringing a steady demand for book lists and aid in book sel­ection. Other states are requesting copies of "Books for Boys and Girls of Oklahoma." One request is for enough to supply the teachers of North Carolina; another, to supply the librarians of New Hampshire.

The importance of finding and placing trained and com­petent librarians, cannot be fully shown in the report, but it is of the utmost value to the library development of the state.

No report, however carefully compiled, can cover fully the many activities of the Commission during the past year. I t has been a period of growth and development unforeseen by its most sanguine supporters.

Mrs. J. R. Dale, Secretary January 1 1924

OKLAHOMA LIBRARY COMMISSION

M. A. NASH, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, President.

R. T. BLACKBURN, Ada.

MRS. TOM C. WALDREP, Shawnee.

JESSE L. RADER, Norman.

MRS. RAYMOND TOLBERT, Hobart.

MRS. J. R. DALE, Secretary.

MISS H. ELAINE BOYLAN, Assistant Secretary.

MRS. CLAUDE B. NORRIS, Reference Librarian.

MRS. J. R. JACKSON, Stenographer, in charge of Traveling Libraries.

Office : Room 331 State Capitol

Oklahoma City

FOREWORD

William Allen White on "Libraries. '

Ignorance is the menace of civilization. If America con­tinues to grow the minds of her people must grow. And the schools alone cannot satisfy this need for continuing the in­tellectual growth of. American citizens. In America today, 85 per cent of the boys and girls are in school until the age of 14 years. After that, but one in five continues the school until the age of 18. Then what happens? A scanty few go on to college or university and the others do not. Is this the end of their education then ? Must their mental growth cease when the school doors close behind them?

There must be some way out. Some way to continue the educational growth of American citizens. And there is a way. That way is the public library. It is America's continuation school. It is the most democratic of American educational institutions. It is free to every person,—color or race, nation­ality or creed—make no difference. It is free to every person who wishes to read, and who is willing to read. If the schools will only teach the reading habit, the library will educate the world, for the public library of America is free to every new idea, free to every fresh point of view; nothing is barred be­cause it is new or radical or different. The public library is free from party politics; it is free from religious intolerance and prejudice. The public library provides information on all sides of every important question—so far as its funds will allow.

The citizen has his duty toward the library. First of all he should encourage larger appropriations of funds. Too many people are being turned away because there are not enough copies of certain books to supply the demand, or not enough money to buy all the books that should be on the shelves. More than half the people of the United States do not have library facilities of any kind. The educational facil­ities of the library have not been recognized as they should be; with that recognition will come greater service.

Democratic as the library is, its service should be greatly extended. The librarians should be prepared to give more service, more encouragement and sympathy to their patrons.

whether to help the half literate foreigner or the scholar. The public should be made to see that the library is a continua­tion school. While the library is useful and helpful, it has still not reached its maximum of helpfulness and it cannot do so until the people themselves realize what it has to give them.

CONTENTS

Section I. Report and Library Survey for year 1922-23, Section II. Report and Library Survey for year 1923-24.

SECTION I. Page

Letter of Transmittal '.... 3 Commission Members, Stall _. 5 Foreword G General Report for 1922-1923 11

Library Summary 12 Library Survey of Oklahoma 14 Carnegie Fund 15 Library Meetings 15 Summer Course for Librarians 16 Library Summer School Classes IT Standardization of High School Libraries 18 "Books for Boys and Girls of Oklahoma" 18 Library Aids IS Children's Book Week 20 State Fair Exhibits - .20 Evolution of a Public Library 21

Book Report 25 Traveling Library Report 25

Summary of Traveling Library Stations by Counties 26

Individual Loan and Reference Department 31 Books for the Blind ... .33

Financial Report - 35 Public Library Survey 36 Free Library Survey -38

SECTION II.

Letter of Transmittal _ 40 -Commission Members and Staff 41 Report for 1923-1824—General Activities 42

Library Development in Oklahoma 43 Colored Branches - - -43 •Carnegie Fund - - - 43 The Henryetta Library Grows Up 45 Library Positions — - 48 School Work .'. - - - 48 Exhibits - -48

Library Meetings 48 Summer Course for Librarians at the State

University - 50 Members of the 1924 Class ;... - 51

Book Report 1923-24 53 Traveling Libraries .'-. '. 53

Possibilities of Traveling Library Service 55 Traveling Library Statistics 56 Survey of Traveling Library Statistics by

Counties - 57 Individual Loans and Reference Department 62

Books for the Blind 62 Home Reading Courses —- —62

Notes from Oklahoma Librarians -65 Oklahoma Authors ;...:• 70 Financial Report - _ 73 Inventory and Financial Statement ____74 Public Library Survey — 75 Free Library Survey - -.— 77

ILLUSTRATIONS

Public Library Buildings in Oklahoma - .- 10 State Fair Exhibit ._. _ - __ 19 Bristow Public Library 21 Dr. A. M. Fulton 33 Henryetta Public Library 45 Quarters of Oklahoma's Colored Branches 47

PUBLIC LIBRARY BUILDINGS IN OKLAHOMA

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OKLAHOMA LIBRARY COMMISSION State of Oklahoma.

Activities of the Oklahoma Library Commission fall un­der two general heads: Supervision and extension of libraries, and book supply through Traveling Libraries.

Since the secretary does not have the assistance of a library organizer, much of the supervision and extension must be clone by correspondence. However, it was possible for the secretary to make visits, this year, to Shawnee, Gfuthrie, El Reno, Anadarko, Okmulgee, Clinton, Cushing, Drumright, Norman and Woodward, where she conferred with library boards and librarians and talked at public meetings in the interest of library extension.

Evidences of library growth and extension are the new li­brary building at Bristow, a public library at Vinita, public libraries at Mangum and Walters to take the place of free libraries, new club libraries at Antlers and Pauls Valley, and colored branches of the public libraries at Enid and Okmulgee.

In addition to the regular survey of Public Libraries, the Commission made a special financial survey of Carnegie li­braries this year and filed a report with the Carnegie Corpora­tion.

Placing librarians has been a natural outgrowth of the Commission's advisory work'. During the year, twenty li­brarians who applied for positions have been placed. A greater demand for trained librarians has been noted, which also means better salaries for librarians—a step toward library standards recommended by the Commission.

To aid in problems of library organization and adminis­tration, the Commission published and distributed many copies of the following: "Books for Boys and Girls of Oklahoma;" "Rules and Regulations for Library Boards;" "Oklahoma Library L a w s ; " " A Library for Every Town in Oklahoma;" Traveling Library Pamphlet; List of Books for the Blind.

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The following bulletins are kept on hand for free dis­tribution as needed: "Book Selection" by Bascom; "Child­ren's Books for Christmas Presents;" "Directions for the Librarian of a Small Library;" "Graded List of Stories to Tell or Read Aloud;" "How to Organize a Library" by Mil­ler; "School Library Service" by Eaton; Library Supply catalogs.

Traveling Library statistics show the purchase and ac­cessioning of 6,280 books, including 325 books in the Revised Braille for the blind, with a total of 18,452 books on hand on July 1, 1923. Within the year the number of traveling libraries in circulation has doubled, and the number of vol­umes loaned to individuals has increased steadily.

Talks on Traveling Libraries and library development were made to farm women's county organizations at Guthrie, Stillwater, Holdenville and Geary, to a state meeting of Farm­ers' Granges at Chickasha, to students at the State Teachers' Colleges at Ada, Eclmond, Alva, Durant, and Weatherford, to teachers' meetings at El Reno and Hobart, and to Federations of Women's Clubs at Okmulgee, Chickasha, Weatherford, Cleveland and Yale.

No library legislation was enacted during the last regular session of the legislature although a bill, endorsed by the Oklahoma Library Association and prepared by the Commis­sion, was introduced and passed through the various com­mittees. All bills were stricken from the calendar the day it was up for final reading.

LIBRARY SUMMARY

There are 24 Carnegie buildings in the state, as follows:

Ardmore, Carter county. Guthrie, Logan county. Bartlesville, AVashington co. Hobart, Kiowa county. Chickasha, Grady county. Lawton, Comanche county. Cordell, Washita county. McAlester, Pittsburg county. Collinsville, Tulsa county. Miami, Ottawa county. Elk City, Beckham county. Muskogee, Muskogee county. El Reno, Canadian county. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma co. Enid, Garfield county. Perry, Noble county. Frederick, Tillman county. Ponca City, Kay county.

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Sapulpa, Creek county. Tulsa, Tulsa county. Shawnee, Pottawatomie co. Wagoner, Wagoner county. Tahlequah, Cherokee county. Woodward, Woodward co.

There are 2 Public library buildings other than Carnegie:

Bristow, Creek county. Okmulgee, Okmulgee county.

There are 5 Branch libraries (colored) :

Enid, Garfield county. Guthrie, Logan county. Muskogee, Muskogee county. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma county. Okmulgee, Okmulgee county.

The Branch library (colored) at Tulsa, Tulsa county, burned in 1921 and has not been replaced.

Note:—The Central high school library and three Junior high school libraries of Oklahoma City are operated under the branch library plan. They are under the Carnegie library but half of the expenses of operation are paid out of school funds.

There are 24 Free Public libraries in rented rooms or city halls:

Altus, Jackson county, community building. Anadarko, Caddo county, city hall. Blackwell, Kay county, rented room. Cherokee, Alfalfa county, bank building. Claremore, Rogers county, city hall. Clinton, Custer county, city hall. Cushing, Payne county, city hall. Drumright, Creek county, high school building. Duncan, Stephens comity, city hall. Fairview, Major county, city hall. Henryetta, Okmulgee county, rented building. Hugo, Choctaw county. Madill, Marshall county, courthouse. Mangum, Greer county. Newkirk, Kay county, city hall. Nowata, Nowata county, high school. Sand Springs, Tulsa county, city hall. Sayre, Beckham county, room.

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Stillwater, Payne county, rented building. 'ijqyy Tonkawa, Kay county. '"n

Vinita, Craig county. '""' Walters, Cotton county, rented building. Wilson, Carter county, city hall. Yale, Payne county, rented building.

There are 27 libraries not yet tax supported:

Atoka, Atoka county. Alva, Woods county. Antlers, Pushmataha county. Arapaho, Custer county. Bixby, Tulsa county. Broken Arrow, McCurtain county.

{l Eufaula, Mcintosh county. Garber, Garfield county. Helena, Alfalfa county. Hint on, Caddo county. Hooker, Texas county. Hominy, Osage county. Idabel, McCurtain county. Keota, Haskell county. Morris, Okmulgee county. Pauls Valley, Garvin county. Pawhuska, Osage county. Picher, Ottawa county. Prue, Osage county. Quay, Payne county. Roff, Pontotoc county. Stigler, Haskell county. Supply, Woodward county. Watonga, Blaine county. Waurika, Jefferson county. Wynona, Osage county. Yukon, Canadian county.

Among towns interested in establishing libraries that the Commission has conferred with are Broken Bow, Haskell, Norman, and Wynnewoocl.

Library Survey of Oklahoma, At the close of the year 1922-23.

24 Carnegie Library buildings. 3 Buildings other than Carnegie.

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4 Institutional library buildings. 24 Public libraries without buildings. 5 -Negro libraries without buildings.

20 Fi-ee libraries without buildings. 7 Free libraries with buildings.

16 Public libraries established with Commission assist-• •' anceT V

6 Denominational school libraries. 3 State institution libraries.

11 State institutions without libraries. :- 3 Library buildings at state schools.

1 Library building at a denominational school. 42 Counties in the state without public libraries. 47 Cities of the' first class without libraries.

Carnegie Fund.

To determine the exact standing of Oklahoma with the Carnegie Corporation, the Commission made a second survey of Carnegie libraries, this year.

The survey showed that in 1917 of 19 libraries 79 per cent kept their pledges while 28 per cent failed to keep them; in 1920, the first year the Commission functioned, of 22 libraries 82 per cent kept their pledges and 18 per cent failed to do so; in 1923, after the Commission had been operating three years, of 24 libraries 96 per cent kept their pledges while four per cent failed to keep them.

While no statement as to our exact standing has been re­ceived from the Corporation, the Commission believes that Oklahoma is eligible for buildings should this philanthropy be resumed. However, the Commission can make no more de­finite statement than the following, an extract from a letter from Mr. James Bertram, Secretary of the Carnegie Corpora­tion :

"Of course, you understand that the Corporation has not for some years and is not now appropriating money for the erection of library buildings, and I have no information as to when or whether it will resume." Library Meetings.

Many librarians of public libraries, state schools and pub­lic schools attended the Oklahoma Education Association

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library meeting in Oklahoma City, February 9, 1923. Mr-Arthur Curry of the University of Oklahoma library gave a_ report of the Southwest Regional meeting; Mrs. Mabel Pea­cock, librarian of the Oklahoma City library, led a Round Table discussion on "The Relationship Between School and. Public Library" when Mrs. John Scott of Elk City gave an. interesting talk; Miss Abigail Rice spoke very entertainingly on "Better Books for Children," taking up the latest edi­tions ; and the remainder of the meeting was spent discussing" the proposed County library bill. The Executive committee recommended that a special meeting of Oklahoma librarians-at the American Library Association meeting in Hot Springs. in April take the place of the regular spring meeting of the Oklahoma Library Association.

At the meeting of the American Library Association at. Hot Springs, April 23-27, 1923, Oklahoma was represented by 34 delegates. During the meeting the Oklahoma delegation met in special session. Mrs. J. R. Dale, secretary of the Ok­lahoma Library Commission was appointed secretary pro. tern of the Trustees Section of the A. L. A. and was elected sec retary of this section for the following year.

Summer Course for Librarians at the State University.

Since 1920 a library school has been conducted each sum­mer as part of the summer session of the University of Ok­lahoma at Norman, in co-operation with the Commission. Six weeks' instruction is given in cataloging, classification,-reference work, and library administration.

While this training is of great value.to library assistants,, teacher-librarians, and other persons enrolled, only the es­sential principles can be covered in six weeks; but the Com­mission and University are looking forward to the time when. a regular course can be offered.

Fifteen persons took the course offered during the sum­mer of 1923. Miss Grace E. Herrick, librarian of Western. College for Girls, Oxford, Ohio, gave cataloging and classifi­cation, and Miss Vera Dixon, library supervisor of the Des. Moines Public schools, gave the courses in reference work and library administration. In addition, ten outside speakers.

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LIBRARY SUMMER SCHOOL CLASSES.

Name Blackmer, Prances Burke, Lucile Chowning, Eva Spencer, Mae Wood, Mrs. Margaret

Anderson, Anna H. Bolton, I. R. Burlison, Hazel Dean Carr, Mrs. W. M. Hamilton, Indiana Hart, Mary C. Hartzog, Eleanor Jackson, Alta Miller, Susie C. Scanlan, Alice Small, Mrs. Mamie Swofford, Lyndal Treadgill, Mrs. Frances Woodward, Metta M.

Burr, Hortense Caldwell, Anne Cullen, Paul Ernest , Mildred Gilstrap, Gladys Goddard, Violet Harren, Edwin Holcomb, E m m a Pigg, Florence Steel, Laura Stephens, Addie Wilson, Muriel Winn, Louise

Gamuse, Mrs. Willie C. De Witt , Willie Eck, Car rib el Henkins, Orva Jackson, Mrs. J. R. Johnston, Helen Knight, Ralph McCready, Edna Earl

CLASS OF 1920

Present Position Uni, of Calif., Berkeley, Calif. (Mrs. F. W. Young), Oklahoma City Lib'n., Central high school, Oklahoma City Lib'n., Junior high school, Oklahoma City Public library, Elk City

CLASS OF 1921

Federal Reserve Bank, Oklahoma City (Mrs. C. Constance), Oklahoma City Culbertson Hgts. school, Oklahoma City High school library, Henryet ta First National bank, Noble. Loan department, Uni. of Oklahoma, Norman A. & M. college library, Stillwater Library, Central high school, Oklahoma City

Webster high school,. Oklahoma City Public library, Lawton Acting lib'n., C. S. T. C., Edmond Public library, Henryet ta Public library, Woodward

CLASS OF 1922

Library, Uni. of Okla., Norman Lib'n., Arnett Insurance Co., Pu tnam City Library, Uni. of Okla., Norman Public library, Oklahoma City Public library, Ardmore Public library, Oklahoma City Student, West Point Military Academy Public library, Woodward High school library, Shawnee Library, Uni. of Okla., Norman

Extension division, Uni. of Okla., Norman Nebraska library commission, Lincoln

CLASS OF 1923

Reference Dept., A. & M. college, Stillwater Library, Uni. of Okla., Norman Library, A. & M. college, Stillwater Library, Uni. of Okla., Norman Okla. library commission, Oklahoma City Library, A. & M. college, Stillwater Library, Uni. of Okla., Norman Library, Uni. of Okla., Norman

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Name Present Position McGuire, Marguret te Okla. l ibrary commission, Oklahoma City Mears, Grace Montgomery, Cora Public library, Yale. Shinn, Joy Lib'n., High school, Bartlesville. Speer, Melissa Library, Uni. of Okla., Norman Stafford, Marjorie Library, Uni. of Okla., Norman West, Georgia Hospital Library and Service bureau, Chicago

Standardization of High School Libraries.

A growing interest among high schools for trained li­brarians has been noted by the Commission. This interest has no doubt been stimulated by the definite standards outlined by the North Central Education association. The Commission recommends a trained librarian in charge of every high school, said librarian to receive a salary equal to that of the head of the English department.

"Books for Boys and Girls of Oklahoma."

A selected list of children's books, "Books for Boys and Girls of Oklahoma," compiled in 1922 by the Commission, is still in print and available upon request. Books are arranged under author, title and subject with approximate grades in­dicated. Books recommended for first purchase are starred. Several thousand copies were distributed during the year to parents, librarians and teachers in Oklahoma. Requests from without the state came from as far as Ireland and the Phili­ppines.

Library Aids.

In addition to aiding with purchasing lists the Commission gives "advice to all school, free and other public libraries, and to all committees which may propose to establish them, as to the best means of establishing and maintaining such libraries, the selection of books, cataloging and other details of library management."

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STATE FAIR EXHIBIT—Oklahoma City, September, 1922

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Children's Book Week.

Several weeks before Children's Book Week, November 11th to November 17th, 1923, the Commission sent blanks to all librarians in the state to find out just how much mater­ial they needed for their celebrations.

The Commission, serving as a distributing center for the Children's Book Week committee, New York, distributed quantities of posters, circulars, outlines and suggestions to the following Libraries:

Carnegie library, Ardmore Carnegie library, Lawton Carnegie library, Bartlesville Mangum Public library Carnegie library, Chickasha Newkirk Public library Claremore Public library Dunbar library, Oklahoma City Clinton Public library Okmulgee Public library Carnegie library, El Reno Carnegie library, Ponca City Carnegie Public library, Enid Carnegie library, Sapulpa Carnegie library, Guthrie Carnegie library, Shawnee Excelsior library, Guthrie Carnegie library, Tahlequah Henryetta Public library Waurika Public library Hooker Free library Carnegie library, Woodward

Follow-up reports of the various celebrations were re­ceived and interest manifested beforehand indicated that Children's Book Week was successful everywhere it was cele­brated.

State Fair Exhibits. (Fall of 1922).

To better acquaint the people of the state with its work, the Library Commission maintained a booth at each state fair. At the Oklahoma City fair, the Commission featured a Mother Goose house with Mother Goose in charge to tell stories, and displayed children's books in addition to distributing literature. Maps, posters and a Traveling Library exhibit made up the major part of the exhibit at Muskogee. Numerous requests and inquiries always follow the fair exhibits.

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BRISTOW PUBLIC LIBRARY—Dedicated December 11, 1923

THE EVOLUTION OF A PUBLIC LIBRARY

Twelve years ago the Bristow Public Library was but an idea in the minds of members of the Culture Club of that city; today, a modern, well-equipped city library represents that idea.

In keeping with the restless spirit of a growing oil town, the evolution of the Bristow Library is marked by many moves and several librarians.

The Culture Club of Bristow, organized in 1909 as a study club and federated in 1910, in 1912 decided to start a free public library.

Books being the first essential, the club held a book shower in a building south of the American National Bank. In spite of rain a very good crowd attended, leaving 67 books as a mark of interest.

Library quarters was the second essential and the super­intendent's room of the first brick schoolhouse in Bristow became the library's first home, with Mrs. Rowe as the first librarian. In the fall the school needed the room for recitation purposes and the library made its second home in a grocery store—where the New York store now stands—-through the kindness of Mr. E. E. Mount.

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Books, quarters and a librarian were not enough for this library child who had taken its second step. It now needed equipment, and Mrs. W. L. Cheatham donated a dining table and two chairs, Mrs. Griffith gave some shelves, and the club bought a sectional book-case and had a railing put around the space allowed. ;

When Mr. Mount needed the space occupied by the li­brary, the club moved it to quarters owned by the Bell Tele­phone company with the aid of Mount's delivery car and sev:

eral boys' express wagons. Mrs. Mary Neal was now librarian. This room was used until the war ,when it was needed for the Red Cross, and the library was again moved into a grocery store, this time to Mr. Reddin's on the corner of Sixth and Main streets, where Mrs. Mary Hendricks was librarian. s

When Mr. Redcliii sold his store, the Masonic Lodge offer­ed rooms in their temple, and the club celebrated the acquisi­tion of such nice quarters with another book shower which brought many books and $59.00. Here, proximity to the school stimulated circulation and the librarian, Miss Bernette Jackson, would circulate as many as 40 books in one afternoon, and later the men's parlor was used as a read­ing room on the three afternoons and two evenings the li­brary was open.

In 1922, when the Masons decided to redecorate and re­furnish the Temple, the club loaned books for awhile from the Temple dining room in a makeshift way, using an odd table for a charging desk and keeping the books in boxes. Then through the courtesy of Mr. Hutton they used a room in the Edison school building during the summer.

After ten years of moving, the Bristow library found itself without a place to go, Mr. Hutton had twice set a elate of evac­uation from the school quarters, rent was so high and space so valuable that no one would house it, and there was no place to store the books. But,at last the Christian church offered a part of their Sunday School room in the basement and here the library stayed until it moved, into its permanent quarters.

The first librarian received 50 cents for two and a half hours on Tuesday and Friday afternoon. The salary was then

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raised to 75 cents and at the Masonic Temple to a dollar per afternoon or evening. In the fall of 1922, when the library was entirely out of funds, Mr. R. L. Jones, Mr. 0. D. Groom, and Mr. Morrison, mayor, each paid the librarian for a time. Rent was always free.

From time to time friends of the library gave books. The Embroidery Club presented some fiction and money to buy library chairs and a leather rocker. Lyceum tickets were sold with little success, but a home talent play, "The Passing Show," brought over $200. And a cook book was edited with so much success that a new edition is being published.

The first money from outside sources was $79 left from a Fourth of July celebration. Mr. Green­wood, mayor, gave $200 during his term of office, and when his term expired, gave the balance of the library fund, which amounted to about $555.

When Mr. Slocum became mayor, it was decided to erect a library building and with the advice of the Culture Club committee, Mrs. J. C. Vickers, Mrs. George McMillan, and Mrs. M. J. Groom, he appointed Dr. C. T. Schrader, Mr. O. D. Groom and Mr. C. E. Rebstein to serve with them as a library board.

At the opening of the library building on December 11, 1923, the Culture Club dedicated the library to the city of Bristow, Mrs. Vickers, chairman of the Culture Club, giving a full report of the development of the library.

Library history had repeated itself. Another woman's club had fostered the library idea with such persistence that a modern library evolved—a monument to eleven years of effort.

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BOOK REPORT

11,658 books on hand, July 1, 1922. 5,955 books purchased during 1922-23.

17,613 books on hand, July 1, 1923. 20,004 books sent out in traveling libraries during 1922-23.

200 books for the blind sent out during 1922-23. 3,911 books circulated as individual loans during 1922-23.

24,115 books circulated altogether in 1922-23. 58,529 Reported circulation of books sent out in Travel-

ingLibraries, 1922-23.

TRAVELING LIBRARY REPORT

The Commission "may purchase and operate traveling libraries and circulate such libraries within the state among communities, libraries, schools, colleges, universities, library associations, study clubs, and charitable and penal institutions, free of cost except for transportation,—." (From Senate Bill, No. 79.)

656 Traveling libraries circulated during 1922-23, as follows:

352 Community organizations. 187 Rural schools.

77 Study clubs. 18 Farmers ' Granges and Unions. 21 To miscellaneous groups.

The reported circulation of the traveling libraries, 58,528, shows a ten per cent increase over last year. Traveling li­brary service has kept pace with the growth of the Commis­sion, and only when the shelves have been empty have re­quests accumulated. Each application is treated as an indi­vidual problem. Since there are no fixed, or made-up, collec­tions, it is possible for any community to obtain the books exactly suited to its special needs.

A farm women's club in Kiowa county received the first traveling library in January, 1920; three and a half years later, in July, 1923, the traveling library map showed 1,111 traveling library stations at small towns and rural commun­ities throughout the state. And if the present rate of dis­tribution continues, over 2,000 stations will be established by July, 1924.

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SURVEY OF TRAVELING LIBRARY STATIONS BY COUNTIES

1922-23

County

Number Traveling-Libraries Kind of Organization

Circulation: Where Kept Reported

Alfa l f a

A t o k a

B e a v e r

B e c k h a m

B l a i n e

B r y a n

C a d d o

C a n a d i a n

C a r t e r

C h o c t a w

C l e v e l a n d

C o a l

C o m a n c h e

6

7

19

5

19

12

27

38

9

5

8

7

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S c h o o l C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g

C lub C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g Schoo l

C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g C o m m u n i t y C l u b s Schoo l M o t h e r ' s c l u b

S t u d y c lub Schoo l C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g

Schoo l C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g Y. M. C. A.

C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g B o y S c o u t s C lub Schoo l

G r a n g e F a r m e r ' s U n i o n S t u d y C l u b D e m o n s t r a t i o n c l u b S c h o o l C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g

C o m m u n i t y c lub C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g S c h o o l

C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g S c h o o l

F a r m e r ' s U n i o n C l u b S c h o o l

C o m m u n i t y reading-N e i g h b o r h o o d c lub

C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g B o y S c o u t s

C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g

3 3

3 3 1

12 2 3 2

2 2 1

9 9 1

7 2 1 1

5 1 4 5

10 2

4 17 17

7 2

2 1 2

6 2

4 3

2

S c h o o l

H o m e L i b r a r y Schoo l

H o m e S c h o o l

H o m e Schoo l

Schoo l Te l e , office Con. S c h o o l H o m e C h u r c h

S c h o o l H o m e In c a m p

L i b r a r y H o m e Schoo l Con. Schoo l

Con. S c h o o l H o m e L i b r a r y S c h o o l

Schoo l L i b r a r y H o m e

H a l l H o m e Schoo l

Con . S c h o o l H o m e

H o m e

L i b r a r y -H o m e .

6

3 3 1

10 9

2 3

8 1 4 4 2

6 4 1

2 9

10 6

10 12

2 14

5 1 3

2 1 2

6 2

7

1 1,

505.

500-

1,005.

365-

1,273.:

79G-

2,078

2,746-

363

2,550.;

680*

90,

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County

Number Traveling Libraries Kind of Organization

Cotton

Creek

Custer

Delaware

Dewey

Ellis

Garfield

Garvin

Grady

Grant

Greer

Harmon

Haskell

Hughes

Jackson

Johnston

Kay

Kingfisher

Kiowa

Lat imer

Grange 4 Community reading 3 Study club 2

School 1

Community reading 9 Study club 1 School 2 Exhibit 1

4 Community reading 4

4 Community reading 4

10 Agriculture club 3 Boy's & Girl's club 1 School 3 Community reading 3

School 4

15 Community reading 9 Reading club 2 Demonstration club 3 School 1

21 Community reading 11 School 8 Grange 1 Literary society 1

Grange 4 Community reading 3 School 5

15 Community reading 13 School 2

2 Community reading 2

3 Community reading 3

1 | School 1

18 : Community reading 6 School 12

4 I Community reading 4

11 Legion Post 2 Community reading 4 School 3 Indian Mission 2

15 Community reading 14 Study club 1

26 Community reading 22 School 4

1 Community reading 1

Where Kept

Hall School Home

School

Home Library Con. School School

Con. School

School

Supt 's office School Home

School

Home Supt. 's office Con. School School

Con. School School Hall Home

Hall School

Con. School Supt.'s office

Con. School

Con. School

School

Con. School School

Con. School

Hall Library School Mission

Con. School Home

School Home Store

Church

Circulation Reported

4 2 3

1

5 2 O

3

4

4

2 3 5

4

7 1 3 4

12 6

1 2

4 8

14 1

2

3

1

6 12

4

2 2 5 2

11 4

19 4

1

367

145

1,665

182

143

752-

150

534

1,556

1,075

1,458

250

563

75

1,800

580

1,194

553.

2,798

142,

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County

Number Traveling Libraries Kind of Organization

Circulation Where Kept Reported

LeFlore

Lincoln

Logan

Love

McClain

McCurtain

Major

Marshall

Mayes

Muskogee

Noble

Nowata

Okfuskee

Oklahoma

Okmulgee

Osage

Ottawa

Pawnee

5

19

6

4

15

6

7

3

14

4

5

2

11

52

1

13

2

20

Community reading 5

Reading club 8 Community reading 3 School 8

Community reading 2 School 4

Community reading 2 School 2

Reading club 1 Boy's club 1 Community reading 13

Community reading 3 School 3

Community reading 2 School 5

Community reading 1 School 2

Reading circle 3 Boy Scouts 1 Community reading 6 Study club 1 School 3

School 4

Community reading 5

School 2

Community reading 11

Community reading 32 School 14 Prison camp 2 Hos.pital 1 Farm women's club 2 Orphanage 1

Community reading 1

Community reading 2 School 10 Study club 1

School 2

Red Cross 1 Community reading 15 School 4

Con. School Home

Home School

School

School

Home Con. School School

Library Home School

School

Library School

Home School

School

Home Con. School

School

Drug store Con. School

Con. School School Home Library Office Hospital Camp

Library

Home School

School

Red Cross Con. School Home

2' o

7 12

6

4

5 5 5

1 2 3

7

1 2

6 8

4

3 2

2

6 5

23 17

6 3 i i i

i

5 8

2

1 9

30

316

2,318

38S

233

831

954

528

1,086

1,243

244

145

97

3,376

2,905

127

783

126

1,012'

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County

Number Traveling Libraries Kind of Organization

Circulation Where-Kept Reported

P a y n e

P i t t s b u r g

P o n t o t o c

P o t t a w a t o m i e

P u s h m a t a h a

R o g e r Mi l l s

S e m i n o l e

S e q u o y a h

S t e p h e n s

T e x a s

T i l l m a n

T u l s a

W a g o n e r

W a s h i n g t o n

W a s h i t a

W o o d s

3

9

1

21

3

6

10

4

8

4

8

6

4

19

8

1

C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g

C o m m u n i t y c lub Club , s t u d y O r p h a n a g e E x h i b i t S c h o o l C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g

Schoo l

S t u d y c lub C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g S c h o o l

S c h o o l

C o m m u n i t y counc i l C o m m u n i t y c lub G r a n g e S c h o o l

A m e r i c a n L e g i o n C o m m u n i t y ' r e a d i n g S c h o o l

C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g

C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g S c h o o l

R e a d i n g c lub M o t h e r ' s c lub S c h o o l

C l u b C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g

Gi r l ' s c l ub C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g

C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g

C o m m u n i t y c lub D e m o n s t r a t i o n c lub C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g S t u d y c l u b E x h i b i t S c h o o l

C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g L i t e r a r y s o c i e t y

3

2 2 1 1 2 1

1

5 5

11

3

1 1 1 3

1 6 3

4

5 3

1 2 1

3 5

2 4

4

3 3 3 5 1 4

6 1

C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g 1

L i b r a r y Con . S c h o o l

C h u r c h H o m e O r p h a n a g e S t a t e N o r m a l C o n . S c h o o l Schoo l

S c h o o l

Schoo l H o m e

Schoo l

S t o r e H o m e Schoo l

A r m o r y H o m e S c h o o l

H o m e S c h o o l

Con. S c h o o l

H o m e S c h o o l

L i b r a r y H o m e S c h o o l

L i b r a r y H o m e S c h o o l

Con . S c h o o l

H o m e Office S c h o o l

H o m e S c h o o l

S t o r e

2 1

1 2 1 1 2 2

1

12 9

3

1 2

1 4 5

1 3

8

3 1

2 3 3

1 2 3

4

9 1 9

2 5

1

208

1,698

75

1,021

163

842

1,170

927

s ty

447

550

231

627

2,980

380

131

Total 656 58,529

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INDIVIDUAL LOAN AND REFERENCE DEPARTMENT

A high school senior writes for material, for an essay on the American flag', an eighth grade pupil wants a good book of standard orations for contest purposes, an ex-service man requests books on bookkeeping and accounting, a school super­intendent calls for a debator's handbook giving material on the immigration cpiestion, a study club desires books to help with a jDrogram on "The Adolescent Age," a village drug store sends an S. 0. S. for a list of books to aid in a "Give a Book Campaign," and three or four calls come to the Com­mission each day from isolated places for recreational reading.

To answer such requests is the purpose of the Individual Loan department of the Commission, and it sent during the past year an average of thirteen books each clay to individuals in small towns and rural communities.

From July 1, 1922 to July 1, 1923, 3,911 books were cir­culated in answer to 2,310 requests—an increase in circulation of 911 volumes over last year—and several hundred reference questions were answered. These figures give no idea of the labor involved, for one request may mean hours of research work and the use of many books before adequate material can be found. Frequently, material from several sources must be collected and typed before it is sent out.

All individual requests are turned over to the reference librarian, who mails out from one to five books in answer to •each request. Books are sent by parcel post for a period of two weeks and may be renewed for two weeks more. The borrower }3ays the mailing charges.

An idea of the value of this service will be gained from the following letters:

"Am a farmer's boy of 18 years, and have never had any schooling above the eighth grade. Am interested in farming and would like to get hold of some literature in regards to the methods of farming and in the care and manipulation of farm machinery, and especially in the care and operation of threshing machines. Would prefer plain practical books written in easily understood terms to the more complex ones in the technical language. Could you in any way help me?"

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"We have a seven year old son who should be in school this term but because of poor health and the great distance from school will not be able to attend. Isn't there some book or books that we might get from the library that would help me to teach the children at home? I am a busy farm woman with no training in kindergarten work and any practical book on this subject would be very much appreciated, also story books suitable to be read to children five and seven years old.

"Husband and I would also like a good book of fiction to read occasionally and are wondering if two or three books would be mailed to one address in the same package. Also is there a book one could obtain in this way that gives simple directions for the making of library tables, baby beds, and other furniture for the 'handy man' around the place to make?"

"We are crazy to read good books but seems like we can't buy many. Our 3 children ranging from 18 years to 14 years enjoy our reading some good story out to them of winter evenings and we gladly would do it so as to keep them home the most of the time but it is so hard to get books to read here. If I could get books of you I would sure take good care of them and return them promptly and be glad to pay postage both ways to keep the children interested at home. Please let me know will you and thank you."

# * * " I will soon be through with my history course and then

I hope to get some nature books from you and learn more about nature. I wonder if you realize the good your work is? doing for the country districts? Mother started the book, 'The Far Country,' last night and I think I was in dream­land when she went to bed. All after a long, busy day.

"When I come to the city, I am certainly going to visit you.

" I will close with the old, old phrase, ' I thank you.' " * * #

"Will you please inform me where I can get information on the following subjects: How We Cot Our English Bible; Why Does the Drama Always Have Its Origin in the Church?; Why Did Rome Never Develop a Great Drama?"

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BOOKS FOR THE BLIND

DR. A. M. FULTON

To the left: Dr. A. M. Ful­ton, of Thomas, Oklahoma, r e a di n g " The Enchanted Canyon" by Honore Willsie in the Eevised Braille.

Doctor Fulton, who has seldom been without reading matter from the Library Commission since books for the blind have been avail­able and who reads five or more books each month, writes as follows:

"—I have returned Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4 of 'The Enchanted Canyon' and am eagerly await­ing Volumes 5, 6. 7 and 8.

"I have found Revised Braille satisfactorj'- and not difficult to read and it has given me many an hour of contentment even to self-forgetfulness and perhaps. has taught me a new philosophy."

The 839 volumes in the Revised Braille, which fill a tier of shelves seven feet high by 24 feet wide at one end of the Commission room, are of much interest to all visitors and a source of great pride to the blind readers of the state.

From July 1, 1922 to July 1, 1923, 325 books have been added to this collection, which is probably the largest library of its kind in the Southwest.

Among readers of the Braille who have called at the Commission during the past year are a jovial salesman who is head of the company he represents, who refers to the blind as "bl inks ," and who has no compassion for blind beggars; an expert dictaphone operator who spells much better than the average stenographer; a kindly old gentleman with a beatific countenance who reads and rereads the books of the Bible and who gets much pleasure from the philosophical works; and the home teacher for the blind, eager to bring the joys of reading to her pupils.

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During the year approximately 200 books were circulated. These figures seem small, but the percentage compares favor­ably with the percentage of readers who can see. However, the activities of the home teacher, sent out by the Commission for the Adult Blind, and teaching of the Revised Braille in the State School for the Blind, are stimulating circulation of these books.

Calendars and gift books from the Clovernook Printing House for the Blind, Mt. Healthy, Ohio, are distributed each Christmas to the blind readers of the state in co-operation with the Commission for the Blind.

Lists of Books available in the Revised Braille have been prepared and sent to the blind in the state. These lists are also available upon request.

Two or three books are sent when an application for reading matter is received. A date for return is not set but the borrowers are urged to send the books back in a reason­able length of time. The postal laws provide for free car­riage of books for the blind. "Free Reading Matter for the Bl ind" written in the upper right hand corner of a book parcel insures this free carriage.

When a reader prefers books in a type other than the Revised Braille, they are borrowed from neighboring Com­missions through the inter-library loan system.

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FINANCIAL REPORT

1922-23

Available Expended Appropriation—Fund No. 1 Sal. Sec'y $ 2,000.00 $ 2,000.00 Appropriation—Fund No. 2 Salary, Asst.

Sec 'y 1,800.00 1,800.00 Appropriation—Fund No. 3 Salary, Extra

Help 3,100.00 Reference Librarian 1,500.00 Stenographer 1,200.00 Summer Library School 400.00

Contingent—Fund No. 4 $10,434.00 Expenses, Board Members. $ 41.35 Traveling Expenses, Secretary 341.90 Sundries, Express-Freight-Drayage 125.30 Postage-Telegraph-Telephone 406.58 Furniture-Equipment 7,125.91 Printing-Rebincling-etc 1,065.76

Total Expended $9,106.80 Unexpended Balance $ 1,327.20

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PUBLIC LIBRARY SURVEY—1922-1923 by the

OKLAHOMA LIBRARY COMMISSION

CO

Place Name Quarters Tax

Evaluation Population Income Altus Anadarko Ardmore Bartlesville Blackwell Bristow Cherokee Chickasha Claremore Clinton Collinsville Cordell Cushing Drumright Duncan Elk City El Reno Enid Eairview Fredrick Guthrie Guthrie (Col) Henryetta Hobart Lawton McAlester Madill Marlow Miami Muskogee Muskogee (Col) Newkirk Nowata Okla. City Okla. City (Col) Okmulgee Okmulgee (Col)

City City Carnegie Carnegie Public

Public Carnegie Public Public Carnegie Carnegie Public Public Public Carnegie Carnegie Carnegie City Carnegie Carnegie Excelsior Public Carnegie Carnegie Carnegie Public City Carnegie Carnegie Muskogee (Col) Public Public Carnegie Dunbar Public City

City Aud. City Hall Carnegie Carnegie Room Building Bank Bldg. Carnegie City Hall City Hall Carnegie Carnegie City Hall High School City Hall Carnegie Carnegie Carnegie City Hall Ca rneg' e Carnegie Room Building Carnegie Carnegie Carnegie Courthouse Room Carnegie Carnegie Building City Hall High School Carnegie Room Building

2,841,000 2,050,000

12,355,626 11,000,000 4,000,000

1,500,000 7,742,129 2,047,645 2,299,950 1,385,000 1,000,000 4,414,000 2,914,497 4,761,371 1,700,000 4,806,676

13,194,763 905,086

3,200,000 5,584,030

4,601,101 1,900,000 5,774,695 7,727,127 1,864,613

3,914,717 29,583,080

1,182,617 2,733,866

112,000,000

17,460,000

6,000 3,200

14,181 16,000 7,500

1,719.10 1,500.00

12,000.00 9,573.91 2,686.60

(New Quarters) 2,075

10,179 5,000 5,000 4,000 2,000 6,500 6,600 7,000 2,810 7,897

16,576 1,721 6,000

11,500

12,000 2,839 8,930

16,000 3,000

6,900 30,277

2,575 6,000

125,000

23,000

660.00 3,660.00 1,392.16 4,150.00

750.00 2,194.51 4,000.00 1,162.50 2,358.41 2,401.18 4,220.00

10,000.00 1,000.00 2,450.00 3,027.14 1,160.00 5.994.13 1,933.33 4,500.00 3,574.00

241.00 Just being

1,800.00 18.714.15 1,200.00 1,140.00 2 087.50

45,147.00 4,012.00

103,609.66

Vols Added

120 222

1,910 2,137

883 No report

Total Vols

3,001 3,297

14,905 9,737 3,480

Circu­lation

1,800 6,508 2,590 3,419 2,767 4,794 2,601 7,050 2,072 4,839 7,000 17,301 2,281 4,984 14,130 4,440 7,500 6,570 4,837 9,737 1,235

established. ,688

132 257 182

1,832 238 695 926 550 561 745

1,815 135 816 496 148

2,444 222 921

1,050 275

2,939 1,166 526 175

7,141

3,598

22,205 5,576 2,754 3,055 45,960 2,500 13,250

13,416 10,372 45,057 66,291 24,802

10,920 18,354 12,028 23,365

6,327 12,887 12,810 30.240 19,530 29,956

67,676 9,255

65,000 28,232 2,498

31,644 20,996 44,741 40,000

4,480

18.000 122,295 17,377 14,544 12,534

313,739 12,115 55,260

Libarian

Mrs. E. E. Gore Mrs. Sarah Allphin Mrs. Myrtle Jones Miss Ruth W. Brown Mrs. N. N. Parkhurst Miss Bernett Jackson Mrs. Etta G. Watkins Mrs. J. A. Thompson Miss Jennie Hopkins Mrs. Perdita J. Alvord Mrs. Lawson Hughes Miss Sadie Kizer Mrs. E. W. Doran Mrs. A. W. Schmidt Mrs. L. A. Browder Mrs. Margaret Wood Miss Mary E. Wilson Mrs. Cora Case Porter Miss Ella Frost Mrs. Birdie Robinson Mrs. W. N. Pattillo Elmira Johnson Mrs. Frances F. Threadgill Mrs. W. A. Phelps Mrs. M. Small Mrs. Proebe E. Hayden Miss Hazel Rabon Mrs. T. A. Morgan, Bd. Member Mrs. T. C. Young Miss Ruth E. Hammond Belzora A. Malvin Mrs. Edith M. Roberson Miss Gladys Witt Mrs. Mabel Peacock Lillian E. Youngblood Mrs. Izora Ground Flother Nance

PUBLIC LIBRARY SURVEY—1922-1923 (continued)

Place Name Quarters Tax Vols Total

Evaluation Population Income Added Vols Circu­lation Libarian

Perry Ponca City Pryor Sand Springs Sapulpa Sayre Shawnee Stillwater Tahlequah Tonkawa Tulsa Vinita Wagoner Walters Wilson

1 Woodward Yale

CO - 3

Carnegie Carnegie Public Public Carnegie Public Carnegie Public Carnegie Public Carnegie Public Carnegie Public Public Carnegie Public

Carnegie Carnegie Room Hall Carnegie Room Carnegie

Carnegie

Carnegie Building Carnegie

City Hall Carnegie Building

1,816,326 4,433,000

1,600,000 6,730,000 1,375,513 8,400,000

795,553 91,745,985

2,229,920

1,678,662 2,490,392 1,727,069

4,400 10,000

6,000 19,350 4,400

15,500

3,000 3,000

102,000

4,000 3,000 5,000 5,000 3.200

1,798.59 8,240.00

Discontinuec 3,611.49 7,500.00 1,375.51 4,000.00

450 2,510

516 2,439

552

3,410 8,361

1,467 10,945 1,200

16,330 Just being established I 1,000.00 1 130 I 1,300

1,591.10 1,228 1,228 | 34,318.00 | 6,224 I 32,026 Just being established

3,122.99

1,500.00 3,139.56 1,877.39

590

693 939 929

6,007 690 953

6,693 2,880

10,138 39,043

7,250 51,579 2,937

74,512

6,300 2,400

153,401

24,899 4,907

18,815 17,184

Mrs. Emilie Le Bus Mrs. B. G. Hays

Mrs. Amy Cosette Gottry Miss Paulene Vaughn Mrs. W. B. Rook Mrs. Trimmier Sloan Funk

Miss Essa N. Gladney Miss Lucy A. Gresty Miss Alma Reid McGlenn

Miss Leona Bateman Mrs. E. Voegelein Miss Alice Lawrence Miss Metta M. Woodward Miss Cora Montgomery

FREE LIBRARY SURVEY—1922-23 P l a c e N a m e Q u a r t e r s P o p . L i b r a r i a n

co GO

A l v a

-A.1T L l G r S

A r a p a h o A t o k a B i x b y B r o k e n A r r o w E u f a u l a G a r b e r H e l e n a H i n t o n H o m i n y H o o k e r H u g o I d a b e l K e o t a . M a n g u m j M o r r i s . P a u l s V a l l e y P a w h u s k a ! , P i c h e r P r u e ' - -Q u a y ROffV. ;=',.:, •St igler • S u p p l y j linn::-:-W a t o n g a W a u r i k a W y n o n a -Y u k o n

C i t y

Fernald P i o n e e r C l u b C l u b C l u b P u b l i c P u b l i c P u b l i c C l u b F r e e ( P a r t i a l s u p p o r t f r o m C i t y ) P u b l i c F r e e ( B e i n g m a d e p u b l i c ) F r e e :•-<-•;; P u b l i c ( B e i n g m a d e p u b l i c ) C l u b F r e 6 R e v i e w F r e e C l u b C l u b .,-, F r e e F r e e F r e e F r e e .

C i t y H a l l

Gif t B u i l d i n g C l u b B u i l d i n g R o o m C h a m . C o m . B u i l d i n g C i t y H a l l B a n k B l d g . C l u b B l d g .

R o o m

C l u b B l d g . R o o m

B u i l d i n g C i t y H a l l

R o o m s R o o m s R e v i e w Office C l u b B l d g . R o o m

C o u r t h o u s e C l u b B l d g . C l u b B l d g . B u i l d i n g

5,000 2,750 1,000 3,000 1,500 3,000 3,500 2',000

750 1,000 4,500 1,260 8,000 4,500 1,200 4,000 2,250 5,000

10,000 15,000

2'75 900

1,500 2,000 350

2,000 3,300 2,500 1,500

M r s . G. M. L i s k

M i s s C a r r i e F i s h e r M r s . A. T e l l e M r s . E m m a A d a i r M r s . M. L. S a n d e r s M r s . C. H . T u l l y M r s . G. G. S m i t h , L i b . C h m . M r s . G e o r g e H o c k i n b e r r y M r s . P h i l l i p G i e g C l u b m e m b e r s M r s . L o r a L i n n D o b s o n M i s s B o n n i e B l a c k w e l l C l u b m e m b e r s M r s . V a n M e t r e M r s . H . E . O a k e s M r s . H o b e r t W a r d C l u b m e m b e r s M r s . F r a n k B e a u m a n C l u b m e m b e r s M r s . A. J . P e r r y M r s . G. J . M o r t o n , S e c ' y C l u b m e m b e r s M r s . G u y A,.. C u r r y , S e c ' y C l u b m e m b e r s M r s . G r a c e M a r s h a l l . M r s . G a i l D u r h a m , S e c ' y M r s . M a r y E . D u n l a p M r s . N o r a B e l i s l e

SECTION II

Commission Report For Year

July 1, 1923

to

June 30, 1924

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

* # *

To His Excellency, Hon. M. E. Trapp,

Governor of Oklahoma:

The Oklahoma Library Commission has the honor to submit its fifth annual report, covering the fiscal year, July 1, 1923 to June 30, 1924.

Respectfully submitted,

M. A. NASH,

President.

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OKLAHOMA LIBRARY COMMISSION

M. A. NASH, President.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

R. T. BLACKBURN, Ada.

MRS. TOM C. WALDREP, Shawnee.

JESSE L. RADER, Norman.

MRS. RAYMOND TOLBERT, Oklahoma City.

MRS. J. R. DALE, Secretary.

MISS H. ELAINE BOYLAN, Assistant Secretary.

MRS. J. R. JACKSON, Traveling Library Director.

MISS MARGURETTE McGUIRE, Reference Librarian.

MISS MARGARET LEA WEST, Stenographer.

Room 331 State Capitol

Oklahoma City

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OKLAHOMA LIBRARY COMMISSION

State of Oklahoma

If the 2045 traveling libraries, representing 110, 625 vol­umes, that have been circulated among the book hungry people of Oklahoma, could talk, they could tell a much better story of the service the Commission has given during the five years of its existence than can this report. And then the story would only be partly told.

The Oklahoma Library Commission, created in 1919, has had five years of growth. To the original staff, of secretary and stenographer, has been added an assistant secretary, ref­erence librarian, and traveling library director, and a still larger staff is needed if the Commission meets the ever in­creasing demands.

The Commission circulates books through traveling li­braries. I t also stimulates library progress by functioning in an advisory capacity. The secretary has visited nearly every library in the state as well as many communities inter­ested in establishing libraries, but until a library organizer is added to the staff most of the library information must of necessity be given through office conferences and by corres­pondence.

To supplement its book service and advisory work, the Commission holds exhibits, displays model libraries, makes an­nual and special surveys, prepares reports, compiles lists, and aids in preparing programs for library meetings.

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GENERAL ACTIVITIES.

Library Development in Oklahoma.

Library progress in the state, this year, can be meas­ured by the growth of the libraries already in existence rather than by the establishment of new libraries.

Henryetta has the only new library building. Vinita has a new library as have Pawhuska and Pauls Valley. The as­sistant secretary of the Commission spent three days at Pauls Valley to aid in organizing the library there. At Durant a library board has been appointed but as yet a library has not been organized. At Jennings the school library has been opened to the public and is known as the Jennings high school and public library. Letters of inquiry have been received from Ada but no definite action has been taken.

Colored Branches.

Enid, Sapulpa, and Tulsa have established colored branches this year. Other public libraries with colored branches are Oklahoma City, Muskogee, Guthrie, and Okmulgee.

Carnegie Fund.

In lieu of gifts for library buildings, the Carnegie Corp­oration has given $108,100 to the American Library Associa­tion, which gift is to be used for library service covering the period from October, 1924, to September, 1925. A portion of the gift will be spent on an extensive library survey, in which each state will take part, and in studying the library in its relation to adult education.

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HENRYETTA PUBLIC LIBRARY—Completed June, 1924

THE HENRYETTA LIBRARY GROWS UP.

Henryetta's public library has grown up. In June (1924), after nineteen years of growth, it moved into its own home. The story of the Henryetta public library is a story of a library that has grown up with the town. It is also the story of the faithfulness and untiring devotion of a few deeply interested women.

On February 5, 1904, when Henryetta was a town of but 600, a small group of women interested in civic improvement met to organize the Bide-a-Wee club. On May 25, 1905, this club was reorganized as the Library club, which had as its purpose the establishing of a public library.

The first collection of books was housed in a private high school. A teacher loaned the books from the superintendent's office. Among the volunteer librarians who later cared for the books were Mrs. W. B. Hudson, Mrs. H. C. Fellows, Mrs. J. H. Lincoln, and Mrs. H. E. Breece, all members of the Library club.

When the library was opened to the public in 1906, an annual membership fee of one dollar was charged. Further support was given in the form of voluntary subscriptions. Members of the first library board, elected when the library came under the control of the city in 1910, were Mrs. H. G.

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Woodron, Mrs. T. C. Fowler, Mrs. Hudson, H.- C, Fellows, and J. W. Dorsey. The library did not become a free library supported entirely by the city until 1920 when it was re­organized under the state law.

The report for the year ending June 30, 1924 shows a maintenance budget of $5,959.00 with 9,000 books on the shelves, and a new building erected at the cost of $5,095.00 on a site costing $3,000.00. The library is in charge of a trained librarian, Mrs. John Threadgill, and a competent as­sistant, Miss Jennie Lee Smith. A board of six members, three men and three women, elected by the city counsel, con­trols the library. The new building, on the butterfly plan, has been well planned for library work and the interior presents a most attractive appearance with its polished hard oak floor and steel stacks with adjustable shelves.

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QUARTERS OF OKLAHOMA'S COLORED BRANCH LIBRARIES

1. Guthrie 2. Enid 3. Tulsa

4. Okmulgee 5. Sapulpa 6. Muskogee

7. Oklahoma City

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Library Positions.

Twenty-five librarians have applied for positions during; the year and several library boards have asked the Commis­sion's aid in securing librarians. The Commission is the only agency in the state that can adequately bring librarians and library boards together.

School Work.

Copies of Gaylord's "The Reel Book," Eaton's "School Library Service," and the Commission's "Books for Boys and Girls of Oklahoma" have been distributed to schools all over the state to answer inquiries about book selection and library administration and organization. Schools at Pauls Valley, Tulsa, Stigler, Kiefer, Morrison, and Vian have been aided in problems of organization. As no record was kept of office con­ferences with teachers, the list is by no means complete.

Many children take part each year in Children's Book Week. The 1923 celebration is recorded in the Commission's report for last year.

Exhibits.

The usual exhibits were made at the fairs at Oklahoma City and Muskogee and at the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Education Association. A Mother Goose house, similar to the one featured at the 1922 state fair, was added to the equipment of the Commission and displayed at the fairs as part of the 1923 exhibit. Model libraries were also displayed and quan­tities of library literature distributed.

Model rural school libraries, placed for several months at each of the state teachers' colleges, spread the gospel of good books for children among many teachers.

Library Meetings.

Library meetings held this year in Oklahoma were the Li­brarians' Section of the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Edu­cational association and the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Library association. The Library Commission shared in pre­paring programs for these meetings. This bringing together of librarians and library trustees to talk over their mutual problems gives profitable impetus to library progress in the state. In addition to the state meetings, Oklahoma is each.

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year well represented at the meetings of the American Library association and the Southwestern Library association.

The Librarians' Section of the Oklahoma Education as­sociation met at the Central high school on February 8, 1924. J. L. Rader, librarian at the University of Oklahoma and president of the Oklahoma Library association, called the meeting to order at 1:30. Greetings and general announce­ments by Mr. Rader followed the business meeting. In re­sponse to roll call, each member of the assembly told what he liked best about his library. Addresses given during the afternoon were "The Library's Place in Civic Affairs," Mrs. Mabel Peacock, Oklahoma City; "The Dewey Decimal System and the Catalog," Miss Bess Stewart, Oklahoma City; "The Library Outlook for Oklahoma," Mrs. J. R. Dale, secretary, Oklahoma Library Commission; "College Library Problems," Mrs. Elsie D. Hand, A. & M. College, Stillwater. "Problems of High School Libraries" was the subject presented for gen­eral discussion.

The sixteenth annual meeting of the Oklahoma Library association was held at the public library, Chickasha, April 7-8. In answer to roll-call, members stated their ambitions for the future of their libraries.

Following the addresses of welcome, Mrs. Lora L. G. Dodson of Hooker gave the chief address of the afternoon, " A Frontier Library." At the evening meeting, Mrs. J. R. Dale, secretary of the Oklahoma library commission, reviewed the work of her department and presented the need for coun­ty libraries in Oklahoma. Dr. P. P. Claxton, superintendent of schools, Tulsa, and principal speaker of the evening, said that every man, woman and child in the cities, towns, and rural districts of Oklahoma should have access to a public library. He urged the spread of the county library idea in Oklahoma; he said that the reading standard of the in­dividual should be raised; he said the libraries of the state .should furnish good reading material.

Officers chosen at the business session were: Mrs. Trim-mier Sloane Funk, Shawnee, president; E. C. Wilson, State Teachers' College, Ada, vice-president; Mrs. L. A. Browder, Duncan, second vice-president; Miss Myra Grosh, children's librarian, Tulsa, secretary; Mrs. Elsie D. Hand, A. & M. College, Stillwater, treasurer. At a joint meeting of librarians

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and trustees in the afternoon, the speakers were Miss Ruth E. Hammond, Muskogee; Miss Abigail Rice, Oklahoma City; Miss Lillian Gunter, Gainsville, Texas; and John H. Wright, Oklahoma City.

Dr. Arthur E. Bostwick, librarian of the St. Louis Public library, gave the closing address. His subject was "The Socialization of the Public Library." This is the leading question before the libraries of to-day according to Doctor Bostwick. Reaching the individual through group service is the best method of interesting the people in good reading, he believes.

The association will meet next year at Stillwater.

Mrs. J. R. Dale, secretary of the Commission, was asked to assist in the second national conference on home education called by the U. S. Commissioner of Education at the Uni­versity of Minnesota, May 7, 1924. It was held in conjunc­tion with the annual meeting of the National Congress of Mothers and the Parent-Teacher association. Carl. H. Milam, secretary of the American Library Association, led the topic for discussion, "The Library in the Home Education Move­ment." Mrs. Dale discussed the work of the library com­mission as an agent in the movement. Other library agencies represented were the county library, the extension division, and the public library.

The Southwestern Library Association held its 1923 meet­ing at Hot Springs, Arkansas, when the American Library Association met there in April.

Nine librarians represented Oklahoma at the forty-sixth annual meeting of the American Library Association held at Saratoga Springs, New l rork, June 30 to July 5, 1924. Mrs. J. R. Dale, secretary of the Commission, served as secretary of the Trustees' section.

Summer Course for Librarians at the State University.

Eighty persons have completed the six weeks summer li­brary course offered each year at the University of Oklahoma,

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Norman, since 1920. The 1924 enrollment was 33, more than twice the number enrolled any previous summer. The Com­mission was instrumental in organizing the school and lends its co-operation each summer.

Miss Grace Herrick, librarian of Western college, Ox­ford, Ohio, and Miss Vera Dixon, library supervisor of the Des Moines public schools, both members of the library school faculty in 1923, returned to give the general courses. Their work was supplemented by several special lectures.

While the importance of this summer instruction in li­brary science to library assistants has been proved, it must be emphasized that it is primarily an apprentice course of instruction in fundamentals and does not in any way take the place of a year's study in a library school.

MEMBERS OF THE 1924 CLASS

Anderson, Reva., Asst., Uni. of Okla. Ball, Henry, Asst., Uni. of Okla. Ball, Otis, Asst., Uni. of Okla. Barksclale, Rosalie, Asst., Uni. of Okla. Bonds, Charlotte, Asst., Uni. of Okla. Boylan, Margaret, Asst., Uni. of Okla. Caldwell, Richard, Asst., Uni. of Okla. Emmons, Mary, Supt.'s office, Tulsa. Froman, Ula, Southwestern State Teachers' College. Giezentanner, Margaret, Librarian, Drumright. Griffin, Vera, Asst., Uni. of Okla. Kirlin, Cleo. McClary, Nelle, Librarian, Yale high school. Maloy, Ted., Asst., Uni. of Okla. Morrison, Mabel, Asst., Uni. of Okla. Nash, Olive. Nethery, Ruby. . '. Norton, Mrs. E., Asst., dishing. Parker, Eliz., Cataloger, Uni. of Okla. Parkhurst, Mrs. N. N., Librarian, Blackwell. Patton, Bernice, Asst., Uni. of Okla. Risinger, Chrystal, Asst., Uni. of Okla. Ritshmore, Dorothy, Asst., Okla. City High School. Smith, Eardean, Asst., Uni. of Okla. Smith, Ethel.

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Southhall, Norine, Teacher. Suits, Geraldine, Teacher. Thomason, Don., Asst., Uni. of Okla. Van Griethuysen, M., Asst., Uni. of Okla. Wagner, Frances, Asst., A. & M. college. West, Uarda. Whaley, Thelma, Teacher-librarian, Miami. Wilson, Milam, Asst., Uni. of Okla.

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BOOK REPORT 1923 24

17,613 Books on hand July 1, 1923. 6,662 Books purchased during 1923-24.

24,275 Books on hand July 1, 1924. 766 Traveling libraries circulated in 1923-24.

29,468 Books sent out in traveling libraries in 1923-24. 5,101 Requests received from individuals in 1923-24. 8,226 Books sent as individual loans during 1923-24.

525 Books for the blind sent out during 1923-24. 38,219 Total number of books circulated in 1923-24. 69,567 Reported circulation of books sent out in traveling

libraries in 1923-24. * # #

TRAVELING LIBRARIES

Last year 766 libraries were sent out by the traveling li­brary director, bringing the total number of libraries circu­lated since the Commission was created up to 2,045. In last year's report, 2,000 had been set as a possible goal to be reached by July 1, 1924.

Each traveling library contains from twenty to one hun­dred volumes assembled by the director to meet a special need. The place to which a library is sent and from which the books circulate is termed a "s ta t ion." At least one such station has been established in every county in the state and in some counties the hundred mark has been passed. Former borrow­ers nearly always write in for more books.

Traveling library No. 2032, containing thirty-six books, Avas sent to a home in Woodward county on June 17, 1924. The books, as listed, are typical of the libraries circulated by the Commission.

Allen. Americans in the World War. Bailey. Broad Stripes and Bright Stars. Baldwin. Old Stories of the East. Blaisdell. Boy Blue. . . Blaisdell. Bunny Rabbit's Diary. Blaisdell. Stories from English History. Bryant. Treasury of Hero Tales. Campbell. Little Jan, the Dutch Boy. Carter. Stories of Brave Dogs. De la Rame. Dog of Flanders.

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Drake. On Plymouth Rock. Dupuy. Uncle Sam, Fighter. Guerber. Story of the Greeks. Hagedorn. Roosevelt. Hurlbut. About Children of All Ages. Jackson. Ramona. Johonnot. Stories of the Olden Time. Judd. Wigwam Stories. ;' Lane. Strange Lands Near Home. Lang. Blue Poetry Book. Long. Wilderness Ways-. McDonald. Kathleen in Ireland. Maeterlinck. Children's "Blusbird." Miller. First Book of Birds. Muller. Little People of Japan. .Mulock. Adventures of a Brownie. Perkins. Mexican Twins. Poulsson. Through the Farmyard Gate. Rice. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. St. Nicholas. Revolutionary Stories. Schwartz. Children of the Cold. Shelter. Early Candlelight Stories. Spaulding. Thomas Nelson Page Story Book. Waterloo. Story of Ab. Wiggin. Birds' Christmas Carol. Wiggin. Talking Beasts. In appreciation of the use of the library, the Commission

received the following letter: "You are a Jewell of the best K..T. for sending me the

books you did in June and giving me two months to read them in. I am going to ask you to please extend the loan two weeks more as I am both mother, farm hand, and milk maid. My girlie and I shocked eighty-five acres of heavy wheat, alone, milked eight cows, tended three hundred chickens, kept house and yet had time to read one hour at noon each day and Oh, you don't know what a joy, what a privilege to have the loan of these books and how we do love our unseen friend for letting us have these books as you have and your selection was so good.

"Thanking you again for your kindness and every book shall be read and taken splendid care of and returned on time."

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POSSIBILITIES OF TRAVELING LIBRARY SERVICE.

The Hunter Waif are League, deciding to "Say It With Books" in the summer of 1924, sent to the Oklahoma Library Commission for a traveling library. The traveling library director selected 194 books suitable for community reading and on July 10, 1924, these books, as Traveling Library No. 2051, were shipped to Mrs. Alcla Wilson at Hunter to be housed in her home.

The League made a few simple rules co govern the use of the library but the people made such a rush for the books that it was found necessary to move them to a public place.

An empty store room was selected as a possible library. But given a collection of books, some rooms, and some volun­teer librarians and you do not have a library. Some equip­ment is needed before the library can function. By this time, however, the library had become "Everybody's Library." The manual training class at high school made and donated shelves. Discarded railing from the post office served to fence in the shelves. Members of the League saw possibilities in some old counter tables. These were taken to the lumber yard,;to be sawed in two, and when legs were added and a few coats of enamel were applied some very creditable library tables emerged. Enough chairs were loaned and donated and, with some curtains for the windows, Hunter at last had a library. When the time came for opening the library, there was no need to advertise; community spirit had so entered into the project that everyone knew about it.

Of the 766 libraries circulated by the Commission, last year, 347 were Community libraries, each one a potential public library creating community spirit and stimulating library progress.

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TRAVELING LIBRARY STATISTICS

1923-24

No. libraries circulated July 1, 1923 to July 1, 1924 76C

No. volumes circulated 29,46£

Circulation reported 69,56^

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SURVEY OF TRAVELING LIBRARY STATISTICS BY COUNTIES

1923-24

County

Number Traveling Libraries Kind of Organization

Circulation Where Kept Reported

Alfalfa

Atoka

Beaver

Blaine

Caddo

Canadian

Carter

Cherokee

Choctaw

Cimarron

Cleveland

Coal

Comanche

9

17

18

15

10

27

19

5

4

1

3

17

9

Community School

Community School Community Home

Community Home School

School Community Library

reading 5 4

Club 1 6

reading 6 2

club 4 8 6

3 reading 11

1

Demonstration club 1 School 3 Community reading 5 Study club 1

School Community Home Fa rm club

Study club Home Community School

School Community

Home School

School

Community School

School Home Boy Scouts Community

Boy Scouts Legion Posl School Community Girl's Club

9 reading 16

1 1

5 1

reading 5 8

1 reading 4

3 1

1

reading 1 2

9 3 3

reading 2

2 1 3

reading 1 Z

School

Con. School Home School

Home Academy School

Con. School School Library

Home School Con. School

Library Home School Con. School

Home Library Con. School Sohool

School Library

Home School

School

Home School

School Home

Camp Post School Home

9

5 2

10

12 4 2

4 10 1

2 3 5

6 9 4 8

6 2 3 8

1 4

3 1

1

1 2

11 6

2 1 4 2

592

1,177

1,796

1,805

1,112

2,286

2,450

303

75

24S

1,359

177

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County

Number Traveling Circulation! Libraries Kind of Organization Where Kept Reported

Cotton

Craig

Creek

Custer

Delaware

Dewey

Ellis

Garfield

Garvin

Grady

Grant

Greer

Harmon

Harper

Haskell

Hughes

Jackson

Jefferson

5 | Study club ! School

2

9

13

14

20.

13

2

2

6

14

10

11

School

School 5 Community reading 4

Community club 4 School 5 Community reading 2 Home 1 Study club 1

Community reading 2

School 4 Community reading 4

School 5 Community reading 3 Girl's club 1

Community reading 2 Welfare club 1

Community reading 6 Study club 3 School 4 Demonstration club 1

Community reading 10 School 8 Study club 2

Community reading 3 School 4

School 4 Community reading 9

Community reading 2

Community reading 1 Study club 1

Community reading 4 School 2

School 7 Community reading 7

Community reading 5 School 1

School 4 Community reading 7

Home School

School

School

Library School Home

School

School

School Home

School Home

Library St. Train. Home School

Home School

4 5 4

2

8

6 3

2 1

1 Sch. 1

4 8

7 13

School

Library Con. School Home School

Con. School

Home School

School

School Con. School

Home School

School Con,. School

County

Number Traveling Circulation, Libraries Kind of Organization Where Kept Reported

Johnston

Kay

Kingfisher

Kiowa

Latimer

LeFlore

Lincoln

Logan

Love

McClain

McCurtain

Mcintosh

Major

Marshall

Mayes

Murray

Muskogee

9

12

IS

22

10

Study club 1 Community reading 3 School 5

Study club 3 Community reading 3 School 3

Study club 2 Community reading 3

Community reading 9 Club 1 School 2

Study club School

Farmer 's Union 2 School 4 Community reading 1

Community reading 5 School 11 Club 1

Community reading 6

Community reading 5

Boy's club 4 Community reading 4 School 12 Neighborhood club 2

Communitjr reading 2 Study club 1 School 6

Community reading 3

Community reading 2 School 2

Prison Farm 1 Community reading 6

Community reading 4 Literary club 1 School 5

School & Comm. Club

St. Fair Exhibit 1 Community reading 2

Home School

Home School

Home School

Con. School Home School

Home School'

Con. School School Home

School Home

Con. School

Home Library Con. School School

Gov't School Home School

School

School

Prison F a r m Library School

School

Home

State Faii-Church School

Home 4 State School 2

615.

353

250

1,125.

177

755

2,585 .

725

901

2,585

7 2,042

3

1 3 3

10

103

436.

1,266.

157

164

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N u m b e r T r a v e l i n g C i r c u l a t i o n

C o u n t y L i b r a r i e s K i n d of O r g a n i z a t i o n W h e r e K e p t R e p o r t e d

N o b l e

N o w a t a

O k f u s k e e

O k l a h o m a

O k m u l g e e

O s a g e

O t t a w a

P a w n e e

P a y n e

P i t t s b u r g

P o n t o t o c

P o t t a w a t o m i e

P u s h m a t a h a

R o g e r Mi l l s

R o g e r s

S e m i n o l e

2

1

10

86

3

6

2

2

10

14

34

26

3

20

8

25

Schoo l 2

S c h o o l 1

S t u d y c lub 1 S c h o o l 8 C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g 1

S c h o o l 40 C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g 28 S t u d y c lub 14 P r i s o n c a m p 1 B o y s ' H o m e 2 S t a t e F a i r 1

C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g 3

C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g 3 S c h o o l 3

Schoo l 2

Schoo l 2

C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g 7 S c h o o l 3

S c h o o l 5 C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g 6 C l u b 2 S e t t l e m e n t H o u s e 1

Schoo l 11 L e g i o n P o s t 1 C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g 19

C lub 3

C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g 16 S c h o o l 10

S c h o o l 3

C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g 13 S c h o o l 7

C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g 3 M i s s i o n a r y s o c i e t y 2 C lub 3

C o m m u n i t y r e a d i n g 10 G r a n g e 3 S c h o o l 10 F a r m e r ' s U n i o n 1 C l u b 1

S c h o o l

S c h o o l

H o m e S c h o o l D r u g S t o r e

Schoo l L i b r a r y S t a t e Schoo l H o m e Office P r i s o n C a m p C o u n t y H o m e S t a t e F a i r C o m . c e n t e r

Con. s choo l

S c h o o l

S c h o o l

S c h o o l

L i b r a r y Con . S c h o o l Schoo l

S c h o o l Con . Schoo l C l u b S e t t l e . H o u s e

Schoo l Com. C e n t e r L e g i o n P o s t S t a t e S c h o o l Office H o m e

Com. C e n t e r S c h o o l

Schoo l

H o m e Con . S c h o o l S c h o o l

S c h o o l H o m e

Con. Schoo l H a l l L i b r a r y Schoo l

2

1

1 1 1

37 6 3

12 3 1 1 1

22

3

3

2

2

1 6 3

5 6 1 1

13 14

1 1 1 4

16 10

3

1 12

7

3 5

11 4 1 9

320

1,169

7,344

810

263

183

1,002

2,340

1,834

2,043

126

2,875

528

1,644

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County

Number Traveling Libraries Kind of Organization

Circulation Where Kept Reported

Sequoyah

Stephens

Texas

Tillman

Tulsa

Wagoner

Washington

Washi ta

Woods

Woodward

7

11

6

13

8

2

5

12'

1

5

Club Community service

School Community reading Club

Club Community reading

Community reading Club School

School Community reading

Community reading

Study club

Community reading

School

Community reading

2 5

2 8 1

1 5

3 4 6

7 1

2

5

12

1

5

Home Library School

Home School

Home Club

Home School

School Library

School

Home

School

State School

Home School

2 1 4

2 9

4 2

5 8

7 1

2

5

12

1

1 4

500

840

240

1,075

610

1,724

1,643

410

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INDIVIDUAL LOAN AND REFERENCE DEPARTMENT

Requests Volumes loaned

1922-23 2,310 3,911 1293-24 4,152 8,226

Increase 1,842 4,315

Reference service of the Commission has nearly doubled during the past year according to the preceding figures.

This parcel post service to the individual has grown to in­clude circulation of books to the blind and handling requests of. those who are enrolled in the home reading courses of the U. S. Bureau of Education.

When a "hur ry-up" call for material on a particular sub­ject is received, the reference librarian sends from one to five books and writes a letter to the borrower telling him that the books have been sent for two weeks with the privilege of a two weeks' renewal, and informing him that he is to return the enclosed application card and to send postage to cover mailing charges.

The following request is typical:

"Please select and send me a book for children from seven to eleven years—a book, easily read and understood; one that is full of fun and joy. We live in the country and have never had free access to story books for children."

In reply, the reference librarian sent "The Brownie Primer," " A Dog of Flanders," " A Child's Robinson Crusoe," and "Ned and Nan in Holland" with the explanation that several books had been sent instead of one, as requested, be­cause one can be read so quickly.

Books for the Blind. (Revised Braille.)

Circulation of books for the blind also shows an increase. One hundred and eighty-three readers have been reached with 525 books.

Home Reading Courses.

The Oklahoma Library Commission became actively link­ed with the national movement for adult education on Novem-

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"ber 13, 1923 when the U. S. Department of the Interior ap­pointed Mrs. J. R. Dale, secretary of the Commission, special •collaborator to conduct the home reading courses for the Bureau of Education in Oklahoma. .

Oklahoma is the seventeenth state in which this form of cooperation has been established in connection with the Fed­eral Bureau of education in an effort to encourage the read­ing habit among adults. The stated purposes of the courses are " to stimulate the love of good literature, to encourage reading at home around the evening lamp, to keep the people more in the home in order to preserve the home life of the American people and to help parents and boys and girls to further their education after they have left school."

This is the first time the Bureau has considered any institution other than extension divisions for this work. The -Commission, still in the experimental stages of the work, has -enrolled ninety-four people for individual study. Twenty-two -classes and several reading circles have also been organized

Courses for which the Commission can supply books arc: 1. World's Great Literary Bibles. 2. Great Literature, Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. 3. Miscellaneous Reading for Parents. 4. Miscellaneous Reading for Boys. •5. Miscellaneous Reading for Girls. '6. Thirty Books of Great Fiction. 7. Thirty World Heroes. 8. American Literature. 9. Thirty American Heroes.

10. American History. 11. France and Her History. 12. Heroes of American Democracy. 13. The Call of the Blue Waters. 14. Iron and Steel. 15. Shipbuilding. 16. Machine-Shop Work. 17. Foreign Trade. 18. Reading Course on Dante. 19. Master Builders of To-day. 20. Teaching. 21. Twenty Good Books for Parents. 22. Agriculture and Country Life.

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23. Architecture. 24. Citizenship and Government. 25. Health, r? 26. Sixty Selected Stories for Boys and Girls. 27. Poetical Literature for Boys and Girls.

When the collaborator receives a request, a list of courses offered and an application blank are sent. Requirements for a certificate include a summary of each book when completed and a brief general test when the course is finished. In Okla­homa the certificates are signed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Secretary of the Oklahoma Library Commission, and the U. S. Commissioner of Education.

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NOTES FROM OKLAHOMA LIBRARIANS

Chickasha. The auditorium was repaired and decorated and made available for use by clubs for regular meetings and for recitals, small conventions and civic committees. A story hour for children was a popular activity. The Federation of women's clubs co-operated by furnishing the assembly room and giving and planting shrubs and flowers on the lawn. In August, the lending and reference departments will be re­decorated and repaired and new tables and chairs, and shelv­ing and filing equipment will be installed in readiness for the fall work in co-operation with the schools.

Dri&mright. Miss Margaret Gizentanner, who has recently completed the summer library course at the University of Oklahoma, will assume duties of librarian the first of Septem­ber, filling the vacancy left by the former librarian, Mrs. W. C. Schmidt, resigned.

El Reno. The schools and many organizations co-operat­ed with the library in observing Children's Book week. The library held open house for two days and invited the public to come and see the new books which were displayed in groups as follows: "Books for Boys," "Books for Girls," "Books for Mothers," "Books for Teachers," "Books for Business Men," "Religious Books," and "Books Worthwhile." Over 1,200 visited the library. Previous to Book week, every child in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades wrote on "Ten Ways to Care for a Book." The seventh and eighth grades wrote on "Why Books are Friends." The library board gave prizes for the best paper on each subject. Books Avere donated by D. A. R. and P. E. 0., also by Miss Rumfelt and other citizens. Conferences with the heads of school departments about book lists brought better co-ordination between the library and the schools.

Elk City. The grounds around the library have been improved by the planting of 150 shrubs in beds around the building. Pictures of the presidents have been ordered for the building and will be placed to form a frieze below the ceiling. A Rand-McNally map of the world, the United States and possessions, and of Oklahoma (made on one piece of cloth) has been purchased for the library and placed on a table under plate glass. Study clubs, the American Legion

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and auxiliary, the Men's Bible class, and other organizations use the library for their meetings.

Enid. Work at the Enid public library has been curtailed because of insufficient funds. However, the county work was continued during the past year. Mrs. Jessie L. Parks has be­come librarian to succeed Mrs. Cora Case Porter, resigned.

Guthrie. (Colored branch.) Children's Book week was celebrated by placing 171 new books in circulation. Story telling at the close of Book week drew a record crowd. Clubs meet regularly in the library, which is also available for spec­ial meetings. The addition of electric lights facilitates night reading, and a coat of paint adds greatly to the attractiveness of the building.

Henryetta. Henryetta boasts of a privileged borrower— a bed-ridden miner who has borrowed books for the past nine years. He may have any book on the shelves. It is customary for the librarian to visit him at least once a year. He requests .and expects such a visit.

Hobart. AVheii time came to make the city budget, the librarian called on the mayor and councilmen, separately, and presented to each a sheet on which she had placed in parallel columns exact expenditures for the year past and estimated •expenditures for the year to come. She explained each item and left the sheet with each member. The appropriation, as asked for, was granted in full.

McAlester. On the anniversary of the formal opening of the library, open house is held each year. Club women of the city arrange the entertainment and serve punch. The last celebration brought $87.50 in money and the donation of over 200 volumes. In all, 300 gift volumes have been received during the year, and $300 in cash has been given by various clubs. Two art exhibits, managed entirely by local artists, have been held in the library.

Miami. Posters were made to inform the rural citizens that they could use the library upon making a small deposit. A receipt is given when a deposit is made and the money re­turned if a borrower wishes at anytime to withdraw member­ship from the library. Candidates for office distributed posters through the country districts.

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Muskogee. All English classes in high school and all sixth grade pupils visited the library (most of them making three visits, accompanied by their teachers) where instruction in the use of the library was given by the children's librarian. Beginning last winter a list entitled "New Books at the Li­b ra ry" has been published every Sunday morning in the Muskogee Daily Phoenix as part of the week's news. In­terior redecorations have made the building much more at­tractive. The librarian reports an 85 per cent increase in circulation within the last three years.

Oklahoma City. The librarian announces a heavy exten­sion and activity program for the coming year. A new branch will be opened in Packingtown. It will probably be housed in the Community center. A medical library for the new medi­cal building is being cataloged and will be under the super­vision of the Carnegie Library which will also supervise the library of the Oklahoma City college. As usual, work with the schools will be stressed. A credit course on the use of reference books will be given at the junior high school by Mrs. Mabel Peacock, librarian, and Miss Abigail Rice, children's librarian, classes to meet once a month in assembly at each school. From 200 to 500 books will be on deposit at the var­ious schools throughout the year.

Perry. The libraiw building serves as headquarters for the Red Cross and as a meeting place for the Chamber of Commerce, the Mothers' club, and the Boy Scouts. During the past year 110 committee meetings have been held in the library, and 35 dinners were cooked and served there (32 Chamber of Commerce dinners and three ban­quets). The library was headquarters for the annual meeting of the Parents and Teachers association. Text books for the Colored moonlight school were furnished by the library. A two clay art exhibit, sponsored by the Colonial art company, was held for the grade schools and the Junior high school and was later brought back for four weeks for the benefit of the county teachers and their pupils.

Ponca City. The Delphian club presented the library with a beautiful picture for the children's room. An art exhibit which lasted for six weeks brought many visitors to the library. A graduate of the Wisconsin library school has been secured as librarian in the place of Mrs. B. G. Hayes, resigned.

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Sapulpa. To recover books long overdue, the Sapulpa library held Bargain book week. A barrel was placed on the the steps of the library which advertised that those having books more than a month overdue might place them in the barrel and no fines would be charged and no questions asked. A Better Reading campaign, a Vacation Reading club, Child­ren's Book week, and an Easter party were all successful undertakings. For the Better Reading campaign, the library had a list of "One Hundred Worthwhile Books" published, and distributed them over town. The books listed were col­lected and arranged on a special shelf where they were easily accessible. Booklets, buttons and diplomas from Gaylorcl Bros, furnished the material for organizing a Vacation Reading club. Books for summer reading were chosen from a list compiled by the children's librarian. # * * To feature Children's Book week, essay contests were held in the schools and prizes given for the best essays on subjects relating to good books and their importance for children. (Each school was allowed to choose its own subject.) On one day of Book week the Parent-Teacher's association was the guest of the library. A special program had been prepared and the dis­cussion of children's literature was featured. Posters and children's books were displayed in the auditorium and child­ren's room and "The Bookshelf for Boys and Girls" was dis­tributed to mothers who called. * * * For the past two years an Easter party has been given to the story hour children. I t will probably be made an annual affair.

Sapulpa. (Colored branch). The new colored branch of the Sapulpa public library which was established in June 1923 is located in the Booker T. Washington high school. Miss N. C. Day is librarian. Starting as a Vacation Reading club of 30 children, this branch now has 116 registered borrow­ers.

Shawnee. A library amendment to the city charter was submitted to the voters in the spring elections and carried by a large majority. From now on the library board will make the levy for the library fund and administer entirety the affairs of the library. The library observed Children's Book week with its annual exhibit, in the library auditorium, of children's books under all classes attractively bound and il­lustrated. The exhibit was held in connection with contests

in the grade schools and in the junior and senior high schools. Other Book week activities were a short program and exhibit of illustrated stories made into booklets by the fifth, sixth and seventh grades; impersonation of characters in famous books by junior high school students; exhibit of book plates clone by senior art students. In each contest, "The book of your choice" was offered to winners of first, second and third honors.

Tahlequah. Various clubs have donated books to the li­brary. Each club had a book day when every member con­tributed, and the books, in turn, were presented to the library. A story tellers club was organized for the children during the winter months. Children's books from the Oklahoma Li­brary Commission supplemented the library's collection of juvenile books and increased the attendance of children five­fold.

Woodward. Library gift day was launched last Novem­ber during Education week as an annual event, the Chamber of Commerce co-operating. The librarian gave a series of talks in the schools on the relation of the library to home and school. Conferences held with the mothers and teachers, following the talks, created close co-operation. The school children gave books to the library and gave money which was spent for books for the particular grades contributing. One little boy, having neither books nor money, sold his marbles so he could contribute. Books for the " t e e n " age girls were purchased with $30 given by the Wanhi Camp-Fire girls. In appreciation of the service to the schools, the Board of Education gave subscriptions of several periodicals to the library in addition to their annual gift, the Readers' Guide. A vacation story hour is conducted on Saturday after­noon through the summer for the special benefit of the country children. Crayon work by the children to illustrate their bird study is a story hour feature. Perry pictures mounted on cardboard furnish excellent material for the study of child life in art.

Yale. Borrowers are notified of overdue books each day by telephone. This reminds forgetful ones and often saves them fines. The librarian also notifies borrowers when a parti­cular book they have asked for is available. She has solved the problem of assistants by conducting a training class. Three

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high school girls took the training for which they were given regular school credit. One night a week they were taught classification, cataloging and reference work. In addition, each student was required to put in three hours practice work a week at the charging desk. The girls were all very interest­ed in the work and one found it possible to take the summer library course at the University of Oklahoma. Next year, board members will be invited to enter the training class. A reading course has been organized and the members are study­ing "Thir ty Great Books of Fiction," one of the courses offered by the Oklahoma Library Commission in collaboration with the U. S. Board of Education. The books for the course are borrowed from the Commission. The organization meets in the library each week. The library was without sufficient magazines so the librarian made a list of those desired and the members of the board took the list and asked each club in town to donate one. In this way ten magazines were added.

OKLAHOMA AUTHORS

This list includes authors who have lived and written in Oklahoma as well as those who were born here. Their works range from poetry to technical books and treatises. The list is tentative only and is published with the hope that omissions and full names will be reported to the Commission.

Arnett, Lizzie. Bunn, Clinton Orrin Axson, Mary Carmack (McDougal) Bunn, William C. Barret t , Stephen Melvil Cable, John Ray Bailey, Minnie Keith Callison, John J. Bailey, Thomas Chester Calvin, (Mrs.) Amelia (deceased) Ball, Elizabeth Camden, Harr ie t t Pa rker Barcle, Fred S., (deceased) Campbell, Evelyn Barnaclo, Fred W. Campbell, Walter S. Beaulieu, (Mrs.) Irene C. Christmas, Earl Benedict, John D. Churchill, Helen Benton, Joseph Horacel Cole, E. C. Billingsley, Frances Perkins Collins, Dennis Blair, Charles A. Colville, F rank Blakeney, Mrs. Ben B. Colvin, Mary Kroh Booth, (Mrs.) Venus G. Cornelius, Mildred Brasted, Fred Crum, Rolfe Pomeroy Brightwell, E. Cummins, Scott Brindley, Willis Cunningham, Frances Berkley Brooks, Strat ton Duluth Curry, Ar thur Ray Bull, F rank Bale, Edward Everet t

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Davis, Franklyn Pierre Davis, Preston Decker, Charles E. Douglas, Clarence B. Dowd, Jerome Drake, Florence Duncan, D. W. C. Early, (Mrs.) Verner G. Earp, James W. Echols, (Dr.) J. W. Edwards, Judge Ehler, (Mrs.) Fred Eldridge, Paul Ellis, John Breckenriclge Evans, Charles Evar ts , J. W. Fauble, Clota Hatchell Fellow, Henry Coffin Fellow, Melissa S. Ferguson, Thomas Benton Ferguson, (Mrs.) Walter Fields, John Freeman, G. D. Finch, Rebecca L. French, W. C. Gainer, Ina Gibbs, Henry Philip Gould, Charles N. Grigsby, James Edward Hagan, Horace H. Ha.mrick, Gemes L'Mon Hannah, Wallace H. Harlow, Rex Harlow, Victor E. Harper, Roscoe Emmet t Hill, Luther B. Honnold, Ar thur B. Hope, (Mrs.) Tom Hope, Welborn House, Roy Temple Hughes, Marion Hunter, E. C. Jackson, A. P. James, Marquis Jamison, James Carson Jarrell, Mrs. Howard Jennings, Al Jennings, Nelle Bunyan Johnston, Elizabeth Settle Johnson, Edi th Cherry Johnson, Eleanor

Johnson, Olive McClintic Jones, Richard Lloyd Kelly, Wayne Scott Kendall, Wilmoore Kirn, Albert J. B. Kulp, Victor Henry Landrum, Elias McLeod (Bill Kan-

tafraid) Lee, Joshua Bryan Lee, Muna, de Munoz-Marin Lehrer, Oscar Andreas Joseph Lewis, Mrs. Graham McClure, John Peebles McDougal, Mrs. D. A. McDougal, Mary Carmack McDougal, Violet MacMartin, Daniel Frederick Macmillan, Edson Angus McReynolds, Robert Marris, Genoa Mason, Herbert Delavan Meeker, Charles H. Miley, Mrs. John H. Miller, Freeman Edwin Miller, George Frederick Mosby, James Logan May, Mrs. Celeste Ball Moore, (Mrs.) E. M. Mueller, Harold (Art Gum) Muskrat, Ruth Margaret Neill, Alma Jessie Newsome, J. A. Nice, Leonard Blaine Nice, Margaret Morse Nolen, Virginia Smith Norman, Bonnie Norris, Bess O'Beirne, H. F. Oliver, Jennie Harr is Oskison, John Milton Packard, Alton Patrick, Paota White Paxton, Joseph Francis Perry, H. G. Puntenney, Minnie Ethel Posey, Alexander Lawrence Pri tchards, Mrs. Ed Rainey, (Mrs.) Lillian F rye r Rascoe, Burton Reaves, Samuel Watson Reeves, Ira L.

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Richards, Aute Ridg'e, John Rollin Riggs, R. Lynn Roe, Vingie Rock, Marion H. Rogers, Will Ross, Mollie Sarchet, Corbln Marquand Schade, Charles Theodore Schriever, William Scott, Angelo Cyrus Scott, John T. Scroggs, William O. Shelton, Everet t D. Skinner, Nora Cole Smith, Phoebe M. Spangenberger, Cecelia, E. Sparling, Earl Springer, Fleta Campbell -Starr, Emmet

Steakley, Eugene P. Steen, Sallie Pa te Stephenson, Joseph Clark Style, (Mrs.) R. E. Tatum, Lawrie Tilghman, Zoe A. Todd, H. Coulter Trudgeon, (Mrs.) W. H P. Tucker, James I. Thoburn, Joseph Bradford Turley, Louis Alvin Umpleby, Joseph B. Voss, John Henry Warden, Sybil Dunn Walker, Bert C. (Hen Toh) Weidman, Samuel

(Jones) Whitaker, Maud E. Whitlock, Enid Winslow, Thyra Samter Yoes, John W.

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FINANCIAL REPORT

1923-24

Appropriation—Fund No. 1, Salary of Available Expended Secretary $ 2,000.00 $ 2,000.00

Appropriation—Fund No. 2, Salary, Asst. Secretary 1,800.00 1,800.00

Appropriation—Fund 3, Salaries-—Extra Help 4,900.00

Traveling Library Director 1,800.00 Reference Librarian 1,500.00 Stenographer 1,200.00 Summer Library School 400.00

Contingent—Fund No. 4—Traveling ; Board Members 150.00 54.67

Contingent—-Fund No. 5—Secretary's Expenses 650.00 467.22

Contingent—Fund No. 6—Transporta­tion 300.00 230.80

Contingent—Fund No. 7—Communica­tion 500.00 488.32

Contingent—Fund No. 8—Printing other than Supplies 1,000.00 999.17

Contingent—Fund No. 9, Other Expenses 30.00 26.00 Contingent—Fund No. 10, Office Sup­

plies 800.00 798.60 Contingent—Fund No. 11, Office Equip­

ment 500.00 493.14 Contingent—Fund No. 12, Books and

Periodicals 10,000.00 9,999.5( Total Expended 22,257.42 Unexpended Balance $ 372.58

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INVENTORY AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT Property on Hand

No. Article June 30, 1924 Cost Condition 2 Typewriter desks $ 143.00 Good 1 L. C. Smith typewriter, No. 8, Seri­

al No. 394847 95.60 Fair 1 L. C. Smith typewriter, No. 8, Seri­

al No. 496615 84.00 New 1 L. C. Smith typewriter, No. 3, Seri­

al No. 48629 99.23 Fair 1 Remington typewriter, No. 10, Seri­

al No. 912757 93.15 Poor 1 Card platen 6.50 Good 2 Oak book trucks 107.12 New 1 Electric fans 16 in 73.50 Good 1 Mimeograph 125.00 Fair 1 Four drawer filing cabinet 12.50 Good 1 Two drawer filing cabinet 3.50 New 1 Four unit legal size panel ends

cabinet 60.75 Good 2 Four unit legal size cabinets 100.00 Good 1 Four unit legal size cabinet 60.00 New 1 Fifteen tray catalog cabinet 60.00 New 1 Six tray cabinet 22.25 Good

12 Bill size files 9.00 New 4 Chairs 48.00 New 2 Line-A-Time copy holders 28.00 Good 8 Glass window shields 64.00 One broken 1 Electric light fixture—conduit 23.25 Good

520 Fibre traveling library boxes 140.98 New 165 Wooden traveling library boxes 466.25 Worn Out

1 Accession books No. 1—5,000 vol. ... 4,216.03 1 Accession book No. 2—5,000 vol 5,292.50 1 Accession book No. 3—5,000 vol 3,299.50 1 Accession book No. 4—5,000 vol 5,809.03 1 Accession book No. 5—4,275 vol 6,501.66 1 Accession book for blind 843 vol 2,802.60

Total $29,846.90

296 Books lost and not paid for 330.08 163 Books lost and paid to the State 172.68

Outstanding book orders on fund 24—3,877 vols. $4,787.04

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PUBLIC LIBRARY SURVEY—1923-1924 by the

OKLAHOMA LIBRARY COMMISSION

Quar te r s T a x

E v a l u a t i o n P o p u l a t i o n Income Vols.

Added Total Vols.

Circu­la t ion L i b r a r i a n

Al tus A n a d a r k o Ardmore Bar t lesv i l le Blackwel l Br is tow Cherokee Chickasha Claremore Clinton Collinsville Cordeil Gushing Drumr igh t Duncan Elk City El Reno Enid E n i d Fa i rv iew Freder ick Guthr ie Guthr ie (Col.) Henrye t t a H o b a r t Lawton McAlester Madi l l Miami Muskogee Muskogee Xewkirk Nowata Okla City Okla. City (Col.) Okmulgee Okmulgee (Col.)

City City Carnegie Carnegie Pub l i c P u b l i c Pub l i c Carnegie P u b l i c Pub l i c Carnegie Carnegie Pub l i c Pub l i c Pub l i c Carnegie Carnegie Carnegie Colored B r a n c h City Carnegie Carnegie Excels ior Pub l i c Carnegie Carnegie Carnegie Pub l i c Carnegie Carnegie Colored B r a n c h Pub l i c

Carnegie D u n b a r City D u n b a r

City Aud. City Ha l l Carnegie Carnegie Room Bui ld ing B a n k Bldg. Carnegie City Ha l l City Ha l l Carnegie Carnegie City Hal l High School City H a l l Carnegie Carnegie Carnegie High School City Ha l l Carnegie Carnegie Room Bui ld ing Carnegie Carnegie Carnegie Cour thouse Carnegie Carnegie Building-City H a l l

Carnegie Rooms Bui ld ing Bu i ld ing

.$ 2,300,000 2,050,000

11,600,000 10,725,000

4,000,000 4,502,000 2,267,185 8,550,000 2,047,645 2,299,950

. 1,385,000 1,000,000 4,342,551

4,545,449 1,937,871 4,806,676

12,930,90?

5,684,030

5,116,8.49 1,894,741 5,357,834 8,360,902 1,864,613 4,357,255

29,583,080

1,181,157

118,011,389

18,141,026

5,000 3,665

14,181 16,000 10,000 11,000

2,200 12,000 4,000 5,000 3,000 3,000 6,500

N( 8,500 2,814 7,897

16,576

1,710 6,000

11,500

10,000 2,938 8,930

15,000 3,000 6,800

30,27V

2,800 Nc

125,000

28,695

$ 2,292.18 1,544.46 8,000.00 9,500.00

*8,000.00 *8,255.52

837.00 5,575.00 2,000.00 3,478.82

909.95 1,073.45 3,908.30

report 2,130.00 2,598.27 5,306.3e

•5,907.07

1,151.91 2,450.00 2,996.87 1.264.00

*13,511.00 2,000.00

*10,715.67 3,729.03

159.00 1,800.00

18,710.28 1,208.34

950.00 report

40,607.00 1,794.50 8,211.68

739 563

2,494 1.801 1,056

160 488 274

1,624 6S 18

525

379 587

1,385 1,360

206 415 810

71 1,123

581 2,034 1,010

104 2,125 4,051 1,738

334

4,347 100

1,092

2,847 3,226

17,319 10,430

4,536 1,938 2,000 7,320 2,729 3,800 2,753 4,812 3,126

2.31S 5,337 8,678

16,376

2,449 5,380

i4,900 4,708 8.525 6,676 5,950

LI,947 l,30fi 6,563

24,779 7,064 3,056

47,900 2,600

14,193 1,300

19,389 11,475 57,462 69,324 31,753 11,276 12,000 20,552

9,867 25,026

4,556 12,293 16,494

23,244 30,870 40,204 73,734

9,014 12,620 29,566

1,944 27,131 23,559 44,989 42,768

5,580 20,837 53,158 33,672 16,429

336,369 10,763 54,065

3,575

Mrs . E. E. Gore Mrs . S a r a h Al lph in Mrs . Myr t le Jones Miss Ru th W. Brown Mrs . N. N. P a r k h u r s t Miss B e r n e t t J ackson Mrs. E t t a G. Wa tk in s Mrs . J. A. Thompson Miss Jenn ie Hopkins Mrs . P e r d i t a J . Alvord Mrs . Lawson Hughes Miss Sadie Kizer Mrs . E. W. D o r a n Miss M a r g a r e t Gizen tanner Mrs . L. A. Browder Mrs . M a r g a r e t Wood Miss Mary E. Wilson Mrs . Jess ie L. P a r k s H a t t i e Smi th Miss Ula F r o s t Mrs. Bi rd ie Robinson Mrs . W. N. P a t t i l l o E l m i r a Johnson Mrs . F r a n c e s F . Threadgi l l Mrs . W. A. P h e l p s Mrs . Mamie Small Mrs . P h r o e b e E. Hayden Miss Haze l Rabon Mrs. T. C. Young-Miss R u t h E. H am m o n d Ethe l M. Tucker Mrs . A n n a L. Wilson Miss Gladys Wit t Mrs . Mabel Peacock Li l l ian E. Youngblood Mrs . Izora Ground F lo the r Nance

PUBLIC LIBRARY SURVEY—1923-1924 (Continued)

P l a c e

P a w h u s k a P e r r y P o n c a City Sand Spr ings Sapu lpa Sapu lpa Sayre Shawnee S t i l lwate r T a h l e q u a h Tonkawa Tulsa Tulsa Vini ta Wagoner Walters Wilson Woodward Yale

Name

P u b l i c Carnegie Carnegie Pub l i c Carnegie Colored B r a n c h Pub l i c Carnegie Pub l i c Carnegie Pub l i c Colored B r a n c h Carnegie Pub l i c Carnegie Publ ic Pub l i c Carnegie Publ ic

Quar t e r s

City Hal l Carnegie Carnegie Ha l l Carnegie High School Room Carnegie Room Carnegie

Carnegie Room Carnegie Room City Hal l Carnegie Bui ld ing

T a x E v a l u a t i o n P o p u l a t i o n Income

2,046,580 4,965,000

7,206,972

1,400,000 8,687,320 4,000,000

1,432,496

103,487,227 3,000,000 2,102,000

2,500,000 1,461,770

5,000 15|000

8,000 19,470

3,500 15,500

7,000 3,00( 7,000

102,000 5,000 4,000

5,600 5,000 3,200

2,900.00 6,900.00

1,000 8,000

1,064.09 4,911.72

*4,000.00 1,000.0c 2,604.53

47,730.00 1,500.0C 4,100.00

971.06 1,548.85 3,889.26 3,167.82

Vols . Added

1,200 741

1,463 593

1,140

334 208 500 140

1,367

10,332

491 550 133 875 147

Tota l Vols.

1.200 3,579 9,140 1,985 9,185

1,514 18,186

1,474 1,440 2,445

42,170 3,885 6,498 1,160 1,044 7,335 2,816

Circu­la t ion

8,346 49,797 15,600 65,035

8,260 63,623 15,750 15,750 3,000

231,229 15,32S 24,432

8,800 10,274 21,699 13,700

L i b r a r i a n

Mrs . C. V. Morr is Mrs . Emil ie LeBus Mrs . V. E. Kohle r Mrs. Amy Cosette Gottry Miss P a u l e n e V a u g h n Ni C. Day Mrs. W. B . Rook Mrs . Tr immer Sloan F u n k Mrs. H a r r i e t t Woodr ing Miss Essa Gladney Miss Lucy A. Gresty Lueada M e a d j w s

Miss Alma Reid McGlenn Mrs. P e a r l B . Voyles Miss Leona B a t e m a n Mrs. E. Voegelein Miss Alice Lawrence Miss Met ta M. Woodward Miss Cora L. Montgomery

•Blackwell, $4,800 set aside for building purposes. •Bristow, $5,892.04 used for building purposes. •Enid, $1,000.00 appropriated for county use. •Henryetta, $5,500.00 for site and building. •Lawton, $5,640.67 used for building payments. •Stillwater, $2,920.00 aside for building fund.

FREE LIBRARY SURVEY—1923-24

Place Name Population In Charge

Alva

Antlers

Arapaho

Atoka

Bixby

Broken Arrow

Eufaula

Garber

Grandfleld

Helena

Hinton

Hominy

Hooker

Hugo

Hunter

Idabel

Jennings

Keota

Mangum

Morris

Pauls Valley

Picher

Prue

Quay

Roff

Stigler

Supply

Watonga

Waur ika

Yukon

City Library

Fernald

Pioneer Club

Club

Club

Club

Public

Public

Public

Public

Club

Free

Club

Public

Public & H. S.

Free

Public

Free

Public

Public

Free

Review Club

Free

Club

Club

Free

Free

Free

4,500

2,600

800

2,500

1,500

3,000

3,500

1,500

2,500

700

1,000

5,000

900

8,000

600

4,500

1,500

800

4,000

2,000

6,000

30U

400

1,500

2,500

500

2,200

3,800

1,500

Mre. G. M. Lisk

Club

Miss Carrie Fisher

Mrs. A. Telle

Mrs. M. L. Saunders

Mrs. C. H. Tully

Mrs. G.G.Smith, Lib. Chm.

Mrs. George Hockinberry

Mrs. Phillip Gieg

Mrs. J. W. Hogg-

Mrs. Lora Linn Dobson

Mrs.YV. A.Gof orth, Chm.Li.Co.

Welfare League

Club members

Mrs. Van Metre

Mrs. H. E. Oakes

Mrs. Hobert Ward

Mrs. Henry M. Carr

Mrs.Edna L.HUsted, Lib. Chm.

Mrs. A. J. Perry

Mrs. G. J. Morton

Mrs. P. Jones, Sec. Li. Bd.

Mrs. Guy A. Curry, Sec.

Club members

Mrs. Loree Cronkhite

Mrs. Gail Durham, Sec.

Mrs. Nora Beslisle

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