Miss Martha Wilson, supervisor of school libraries in Minnesota, spoke on co-operation between library commissions and state boards of education.
It should have power to take over and manage other city libraries, school libraries and, by contract, libraries in other municipalities or communities.
The commission not only aimed to select books for Sunday-school libraries, but also those for the home reading of young persons and for the use of teachers.
Walker the Sunday School Society undertook to procure the publication of a number of books of fiction suitable for Sunday-school libraries, and offered prizes to this end.
Charles Lowe, then the secretary of the Unitarian Association, invited a number of women to meet him for the purpose of conference on the subject of Sunday-school libraries.
It is thought, in such cases, that the children can best be provided with books for home reading through a system of school libraries, such as we describe in the next chapter.
Another method is that described in Section 547, which can be adapted readily to school libraries.
School libraries to be lastingly effective require a separate stock with many duplicates, and these no ordinary public library can, in present circumstances, provide.
It would seem that wherever the public library is free, available, and well conducted some arrangement might be effected whereby the Sunday-school libraries could be united with the public library.
Publishing houses which formerly issued fifty new books each year, especially for Sunday-school libraries, have entirely abandoned this branch of business.
Sharp criticism is passed upon the quality of the books in most Sunday-school libraries, as being almost wholly stories, and stories of a cheap and commonplace character, many of them absolutely injurious.
The boys who are picked up by the police in railroad centers, armed for fighting Indians or robbing trains, generally carry an assortment of cheap novels, but they are not from Sunday-school libraries.
Five dollars is a large sum in most families, and children at that time had to read what they could get at home or from the Sunday-school libraries, which were no better nor worse than others of the period.
Seventy out of the 100 children answering used no library but ours--the others made use of their Sunday-school libraries also.
These histories are attractive as romance and possess a peculiar power of impressing the memory, being written from a Christian standpoint they are very desirable books for Sunday-school libraries.
These stories, culled from the writings of well-known authors, will command the favor of parents seeking the best books for their children, and of those who desire the most acceptable books for Sunday-school libraries.
Emphasis was laid on the point that high school students who had taken a course in the high school in library methods were not qualified to have charge of school libraries.
Hall as to what was being done to train librarians to take charge of school libraries, the discussion turned to that subject.
This plan in one form or another is now being tried with the high school libraries in five cities--Cleveland, O.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "school libraries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
