REPORTS OF THE OKLAHOMA LIBRARY COMMISSION
July 1, 1924 - June 30, 1925 July 1; 1925 - June 30, 1926
and Survey of Libraries of Oklahoma
of the^
Oklahoma Library Commission
July lit, 1924 <- June 30th., 1925
and ^uri^ of Libraries of Oklahoma
1926
KLAHOMA PRINTING CO., QUTHRIE, QKL.A. LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
To His Excellency, Hon. M. E. Trapp, Governor of Oklahoma: The Oklahoma Library Commission has the honor to submit its sixth annual report, covering the fiscal year, July 1, 1924 to June 30, 1925. Respectfully submitted, M. A. NASH, President. 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 FRANCES BLACKMER, Stenographer.
Office: Room 331 State Capitol Oklahoma City C ON T E N T S Section I. Report and Library Survey for year 1924-25. Section II. Report and Library Survey for year 1925-26. SECTION I. Page Letter of Transmittal - r- 2 Commission Members and Staff 3 General Report, 1924-25 7-17 What the Commission Has Been Doing — - 7 Legislation, Certification of Librarians 9 Children's Book Week 13 State Penitentiary Library Survey 15 Library Conferences .... 16 Summer Library School 17 Traveling Libraries -- 18-26 Statistics 19 Survey of Stations by Counties 20 Traveling Art Exhibit 26 Individual Loan and Reference Department 26-29 Publications, 1925 30 News of Oklahoma Libraries .... 31 Facts About Oklahoma Libraries 35 Financial Report of Commission 36 Survey Statistics, 1924-25 37-43 SECTION II. Letter of Transmittal 45 Commission Members and Staff .....< 46 General Report, 1925-26 48-53 Oklahoma Library Survey 49 Certification of Librarians 49 Cataloguing 49 Summer Library School .....49 Library Conferences _ 51 Individual Loan and Reference Department .. 53 Traveling Libraries .....' .....56-61 Growth of Traveling Library Service .....56 Statistics 56 Survey of Stations by Counties 57 A Novel Branch Library System .62 The Story of Library Development in Oklahoma 65-119 Oklahoma Libraries and the Oklahoma Library Association _ _. ._ 66 The Story of the Oklahoma Library Commission ..69 Libraries in Oklahoma by Counties . 79 Oklahoma Libraries and the Women's Clubs 116 Recent Books by Oklahoma Authors 120 Financial Report, 1925-26 122 Survey Statistics, 1925-26 123 Index 125 ILLUSTRATIONS Page Map—Traveling Libraries, 1926 6 Book Party Costumes, Children's Book Week 12 Map—Traveling Libraries, 1924-25 25 Library Entrance—East Central Teachers College, Ada 47 Traveling Libraries Ready for Shipment 55 Carnegie Library and Branches, Oklahoma City 63 Public Library Quarters, Alva, Garber. Clinton, Cherokee, Durant - 78 Carnegie Library, Elk City - 80 Carnegie Library, El Reno - - - 82 Carnegie Library, Ardmore ----- 83 Carnegie Library, Tahlequah 83 Library, University of Oklahoma, Norman _.__ 84 Carnegie Library, Lawton .... — 85 Public Library, Bristow 87 Carnegie Library, Sapulpa ,..,. — 87 Carnegie Library, Enid , 89 Carnegie Library, Chickasha 90 Carnegie Library, Ponca City 93 Carnegie Library, Hobart .:.'. .:-.. 94 Carnegie Library. Guthrie 95 Carnegie Library, Muskogee 97 Carnegie Library, Perry 98 Library, Central State Teachers College, Edmond 98 Public Library, Henryetta 101 Public Library, Okmulgee 102 Carnegie Library, Miami 103 Library.. Oklahoma A. & M. College, Stillwater 104 Carnegie Library, McAlester .....105 Carnegie Library, Shawnee 106 Carnegie Library, Frederick 108 Carnegie Library, Collinsville ..109 Carnegie Library, Tulsa , 110 Carnegie Library, Wagoner Ill Carnegie Library, Bartlesville , Ill Carnegie Library, Cordell 112 Carnegie Library, Woodward 113 Club Library Quarters, Watonga, Erick, Atoka, Olustee, Waurika __ 114 Club Library Quarters, Hunter, Madill, Yukon, Arapaho, Roff r .115 TRAVELING LIBRARY MAP, 1926
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1,129 Traveling Library Stations Established, 1924-25. 1,563 Traveling Library Stations Established, 1925-26. WHAT THE OKLAHOMA LIBRARY COMMISSION HAS BEEN DOING
Circulation. 150,000 rural readers reached during the past 12 months. 145,000 of these readers reached through Traveling Libraries, which go to Farm Women's Clubs, Farmers' Granges, and other rural organizations. Number of Traveling Libraries. 1,129 Traveling Libraries sent to different parts of Oklahoma from July 1, 1924—June 30, 1925. Figures do not include renewal of over half the libraries. 363 more libraries sent during 1924-25 than in the year 1923-24. 50 requests for libraries were unfilled because the supply of books was exhausted. 47,260 books were sent in these Traveling Libraries to rural read ers, a gain over 1923-24 of 9,041. Individual Loans. 9,872 books on special subjects sent to 2,501 readers in 12 months. These include 331 volumes sent to 143 members of study clubs, and 540 volumes in Revised Braille for the Blind sent in answer to 165 requests. Books for the blind are franked by the Uni ted States: On all other books and Traveling Libraries the transportation is paid by the borrowers. Reading" Courses. 54 persons enrolled in miscellaneous Home Reading Courses in collaboration with the U. S. Bureau of Education. 353 students completed the reading course in Agriculture given in the summers of 1924 and 1925 in 25 different Oklahoma towns. These students were enrolled in classes and received high school credit for completing the course. This work the Commission also supervised as agent for the U. S. Bu reau of Education. Surveys. Regular annual survey of public and free libraries, also of college and institutional libraries. The Commission assisted the American Library Association in a complete and exhaustive survey of Oklahoma libraries.
—7— Publications. 600 copies of "Trustees Handbook and Library Laws of Okla homa" published. 1,000 copies of "The Magic Box" published. Annual report, folders, programs, bibliographies, etc. Library Aid and Advice. Pauls Valley was assisted in establishing a new library. 67 school libraries were sent pamphlets and books on classi fication and equipment and otherwise advised and aided in establishing themselves. 16 towns interested in establishing libraries—Sulphur, Madill, Tonkawa, Shidler, Holdenville, Wewoka, Britton, Laverne, Idabel, Durant, Drumright, Oilton, Guymon, Erick, Haskell, Jennings. Library Summer School. 36 students enrolled in the 1925 summer library course, given for the fifth successive year in co-operation with the Uni versity of Oklahoma at Norman. Library Legislation. The • Commission assisted the Oklahoma Library Associa tion in obtaining from the last legislature a law requiring the certification of librarians in Oklahoma. Positions Filled. 15 public library boards and institutional libraries were assis ted in filling vacancies in their library staff, and several more were supplied with temporary cataloguers. Co-oneraition With Other Departments. Besides its assistance to high school libraries through the State Board of Education, the Library Commission has co operated with the State Vocational Board and the Bureau of Child Hygiene by supplying books to be used in agricul tural and mothercraft classes and in health conferences.
—8— LEGISLATION CERTIFICATION OF LIBRARIANS
Oklahoma libraries took a long step forward when the law providing for the certification of librarians passed the legislature in its 1925 session. The bill, which was furthered by the Oklahoma Li brary Association, was introduced in the House and later passed by the Senate with almost unanimous approval. The text of the bill follows: Session Laivs of 1925 of the State of Oklahoma Chapter 173, House Bill No. SOU Section 1. Librarian's Certificate. The proper officials in control of every free public library, state school library and public school library maintained by cities of the first class, shall appoint and employ a competent and suitable person to serve as head librarian therein, who shall be re sponsible for the duties involved in the office; provided, that after the passage of this act no vacancies existing or occur ring in the position of head librarian in such libraries shall be filled by appointment or designation of any person who is not in possession of a library certificate issued under the authority of this act. Section 2. Board of Library Examiners. The Oklahoma library commission shall constitute a board of library ex aminers who shall act without pay and who shall issue li brarians' certificates under reasonable rules and regula tions to be promulgated by the board and a complete record of the transactions of the board shall be kept at all times. Section 3. Temporary Certificate—Librarians now act ing. Upon the submission of satisfactory evidence that no qualified librarian is available for appointment, a tempo rary certificate, valid for one year, may be issued upon written application of the library board. Said certificate shall not be renewed or extended and shall not be valid be yond the date for which it is issued. The provisions of this act shall not be construed to affect any librarian at this time in his or her position. Such librarians as are now acting shall be entitled to receive a certificate in accordance with positions now held without an examination, and such certificate so issued shall be a life certificate.
—9— Section 4. Acts in Conflict Repealed. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby re pealed. Section 5. An Emergency Declared. It being immedi ately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
Qualification Requirements for Certificates. In accordance with this law requiring head librarians to obtain certificates, the Oklahoma Library Commission as a Board of Library Examiners established the following grades of certificates with the qualifications required to obtain them:
FIRST GRADE CERTIFICATE A. Education: Full college course. B. Library Training: Library degree from a library school approved by the A. L. A. Training Board. In lieu of above college and library training, ten years' administrative library work prior to January 1, 1926, will entitle the applicant to a librarian's certificate of the first grade.
SECOND GRADE CERTIFICATE A. Education: Four years' college course. B. Library Training: One year of a library school course approved by the A. L. A. Training Board. C. Experience: One years' administrative library exper ience. In lieu of above, six years' administrative library work prior to January 1, 1926, will entitle the applicant to a cer tificate of the second grade.
TEACHER-LIBRARIAN CERTIFICATE A. Education: Four years' college course. B. Library Training: Six weeks' library school in a school approved by the A. L. A. Training Board. In lieu of Library school training, one years' accept able library experience in a library of 10,000 volumes un der a librarian with first grade librarian's certificate will entitle the applicant to a teacher-librarian's certificate.
—10— THIRD GRADE CERTIFICATE A. " Education: Two years' college work. B. Library Training: Six weeks' library school in a school approved by the A. L. A. Training Board. C. Experience: One years' administrative library exper ience. ' OR A. Education: Four years' high school course. B. Library Training: One year in apprentice class of li brary approved by the A. L. A. Training Board. In lieu of above, four years' administrative library ex perience prior to January 1, 1926, will entitle the applicant to a certificate of the third grade.
LIBRARY WORKER'S CERTIFICATE A. Education: Four years' high school course. B. Library Training: Six weeks' library school in a school approved by the A. L. A. Training Board. In lieu of above, two years' library experience will en title the applicant to a library worker's certificate.
ONE YEAR TEMPORARY CERTIFICATE A. Education: Four years'high school course. B. Library Training: Six weeks' library school in a school approved by the A. L. A. Training Board. In lieu of above, affidavit of a library board that no qualified applicant is available and the passing of a general education test with a grade of not less than 75 per cent will entitle the applicant to a temporary certificate. A librarian holding a certificate from another state with like requirements will be granted a certificate of the same grade in this state. Oklahoma certificates, however, will be issued only to applicants who are seeking positions within this state.
—11- Book Party Costumes Children's Book Week, Oklahoma City Public Library.
10 CHILDREN'S BOOK WEEK
Requests for suggestions and material on Children's Book Week in November, 1924, indicated a growing inter est in the celebration of this occasion. The Commission made a special effort to interest the club women in giving attention to the week, and also sent out to public libraries printed publicity and suggestions for programs. How some of the libraries used these ideas or develop ed new ones is told below. Blackwell. Mrs. H. N. Naylor was especially active in interesting Blackwell in Children's Book Week. She wrote an article on children's reading, which was published in the Black- well Tribune together with a list of books in the local li brary recommended for children by the Oklahoma Library Commission. She also asked all the pastors of the Black- well churches to mention the week in their sermons. Yale. A Book Review evening was the novel idea of the Yale Library. It was held in the high school auditorium, and prizes of books were awarded for the best oral book reviews given by high school students. One prize was given by the library, one by the high school and one by the Secretary of the Library Commission. Okmulgee. During Book Week all the grade schools of Okmulgee were invited to visit the library by classes, and regular programs of instruction in the use of the library were given each grade. Stress was laid upon the care and handling of books, the pupils being told how much time and money was required to prepare books for public circulation, and how the- money was obtained. They were also taught to use the card catalogue and how to find books on the shelves, etc. Bristow. Bristow had an extremely successful Book Week, city schools and clubs co-operating with the library in its ob servance. The week began with an "open house," at which the library welcomed the public. Each succeeding day was in charge of a different set of public school pupils with a
—13— different women's club acting as hostesses. Children dressed as book characters were assisted by teachers and adult performers in giving musical and educational programs dealing with literature. Gay posters decorated the library for the occasion, and book dealers also co-operated with window displays. A successful appeal for donations of books and money was also made during the week. Oklahoma City. From 1,500 to 2,000 school children took part in the Book Party which was the final event of the Book Week celebration in Oklahoma City. Miss Abigail Rice, children's librarian, met in confer ence with Mrs. Mabel Peacock, head librarian, and Miss Eleanor Johnson, primary school supervisor. Miss John son took the responsibility of laying the plans before the principals and teachers. Children south of the river met at the Capitol Hill high school and all others met at Central high school. Some school rooms were represented by just one child in costume but all children were invited to the party. The Book Party (As described by Miss Abigail Rice, Children's Librarian) The day arrived with mobs of children—costumed and otherwise. After short speeches by A. C. Parsons, superin tendent of schools; John H. Wright, president of the library board; and Joe H. Patterson, commissioner of public prop erty, the 'children were lined up for the parade. The Firemen's Band, thoroughly enjoying itself, head ed the procession with Mr. Patterson and Mr. Wright lead ing. Then came the children, and such a sight has never been seen before or since on Oklahoma City's streets. Traf fic halted when Cinderella marched with Puss-in-boots and Little Black Sambo with Topsy. There was John Silver with black patch and wooden peg, Huck Finns and Tom Sawyers galore, Alice in Wonderland, the Dutch Twins in their wooden shoes, Hiawatha and more characters than could possibly be mentioned. Straight down Broadway they paraded with Boy Scouts, librarians, and even parents and grandparents in attendance, and the Boy Scout drum corps half-way down the line. Through the main streets of the city they passed and back to the high school where the band played the last line in. After story hour and games, the costumed children marched across the stage and lined up around the wall. Books, donated by city book shops and the library board, were presented to the children in the best costumes and the party disbanded.
—14— LIBRARY SURVEY TAKEN AT THE STATE PENITENTIARY A personal visit of the Secretary of the Oklahoma Li brary Commission to the library of the State Penitentiary at McAlester this spring disclosed the fact that the collec tion was in very bad order, unclassified and much in need of mending. The books and the circulation system were also inadequate and the collection afforded scarcely more than occasional recreational reading to the men. As the Adult Education Board of the American Li brary Association had set aside $150 for the purpose of supplying technical books for ex-service men in the Okla homa prison, the Commission decided to conduct a survey among these men to determine their individual book needs and at the same time use the opportunity to catalogue the library and repair the books. Keith Burns of the A. and M. College library at Still water was selected to do the work and spent a month classi fying the library, taking the survey, and teaching the pris oners detailed to help him how to mend the books and take care of the library. Forty-two ex-service men filled out the questionnaire and indicated their choice of technical books. It was found that they quite often wished to study along the line of their former occupations, although others proved ambitious to enter a higher trade or profession. The requests for books were as follows: Art 1 Salesmanship 2 Agriculture 3 Auto electrician 2 Auto Mechanics , 8 Barber 1 Bookkeeping 3 Commercial course 1 Cooking—fancy 1 Electrical engineering 5 Law 2 Mechanics 2 Landscape gardening 1 Journalism 1 Navigation 1 Pharmacy 1 Photography 1 Plumbing 1 Shoe repairing 1 Short story writing , 1 Masonry 1 Woodwork and cabinet making 3 Besides these industrial and vocational books from the American Library Association, recreational books are be ing obtained for the library through private donations, and the Commission plans to supply as far as possible the in dividual needs of inmates other than the ex-service men un til such time as an adequate appropriation is made for the library of the institution.
—15— LIBRARY CONFERENCES
A. L. A., Seattle, Wash. Interest in the American Library Association meeting in July was centered in the discussion of county libraries and plans for extending the system to states that do not yet have a county library law. Washington, Oregon and California sent book wagons as a part of the exhibit. Seven Oklahoma librarians attended, including the Secretary of the Library Commission. Midwinter Library Conference at 0. E. A., Oklahoma City. Indorsement of the certification plan for Oklahoma librarians was the most significant achievement of the con ference of librarians during the Oklahoma Education As sociation convention February 13, 1925. "Folk Lore of Oklahoma" by Mr. J. Frank Dobie of the Oklahoma A. and M. College was of unusual interest, and the paper by Mrs. Clara Van Sant of the Oklahoma College for Women, Chick- asha, on "The College Library and Adult Education" was afterwards published in "Public Libraries," April, 1925. Oklahoma Library Association, Stillwater. The Oklahoma A. and M. College library was hostess to the Oklahoma Library Association at its nineteenth an nual session at Stillwater, June 10 and 11, 1925, and pro vided exceedingly hospitable entertainment. This included a reception at the Home Economics building by the Ameri can Association of University Women and a banquet and entertainment given by the college. Notable features of the program were the address by Dr. P. P. Claxton, superintendent of Tulsa schools, and the paper by Prof. J. FrankDobie of the A. and M. College on "Literature of the Southwest." Miss Elizabeth Andrews of the University of Oklahoma Extension Division presen ted the subject of "Public Information Files"; Mrs. Elsie D. Hand, librarian of A. and M. College, gave an illustrated talk on "Publicity and the Library"; and Mrs. J. W. Mar- able of Oklahoma City chose for her title, "Feeling the Pub lic Pulse." Miss Daisy McCool of the Art Department of the college entertained the convention with her account of
—16— "Art and Literary Rambles Abroad"; and Dr. Winnie M. Sanger, president of the State Federation of Women's Clubs, discussed the relation of "Club Women and the Li brary." Interesting reviews of new books were given by Prof. Louis Landa of Stillwater. Mrs. J. R. Dale, secre tary of the Oklahoma Library Commission, reported on the progress of Oklahoma libraries and gave an outline of the new certification law. Officers elected for 1925-26 were Mr. E. C. Wilson, East Central State Teachers College at Ada, president; Mrs. El sie D. Hand, first vice-president; Miss Paulene Vaughn, Sa- pulpa, second vice-president; Miss Myra S. Grosh, Tulsa, secretary; Miss Ruth Brown, Bartlesville, treasurer.
THE SUMMER LIBRARY SCHOOL The Commission has for the past five years co-operated with the University of Oklahoma in offering a six weeks' course in Library Science during the summer session, and assists in employing a staff consisting of two full-time in structors and an assistant reviser. In the summer of 1924 the enrollment was 33, and in 1925, 36 students completed the course. Those enrolled during the 1925 session were: CLASS OF 1925 Binkley, Elsie D. Jackson, Irene L. Bland, T. S. Jamieson, Agnes Bond, Mrs. Emma Lee Long, Mrs. W. Brawley, Nellie Meacham, Mrs. Edna Burke, F. D. Mitchell, Blanch Drake, Robert Murphy, Frances M. Eller, Catherine A. Nichols, Lorraine Farmer, Evelyn E. Parkinson, Zelma Farmer, Lucile Patterson, Iris Fitch, Roxey C. Powell, Tracy B. Fowler, Mrs. Linda Lane Price, Elizabeth Gable, W. F. Risley, Mrs. Beryl Gasper, Grace Springer, Clarice Giezentanner, A. H. Stuchey, Zenos Gittinger, Dorothy Swain, Grace Gresty, Mrs. Lucy A. Turner, Dorrit Lee Haibery, Elizabeth Turner, Mary E. Howard, Paul Wheeler, Czarena R. Miss Grace E. Herrick of Western College, Oxford, Ohio, and Miss Ethel Binney of the University of Illinois Library School were the instructors.
-17— THE TRAVELING LIBRARIES
To show the growth of the Traveling Library depart ment the following facts are useful. The circulation of "travelers" during the entire time since the Oklahoma Li brary Commission was established shows that: 1,300 were sent out during the first two and a half years, 1919-1922. 1,432 were sent out during the two years of 1922-1924. 1,129 were sent out during the one year of 1924-25. The distribution of the libraries during the past year was as follows: 367 to communities 369 to rural schools 111 to study clubs 11 to Boy Scouts and Campfire Girls groups 271 to miscellaneous groups, including Farmers' Unions, small libraries, American Legion Posts, Sunday Schools. The service to small libraries is one especially appre ciated. "The traveling library kept us alive last year," wrote one free library. "During the year we have the use of 347 Library Commission books, 100 donated books, 300 books from the county library," reported another little li brary in a town of 400 population. Six counties used over 30 libraries each—Canadian, Carter, Custer, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Seminole. Ten counties used 20 or more libraries each—Coal, Dewey, Garvin, Grady, Kiowa, McClain, Okmulgee, Payne, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie. Although 30,000 books were available for traveling libraries this year, 50 requests had to be placed on the wait ing list at the end of the year because the shelves were empty. The traveling library collections for schools and rural communities consist of about 30 books loaned for two months. They may be renewed for another two months or sent back and others requested in their place. Another form of traveling library is the community library, which consists of a hundred books loaned for six months.
—18— The collections sent to rural readers are not fixed, but are varied according to the needs and wishes of the school, community or other group using them. The borrowers pay the postage, but this is small, since light boxes are used for sending the books. A very high standard has been set and maintained in selecting the books which go to these rural readers, espe cially' the children's books. Most of the latter are to be found in the purchase list for schools approved by the State Board of Education and issued by the Commission in 1923 as "Books for Boys and Girls of Oklahoma."
TRAVELING LIBRARY STATISTICS
1924-25 Number of libraries circulated from July 1, 1924-July 1, 1925 .... 1,129 Number of volumes circulated 47,260 Circulation (estimated) 150,000 Counties served by traveling libraries 76 Requests unfilled because supply of books was exhausted 50
—19- SURVEY OF TRAVELING LIBRARY STATIONS BY COUNTIES
1924-1925 Number County Traveling Kind of Org anization Number of Libraries Volumes Alfalfa 11 Community service 5 School 6 947 Atoka 17 Club 4 School 9 Community service 3 Boy Scouts 1 1,647 Beaver 12 Club 4 Home 2 Community service. 5 School 1 1,107 Beckham 13 School 8 Community service 5 474 Blaine 18 School 9 Community service 7 Club 2 858 Bryan 10 Community service 5 School 3 College 1 Boy Scouts 1 762 Caddo 7 Community service 1 Home reading 1 Club 2 School 3 313
Canadian 32 School 14 Community service 15 Home 1 Rural library 2 1,567 Carter 42 School 20 Club 4 Boy SCOUM 1 Community service 16 Home 1 1,940 Cherokee 2 Library 1 School 1 57 Choctaw 13 School 3 Home 8 Community service 2 1,500 Cimarron 0 Club $ 60
—20- Number County Traveling Kind of Organization Number of Libraries Volumes
Cleveland 14 School 7 Community service 2 Club 3 Home reading 2 495 Coal 23 Club 4 School 11 Home 6 Community service 2 850 Comanche 4 Boy Scouts 1 Club 1 Community service 2 218 Cotton 10 Community service 5 School 2 Club 3 313 Craig 1 School 1 53 Creek 15 School 7 Club 3 Community service 5 739 Custer 33 School 14 Community service 12 Home 1 College 3 Club 3 1,475 Delaware 5 School 3 Community service 2 514 Dewey 20 School 9 Community service 11 1,667 Ellis 5 Club 1 Community service 4 347 Garfield 5 Club 3 Community service 2 321 Garvin 22 School 11 Community service 7 Club 4 1,020 Grady 20 School 6 Community service 9 Home reading 3 Club 2 565 Grant 11 School 10 Club 1 354 Greer IS Community service 11 School 7 770 Harmon 8 Club 1 School 5 Community service 1 Farmer's union 1 325 —21— Number County Traveling Kind of Organization Number of Libraries Volumes
Harper 4 Community service 2 Club 2 129 Haskell 5 School 5 123 Hughes 12 Community service 8 Club 1 School 3 753 Jackson 9 Community service 6 Home reading 1 Club 2 394 Jefferson 10. School 6 Community service 4 397 Johnston 12 School 9 Community service 3 380 Kay 18 Club 5 School 10 Community service 3 532 Kingfisher 6 Community service 3 School 3 320 Kiowa 21 Community service 8 School 9 Home reading 4 542 Latimer 8 , Club 6 College 2 156 LePlore 11 School 6 Community service 5 303 Lincoln 32 Community service 17 School 12 Club 2 Boy Scouts 1 1,098 Logan 5 Community service 4 College 1 300 Love 16 Home reading 3 School 6 Communitv reading 7 690 McClain 28 Community reading 6 School 13 Club 9 755 McCurtain 8 Club 1 School 5 Academy 1 Community service 1 393 Mcintosh 7 Community service 4 School 3 361 Major 9 Community service 2 School 4 Academy 3 217 —22— Number Count5r Traveling Kind of Organization Number of Libraries Volumes
Marshall 3 Library 1 School 2 97 Mayes 13 School 4 Community service 8 Orphanage 1 371 13 School 2 Murray Community servics 3 Boy Scouts 4 Camp Fire Girls 2 Club 2 385 12 Community service 2 Muskogee Club 1 School 5 Exhibit 1 Home reading 282 11 School 10 Noble Community service 1 331 2 School 2 98 Nowata 9 Community service 5 Okfuskee School 4 403 Oklahoma 67 Community service 15 Club 3 School 37 Home reading 5 College 5 Exhibit 2 2,538 Okmulgee 21 School 9 Club 3 Community service 3 Library 6 601 Osage 13 School 5 Library 2 Club 4 Community service 2 867 Ottawa 11 Club 3 School 5 Community service 3 455 Pawnee 4 School 2 Farmer's Union 2 140 Payne 25 Home reading 3 School 15 Club 2 Community service 5 826 Pittsburg 17 School 11 Community service 4 Sunday School 2 774
—23— Number County Traveling Kind of Organization Number of Libraries Volumes
Pontotoc 29 Exhibit 1 School 11 Community service 12 Club 3 Legion Post 2 1,787
Pottawatomie 22 School 10 Community service 11 Home reading 1 972 Pushmataha 11 Community service 7 School 4 345 Roger Mills 16 Community service 11 School 3 Home reading 2 970 Home reading 3 Rogers School 3 Community service 1 Club 2 196 3! School 17 Seminole Farmer's Union 1 Community service 13 1,280 Sequoyah 19 School 4 Club 6 Community service 9 643 Stephens 15 Community service 6 School 8 Club 1 668 Texas 14 Exhibit 1 Community service 7 School 5 Home reading 1 773 Tillman 13 Community service 7 'School 4 Club 2 604 Tulsa 6 School 4 Community service 2 220 Wagoner 7 School 5 Club 2 265 Washington S School 6 Club 2- 32T6 Washita 8 School 2 Community service 5 Home reading 1 415 Woods 1 Exhibit 1 103 Woodward 13 School 5 Home reading 5 Community service 3 425 -24— e- 1 455t O o {OTTAWA!
GO ni3Ho7 Traveling Library Service in Oklahoma Map shows number of books sent to each county in Traveling Libraries during year 1924-25. Counties in black were without Tax-supported Libraries. TRAVELING ART EXHIBIT
The Art Section of the Oklahoma Education Associa tion this year collected from the high schools in the state specimens of the best art work done by students in these schools. They had a special case made for the collection so that it might be sent as an exhibit to other high schools, fairs, conventions, etc. The exhibit was placed in the cus tody of the Oklahoma Library Commission, which will send it out upon request to high schools or teachers' meetings. The collection is to be added to and revised from time to time. / vV INDIVIDUAL LOAN AND REFERENCE DEPARTMENT Summary. The total number of borrowers this year from the In dividual Loan department was 5,081, the number of books sent out, 9,872, and the number of letters written, often containing information not supplied by books, 2,817. Organizations. Although books loaned outside the Traveling Library collections are sent out from what is called the "Individual Loan" department, many of the books go not directly to individuals but to organizations. These include women's clubs, with their great variety of subjects for study and their frequent programs; also, the Public Health classes organized by public health nurses in the various towns; the Mothercraft classes, which study under the direction of the State Board of Vocational Education; the chapters of the American Association of University Women; and the high schools, which demand books on debate subjects, and supplement the resources of their own libraries in litera ture, Latin, home economics, science, history and other subjects. Some clubs have made it a custom to send their pro grams, as soon as the committee decides upon them, to the Commission, asking that the necessary books be sent about three weeks in advance for each program. Others ask for a list of material in the Commission library dealing with the various subjects, and allow their members to write for this individually. Sometimes the subject for one program only, or one paper, is sent in with a request for all avail able books or clippings dealing with the topic. The Indi vidual Loan department answered 143 such requests dur ing the year, sending out 331 books and numerous letters.
—26— A nurse who organized a class in Public Health in one town, borrowed sixteen books from the Commission, one for each member of her class. Each week she assigned a topic in a certain book to a member, and next week another topic in a different book, passing on the firsti book to another student. In this way each member had a chance to read every book in the list. Five Mothercraft groups in differ ent Oklahoma cities also completed courses in a similar manner last year. The Tulsa chapter of the American Association of Uni versity Women for their 1924-25 season used the course of study outlined by the national association and borrowed from the Commission the reference books that were not in their own city library. The high schools are large borrowers. Many requests come, not only from individual students, but also from high school librarians arid teachers, who are being encouraged by the state high school inspectors to reorganize and cata logue their libraries. So great was the demand for this sort of assistance last year that the Commission added to its shelves 100 copies of Wilson's "School Library Manage ment," besides other pamphlets for free distribution. Besides all these classes of requests mentioned above, there are frequent calls from rural districts and towns without libraries for recreational reading, for books for correspondence courses, for aid in finding amateur plays, for a thousand and one things that puzzle the minds of Ok lahoma readers or appeal to their interests. Requests for this sort of service totaled 2,314 in 1924-25, and 5,774 books were sent out in answer. The, Commission also maintains a reference service for members of the legislature when in session and for employ ees of the state. Books for the Blind. Books in Revised Braille for the blind probably bring greater results in happiness than those in black and white for people who see. A large number of new titles for both children and adults were added this year, and 540 volumes circulated. This service is free, even of postage, for the volumes are franked by the U. S. government.
—27— UNITED STATES BUREAU OF EDUCATION HOME READING COURSES
Imagine a woman working in the cotton field with the sonorous lines of the Iliad sounding through her mind, or a boy poring over the rich romance of "The Oregon Trail," or a mother in a farm home seeking the answers to her pressing problems in some book on mothercraft. In Oklahoma, in many rural communities and towns and cities, you may find cases such as these, due to the spread of interest in the Home Reading Courses, in which the Oklahoma Library Commission is collaborating with the U. S. Department of Education to bring books and people together. The Commission took up this work in 1924, ad vertising the courses and supplying the readers with free books through its Individual Loan department. During 1924-25, 54 new students began the reading courses, borrowing their books from the Commission. This was in addition to the hundred already enrolled and to the 353 enrolled in the classes which took the reading course in Agriculture for high school credit during the summers of 1924 and 1925. Reports and summaries of the books read were handled by the Commission, read and approved, and certificates issued to those who finished the courses. The most popular of the courses proved to be "Great Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern." Next in or der were the "Miscellaneous Reading Course for Parents," "Thirty Books of Great Fiction," "Agriculture and Coun try Life," and "Teaching." The pleasure and profit derived seem to' have been about equal, according to the letters of appreciation from readers. Several of them having received their certificates for one course, began another immediately. Extracts from some of these letters reveal interesting conditions and personalities, as well as a keen ambition to carry on the education which stopped with their more or less meager schooling. Below are some random excerpts from the letters : "Have finished reading 'The Squirrel Cage' by Dorothy Canfield, and can apply it in various ways to our own lives."
—28— "I enjoyed the Arabian Nights very much more than I expected, and, the entire family re-read them." "Many people I have talked with since taking up this study are earnestly inquiring into the Home Reading Courses. I am sure I would be able to enroll a number of mothers I know who desire to keep pace with their chil dren." "Am returning book 'Practical Motherhood' under sep arate cover. Am late in returning it on account of rush in fall work. But kept at it until I read it from cover to cover. It was chuck full of valuable reading." "I am sending summary of 'Don Quixote.' I have been giving my time almost exclusively to study since the cool weather came, and I found it profitable to review the his tory of the times the writers lived, and the countries and times of which they wrote, though in a limited way." "This book of valuable knowledge ('The Montessori Mother') was put into my hands at the very identical time in which I was searching for information on child training at pre-school age. I believe that Mrs. Fisher, the author, has come to my assistance just as my boy4 is growing out of babyhood." "I have not received any books since the first of Sep tember. They were Shakespeare's. I intended to write, but have been busy in the cotton field. But am about through now. Please send them on."
-29- PUBLICATIONS OF THE OKLAHOMA LIBBARY COMMISSION IN 1925
Trustee's Handbook. "The Trustee's Handbook and Library Laws of Okla homa" has been published by the Oklahoma Library Com mission for the benefit of library boards. It presents in brief the standards for which libraries are striving and laws by which Oklahoma libraries are governed. Includ ed are the new law for librarians' certification, a model constitution for library boards, suggestions for the consid eration of trustees, and list of books on library manage ment and ideals, which may all be borrowed from the Okla homa Library Commission. A copy of this booklet has been presented to< each mem ber of a library board in the state of whose appointment the Commission has been apprised. "The Magic Box". "The Magic Box" was a traveling library, but to two lonely children on an Oklahoma farm it opened up the door of fairyland and all the beloved characters of childhood's literature came forth, one by one, at their call—Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Tom Sawyer and the rest. This little one-act play was written for Oklahoma schools and for boys and girls clubs which wish to celebrate Children's Book Week fittingly or to give a simple enter tainment for some other occasion, with home-made cos tumes and scenery. Copies may be had free upon request.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION "Books for Boys and Girls of Oklahoma". A graded book list recommended by the State Superin tendent of Public Instruction for school libraries or for home purchase. Each book is described in a brief note. Reports of the Oklahoma Library Commission. Reports of the Commission's work since 1919 and sur veys showing the progress of Oklahoma libraries.
—30— NEWS OF OKLAHOMA LIBRARIES
Pauls Valley. The city of Pauls Valley has formally taken over the library founded and supported by the women's clubs and civic organizations. The library was given space on the first floor of the city hall, with a separate entrance from the street; furniture was borrowed from other parts of the court house; rugs, reading lamps, comfortable chairs and pictures were donated to make an attractive reading room. The opening was an interesting event of the meeting of the Fifth District of the Oklahoma Federation of Women's Clubs in May, 1925. The library consists of approximately 2,700 books, 200 of which were donated by the Oklahoma Library Commis sion from a collection given it by the American Library As sociation following the world war. The City Federation still pays the salary of a part-time librarian, and the money received from the city is spent for new books. Much credit of the library's new status must be given to Mrs. Henry M. Carr of Pauls Valley, who was particu larly active in sponsoring the library and educating public interest. The Oklahoma Library Commission assisted further in starting the new library off on the right foot by giving for a week the services of its assistant secretary, Miss H. Elaine Boylan, who aided the library committee to organize and catalogue the book collection and begin its circulation. sje s|t s|e. %H< Waurika. The Waurika Business Men's Club announced in Jan uary that it had resolved to give assistance to the Sorosis Club in its efforts to obtain funds to erect a public library building. A site was purchased for $1,100, and plans were made to erect a building which should also house an Indian exhibit especially representing the Chickasha and Choctaw nations. Cataloguing of the library, which consists of 3,500 books, was also begun. The building, a neat one-room bung alow, was completed and moved into in July. (See picture, page 114).
—31— Miami. A New Year's present for the Miami library was a $325 catalogue desk, the gift of two public-spirited business men. The library has also been catalogued during the year. * * * * * Sayre. The Sayre public library reports that it is outgrowing its present quarters and wants a building. ***** Tonkawa. Tonkawa took steps to have its library reclassified and catalogued this year. * * * * * Henryetta. A Saturday story hour, a publicity campaign and the beautifying of the library grounds and interior are report ed from Henryetta. Various organizations are assisting in planting shrubbery and flower beds, and indoors the building has been decorated with new shelves full of flow ers and house plants, and pictures loaned by the librarian, Mrs. Frances Threadgill. ***** Tahlequah, Tahlequah reclassified its library this summer, using cataloguing aids sent by the Commission. ***** Lawton. The Lawton library board paid the expenses of its li brarian, Mrs. Mamie Small, to the American Library Asso ciation convention at Seattle. ^ ^p H* sp H* Fairfax. The free library at Fairfax was opened in 1924. It is financed by club women of the town, who support it by means of entertainments. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Sand Springs. "We look like a real library now," writes the Sand Springs librarian. The library has new equipment and has taken possession of a third room, but it is already over crowded again and is very eager for a building. The li brarian has been given two assistants. Wewoka. Wewoka took its first step towards establishing a pub lic library when Mayor Cutlip appointed a library board this year. ***** —32— Holdenville. Citizens of Holdenvilk are becoming actively interest ed in the possibility of a public library for their town. * * * * * Woodward. A group of Woodward Campfire Girls earned their beads mending books for the public library under the direc tion of Miss Metta Woodward, the librarian. A drive for books in February, 1925, brought the library's collection up to 8,000. Practical instruction in the use of the library was given to students of the Junior High School by the librarian, and the school allowed students credit for the work on their English grades. ***** *4 Jennings. At the request of the Swastika club, the school board of Jennings in 1924 opened the high school library to the public two afternoons a week. A library committee of the club was appointed which volunteers its services in keep ing the library open these days. Smithville. The Fulsom Training School at' Smithville last spring was put in charge of Mrs. Linda Lane Fowler, who has undertaken to build up the library both for the use of the school and of the community. Muskogee. The circulation of the Muskogee Library was but slightly smaller than that of last year, when 153,158 books were loaned, although there was a cut in its appropriation. At the close of the summer of 1925, Miss Ruth Hammond, librarian, resigned, and Mrs. Cora Case Porter, formerly of the Enid library, was appointed to take her place. T V "P * V Erick. Erick has a Community Circulation Library, which its founders are considering turning over to the city. It occu pies a room in the new city hall which was specially fitted up for it. Sulphur. The Rotary Club of Sulphur is interesting itself in or ganizing reading clubs for young people, and is borrowing traveling libraries from the Library Commission to further this plan.
—33— Ponca City. Ponca City feels that its library is outgrown. The building was donated from the Carnegie fund when Ponca City was a town of 2,500, whereas it now has a population of 15,000. The monthly circulation is between 4,000 and 5,000. Durant. The Lions Club of Durant is planning a movement to start a library, and has the support of other similar insti tutions in the city and the women's literary clubs. ***** Watonga. A printed catalogue of its books has been published by the Watonga public library. It includes a statement of the aid offered small libraries and rural districts by the Okla homa Library Commission.
Pawhuska. The Pawhuska public library, which opened the last week of June, 1924, by the end of February had issued 10,000 books and borrowers' cards to the number of 1,194. The entire library, which had been turned over to the city by the women's clubs, was previously worked over and com pletely catalogued.
-34- FACTS ABOUT OKLAHOMA LIBRARIES
Oklahoma has: 51 public libraries, entirely or mainly tax-supported. 24 libraries with Carnegie buildings. 3 public libraries with buildings erected with city funds, Okmulgee, Henryetta, Bristow. 5 branch library buildings (4 are colored branches). 4 institutional library buildings. 24 public libraries without buildings. 40 (approximate) free and club libraries supported by organizations. 42 counties without tax-supported libraries. 2 high school libraries of over 10,000 volumes. 45 high school libraries of from 10,000-1,500 volumes. 80 high school libraries of from 900 to 1,500 volumes.
COUNTIES WITHOUT TAX-SUPPORTED LIBRARIES Adair Kingfisher Alfalfa Latimer Atoka LeFlore Beaver Lincoln Blaine Love Bryan McClain Choctaw McCurtain Cimarron Mcintosh Cleveland - Major Coal Marshall Delaware Mayes Dewey Murray Ellis Nowata Grant Okfuskee Harmon Pawnee Harper Pontotoc Haskell Pushmataha Hughes Roger Mills Jackson Seminole Jefferson Sequoyah Johnston Texas
—35— FINANCIAL REPORT
1924-25
Appropriation—Fund No. 1, Salary of Secretary .. .$ 2,000.00 $ 2,000.00 Appropriation—Fund No. 2, Salary of Asst. Secretary 1,800.00 1,800.00 Appropriation—Fund No. 3, Salar ies—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 Appropriation—Fund No. 4, Travel ing: Board members 150.00 134.66 Appropriation—Fund No. 5, Secre tary's expenses _„... 650.00 397.99 Appropriation—Fund No. 6, Trans portation 300.00 235.58 Appropriation—Fund No. 7, Com munication 500.00 499.88 Appropriation—Fund No. 8, Print ing, other than supplies 1,000.00 1,000.00 Appropriation—Fund No. 9, Other expenses 30.00 20.10 Appropriation—Fund No. 10, Office supplies 800.00 626.55 Appropriation—Fund No. 11, Office equipment 500.00 498.85 Appropriation—Fund No. 12, Books 10,000.00 9,533.35 Total expended $21,646.95 Unexpended balance $ 983.05
-36— SURVEY OF LIBRARIES OF OKLAHOMA—1924-25 SERVICE REPORT ill.00 per capita is estimated as a fair appropriation for efficient library service, and 6 books per capita as a proper average for circulation.)
CITY Tax Vols, Appro. Circ. Popula- Evaluation Income Vols. added Circulation Librarian per per 1924-25 capita capita 125,000-50,000 125,000 $118,872,512.00 $43,830.00 51,758 4,711 373,950 Mrs. Mabel Peacock . $.35 100,000 103,000,000.00 51,200.00 48,655 7,557 278,741 Miss Alma Reid McGlenn. .51 2 78 50,000-16,000 30,277 31,124,000.00 17,349.07 25,710 1,964 146,752 Miss Ruth E. Hammond .57 4 8 25,000 17,000,000.00 7,780.00 16,300 2,283 56,647 Mrs. Izora Ground.... .31 2 26 19,470 7,202,972.00 7,800.00 10,515 1,550 63,221 Miss Paulene H. Vaughn .40 3 3 16,575 13,739,663.00 6,745.00 17,505 1,138 63,263 Mrs. Jessie L. Parks .41 3 8 16,000-10,000 16,000 11,086,811.00 10,522.76 12,609 2,527 76,722 Miss Ruth W. Brown... .65 4 79 15,500 8,687,320.00 10,354.04 20,872 2,486 64,223 Mrs. Trimmier Sloane Funk .66 4 14 15,000 8,360,902.00 4,358.58 11,600 963 53,100 Mrs. Phoebe E. Haylen .20 3 54 15,000 4,965,000.00 7,674.58 9,105 1,760 60,053 Mrs. Violet E. Kohler.. .51 4 0 14,181 11,630,897.00 8,000.00 17,267 215 53,312 Mrs. Myrtle Jones .56 3 76 14,000 8,550,000.00 5,144.24 7,984 688 16,635 Mrs. J. A. Thompson. .36 1 18 CO 12,000 4,488,827.00 3,164.58 4,823 887 30,906 Mrs. R. M. Parkhurst .25 2 57 •SI 11,500 5,684,030.00 3,241.27 15,353 585 29,362 Mrs. W. N . Patrillo .28 2 55 11,000 4,113,000.00 4,500.00 2,985 852 22,103 Miss Bernett Jackson .40 2 00 10,000-5,000 10,000 7,188,136.00 2,659.06 1,840 820 15,361 Mrs. C. V. Morris .26 1 53 9,500 6,116,849.00 5,229.62 9,514 803 21,838 Mrs. Frances F. Threadgill .57 2 29 9,000 4,239,574.00 2,550.00 2,765 585 24,933 Mrs. J. W. Moseley.. .28 2.77 8,930 5,357,834.00 4,825.00 7,000 1,300 45,061 Mrs. Mamie Small .54 5.04 8,000 5,137 279 9,989 Miss Marguerite Giezentanner 1.24 8,000 - 2,305,554.00 3,300.00 2,893 956 18,737 Mrs. Cosette Go try .41 2.34 7.897 4,806,676.00 6,22°.62 9,491 971 50,492 Miss Mary E. Wilson .80 6.39 7,000 4,000,000.00 4,000.00 2,004 741 20,065 Miss Harriet Woodrine .57 2.85 7,000 1,810,747.00 3,196.43 3,721 1,276 2,496 Miss Lucy A. Gresty .45 .35 6,800 4,457,255.00 1,800.00 7,399 2,000 26,400 Mrs. T. C. Younf .26 3.88 6,500 4,140,000.00 2,070.00 3,400 575 18,459 Mrs. E. W. Doran...... 31 2.83 Altus 6.500 2.300,000.00 2,000.00 3,501 679 20,728 Mrs. M. B. Lloyd .30 3.18 6,000 2,590,395.00 200.00 2,700 Mrs. A. H. Stephens. 5,000-3,000 5,026 1,563.10 1,707 685 13,283 Mrs. Alice Lawrence .31 2.64 5,000 XoooToooVoo 1,500.00 4,624 1,200 16,576 Mrs. Pearle B. Voyles .30 3.11 5,000 2,827,824.00 2.600.00 5,467 2,087 9,444 Mrs. Emilie LeBus .52 1.29 5,000 2,376.80 5,587 257 12,703 Mrs. Birdie Robinson .47 2.55 5,000 515.00 262 11,000 Mrs. G. M. Lisk.. .10 2.2 5,000 1,878,976.00 1,000.00 2,134 536 10,315 Mrs. Mary T. Bryan .20 2.00 5,000 1,987,820.00 3,574.87 4,571 704 26,820 Miss Perdita J. Alvord. .71 5.36 Woodward.... 5.000 2.500,000.00 2.649.75 8,193 1.009 29,954 Miss Metta K. Woodward .53 5.99 SURVEY OF LIBRARIES OF OKLAHOMA—1924-25—Continued SERVICE REPORT ($1.00 per capita is estimated as a fair appropriation for efficient library service, and 6 books per capita as a proper average for circulation.)
CITY Tax Vols, Appro. Circ Popula- Evaluation Income Vols. added Cirction Librarian per per 1924-25 capita capita Claremore 4,500 2,033,239.00 3,021.00 3,006 677 14,456 Mrs. Jennie Hopkins .67 3.21 Wagoner. 4,000 2,102,000.00 3,800.00 6,988 490 21,876 Miss Leona Bateman .95 5.47 Anadarko 3,500 2,450,000.00 1,500.00 3,534 533 13,896 .42 3.97 Collinsville.. 3,500 1,150,891.00 750.00 2,140 60 4,994 Mrs. Lucy C. Pleas. .20 1.42 Sayre 3,500 1,400,000.00 1,514.34 2,059 585 12,697 Mrs. W. B. Rook .43 3.62 Yale 3,200 1,383,737.00 2,515.88 2,971 222 11,843 .78 3.7 3,000-1,000 Walters 3,000 480.00 1,160 150 8,500 .15 2.49 00 3,000 1,200.00 2,800 208 Miss Essa Gladney .40 00 C ordell 3,000 1,000,000.00 1,000.00 3,919 20 10,489 .33 3.49 Madill 3,000 1,864,613.00 238.11 1,439 160 6,000 .08 2. Hobart 2,938 2,000,000.00 2,400.00 7,000 448 19,857 Mrs. W. A. Phelps. . .81 6.7 2,850 1,180,887.00 1,150.00 3,182 221 16,774 Mrs. Anna L. Willson .40 5.9 Elk City 2,814 1,937,871.00 2,615.50 5,626 487 25,624 .92 9.1 Cherokee. 2,200 1,342,885.00 646.00 2,125 150 14,485 .33 6.58 Fairview 2,000 825,105.00 1,200.00 2,706 276 7,825 Miss Ula Frost.... .60 3.41
Colored Branches
Oklahoma City (Dunbar) Not report Lillian E. Youngblood. Tulsa . . Not report Lueada Meadows Muskogee Col. Public. 1,216.63 Ethel M. Tucker.. (Not a branch) Okmulgee (Dunbar) 1,877 3,250 Maud Carter. Sapulpa. 473 N. C. Day Enid (H. S.) ___' Not re ported sepa rately—L 837 |Hattie Smith...... Guthrie 5,908 I 1,290 2,008 lElmira Johnson. FREE AND CLUB LIBRARIES—1824-25 Reported
PLACE Library Popula Quarters Vols. Circ. Librarian tion Arapaho. Fernald 500 Building 2,000 1,500 Miss C. E. Fisher Atoka Pioneer Club Bldg.. 5,000 Mrs. A. Telle. *Erick Community 2,086 Building 710 Mrs. C. J. Schmelzer *Fairfax_. Public. , 2,500 City Hall.... 690 .3,000 Mrs. E. N. Lipe *Garber.. Public 2,000 City Hall- 250 2,600 Mrs. M. K. Taft Mollis iPublic. City Hall- *Hominy. City- 5,000 Rented Room «20 2,000 Miss Helen Kitchel Hocker.. Free 1,400 Building 760 Mrs. E. A. Metcalf *Hugo.. Public. 6,978 Building 1,220 4,759 Mrs. A. B. C. Din- widdie Hunter Welfare Lg.... 410 Donated 400 Mrs. Alda Wilson Jennings... H. S. & Pub. High School 3,798 Miss Dorothy Peek Kaw City.. Research Clb. Room... 498 4UU Mrs. R. M. Wilson *Madill..... Club Court Hluse . 1,529 6,000 Olustee New State Room 981 Miss P. uline Blair Picher Public. 1,2UU Room 750 Mrs. Edna L. Hus- ted Roff Club 1,200 Building 1,000 180 Club Members Watonga.. Free Court House. Mrs. J. C. Boyce •Waurika Public 3,500 Building 3,000 Mrs. Ora Taylor Yukon Free 1,500 Building 1,000 'l,bjl Mrs. Nora Belisle
No Report For 1925. Ada—Fortnightly Club Library. Antlers—Club Library. Arnett—Club Library. Beaver—Club Library. Broken Arrow—Public Library. Broken Bow—Delphian Club Library. Caddo Club Library. Covington—Free Library. Grandfield—Delphian Club Library. Haskell—Delphian Club Library. Hinton—Free Library. Idabel—Delphia nClub Library. Keota—Club Library. Morris—Club Library. Prue—Free Library- Quay—Review Club Library. Shattuck—Club Library. Skiatook—Research Club Library. Stigler—Delphian Club Library. Supply—Bntre Nous Club Library. Wewoka—Public Library. Wilburton—Civic Club Library. Checotah—Delphian Club Library. Guymon—Public Library.
—39— REPORT OF STATE SCHOOL LIBRARIES 1924-25
PLACE SCHOOL Quarters Enrol ment Vols. Circula Expendi- LIBRARIAN tion diture Ada Admin. Bldg. 1,500 12,765 90,197 E. C. Wilson. Alva Science Hall 900 9,461 $2,069.88 W M Ranck Chickasha Admin. Bldg... 663 6,000 5,313.34 Admin. Bldg... 154 1,654 1,250 500.00 J.J Hill Durant..... Admin. Bldg. _ 7,300 35,000 5,815.00 Paul B. Cullen Edmond Central State Teachers College Library Bldg. 2,960 16,553 8,837.55 Miss Ruby Canton Goodwell Panhandle School of Agriculture Room 315 2,500 Mrs. Lester A. Dumond Langston Colored A. & M. College O Lawton I I Miami School of Mines 1 1 ' Muskogee School for the Blind Norman Library Bldg. 5,000 67,000 260,00 41,800.00 Norman Geol. Bldg. 1,560 Ref. only Norman Oklahoma City- Univ. Hosp. School of Medicine. _ Main Floor 73 2,006 Ref. only 2,000.00 Sec'y- to Dean Oklahoma City... .. Univ. Hosp. Training School for Nurses Stillwater Oklahoma A. & M. College Library Bldg. 4,064 34,739 44,365 11,766.76 Mrs. Elsie D. Hand Sulphur Study Hall Tahlequah.... Admin. Bldg. .. 2,104 4,767 3,124.12 Miss Dorothy K. Cleaveland Tishomingo— Admin. Bldg... 303 1,623 1,758.00 Tonkawa Novel Hall 410 2,000 500.00 Miss Freda Ditto Warner Weatherf or d Admin. Bldg... 1,640 8,000 3,380.00 Wilburton School of Mines and Metallurgy Metal. Bldg .57 2.000 43.00 Teacher REPORT OF STATE INSTITUTIONAL LIBRARIES 1924-25 No. of Place Expenditures Superintendent Librarian Institution Inmates Vols.
Ardmore Confederate Soldiers Home 110 No records J. T. Story J. J. B. McCullar Enid Institute for Feeble Minded No library C. D. Louthan Granite State Reformatory Dr. G. A. Walters Helena West Oklahoma Home for White Children W. A. Villines McAlester State Penitentiary Col. W. S. Key . McAlester Training School for Boys (Colored) No library J. H. Lilley Norman Central Oklahoma Hospital for Insane Dr. D. W. Griffin Oklahoma City Union Soldiers Home 100 540 Chris Madsen Employee Pauls Valley State Training School for Boys 350 John W. Scott Teacher Pryor Whitaker State Orphan Home 224 500 Earl Witt Sulphur State School for the Deaf J. W. Blattner Supply Western Oklahoma Hospital for Insane No library E. L. Bagby Taft Home for Deaf, Blind and Orphan (Colored) 234 No library J. R. Johnson Teacher Tecumseh State Industrial School for Girls 131 1,246 $110.00 Mrs. M. B. Conklin Vinita East Oklahoma Hospital for Insane 1,218 125.00 Dr. F. M. Adams REPORT OF DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOL LIBRARIES - Place School Enrollment Vols. Circulation Expenditures Librarian
Bacone Bacone College 325 1,350 No records $ 784.50 Miss Mary E. Mohler Bethany Bethany-Peniel College Cordell Christian College Durant Presbyterian College for Girls 200 2,200 2,240 330.00 Mrs. Mattie B. Merrymar Enid Phillips University 1,285 11,393 No records 5,569.00 Miss Alice See Guthrie Catholic College for Women 65 10,332 3.745 283.00 Sister Mary Ignatia Oklahoma City Oklahoma City University 629 No records 2,153.45 Miss Lelah Price Shawnee Baptist University 565 No records 2,110.00 Mrs. W. D. Mooser Shawnee St. Gregory's College 80 1,500 1,000 160.00 Rev. Clement Dupont Smithville Fulsom Training School 135 1,000 No records 100.00 Mrs. Linda Lane Fowler Tulsa University of Tulsa FINANCIAL REPORT OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES—1924-25
RECEIPTS EXPENDITURES SALARIES 1 Library Year Cost of CITY Quarters Estab. Building From Building I From Other Books Periodi Binding Grounds Heat and Miscellan Library Janitor Tax Levy Sources cals Repairs Light eous Staff City Auditor ... 1921 $561.82 $45.00 $48.00 $30.79 $780.00 $540.00 City Hall. 500.00 15.00 261.00 6.00 40.00 208.00 City Hall 1907 1,500.00 566.70 66.35 112.75 94.45 59.75 600.00 1905 15,000.00 8,000.00 309.00 31.19 2.17 277.971 299.04 171.59 2,686.80 240.00 1913 12,500.00 10,000.00 522.76 200.00 3,600.00 1921 214.19 1,212.44 166.40 117.70 225.16 188.13 1,348.75 6.00 Building. 1912 4,500.66 1,838.13 126.75 257.90' 290.71 127.92 1,680.00 360.00 Rented Room 1912 100.00 26.00 40.00 480.00 Carnegie 1904 10,000.00 4,975.00 947.00 145.00 72.00 *1,071.25 344.00 . 159.00 1,800.00 360.00 City Hall 1914 3,021.00 1,504.62 18.50 104.30 286.93 1,106.75 City Hall 1921 3,400.00 174.87 1,056.76 75.00 80.95 26.75 544.87 115.77 1,268.00 30.00 C ollinsville Carnegie 1917 8,000.00 750.00 50.00 6.00 40.80 10.00 240.00 120.00 Cordell Carnegie 1911 9,400.00 1,000.00 224.18 58.15 54.30 20.45 480.00 20.00 Cushing City Hall ..... 1921 2,070.00 1,208.69 40.10 252.81 111.32 1,161.21 20.00 Drumright H. S. Room 1921 i 965.00 110.00 35.00 1,890.00 City Hall ' 1920 2,550.00 1,027.70 118.20 100.00 191.78 900.00 Elk City 1915 10,000.00 2,400.00 1 215.50 953.90 78.05 15.00 215.75 207.01 170.04 700.00 275.75 El Reno 1902 12,500.00 6,07000. 315.36 947.55 177.71 280.00 1,325.95 278.27 249.84 2,520.00 300 00 Enid. Carnegie 1910 25,000.00 6,745.00 1,270.67 209.80 211.66 514.85 414.85 832.72 2,235.00 360.00 Enid (Col.)... Room 1924 i Not repo rted sepa Fairview City Hall.... 1908 1,200.00 130.00 30.00 150.00 720.00 Frederick. Carnegie 1915 10,000.00 2,271.55 1 105.25 550.00 85.00 300.00 1,093.75 300.00 G uthrie Carnegie 1900 35,000.00 3,100.00 141.27 350.00 100.00 350.00 521.27 1,440.00 480.00 Guthrie (Col.)...... Building— 1,264.00 200.00 168.52 80.00 324.00 660.00 1920 5,095.00 4,973.00 j 256.62 300.93 138.95 208.95 1,225.62 121.21 554.48 2,497.50 102 23 1912 9,000.00 2,400.00 149.36 69.30 334.73 157.01 74.45 780.00 107 50 1905 20,000.00 4,825.00 I 1,600.00 125.00 75.00 325.00 600.00 1,680.00 600.00 M cAIester Carnegie 1914 25,000.00 4,358.58 800.00 500.00 435.00 223.58 2,100.00 300.00 Madill 200.00 38.11 173.00 29.00 25.00 1922 1,000.00 400.00 600.00 Miami Carnegie 1920 10,000.00 1,800.00 816.00 70.00 | 10.00 200.00 100.00 80.00 600.00 120.00 Carnegie 1908 60,000.00 16,210.79 1 1,138.28 3,664.60 372.12 1,103.23 884.34 2,220.17 8,232.45 1,020.00 Muskogee (Col.) Building _ 1914 1,200.00 17.55 336.91 222.50 72.22 540.00 45.00 Newkirk City Hall. 1920 1,150.00 1 314.81 3.00 100.39 480.00 Oklahoma City.— 1901 64,800.00 43,830.00 8,000.00 700.00 1,500.00 *6,600.00 2,050.00 3,250.00 23,800.00 1,200.00 Okla. City (Col.) Building rented 1921 Not report ed separa tely 1,500.00 Okmulgee _ Building 1923 75,000.66 1,500.00 3.00 | 500.00 700.00 1,300.00 3,900.00 600.00 Okmulgee (Col.) Building Not report ed separa tely 720.00 Pauls Valley City Hall. 1925 1 200.00 30.65 60.00 Pawhuska City Hall 1921 1 2,500.00 II 159.06 1 .885.95 161.25 1 123.841 *10,000.00 i 1 I62.f2 870.00 FINANCIAL REPORT OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES—1924-25—Continued
RECEIPTS I EXPENDITURES SALARIES Library Year Cost of CITY Quarters Estab. Building From From Building Tax Levy Other Books Periodi Binding Grounds Heat and Miscellan Library Janitor Sources cals Repairs Light eous Staff Carnegie 1909 10,000.00 633.42 250.00 75.00 50.00 529.07 450.00 92.50 1,180.00 85.00 1910 7,200.00 7,674.58 2,986.86 164.30 584.65 860.84 340.00 645.86 2,100.00 225.00 Sand Springs. Hall 1920 3,300.00 1,676.01 50.25 329.19 320.71 141.44 731.75 Sapulpa 1917 30,000.00 7,800.00 1,669.16 243.07 177.59 581.14 256.64 3,720.00 «• 600.00 1923 Not report ed separa telv 200.00 1919 1,400.00 114.34 785.15 16.35 84.75 513.75 1902 15,500.00 9,615.05 738.99 3,382.58 368.60 1,761.87 482.04 560.61 3,030.00 480 00 1921 4,000.00 530.00 13.75 *3,500.00 40.00 175.00 575.00 12.00 1905 10,000.00 1,200.00 200.00 80.00 200.00 600.00 120.00 Room 1921 3,127.64 68.79 1,439.12 113.20 51.00 148.09 250.00 1913 55,000.00 51,200.00 12,800.00 2,445.00 2,570.00 1,900.00 5,025.00 25,320.00 1,140.00 Tulsa (Col.) Bldg. rented 1924 Not report ed separa tely Vinita City Auditor 1923 1,500.00 150.00 50.00 97.11 47.36 | 75.00 108.50 Carnegie 1912 10,000.00 3,800.00 479.03 55.14 448.87 1,200.00 590.00 Walters Room.. 1922 480.00 1.00 25.00 25.00 City Hall 1921 1,500.00 63.10 358.91 32.06 3.00 146.25 4.00 83.85 | 605.00 Woodward...... Carnegie 1917 10,000.00 2,502.00 147.75 810.89 60.20 14.65 17.45 231.39 990.00 Yale Building rented 1920 2,515.88 313.27 25.15 54.43 31.80 7.45 75.19 1 1,500.00
*Chickasha—$600.00—addition to building. *Pawhuska—$10,000.00—site for building. *Oklahoma City—$6,000.00—new branch building. *Stillwater— $3,500.00— site for building. Library Entrance, East Central State Teachers' College, Ada SECTION II. Commission "Import for year
JULY iit, 1925 to JUNE 3oth, 1926
—45— LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
To His Excellency, Hon. M. E. Trapp, Governor of Oklahoma: The Oklahoma Library Commission has the honor to submit its seventh annual report, covering the fiscal year, July 1, 1925 to June 30, 1926. Respectfully submitted, M. A. NASH, President.
—46- OKLAHOMA LIBRARY COMMISSION
M. A. NASH, President, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. R. T. BLACKBURN, Ada. MRS. TOM C. WALDREP, Shawnee. JESSE LEE RADER, Norman. MRS. RAYMOND TOLBERT, Oklahoma City.
MRS. J. R. DALE, Secretary.
MRS. J. R. JACKSON, Traveling Library Director. MISS MARGURETTE McGUIRE, Reference Librarian. MISS ELSIE D. SULLENS, Cataloguer. MRS. J. R, TURNBULL, Stenographer.
Office: Room 331 State Capitol Oklahoma City
—47— OKLAHOMA LIBRARY COMMISSION State of Oklahoma
Since this report has given space to a history of library development in Oklahoma covering a period from 1900 to 1926, and since the preceding report covers the activities of the Commission for 1924-25 in detail, the report of activ ities for 1925-26 will be brief. The last year has been one of continued growth and achievement with a marked increase in traveling library circulation, made possible by an increased book supply and the added services of a part-time packer and shipper. At the request of the American Library Association, the Commission prepared an exhibit for the library section at the Sesqui-centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. The Oklahoma Library Commission was chosen because it had made the greatest advancement in traveling library ser vice. The Commission received another honor when its secretary, Mrs. J. R. Dale, was elected president of the Southwestern Library Association at its biennial meeting held in Tulsa in April.
-48— OKLAHOMA LIBRARY SURVEY
In compiling statistics, following the annual library survey, financial as well as service figures have been used as in last year's report. While no library receives the "$1.00 per capita" appropriation recommended as a fair appropriation for efficient library service, several libraries almost reach the average set for circulation—six books per capita.
CERTIFICATION OF LIBRARIANS Acting under the new library certification law, the Commission passed favorably on 56 applications for certifi cates this year, as follows:
First Grade 19 Third Grade 7 Second Grade 8 Library Worker 12 Teacher-Librarian 9 One-year (temporary) 1
CATALOGUING Books held in reserve for state-wide reference use can not give maximum service until they are catalogued. Near ly 1,500 volumes were catalogued by the assistant secretary during her spare hours, but this work cannot be completed without the services of a regular cataloguer.
SIXTH SESSION OF THE SUMMER LIBRARY SCHOOL University of Oklahoma During the summer, 48 students completed the course in library science at the University of Oklahoma. Instruc tors were Miss Grace E. Herrick, Miss Mary S. Buffum, and Miss Thelma Gustavel.
—49— LIBRARY CLASS OF 1926
Baker, Delana Elbertson Klugh, Ruth Brown, H. T. La Grange, Lois Brown, Mildred Lee, Edna W. Camuse, Cleo Maples, Billie David Christmas, Faye Martin, Gerald B. Clark, Mrs. Mayme B. Milam, Agnes Maud Coffman, Mary Mitchell, Flora Belle Culwell, Mrs. Joe L. Moreman, Freda* Da Lee, Clara Moseley, Mrs. Sophie 0. Dearden, Frank Henry Moyer, Miriam Donart, Helen Page, Mildred (Mrs. E. R.) Echols, Frances K. Russell, H. Hollis Fenner, Dolores Saunders, Mary Anna Foreman, Ruth Shultz, Marie Gable, Walter Myers Smith, Georgia May Gaspar, Marguerite Snyder, Olivette Gayle, De Witt Oscar Spencer, Lily May Gorton, Wilma Swim, Frances Reba Gould Trask, Georgiana Hansen, Donald L. Voorhies, Margaret Hardwick, Jeanette Webber, Beulah Hiltner, Marcella Weddel, Thelma Hoffman, Violet Fay Whaley, Hazel Louise Judson, Hazel Williams, Lena D. "Withdrew the first week on account of illness.
—50— LIBRARY CONFERENCES
Southwestern Library Association, Tulsa. Library activities for the year reached a climax when Oklahoma was honored with the Third Biennial Meeting of the Southwestern Library Association held at Tulsa from April 28 to April 30. Following registration and opening preliminaries of the first morning, J. T. Jennings, librarian of the Seattle Public Library, spoke on "Adult Education and the Library." A short business meeting concluded the program. "Library Extension Throughout the Southwest," the subject for round-table discussion in the afternoon, was led by Mrs. Lois White Henderson of Louisiana, Mrs. J. R. Dale of the Oklahoma Library Commission, Mrs. N. F. Dixon of the Albuquerque, New Mexico public library, and Miss Len- ore Dimmitt, director of library extension at the Univer sity of Texas, Austin. A message from the President of the Association, Miss Wilma Loy Shelton, librarian of the University of New Mexico, "Where Are We Going?" by Miss Sarah C. N. Bogle, ended the program for the day. Oklahoma Library Association. Three hours of the following morning were given over to meetings of the state associations. Oklahoma elected the following officers: Mrs. Elsie D. Hand, Stillwater, Presi dent; Miss Ruby Canton, Edmond, First Vice-President; Mrs. V. E. Koehler, Ponca City, Second Vice-President; Miss Bess Stewart, Oklahoma City, Treasurer; Mrs. Cora Case Porter, Muskogee, Secretary. The state meeting for 1927 will be held in Oklahoma City. Papers on the litera ture of their respective states by Miss Julia Vaulx, librar ian of the University of Arkansas, and Mrs. W. J. Marable, of Oklahoma City added interest to the morning program. The program for the afternoon and evening was as follows: "Book-buying for Southwestern Libraries"—Ernest W. Winkler, Librarian, University of Texas. "Reading and Library Service for All the People"—Dr, P. P. Claxton, Superintendent of Schools, Tulsa. —51— "The Relation of Oil to Modern Civilization"—Dr. Charles N. Gould, Director of the Oklahoma Geological Sur vey, Norman. "The Literature of Oil and Gas"—Miss Lundell, tech nological librarian, Tulsa. Milton J. Ferguson, librarian of the California State Library, opened the program for the last day with a dis cussion of library extension, work in which California has been outstanding. Addresses on library advertising by Richard Lloyd Jones of the Tulsa Tribune, and "The Li brarian as a Psychologist," by Dr. John Morris Evans of Tulsa, followed. Following the library school luncheons, delegates were called to order for a final business meeting when officers were elected. Midwinter Conference of the 0. L. A. at 0. E. A., Oklahoma City. Forty librarians attended the meeting of the Librar ian's Section of the Oklahoma Educational Association held in Oklahoma City in February and an interesting program was carried out in full. Miss Ruby Canton, librarian of the Central State Teachers College, Edmond, Mrs. Elsie D. Hand, librarian of A. and M. College, Stillwater, and Mrs. J. R. Dale were appointed to confer with Miss Alma Reid McGlenn of Tulsa about the meeting of the Southwestern Librarian Association to be held in Tulsa. Mr. D. C. Wilson, president of the Oklahoma Library Association, opened the meeting. In her talk on "High School Libraries," Miss Velda Bamesberger, Director of Curriculum of the Oklahoma City Schools, stressed the splendid co-operation between the school board and the library board in maintaining and supervising the public library branches which are housed in high school buildings. M. A. Nash, State Superintendent of Public Instruc tion, speaking on "Certification of Librarians," explained the new law providing for library certification and compli mented Oklahoma librarians on their contribution to edu cation in the state. Following the business session, Miss McGlenn of Tulsa presented a tentative program for the biennial meeting of the Southwestern Library Association in Tulsa in April. Miss Margaret Walters from the A. and M. College library, Stillwater, told of her county library experience in Cali fornia and possibilities of county libraries in Oklahoma as soon as a county library law is passed.
—52— Jesse L. Rader, librarian of the University of Okla homa, spoke on "Summer Library Schools," and the pro gram concluded with delightful reminiscences when Miss Canton told of "Unusual Libraries at Home and Abroad," and Mrs. J. R. Dale of "Some Alaskan Libraries and Liter ary Centers." Through the courtesy of Mrs. Mabel Peacock and the Oklahoma City Library Board, transportation was provid ed for the inspection of the branches of the Oklahoma City public library. A. L. A. Conference, Chicago. The Commission was represented at the Midwinter Conference of the American Library Association at Chi cago by Mrs. J. R. Dale, Secretary.
—53— INDIVIDUAL LOAN AND REFERENCE DEPARTMENT
Requests Volumes sent Clubs 191 419 Individual loans 2,085 4,323 Capitol 2,307 2,954 Revised Braille 234 674 Total 4,817 8,370 Such late books as "The Peasants" by Reymont have have been added to the Revised Braille collection. The ref erence department also circulates two monthly magazines in Revised Braille, '"Our Own" and "Interallied Braille." The latter is published in Paris. An order has been placed for music, which will be ready for circulation in the late fall.
Reading Courses. The Government Reading Courses show an enrollment of 34 for the past two years. Since October 1925, seven certificates have been awarded. The Commission can furnish outlines and books for the following American Library Association (Read for a purpose) courses: Psychology and Its Uses Our Children Ten Pivotal Characters in History Religion in Everyday Life Sociology and Social Problems Conflicts in American Public Opinion Biology Frontiers of Knowledge Poetry of Our Own Times Some Great American Books English Literature Ears to Hear (Music) Life of Christ American Education
—54— Traveling Libraries Ready for Shipment TRAVELING LIBRARY REPORT
Growth of Traveling Library Service Libraries sent Books circulated 1921-22 500 14,500 1922-23 656 20,004 1923-24 766 29,468 1924-25 1,129 47,260 1925-26 1,563 58,552 Five-year total 4,614 1,69,784 Within the past five years, traveling library service to rural communities has tripled. In 1921-22, approximately 500 libraries were circulated; in 1925-26, the number reach ed 1,563. The number of books in circulation increased from 14,500 in 1921-22 to 58,552 in 1925-26 The demand for books is incessant. By providing books for book hun gry sections of the state—small towns and rural communi ties—the Commission is meeting a real educational need.
TRAVELING LIBRARY STATISTICS 1925-26 Libraries circulated 1,563 Volumes 58,552 Circulation (estimated) 175,000 Counties served 76
—56— SURVEY OF TRAVELING LIBRARY STATIONS BY COUNTIES 1925-26 Number County Traveling Kind of Organization Number of Libraries Volumes
Alfalfa 14 Community service 7 Home 1 School 6 829 Atoka 23 Community service 7 Club 5 School 9 Boy Scouts 2 507
Beaver 15 Club 4 Community service 5 School 5 1,054
Beckham 49 School 28 Study Clubs 7 Community reading 12 Home study 2 1,807
Blaine 14 School 8 Community service 4 Farmer's Grange 1 Home reading 1 740
Bryan 16 Study Club 2 School 12 Community service 2 1,057
Caddo 18 Community service 10 School 6 Home reading 2 783
Canadian 46 School 16 Library 4 Community service 20 Home 3 Study Club 3 1,607 Carter 38 School 18 Community service 12 Club 4 Boy Scouts 2 1,410 54 Cherokee 2 School 2 Community service 5 379 Choctaw 11 School 6 Cimarron 3 School 3 253 Cleveland 18 Club 5 School 9 Community service 4 525 5 Coal 24 Study Club Community service 10 Home reading 5 School 4 827 —57— Number County Traveling Kind of Organization Number Of Libraries Volumes
Comanche 11 School 9 . Community 2 756 Cotton 12 Club 3 Community service 7 School 2 675 Craig 2 School 2 70 Creek 16 Community service 9 School 5 Study Club 2 675 Custer 27 Community service 10 School 9 Library 3 Home reading 3 Girl's Club 2 987 Delaware 24 Community service 8 School 12 Home reading 4 690 Dewey 13 School 8 Community reading 5 479 Ellis 13 • Community service 6 School 5 Sunday School 2 361 Garfield 7 School 7 265
Garvin 38 Home Demonstratior L Club 2 Community service 12 School 16 Study Club 3 Library 1 Home reading 4 2,197 Grady IT Community service 8 School 6 Study Club 3 1,032 Grant 27 School 14 Community service 10 Club 3 806 Greer 22 Community service 8 School 8 Home reading 6 1,165 Harmon 15 Farmer's Union 1 School 8 Community service 6 526 Harper 4 School 4 219 Haskell 12 Community service 6 School 5 Study Club 1 574 —58— Number County Traveling Kind of Organization Number of Libraries Volumes
Hughes 25 Community service 11 School 9 Girls' Camp 1 Boy Scouts 1 Home reading 3 802 Jackson 26 Community service 11 School 9 \ Farm Women Club 2 Home reading A 952 Jefferson 8 School 5 Community reading 3 291 Johnston 7 School 5 Community reading 2 292 Kay 60 Community service 31 School 20 Clubs 7 Home 2 1,904 Kingfisher 19 Boy Scouts 4 School 10 Community service 5 567 Kiowa 34 Community service 17 School 10 Summer Camp 2 Home reading 5 1,262 Latimer 10 School 4 Clubs 5 Library 1 204 LeFlore 19 Home reading 3 School 10 Community service 6 525 Lincoln 38 Community service 19 School 10 Home reading 4 Club 3 Boy Scouts 2 1,224 Logan 6 School 4 Community reading : 2 497 Love 11 Community service 4 Home reading 5 Club 2 388 McClain 38 Community service 17 School 13 Home reading 5 Club 3 1,245 McCurtain 26 Community reading 9 Home reading 7 School 10 1,055 Mcintosh School 5 Home reading 2 263 —59- Number County Traveling Kind of Organization Number of Libraries Volumes
Major 17 Community service 8 School 6 Academy 3 597 Marshall 4 Library 2 School 2 76 Mayes 18 Orphanage 2 School 9 Community service 7 596 Murray 24 Community service 7 School 9 Camp Fire Girls 3 Boy Scouts 2 Club 3 778 Muskogee 12 Exhibit 1 Community service 8 School 3 323 Noble 12 School 11 Club 1 304 Nowata 10 School 4 Community service 6 340 Okfuskee 9 Community service 3 Club 2 School 4 366 Oklahoma 113 Home reading 22 School 47 Community service 20 Club 11 Exhibit 4 Library 7 Camp 2 3,601 Okmulgee 21 Community service 6 School 10 Club 5 656 Osage 29 Community service 11 School 10 Library 1 Home reading 5 Club 2 1,470 Ottawa 16 Community service 9 School 7 558 Pawnee 50 School 23 Home reading 10 Community service 11 Farmer's Union 1 Club Payne 43 Community service 13 School 11 Home reading 17 Club 2 967 —60— Number County Traveling Kind of Organization Number of Libraries Volumes
Pittsburg 20 School 13 Home reading 2 Community service 5 891 Pontotoc 14 Community service 8 School 6 541 Pottawatomie 36 School 15 Communit/ service 10 Home reading 8 Study CluClubb 3 1,438 Pusiimataha 6 School 4 Home reading 2 172 Roger Mills 15 Community service 9 School ;. 4 Girl's Club 2 700 Rogers 11 School 9 Community reading 2 251 Seminole 26 Community service 11 School 12 Union 2 Club 1 1,250 Sequcyah 14 School 8 Community service 6 859 Stephens 31 Community service 15 School 14 Club 2 1,310 Texas 14 Community service 6 School 7 Club 1 875 Tillman 16 School 8 Community service 8 782 Tulsa 18 Home reading 3 School 7 Community service 8 830 Wagoner 14 School 8 Home reading 5 Club 1 384 Washington 12 Community service 7 School 5 535 Wasbita 29 Community service 10 Home reading 8 School 11 1,073 Woods 13 School 7 ... Community 5 Club 1 525 Woodward 11 Library ..IP.. '. School 5 • Home reading 5 273 -61- A NOVEL BRANCH LIBRARY SYSTEM
The eight branches of the Oklahoma City public li brary are operating under a system unique in that it in volves co-operation between two organizations, the Library Board and the Board of Education. Other cities have adopted the plan of school branches, but have placed them under the Board of Education. In Oklahoma City, all library activities are under the supervision of one head, the Library Board. The Board of Education furnishes the space, books for school use, equipment, janitor service, heat and light, and the public library buys the books for public use, suppled ments the collection by loans from its own shelves, and pays the salary of a trained librarian, who is a member of the library staff. Six of the eight branches are located in school build ings. Five of these six are kept open full time and are making every effort to serve the entire neighborhood as well as the schools, the sixth is a vocational library for stu dent use only but is under public library supervision. The two branches not in schools are the colored branch which has just been moved from rented quarters into a new build ing of its own and the John H. Wright branch in the Pack- ingtown district which was opened September 1925, when the branches in Roosevelt junior high school and Harding junior high school were also opened. All of the other branches have been enlarged during the year. Each branch in the system has its own permanent col lection, its own catalogue and shelf list, though all order ing, accessioning and cataloging are done at the Central library. Books not in the branch collections may be bor rowed from the Central library to be delivered by truck once a week or oftener. In case of books needed immedi ately by patrons, the requests are telephoned to the main librarv and a page or messenger boy delivers them at once. The reference collections at the branches are particu larly complete, including all standard reference books for small libraries, magazines and periodical guides. To solve the question of adult fiction, a rental collec tion has been placed in the busiest branches and will event ually be a part of all eight to supplement the standard fic-
—62— Carnegie Library and Branches, Oklahoma City Two branches, Roosevelt and Irving, are not shown tion on the branch shelves and the few late popular books which can be1 spared from the main library. At the Clas sen branch, the rental collection averages from 200 to 300 volumes. Once a year an inventory is taken of these, and books which have paid for themselves are transferred to the free collection. The new branch, named for Mr. John H. Wright, pres ident of the Oklahoma City Library Board, is a brick build ing carefully planned for library convenience and for ex pansion in the future. The packing plants donated the site and the city erected the building at the phenominally low cost of $5,000. It is beautifully finished inside and boasts of all standard library equipment. Every locality of the city has now been covered by branch service within a radius of from twenty to thirty blocks. All of the eight branches have been established since 1921. It is expected by the librarian, Mrs. Mabel Pea cock, who has been the active agent in this expansion, that the Central library will become, in time, hardly more than a business branch for the administration of the other branches and to serve the commercial district which is^fast hemming it in. The next need however is for a branch supervisor. In addition to establishing branches, the library has also taken the lead in Oklahoma by establishing hospital service at the University hospital, expecting to extend it soon to the other hospitals of the city. A collection of 500 volumes is kept at the hospital, and a trained librarian visits every ward three times a week. This work requires particular ability and care, since the proper choice of books may be a curative force in the patient's case, as an im proper choice may retard his recovery.
—64- THE STORY OF LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT IN OKLAHOMA
1900-1926 OKLAHOMA LIBRARIES and the OKLAHOMA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Before 1900 may be called the prehistoric period of the history of Oklahoma libraries. From 1900 to 1907 may be designated as the dawn of history; from 1907 to 1919 as the Middle Ages; and the period since 1919 as modern times. In 1900 the first library in the state was built at Guth rie, then the capitol of Oklahoma Territory; in 1907, the Oklahoma Library Association was organized; and in 1919, the Oklahoma Library Commission came into being. Before the beginning of the Oklahoma Library Asso ciation, the history of library development must be largely that of individual libraries, no records having been kept of the general progress. And almost every history might be gin in Biblical fashion thus: "Then the club women of arose and said, 'Let us go forth and build unto ourselves and the people of this city a public library, that our chil dren and our children's children may enjoy a goodly herit age'." For this represents the genesis of almost every li brary—a woman's club. It is not surprising, therefore, that club women had a good deal to do with organizing the Oklahoma Library As sociation, which held its first meeting in Oklahoma City, May 7 of the year Oklahoma became a state. Librarians and club women assembled in Oklahoma City from Okla homa and Indian territories. The club delegates were admitted to the full privileges of membership upon pay ment of a fifty-cent fee. Mrs. John Threadgill, president of the State Federation and many years later librarian at Henryetta, was the first to sign the roster. That roster is of particular interest because it reads somewhat strikingly like a librarian's "Who's Who." The officers were Mr. Milton J. Ferguson, then librarian at the University of Oklahoma and now State Librarian of Cali fornia, president; Mr. L. L. Dirkerson, now of.the Ameri can Library Association staff, first vice-oresident; Mrs. J. W. Brown, second vice-president; Miss Edith Allan Phelps, secretary; Mr^,. J. C. Parker, treasurer. The membership list also included Mr. Carl H. Milam, now secretary of the
—66— American Library Association, and Mr. Jesse L. Rader, present librarian of the University of Oklahoma, both stu dent assistants at the university then; Mrs. Myrtle Jones, for twenty years librarian at Ardmore; and Mrs. J. A. Thompson of Chickasha, later a member of the Oklahoma Library Commission. The public libraries represented at this meeting were Oklahoma City, Chickasha, Guthrie, Shawnee, Norman and Ardmore. Lawton and Tahlequah sent no delegates. These eight were all the public libraries in the two territories. The other librarians present were all from schools, the Southwestern State Normal at Weatherford, the Central State Norman at Edmond, the State University and Ep- worth University. .. The interest of the club women in the association was not only because of their activity in founding libraries, but also because prior to this time, they had conducted all library extension work through their traveling libraries, administered by Mrs. Gillette of Anadarko. One of the ob jects of the federation was to work for free transportation of their books, which were the only library resource of many a small community. This activity naturally inspired the hope of a library commission, which should take over the task of supplying free books to communities without public library service. Therefore, from the beginning the Oklahoma Library Association and the State Federation kept this aim in mind, and as soon as they thought the time auspicious, began active agitation for such a commission. In the meantime, they did not neglect library exten sion, and the results spoke emphatically for the enterprise and civic spirit of Oklahoma towns. There were eight pub lic libraries in 1907, six of them with Carnegie buildings. Between 1907 and 1917 twenty libraries were founded, and fifteen of these obtained Carnegie gifts. Then the Car negie Corporation ceased its gifts to Oklahoma because some of the cities failed to support the libraries according to their pledges. In 1918 no new libraries were reported, and in 1919 only one. The first period of library expan sion had closed. The Oklahoma Library Association and the State Fed eration were, however, carrying on as much of an educa tional campaign as possible, looking towards the establish ment of a library commission. Several times they were upon the eve of success, only to have their hopes frustrated. But in 1919, the Commission bill at last received the ap proval of the legislature, and in September of that year the Commission work began.
—67— Interest in library expansion at once revived. The lethargy due to the war and the cessation of Carnegie gifts was dispersed, and new libraries sprang up everywhere in the state. The Carnegie Corporation granted two more buildings to Oklahoma before discontinuing entirely the giving of libraries, but this did not discourage the estab lishment of new libraries. Nearly twenty cities have lev ied taxes for the purpose since that time, and: a few of them, following the example of Okmulgee, which has the most costly public library building in the state, have erect ed buildings of their own from city funds. Okmulgee has also built a handsome colored branch, and Oklahoma City and Tulsa have followed suit. There are now within one as many negro branches as there were public libraries at the date of the first library association meeting in Okla homa. There are also now more free club-supported li braries within the state than there were both public and free at the beginning of 1920. The modern period of Oklahoma library history began with the Commission, one of whose functions it is to col lect yearly data concerning all libraries in the state. The purpose is to record library progress and to give libraries in different cities an opportunity of comparing methods and figures, thus keeping up library standards and giving librarians and library trustees new ideals for service to the reading public of Oklahoma.
—68— THE STORY OF THE COMMISSION
The culmination of the hopes and work of the Okla homa Library Association and the federated clubs of the state came in 1919, when the legislature passed a bill cre ating the Oklahoma Library Commission. The Commission members were appointed by Gover nor J. B. A. Robertson, and on July 9, the Board held its first meeting. Members at that time were State Superin tendent R. H. Wilson, president of the Commission, Rev. R. T. Blackburn of Ada, Mrs. J. N. Schwoerke of Oklahoma City, Mrs. Tom C. Waldrep of Shawnee, and Mrs. J. A. Thompson of Chickasha. The only changes since that date were when Mrs. Raymond Tolbert of Oklahoma City suc ceeded Mrs. Schwoerke, and Prof. J. L. Rader of Norman succeeded Mrs. Thompson. In 1923, Mr. M. A. Nash be came State Superintendent and was elected President of the Board to succeed Mr. Wilson. The first business of the Board was to hire a secre tary, and in September, Mrs. J. R. Dale of Hobart was ap pointed to this office. The commission at once settled into its quarters on the third floor of the library wing of the State Capitol and began its work. The aims and plans of the Commission had been brief ly outlined by the Board as follows: Collect statistics of present Oklahoma libraries. Give courses in library organization and book selection with summer course in best equipped library. Publication of booklist of recommended titles for school and public librar ies. Correspondence course in literature for children to librarians, teachers and parents. Administer traveling libraries. Circularize all towns without school or public libraries. Supervise organization of new libraries. Sec loan collections of books from publishers or dealers to form model library exhibit. "The function of the Commission," so say the minutes of that body, "is advisory. Its aim is to establish standards of equipment and service that will make each library 100 per cent efficient within its own class." The Work and Its Growth. The bill which created the Oklahoma Library Commis sion invested it with certain powers each of which has —69— served as the seed from which has grown a new department or idea of service. To show how the work has developed along these various lines, we will take a birds-eye view of what has been done under the sanction of each clause. Survey. "The Commission shall have power—" 1. To give advice and establish libraries. The first big task which the Commission set itself was the survey of Oklahoma libraries, the first that had ever been made in the state. Several years were required be fore all the small libraries of the state were reported so that a fair survey of resources could be made. However, the following state of affairs was disclosed. Oklahoma in 1919 had 28 public (i. e. tax-supported) libraries. Twenty-two of these were housed in Carnegie buildings, 15, of which had been built since statehood, and the other six were in city halls or rented rooms. Two state institutions had library buildings—the University of Okla homa a Carnegie building, and the Central State Normal at Edmond a building from the state. The number of free and club libraries was probably about thirty, though this figure is very uncertain. Four libraries had colored branch es, Guthrie, Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Muskogee. The Tulsa branch was closed soon after. There was no library service for rural Oklahoma. The State Federation had given up its libraries some time be fore, and the University of Oklahoma Extension Division had also tried and abandoned this field. The books and boxes in its possession were purchased by the Commission to form the nucleus of its intended traveling collection. But interest in library matters was strong, and the efforts of the Commission to give a new impetus to library development in the state met with gratifying response. Arousing Interest. An important element in arousing enthusiasm was the personal visits which the Secretary at once began to make to all public and institutional libraries and towns seeking to establish them. Conferences with club women at fed eration meetings and numerous discussions of the work at conventions also brought inquiries and led to many towns' asking for traveling libraries as the seed of a community library of their own. The establishment of new libraries and the standard ization of the old ones was the first aim of the Commission. It went to work by calling attention of towns without li-
—70- braries to this lack and to the possibilities of such an insti tution. A pamphlet of Oklahoma library laws was dis tributed, and the law authorizing a two-mill levy for library purposes in cities of the first class was underscored. The civic and study clubs were also canvassed and every assist ance given the chairmen of the district library committees of the State Federation of Women's Clubs. Results. Results were immediate. Towns began to vote the two- mill levy, mayors appointed library boards, and the Com mission received numerous appeals for personal visits to the towns, for advice about organization and recommenda tions of librarians, for lists of selected books and aid in ordering library supplies and equipment. Assistance in cataloguing was also asked for and given wherever possi ble. Articles in educational periodicals also brought simi lar calls from school libraries in town and country. During 1920-21, new public libraries were established at Blackwell, Clinton, Duncan, Henryetta, Miami, Newkirk, Sand Springs and Yale. During 1921-22, Altus, Bristow, Cushing, Drumright, Sayre, Stillwater, Tonkawa and Wilson appropriated the levy and opened libraries. For 1922-24, development was slower, but four new ones were added to the list—Hugo, Mangum, Vinita and Walters. And during 1924-26, libraries were established at Pauls Valley, Pawhuska, Jennings and Durant. New branches were also added, a colored branch each at Enid, Sapulpa and Okmulgee. The Tulsa colored branch was reopened in new quarters, and branch buildings erected at Okmulgee and Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City also built a new branch for white patrons at Packingtown, With com munity branches in four junior high schools, and Tulsa and Muskogee established similar branch systems. Of the 24 new public libraries established since 1919, one has had a Carnegie building, Miami; two have had buildings erected with public funds, and the others are in city halls, high schools or courthouses, or have rented quar ters. Lawton and Okmulgee have had new buildings since 1919, the former a Carnegie gift, the latter the first library building in the state to be built with city funds. The Du rant library, which opened in June, 1926, has a building given to it by ex-Governor R. L. Williams. Free and club libraries have also been encouraged by
—71— the Commission and increase steadily. Each is a potential public library. Institutions. State institutions were not forgotten. There was lit tle need to call attention of the club women of the state to the inadequate libraries in charitable and penal institu tions. They had been making efforts for years to supply the want, but now the Commission, acting as a central agency, assisted them in donating and establishing good foundations for libraries at the Girls' Industrial Home, the State Penitentiary and the State Reformatory. Smaller collections were sent to the state orphanages and the vet erans' homes. Trustees. Ways in which already-established libraries were served by the Commission are so numerous that it is impossible to enumerate them. To get in touch with library trustees has been a particular desire of the Commission, and they have been successfully urged to attend library conventions and to take an active and sympathetic interest in their libraries. Each April the Mayor of every town with a pub lic library is sent two certificate blanks with a reminder that two new members of the board are required to be ap pointed on May 1, and he is asked to send the names of his appointees to the Commission, which mails each of them a copy of the "Trustees' Handbook." Positions. The Library Commission also naturally serves as a clearing house for library positions in the state, helping fill vacancies and bringing applicants and library boards to gether. This has brought a number of trained librarians to the state. Certification. ' To raise library standards further, the Oklahoma Li brary Association endorsed a bill requiring certification of all librarians holding administrative positions in public li braries and high school in cities of the first class. This bill was passed in 1925, and gave the Commission power to de cide the requirements for certificates. Oklahoma is one of the first states to pass such a law, and the standards set will eventually place the state in the front rank of library efficiency. Carnegie Pledges. When the Commission first began to function, it dis covered that after having made gifts of $468,500 in librar-
—72— ies to the state, the Carnegie Corporation had blacklisted Oklahoma and would grant no more money, because 18 per cent of the Carnegie libraries were failing to keep their pledges of maintenance. By co-operation of the mayors and city councils with the Commission, this situation was rapid ly cleared up, and two more libraries were built before the granting of buildings by the Carnegie fund was discontin ued altogether. Money previously used by the Corporation for this purpose has been diverted into library development in general. Part of it was used in carrying out a gigantic survey of all library resources in the United States in 1925. The Commission assisted the American Library Associa tion in making this survey in Oklahoma. Library development, however, owes Andrew Carne gie gratitude for more than the half million he gave it in libraries. Such a gift to an older state with long estab lished culture might mean little, but to a new state it meant a great deal. Without it, and despite the schools, a genera tion might have grown up that knew not books. The larger part of the adult population even now is not book-minded. It does not read—except newspapers and sometimes peri odicals. The habit is one to be formed in youth. Book Week. The importance of "Children's Book Week," which comes the early part of November, has, therefore, always been recognized by the Commission, and every encourage ment given to its observance by Oklahoma libraries. Pos ters and stickers have been sent out, as well as lists for free distribution and suggestions for arousing interest in homes and schools. Libraries each year report many orig inal and successful methods used to celebrate this week and to foster the idea of "More Books in the Home." County Libraries. Traveling libraries, reference service, and all the other book-lending activities of the Commission are aimed at one goal, which is to prepare the way for County Libraries in Oklahoma. Its ultimate hope is to arouse such an interest in books and reading that every rural community in Okla homa will want and demand adequate local library service. To this end all organizations interested in library develop ment in the state are also working, and again and again county library laws have been brought before the legisla ture, only to fail, for one cause or another, of passage. Even in the absence of such a law, however, two ex periments in county library service have been tried and have proved the possibilities of successful operation of a
—73— county library. Garfield County commissioners appropri ated money for this purpose, and chose the Enid Carnegie library as its central agency. Mrs. Cora Case Porter, then librarian at Enid, began the service in 1920. Collections of books were sent to the rural schools, and the small towns of Garber, Hunter and Covington were assisted in starting community libraries. One hundred books were kept at these stations and changed every other month. Pottowa- tomie County has carried out a service to rural schools with the assistance of the Shawnee Carnegie library. The Need. The need for county libraries may be shown by the following significant figures: 42 counties in the state are still without tax-supported libraries. 18 counties have no library collections available to the public. 55 counties have no public collection with as many as 5,000 volumes. Only 11 public libraries have as many as 10,000 vol umes. ,. ^ ^ ^s %; H* "The Commission shall have power—" 2. To receive gifts of money, books or other property which may be used or held in trust. A. L. A. Books. At the beginning of its activities, in 1920, the Okla homa Library Commission was fortunate enough to have its empty shelves filled over night by a gift from the Ameri can Library Association of 8,000 books. These were Okla homa's portion of the books remaining from the libraries maintained in the camps during the World War. The books were especially valuable, being largely technical and sup plying a want which would have been costly to fill. As the Commission library grew, it was decided that the duplicates in the collection should be used in encourag ing the growth of new public libraries in the state. Dur ing 1920, therefore, every new tax-supported library es tablished was offered 200 of these books as a permanent loan. In 1921, the Commission continued this policy, each library being furnished with 100 books. Nine libraries pro fited by this, and others received smaller numbers at a later period. It is to be noted that the first traveling library was also —74— a gift, the money for it being donated by Col. F. P. Holland for a "Farm and Home Library."
• Sp •$ 'fi •?» H» "The Commission shall have power—" 3. To purchase and operate traveling libraries. 5th in Service. Oklahoma, according to a recent statement of the American Library Association, is now the fifth state in the union in point of traveling library service to its people. Demand. In the six years since the first library was sent out from the capitol, the demand for this service has grown as fast as Jack the Giant Killer's bean stalk. The giant at the top is the great, hungry desire for books and more books in rural districts. The 40,000 volumes the Commission has gathered only whet this giant's appetite for more. Publicity. Library publicity in papers and periodicals, exhibits at fairs, and other forms of advertising "Books for Every body in Oklahoma" bring in requests faster than they can be filled. Last year, at one time, the Commission had on file requests for 15,000 more books than were in its total collection. In one year, the circulation of books in these traveling libraries was 145,000, a number almost equal to the entire rural population of the state. So far, the total number of traveling libraries will exceed 4,000 boxes, 1,300 of them sent out during the year 1925-26. No Fixed Collections. The amount of labor and time this required from a too- small staff has been augmented by the Commission's refusal to follow the usual labor-saving plan of having fixed collec tions of books. Every school, community, American Le gion post, or other station, may ask for the kind of books it particularly desires, even for individual titles. The books are chosen to fit as nearly as possible. The general collec tion of traveling library books is also selected with the greatest care. "Only the best is fit for Oklahoma children," is the motto of the Commission in book selection, and the standard of adult fiction is held as high as possible to ap peal to the varied classes of people who must be served. Reference Department. A continuous call for special books not circulated in the traveling libraries, for material on special topics, for aid in student debates, club programs, for recreational read- —75— ing by persons with no access to local libraries, and for in formation on obscure questions—all these demands rapidly increased until in July, 1921, a Reference Department had to be added. Over 25,000 books have been sent out, in packages of from one to five each, and an uncounted num ber of letters written containing information not supplied through books. A large and complete reference library is growing up to efficiency. The Blind. The first purchase of books in Revised Braille for the Blind was made in 1921, twenty books. Since then the col lection has been steadily added to as the demand increased, until now there are 1,000. These include primers for learn ing the alphabet, juvenile fiction, fairy tales, etc., and an excellent collection of adult books, among them titles of books first published within the past two or three years. There are 5,000 blind in the state, and all of them should be able to take advantage of this opportunity for reading, since the books are franked by the government and so sent without cost to the readers. Reading Courses. The Reference Department has also taken upon itself another activity. At the request of the Commission, the U. S. Bureau of Education in 1924 designated the Commis sion as its agent to promote the reading courses issued by the Bureau. The Commission went further than any agency had previously done, and supplied the books as well. The State Department of Education co-operated by granting a half-unit of credit for high school students who completed the course in Agriculture, and large numbers enrolled. Study club and reading circles took up other courses, and individuals—teachers, parents, school children—found in terest in others of the varied subjects. The Commission is also endeavoring to supply books for the new reading courses which have been published by the American Li brary Association as part of its plan of adult education.
"The Commission shall have power—" 4. To publish lists and circulars of information. Publications of the Commission include the following, all of which are available upon request and free: An 8-page folder of traveling library information. "Books for Boys and Girls of Oklahoma," a selected, annotated and graded list of books recommended for pur chase by grade schools.
—76— "The Magic Box," a juvenile one-act play introducing famous characters in children's fiction. "The Trustees' Handbook," containing all the library laws of the state and much information and advice to li brary boards. Reports of the Oklahoma Library Commission—for 1919-21, 1922-24 and 1924-26.
"The Commission shall have power—" 5. To conduct summer schools of library instruction. The first summer after the Commission began work, it helped establish and finance the first library course, in a summer school, in partnership with the University of Ok lahoma. From 1920 to 1925, 116 students enrolled for this six-weeks' course, and a large part of them are now filling library positions in the state. Even this brief training has aided greatly in raising standards and has supplied a vision of what library service means, as well as preparing a num ber of persons to take more intelligent charge of the librar ies in small cities and high schools and to assist in the larger libraries. The first summer, the enrollment was five; in 1925, it was 36, the limit of enrollment, and more applications were received than could be accommodated.
—77— Public Library Quarters LIBRARIES IN OKLAHOMA By Counties
The seven public libraries represented at the first meet ing of the Oklahoma Library Association in 1907 have grown to 52 in 1926. Twenty-four of these own Carnegie buildings; four have received buildings from other sources; there are five library buildings at educational institutions; over 40 free and club libraries are Active; and 127 high schools have collections of over 900 volumes. Circulation of books in the public libraries during the period of 1920 to 1925 doubled, increasing from one to two millions. Near ly 100,000 volumes have been added to these public collec tions, not counting the 40.000 volumes of the Oklahoma Library Commission. ADAIR COUNTY. No library reported. ALFALFA COUNTY. Cherokee. Public Library. (See picture, p. 78). The Cherokee public library was founded in 1912. In 1922 it had 1,700 volumes, which have grown to 2,200. It is now housed in the court house, with Miss Etta G. Wat- kins employed by the city as librarian. The Chamber of Commerce donates the major portion of income. Helena. West Oklahoma Home for White Children. This institution has no library. ATOKA COUNTY. Atoka. Pioneer Club Library. (See picture, p. 114). This free library has grown from 2,000 to 5,000 vol umes since 1922. It occupies one half of a combination club and library building erected by the Pioneer Club in 1909. Mrs. A. Telle gives her services as librarian with out pay. BEAVER COUNTY. Beaver. Club Library. No report. BECKHAM COUNTY. Elk City. Carnegie Library. The Carnegie Corporation presented Elk City with a library in 1915 at a cost of $10,000. The librarian is Mrs. —79— C*»N£«s£ PU&UC u'a.H*«v., £U< CtTV.OKUA.'.. .
HK' Carnegie Library, Elk City Margaret Wood. The number of volumes has increased from 4,075 in 1922 to 5,626 in 1926, and the circulation in 1925 was 25,624 or 9.1 per capita, which is the highest average in the state. Erick. Community Circulating Library. (See picture, page 114). A free library was organized in 1922 by the Delphian Society and for a while was kept in the homes of the mem bers. In May, 1926, it moved its 800 volumes into a brick building, the gift of the city, the furniture being donated by business men. Mrs. J. C. Schmelzer, the librarian, keeps the library open two afternoons a week. The club desires to turn the library over to the city as soon as Erick is ready to receive the gift. Sayre. Public Library. Sayre reports that it has outgrown its present quar ters and wants a building of its own. It was opened in 1921 with a donated collection of 638 books, and now has 2,059 books. Mrs. W. B. Rock is librarian. BLAINE COUNTY. Watonga. Public Library. (See picture, p. 114). 1906 was the date of the founding of the Watonga library, but it was discontinued during the war, and only re opened in 1921, when the Presbyterian Brotherhood of Wa tonga took over its support. It was given quarters in the court house. Mrs. J. O. Boyce, librarian, has charge of —80— 1,500 books. Mr. J. M. Rapp is secretary of the library board. One of the three founders, Mrs. T. B. Ferguson, still resides in Watonga and takes an active interest in the library. BRYAN COUNTY. Durant. Public Library. (See picture, p. 78). This library is now being organized. It opened June 1, 1926, after three years of effort on the part of the Lions Club and other organizations to interest the city in a library. The building and site are the gift of ex-Governor R. L. Williams, and repairs were made gratis by the stu dents of the manual training department of the Southeast ern State Teachers College with materials donated by citi zens. A book drive started the library off with 2,000 vol umes, and the city council has promised a substantial levy. Durant. Oklahoma Presbyterian College for Women. This college has a library of 2,200 volumes in charge of Mrs. L. Fountain, and is making a steady growth. It plans for a library building in the future. Durant. Southeastern State Teachers College. Mr. Paul B. Cullen is now librarian. Reports show that this library has increased from 4,423 volumes in 1922 to 7,300 volumes in 1925. Caddo. Club Library. This has no support from the city. It contains 400 books with Mrs. John Hogan as librarian. CADDO COUNTY. Anadarko. Public Library. The Anadarko library occupies rooms in the city hall, and is supported by tax levy. The 3,725 volumes have been in charge of Mrs. Sarah Allphin for a number of years. In 1925-26 the circulation reached 13,000. Hinton. Public Library. Hinton has a small club library housed in a club build ing. It was founded in 1919, the outgrowth of Red Cross activities. CANADIAN COUNTY. El Reno. Carnegie Library. El Reno is one of the oldest libraries in the state, hav ing been presented by Mr. Carnegie in 1902 at a cost of $12,500. The library has almost doubled the number of volumes since 1921, consisting now of 10,654 books with a —81— Carnegie Library, El Keno circulation in 1925-26 of 53,701. It was entirely re-cata logued last year. Miss Mary E. Wilson is librarian. Yukon. Public Library. (See picture, p. 115). Eighteen years ago a book agent persuaded a group of Yukon women to organize into a library club so that they might enjoy the privileges of a circulating group of 24 books. This tiny collection grew into a respectable num ber of volumes, and in 1915 the club purchased a cottage and four lots and established a library free to the public. The club still supports the library and hopes in time to erect a new building. Mrs. Nora Belisle is librarian.
CARTER COUNTY. Ardmore. Carnegie Library. The building presented to the city of Ardmore by the Carnegie Corporation in 1905 had to be abandoned in 1925 because it was pronounced unsafe. The library moved its 17,000 volumes to new quarters. Mrs. Myrtle Jones, librar ian, is the oldest in the state in point of continuous service, having been at Ardmore for twenty years. Ardmore. Confederate Soldiers Home. This institution reports that no records of its library have been kept, but that the books are all old and little read. Mrs. J. J. B. McCuller was appointed librarian in 1925.
—82- Carnegie Library* Ardmore Wilson. Public Library. Started as a club library of 500 volumes supported by the fees of its members, in 1921 the Wilson library was re organized with an income of $1,500 from the city and a room in the city hall. Mrs. Alice Lawrence, the librarian reports a circulation of 13,283 for its 1,707 volumes in 1924-25. CHEROKEE COUNTY. Tahlequah. Carnegie Library.
Carnegie Library, Tahlequah —83— The Tahlequah library has made rapid progress in the past four years, since Miss Essa Glaclney took charge. The number of volumes has increased from 1,200 to 2,800, and in 1925 the library was catalogued. Its small collection of •juvenile books is supplemented by traveling libraries from the Commission. The building was a Carnegie gift, erect ed in 1905 at a cost of $10,000. Tahlequah. Northeastern State Teachers College. Miss Dorothy Cleaveland recently became librarian. The library consists of 4,767 volumes. CHOCTAW COUNTY. Hugo. Public Library. The Hugo Public Library has 1,200 volumes in charge of Mrs. A. B. C. Dinwiddie. It receives a small support from the city, but is chiefly supported by the women's clubs and is accommodated with quarters in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. CIMARRON COUNTY. No library reported. CLEVELAND COUNTY. No public or free library reported. The public library represented at the first meeting of the Oklahoma Library Association in 1907 has been discontinued. Norman. University of Oklahoma. The old Carnegie building at the University of Okla homa is now the oldest building on the campus. But it was
Uniyersity of Oklahoma Library, Norman —84— abandoned in 1922 for a new library built by the state at a cost of $100,000. Mr. Jesse Lee Rader, librarian, has been connected with the library since he was a student assistant in 1907. He is now a member of the Oklahoma Library Commission. Under his administration the library has grown to 67,000 volumes, with a circulation of 260,000 in 1925-26. It is now the largest library in the state. Law Library: The University Law Library is in charge of Mr. A. H. Huggins. In 1925-26 it received additions of $2,300 worth of books. Chemical Library: In 1921 the legislature appropriated $30,000 for a chemical library at the University. Oklahoma Geological Survey Library: A scientific refer ence library, built up largely of exchanges of bulletins and reports. It contains 1,500 volumes, with Mr. John S. Red- field in charge. Norman. Central Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane. The hospital has a small library of 500 volumes. COAL COUNTY. No library reported. COMANCHE COUNTY. Lawton. Carnegie Library. The library at Lawton was established by the women's clubs in 1905, but did not obtain a building until 1922,-re ceiving the last Carnegie gift donated to Oklahoma. The
Carnegie Library, Lawton
—85— cost was $20,000. Mrs. Mamie Small administers the 7,000 books. Lawton. Cameron State School of Agriculture. Reported 300 volumes in 1921. No report for 1925. COTTON COUNTY. Walters. Public Library. The Walters Library, which was begun in 1922 by the efforts of the Young Men's Business Club, since 1923 re ceives support from the city. It has 1,500 volumes with a circulation in 1925-26 of 8,500. The librarian is Mrs. E. Vogelein. CRAIG COUNTY. . Vinita. Public Library. A drive that resulted in 2,000 books and $300 cash started the Vinita library, which was established in 1923 and is housed in the City Auditor's office. It has developed very rapidly, so that in 1925, the librarian, Mrs. Pearle B. Voyles, reported 4,625 volumes, mostly gifts, and circula tion for the year of 16,576. Mrs. A. D. Warner has suc ceeded Mrs. Voyles as librarian. Vinita. East Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane. Three hundred books for 1,250 inmates compose the library at this institution. CREEK COUNTY. Bristow. Public Library. In 1912, the Culture Club of Bristow decided to or ganize a free library. The first quarters were in a school,
Public Library, Bristow the second in a grocery store, the third in the Telephone building, the fourth in the Masonic Temple, the fifth in a church basement, and the last in a handsome little brick building erected by the city. The club gave the library to the city in 1923, a generous appropriation was made, and the library now has 3,000 volumes, with Miss Bernett Jack son as librarian. Drumright. Public Library. Miss Marguerite Giezentanner is librarian of the Drumright library, which has been housed in the high school building since 1921, but is open to the public. It contains 5.000 volumes. Kiefer. Free Library. In 1921 this little collection was consolidated with the high school library, but was still kept open to the public at certain hours each clay. Sapulpa. Carnegie Library. The new librarian at Sapulpa is Miss Mildred C. Nay- lor, succeeding Miss Paulene Vaughn. Figures for 1924-25 show growth, but during 1925-26 there was a slight decline owing to a cut in the appropriation. A new branch opened in 1925 had to be closed for this reason. The library con tains 11,221 volumes, with a circulation of 60,000. The building was a gift of the Carnegie fund in 1917, and the citizens of Sapulpa generously contributed office furniture, shelving, books and a grand piano. In June, 1923, a colored branch was opened in the Booker T. Washington high school in charge of Miss N. C. Day. Despite its having no new
Carnegie Library, Sapulpa —87— books during the past year, the number of borrowers in creased 20 per cent. CUSTER COUNTY. Arapaho. Fernald Free Library. (See picture, p. 115). The Fernald Free Library has a building of its own and 2,000 volumes. The nucleus of the library was a gift to the Reform Church of Arapaho. Clinton. Public Library. (See picture, p. 78). In 1921, Clinton established its library and in 1923 it moved into the city hall. Mrs. Perdita J. Alvord has been in charge of its 4,500 volumes since 1921. Weatherford. Southwestern State Teachers College. The library, under the administration of Mrs. Eula C. Froman, has increased to 8,900 volumes. An assistant librarian is employed for the summer session. DELAWARE COUNTY. No library reported. DEWEY COUNTY. No library reported. ELLIS COUNTY. Arnett. Club Library. A small library sponsored by a study club was reported in 1925. Shattuck. Club Library. No report. GARFIELD COUNTY. Enid. Carnegie Library. Mrs. Jessie L. Parks is now librarian at Enid, Mrs. Cora Case Porter having resigned in 1924. The library was built in 1910 and cost $25,000. One of the most impor tant services started by Mrs. Porter during her long period as librarian was the County Library Service. Garfield County was the first in the state to try this experiment in supplying books to rural readers. Collections were sent to all the district schools and changed frequently, and larger communities received greater numbers of volumes and were encouraged to start libraries of their own. The county com missioners appropriate money for the books, and the city gives money for the service. Many rural readers now come to the Enid library to borrow their books direct. In 1922 the Enid colored branch was opened in the Washington school. A student serves as librarian without
—88— Carnegie Library, Enid pay and the money for books and periodicals is taken from the county extension appropriation. Enid. Institute for the Feeble-Minded. This state institution has no library. East Enid. Phillips University. Phillips University is the school in the state not sup ported by the government which has a separate library building. It was built in 1912, to house 7,383 volumes, which have now grown to 11,393 under the capable admin istration of Miss Alice See. Covington. Free Library. This was one of the small community libraries which the Garfield County Library service helped to establish and foster. No report received in 1925. Garber. Public Library. (See picture, p. 78). Quarters in the city hall were given to the small Gar ber library of 600 books, which was founded by a study club in 1923. This also was a deposit station of the Enid Public Library under the County Library system. Mrs. M. K. Taft is the chairman of the Library Committee. Hunter. Welfare League Library. (See picture, p. 115). Opened in 1924, with Mrs. Alda Wilson in charge. It has free quarters in a down town building, and has a few books, supplemented by loans from the Enid county library service and the traveling libraries of the Library Com mission. —89— GARVIN COUNTY. Pauls Valley. Public Library. Pauls Valley's library followed the usual history of Oklahoma libraries in beginning as a club library and finally being taken over by the city. It already had quar ters in the city hall in 1922, but it was not until three years later that the town was persuaded, largely1 through the efforts of Mrs. Henry M. Carr, to undertake its support. The city federation still pays the librarian, Mrs. A. H. Stephens. Pauls Valley. State Training School for White Boys. Although the State Federation of Women's Clubs do nated a number of volumes to this institution, it still has only a very small and inadequate library, cared for by the teachers. GRADY COUNTY. Chickasha. Carnegie Library. On the roster of the charter members of the Oklahoma Library Association in 1907 is the name of Mrs. J. A. Thompson, as librarian at Chickasha. Mrs. Thompson has been librarian ever since, except for an absence of two or three years. The Chickasha library is a $10,000 building dating from 1904. It contains 8,400 volumes with a circu lation for 1925-26 of 24,184.
Carnegie Library, Chickasha Chickasha. Oklahoma College for Women. Miss Blanche L. Hawks has succeeded Miss Eliza Jane Rule as librarian. The library, which is in the Adminis- —90— tration Building, has 6,000 volumes, which are now being recatalogued. GRANT COUNTY. No library reported. GREER COUNTY. Granite. State Reformatory for Boys. The institution has 650 inmates and 3,954 books. The state makes no provision for the library, which is supported by donations. Mr. L. M. Carson is librarian. Mangum. Public Library. The Mangum free library was turned over to the city in 1923. It was founded by club women in 1922 and in stalled in the court house. In 1925 it reported 2,134 books and an income from the city of $1,000. Mrs. Mary T. Bryan is in charge. HARMON COUNTY. Hollis. Club Library. The little library at Hollis is maintained by a club, but has its quarters in the city hall. It expects to remove to the new court house just being completed. HARPER COUNTY. No library reported. HASKELL COUNTY. Keota. Club Library. Keota has a small library supported by the business men and located in the high school building. No report received for 1925. Sitigler. Free Library. This library was founded by the city clubs in 1915. HUGHES COUNTY. No library reported. JACKSON COUNTY. Altus, Public Library. The Altus public library has grown from 1,600 books to 3,500 since 1922, when it was re-opened to the public after the war. It is housed in the new memorial audi torium. Mrs. M. B. Lloyd, librarian, reported a circulation for 1925 of 18,459. Olustee. New State Club Library. (See picture, page 114). A club library of 1,000 volumes organized in 1907 and opened to the public in 1918. It is supported by fees of —91— the members and readers and by entertainments and dona tions. The larger number of the borrowers live in the rural districts. JEFFERSON COUNTY. Waurika. Free Library. (See picture, p. 114). The special aim of the Sorosis Club of Waurika, or ganized in 1911, was to establish a library. As soon as enough books could be collected, a rental library was opened in the president's home, and in 1912, this was moved to the city hall. Last year, the club erected a neat little bungalow library, which now nouses 3,000 books. Mrs. Ora Taylor is in charge. JOHNSTON COUNTY. No public or free libraries reported. Tishomingo. Murray School of Agriculture. This library now has over 1,600 volumes and is admin istered by Miss Dovie Thornton. KAY COUNTY. Blackwell. Public Library. Mrs. R. M. Parkhurst, librarian, reports 4,823 volumes and a circulation of 30,000. The library was established in 1921, and organized with the assistance of the Oklahoma Library Commission. It will always be certain of adequate support, since a two-mill levy is assured it by amendment of the city charter. In 1924, $4,800 was set aside for build ing purposes. The library now occupies a rented building. Kaw City. Research Club Library. The Research Club has a small collection of 500 books with Mrs. R. M. Wilson as librarian. Newkirk. Public Library. Established in 1920, with quarters in the city hall, this library owes its existence to the Study Club of Newkirk, which donated its 1,500 volumes to the city. It has grown to 3,200 volumes, which are now in charge of Mrs. Anna L. Willson. Ponca City. Carnegie Library. Ponca City has rapidly outgrown the small $6,500 library presented to it by Mr. Carnegie in 1910. The num ber of volumes has doubled since 1922, and the circulation likewise. In 1925, 60,000 books circulated. The annual appropriation from the city is now more than the original cost of the library. Mrs. Violet E. Kohler is librarian. —92— Carnegie Library, Ponca City Tonkawa. Public Library. The Delphian Club established the Tonkawa library in 1921, and the city took over its support in 1923. It has about 4,000 books, 1,276 of which were added during 1924- 25. The library was also catalogued that year. Tonkawa. University Preparatory School. The library consists of 2,000 volumes in care of Mrs. Lula Doewges. Five hundred dollars worth of books were added in 1925.
KINGFISHER COUNTY. No library reported. A small library at Kingfisher was disbanded, and the books put in charge of the American Legion.
KIOWA COUNTY. Hobart. Carnegie Library. In 1912 the Carnegie Corporation gave the city of Hobart $9,000 for a library building. The city has sup ported it as generously as possible, and has made it a com munity center and an institution of real significance in the town life. The library board and the board of education co-operate in supplying library service to the schools. The board of education furnishes the books needed for the schools and pays the salary of an assistant librarian. Mrs. W. A. Phelps, the librarian, reported 7,000 books and a cir culation in 1925-26 of 27,137, which is the high average of 9.2 per capita.
—93- Carnegie Library, Hobart LATIMER COUNTY. Wilburton. Civic Club Library. No report. Wilburton. State School of Mines and Metallurgy. The library has grown from 640 volumes in 1922 to 2,000 in 1925. A member of the faculty is in charge. LE FLORE COUNTY. No library reported. LINCOLN COUNTY. No library reported. LOGAN COUNTY. Guthrie. Carnegie Library, Guthrie is the oldest library in the state, having been erected in 1900 at a cost of $35,000, the gift of tha Carnegie fund. It is the eighth in size, having 15,000 volumes. Mrs. W. N. Patillo is the librarian. The Excelsior Colored Branch occupies a building of its own, where the librarian, Mrs. Elmira Johnson, has served for seven years. Guthrie. Catholic College for Young Women. This college, together with St. Joseph's Academy, pos sesses a catalogued library of 10,332 volumes in charge of Sister Mary Ignatia. Langston. Colored Agriculture and Normal Univer sity. This state institution has no library. —94— Carnegie Library, Guthrie
LOVE COUNTY. No library reported. McLAIN COUNTY. No library reported. McCURTAIN COUNTY. Broken Bow. Delphian Club Library. No report since 1922. Idabel. Club Library. ThQ building in which the Pioneer Reading Club houses its subscription library was given to them after it had served its usefulness as a War Savings Stamp store. It has about 1,100 books and is kept open by the members of the club. Smithville. Fulsom Training School. Mrs. Linda Lane Fowler last year took charge of the library of 1,200 volumes, and is endeavoring to make it serve the community as well as the school. McINTOSH COUNTY. Checotah. Delphian Club Library. The Delphian Club, reversing the usual order of things, took over the library from the city in 1926 and have pledged themselves to its support.
—95— MAJOR COUNTY. Fairview. City Library. A room in the city hall is set aside for the Fairview library, which receives also $1,200 support from the city. Miss Ula Frost, librarian, is in charge of 2,700 volumes with a circulation, in 1925, of 7,825. The library was founded in 1908. MARSHALL COUNTY. Madill. Public Library. (See picture, p. 115). In 1914 the Woman's Club of Madill began an agitation for a public library, which soon became a reality. Two rooms in the court house were given over to the library, a salary was appropriated for the librarian, and a book shower supplied the first books. The library now contains 1,500 volumes with an average circulation of 525 a month. MAYES COUNTY. Pryor. Free Library. Discontinued in 1921. Pryor. Whitaker State Orphan Home. Five hundred books and 244 children are reported by the Superintendent, Mr. Earle Witt. MURRAY COUNTY. No public libraries reported. Sulphur. School for the Deaf. No report since 1922, when the library contained 142 volumes. MUSKOGEE COUNTY. Bacone. Bacone College. Mrs. Mary E. Mohler, librarian, has charge of 1,350 books. The library was enlarged in 1925 by 250 donated books. Haskell. Club Library. The Delphian Club has a small library.- No report has been made for 1925. Muskogee. Public Library. Mrs. Cora Case Porter succeeded Miss Ruth Hammond at Muskogee in 1925. One of her first achievements was to open the Westside Branch in the West Junior High School. This branch now has 2,100 books, and the school board appropriates $1,500 to supplement the book fund, —96— Carnegie Library, Muskogee while the library board pays the full-time librarian. The circulation is now running as high as 3,000 a month. Mus kogee is the third largest public library in the state. For 1924-25 its 25.000 volumes had a circulation of 146,000. The building was erected in 1908 by the Carnegie fund, and cost $60,000. Muskogee. Colored Public Library. This is not a branch of the Carnegie library, but re ceives its separate appropriation and has its own board. There are 7,588 books in the library, in charge of Miss Ethel M. Tucker, librarian. Muskogee. State School for the Blind. The library consists mostly of Braille books, approxi mately 5,000. Of printed books there are less than 1,000, including pamphlets and various school papers. Miss Pearl B. Smith, a teacher, is also librarian and has catalogued the library. Taft. Deaf, Blind and Orphans Home for Colofed Children. Warner. Connor School of Agriculture. No report since 1922, when library consisted of about 600 volumes.
NOBLE COUNTY. Perry. Carnegie Library.
-97- Carnegie Library, Perry Mrs. Emilie LeBus has been librarian at Perry for a number of years. There are 5,500 volumes, 2,000 having been added this year. The building was a gift of Mr. Car negie in 1909, the erection cost being $10,000.
NOWATA COUNTY. No library reported.
OKFUSKEE COUNTY. No library reported.
OKLAHOMA COUNTY. Bethany. Bethany-Peniel College. No report. Britton. Free Public Library. Britton reported that it had established its library in 1925, with Mr. E. L. Richardson as librarian. Its collec tion of 800 books were donations. It has a building of its own. Edmond. Central State Teachers College. This institution has the advantage of having long had an unusually progressive librarian, Miss Ruby Canton, and also of having the first library building erected by the state. It dates from 1918 and cost $50,000. The collection of books numbers 16,000.
—98— Library, Central State Teachers College, Edmond Oklahoma City. Carnegie Library. During 1925-26, the Oklahoma City library erected two new branch buildings, the Dunbar Colored Branch and the Packingtown Branch. Besides these buildings, the Carnegie library has four other branches, each located in a junior high school but open to the public and with a full- time librarian employed by the library board. Mr. Carne gie gave altogether $60,000 for the main building in 1901, with an addition in 1909, and the city added $4,800 to this.
Carnegie Library, Oklahoma City —99— The main library and branches now have a total of 52,000 volumes with a circulation for 1924-25 of 373,950. Mrs. Mabel Peacock has been librarian for a number of years, succeeding Miss Edith Allan Phelps. Oklahoma City. State Capitol. Oklahoma State Law Reference Library. Judge E. G. Spilman has for many years been librarian of the 50,000 volumes and documents which compose the State Law Reference Library in the Capitol Building. The library is built up through exchanges, gifts, etc., and as a depository of the U. S. government documents. Besides its shelves of law books, it contains also miscellaneous material of various kinds, such as genealogies, and a collection of 10,000 pamphlets and state bulletins. State Historical Society. The Oklahoma Historical Society has been gathering books and other material on local history and biography since its founding, but only in the past three years has the task of cataloguing begun, when Miss Dell Slaughter be came librarian. The society now has a working library of 4,600 accessioned books, with large numbers of unbound magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, and hundreds of photo graphs, which are being made available for reference as rapidly as possible. Oklahoma Library Commission, The Commission's library has grown in six years from nothing to 40,000 volumes, a reference and traveling collec tion available through the U. S. mail to every one in the state. It is located on the third floor of the Law Library wing in the Capitol building. Oklahoma City. University Hospital School of Medi cine. A reference library of 2,000 volumes is kept on the main floor of the University Hospital with Miss Helen L. Kendall, secretary to the Dean, in charge. Oklahoma City. Union Soldiers Home. Six hundred volumes in charge of Acting Superinten dent Chris Madsen serve the 100 veterans at the Union Soldiers Home. The library, however, is said to consist mainly of old histories of the war and out-of-date fiction. Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City University. Miss Lelah Price is in charge of the library, succeed ing Mrs. Bertha McBride. No report received.
—100— Public Library, Henryetta OKMULGEE COUNTY. Henryetta. Public Library. In June, 1924, the Henryetta library, which had been established 19 years before, moved into a building of its own. This was erected by the city at a cost of $5,500. The library had originated in a club, been a pay membership and fee affair, and finally was taken over by the city in 1920. Mrs. Frances Threadgill took charge in 1922 and did a great deal to organize and popularize the library and to help it grow into a well-rounded collection of 10,000 volumes. Morris. Club Library. free library was reported as having been founded in with 700 volumes and a building of its own, but no '; has since been received. Okmulgee. City Library. In 1923, the Okmulgee City Library moved from its jld quarters in the Creek Council House to a handsome new building, the first public library in the state to be built with public funds, and the most expensive, the cost, exclu sive of furniture, being $75,000. Since then the library has increased its collection of books from 10,000 to 16,000. Its circulation for 1924-25 was 57,647. Mrs. Izora Ground is librarian. Shortly after the main library was built, a colored branch was also erected. In 1925, this branch had 1,300 books with 485 borrowers.
—101— Public Library, Okmulgee
OSAGE COUNTY. Fairfax. Public Library. The club library organized in 1924 at Fairfax is now reorganizing and is beginning to work towards the goal of becoming a real public library. To supplement its collec tion of 700 volumes, it has borrowed a community library of 200 books from the Oklahoma Library Commission. A room is furnished by the city and members of the club give their services as librarian. Hominy. City Library. Hominy has since 1922 had a free library which now numbers 800 volumes. There were collected by the Del phian Club, which also continues to support the library ex cept for the small salary paid the librarian by the city. Miss Helen Kitchel is in charge. In 1923, the library was housed in the telephone building, but is now in rented quar ters in a down town store. Pawhuska. Public Library. Another library assisted in its organization by the Commission was the Pawhuska library, established by the Women's Clubs several years before the war and given to the city in 1924. The next year it added 820 volumes, bring ing its number up to 1,840, which according to the reports of Mrs. C. V. Morris, the librarian, showed a circulation of 15,361. In 1925, the library had an appropriation of $1,900 and a $10,000 site, with $4,000 towards a building fund. —102— Prue. Free Library. Organized by the Patrons Club in 1921 and located in the high school. No report for 1925. Wynona. Club Library. This little library was formally opened in November, 1921, and has its own building. The library was sponsored by the Civic League, and has supplemented its shelves of donated books by a traveling library from the Oklahoma Library Commission.
OTTAWA COUNTY. Miami. Carnegie Library. The latest, and perhaps the last, of the Carnegie build ings in the state, was the one presented to Miami in 1921, the cost being $10,000. The library has developed rapidly, and the books increased from 4,500 to 7,399. Mrs. T. C. Young is librarian.
Carnegie Library, Miami Miami. Northeastern Oklahoma Junior College. This college was formerly the State School of Mines, and had no library. Under the presidency of Mr. M. R. Floyd, Miss Sarah Kreter and an assistant have taken charge of the task of building up a library. Eight hundred dollars worth of books were added this year. Picher. Club Library. The En Avant Club started a free library in 1921 and is working towards the establishment of a public library. —103— PAWNEE COUNTY. Jennings. High School and Public Library. The Swastika Club at Jennings in 1924 petitioned for permission to use the high school library, which had 467 books, mainly reference. A trained librarian, a member of the club, catalogued and organized the library, and the board of education opened it to the public. It now has 1,700 volumes, and is supported by gifts of the public, societies, lodges and individuals. Miss Dorothy Peek is in charge. Quay. Review Club Library. Quay announced in 1922 that it was interested in estab lishing a public library. At that time, a small subscription library was kept in the office of the Quay Review. No re port for 1925. PAYNE COUNTY. Cushing. Public Library. The Cushing library was founded in 1921, and shortly afterwards moved into the city hall. By the following year, it had 1,350 volumes and 400 borrowers. By 1926, the library had increased to 3,522 volumes with a circulation of 13,600. Mrs. E. W. Doran, librarian, resigned in 1925, and was succeeded by Miss Brown. Stillwater. Public Library. In 1923 the city council of Stillwater voted a levy for the establishment of a public library, and the library was
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—104— immediately organized. Of its $4,000 appropriation the first year, $2,920 was set aside for a building fund, and in 1925, $3,500 was used in buying a site. The library has 2,000 volumes, and a circulation of 20,000 under the admin istration of Miss Harriett Woodring. Stillwater. Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College. This college library ranks next to the State Univer sity's in size, being 34,739 volumes. Mrs. Elsie D. Hand, librarian, has two full-time and two part-time assistants. In 1922, the library moved into a new $100,000 building given by the state. Yale. Public Library. The Yale library had its formal opening in 1919 in a building formerly used to sell War Savings Stamps. The first 2,000 volumes were donated, through the efforts of the women's clubs, who also succeeded in gaining tax support for it. Four thousand volumes have since been added, and the library catalogued. Miss Frances Wagner became libra rian in 1925. PITTSBURG COUNTY. McAlester. Carnegie Library. The formal opening of the McAlester Carnegie library was in 1914. On the anniversary of this day each year, open house is held, when club women entertain and ask for "birthday gifts" of books or money. In 1922, 8,500 vol umes were reported on the shelves. By 1925, these had
Carnegie Library, McAlester —105— increased- to 11,600 with a circulation of 53,000. Mrs. Phoebe Hayden. librarian, endeavors to make the library as much of a community center as possible. McAlester. State Penitentiary. Last year the Commission undertook the organization and repair of the 4,500 books at the State Penitentiary. This was carried out, and a survey of ex-service men taken to ascertain their book needs, especially their desire for technical books, $150 having been given by the A. L. A. for this purpose. The library is under the care of the Chap lain, who is assisted by one or two prisoners. Almost all the books are second-hand, gifts of clubs and other organ izations, and require constant replacement. McAlester. State Training School for Colored Boys. No library at this institution. ' - PONTOTOC COUNTY. Ada. Club Library.. • , In 1923 the Fortnightly Club of Ada reported that it was making plans to start a public library. No report since received. Ada. East Central State Teachers College. (See pic ture, p. 47). Roff..' Club Library. (See picture, p. 115). The club building of the Civic League contains a col lection of 1,000 volumes open to the public. It is wholly supported by the League, which founded it in 1918. POTTOWATOMIE COUNTY. Shawnee. Carnegie Library.
Carnegie Library, Shawnee —106— Pottowatomie County was the second in the state to establish a county library service. This is not as active as it would become if there were a county library law, but it consists in supplying books in small loans to rural dis tricts which ask for them. The Shawnee Carnegie library acts as agent for this service. The Shawnee library building, which cost $15,500, was presented to the city in 1905 to house a library organized some years before. The library has increased from 14,500 books in 1922 to 20,872 in 1925 under its librarian, Mrs. Trimmier Sloane Funk. Sliai/vnee. Oklahoma Baptist University. Mrs. W. D. Mooser is librarian. In 1922 the library had over 6.500 books, with a room in the Administration Building. Shawnee. St. Gregory's College. This library has 2,500 volumes in charge of Rev. Clem ent Dupont, librarian. The books are to be reclassified and catalogued this year. • Tecumseh. State Industrial School for Girls. Miss Fern Lowry, chief clerk, has charge of the 1,246 volumes given to the State Industrial School for Girls by the club women of the state and organized and classified by the Library Commission in 1919. PUSHMATAHA COUNTY. Antlers. Club Library. A joint committee from two clubs was appointed in 1923 to establish a library. No report since received. ROGER MILLS COUNTY. No library reported. ROGERS COUNTY. Claremore. Public Library. The Claremore Public Library was established in 1914. It occupies two rooms in the city hall and is cared for by Miss Jennie Hopkins. The 3,000 volumes have a circula tion of 14,500. Claremore. Oklahoma Military Academy. A member of the faculty, Mr. J. J. Hill, is in charge of the library, which contains 1,654 volumes. SEMINOLE COUNTY. Wewoka. Public Library. Wewoka has appointed a library board and is taking steps towards establishing a public library.
—107— SEQUOYAH COUNTY. No library reported. STEPHENS COUNTY. Duncan. Public library. When the Duncan Public Library opened its doors in 1920, it had only 500 books. Now it has grown to 2,765 volumes with a circulation of 25,000. It has a room in the city ball, and is in charge of Mrs. J. W. Moseley. TEXAS COUNTY. Goodwell. Panhandle State School of Agriculture. Mrs. Lester A. Dumond has charge of 2,500 books. Guymon. Public Library. Just being organized. A special levy is being asked to erect a building. Hooker. Free Library. The Hooker Free Library was originally a subscrip tion library with a subscriber's fee of $1.00. In 1915, it was opened to the public, and was largely used by the rural neighbors of Hooker. Mrs. Edwin Dobson was placed in charge in 1923, and the next year planned to unite the small high school library with the public, and house the whole collection in the small building owned by the library. TILLMAN COUNTY. Frederick. Carnegie Library. The library at Frederick has had a steady growth dur-
Caraegie Library, Frederick —108— ing the librarianship of Mrs. Birdie Robinson. Mr. Carne gie gave the city the $10,000 building in 1915, and it now houses 5,600 books. Grandfield. Public Library. The beginning of a small library was reported in 1923. No report has since been received. TULSA COUNTY. Broken Arrow. Public Library. A free library of 2,000 volumes housed in the Cham ber of Commerce building and supported by the Self Cul ture Club and, since 1922 by a small appropriation from the city. Its beginning dates back to 1905. Miss Helen Neibling is librarian. Collinsville. Carnegie Library.
Carnegie Library, Collinsville This is the Second Carnegie building granted in Tulsa County. It was built in 1917 at a cost of $8,000. There are 3,500 volumes, which have been for the past few years under the care of Mrs. Lawson Hughes. Sand Springs. Public Library. Mrs. Cosette Gottry, librarian, in 1925 reported 2,900 volumes with a circulation of 18,800. The library was founded in 1920, began to receive support from the city in 1921, and owns a buildink site. It is now in the city hall. Skiatook. Club Library. A library was reported as having been opened by the Research Club in March, 1926. —109— Carnegie Library, Tulsa Tulsa. Carnegie Library. Miss Alma Reid McGlenn, librarian, has been largely responsible for the rapid growth of the Tulsa library. In 1922 it had 14,600 volumes; in 1925, 48,655, with a circu lation of 278,741. Several new branches have been opened within the past two or three years, including a colored branch in a building of its own. One of the notable features of the library is its technical department, which is admin istered by a special technology librarian. The main library building was a Carnegie gift, having been erected in 1913 at a cost of $55,000. Tulsa. University of Tulsa. No report since 1922, when the library had 5,000 vol umes cared for by faculty members. WAGONER COUNTY. Wagoner. Carnegie Library. Wagoner was given a Carnegie building in 1911 after the library had been organized one year. It opened in 1912, with a small collection of donated books, which has grown to 7,370 with a circulation of 22,000. Wagoner's appropri ation for 1925 was the highest per capita of any library in the state, being 95 cents, very close to the $1 per capita which is the standard appropriation. Miss Leona Bateman, the librarian, is very active in extending the services of the library not only in the town but also to rural readers in the county. Books are mailed to these patrons, a small yearly fee being charged to those whose mail is delivered at other postoffices than Wagoner. -110— Carnegie Library, Wagoner WASHINGTON COUNTY. Bartlesville. Carnegie Library. Miss Ruth Brown is librarian at Bartlesville, and has been active in helping the library grow to 12,609 volumes, nearly 5,000 of which have been added since 1922. The cir culation of 76,722 reported for 1925 is 25,000 increase over 1922. The library was built in 1913, when Bartlesville re ceived $12,500' from the Carnegie fund.
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—111— Carnegie Library, Cordell WASHITA COUNTY. Cordell. Carnegie Library. This' library dates from 1911, and cost $9,400. The 4,000 volumes are in charge of Miss Sadie Kizer and have a circulation of over 10,000. Cordell. Christian College. The college has 1,200 books in charge of Miss ima Mae Pipkin. Cordell. Teachers Library. A collection of professional books for teachers is kept in the office of the County Superintendent of Washita County. WOODS COUNTY. Alva. City Library. (See picture, p. 78). The Federation of Women's Clubs of Alva supported a small reading library. In 1924 the city council appropri ated $500 for its support, and in 1926 increased that appro priation to $1,000. The library is located in the city hall, with Mrs. G. M. Lisk in charge of its 2,500 volumes. Alva. Northwestern State Teachers College. Mr. William A. Ranck, librarian, has two student as sistants to aid in caring for the library of nearly 10,000 books and 5,000 pamphlets. The library room is in Science Hall.
—112- Carnegie Library, Woodward
WOODWARD COUNTY. Supply. Club Library. This was started in 1922 by the Entre Nous Club with 400 volumes. No report since. Supply. Western Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane. No library reported.
Woodward. Carnegie Library. The Carnegie Corporation gave Woodward $10,000 for a library, which was completed in 1917. The present libra rian, Miss Metta Woodward, took charge in 1919. The library then had 2,000 volumes, which have under her ad ministration, grown to 8,200, with a circulation of 30,000, which is very near the ideal six per capita. Each year the library makes a "drive" for books, being aided by the Boy Scouts, Campfire Girls, newspapers and other agencies. Miss Woodward is also active in library extension work in the surrounding counties.
—113— VAUIvkih. i totl ur
E:,- ^:1^ Club Library Quarters Club Library Quarters OKLAHOMA LIBRARIES AND THE WOMEN'S CLUBS
(Reprinted from The Household Magazine for June, 1926.) We prize most that which has cost us most in time and effort. So the club women of Oklahoma have a just pride in the libraries of their state and an affection born of twen ty-five years of struggle to provide library facilities for local communities and to obtain legislation and appropria tions needed for the establishment and maintenance of a satisfactory state library commission and a system of trav eling libraries. With but two exceptions, all the public and free libra ries of Oklahoma owe their existence to a little group of women who loved books and who believed that the intel lectual development of the new state must keep pace with its wonderful commercial growth. The two exceptions are the Free Library of Watonga, which was established by the Men's Bible Class of the Presbyterian Church, and the Free Library of Walters, which was started and still is support ed by the Young Men's Business Club. Oklahoma was opened for settlement at a time when Andrew Carnegie's library-building program was making its greatest progress; so there is no cause for wonder that the first public library should be a Carnegie, nor that it should be established at Guthrie—then the capital of the territory. It was shortly after the famous run of 1889 that Mrs. N. M. Carter of Guthrie visited in Kansas City and there met a friend who had just returned from New York where she had attended a meeting of the Sorosis Club. The lady had been somewhat embarrassed when Sorosis mem bers discussed the library movement and she was obliged to confess that her own club had confined its literary activ ities to self-culture. Mrs. Carter received from her friend's story the in spiration to start a library. Returning home, she laid the matter before the women's clubs, and as a result, the Carne gie Library was opened to the public in February, 1900. Before' the Carnegie Foundation ceased its activities in con nection with library building the women of Oklahoma had obtained twenty-four buildings.
—116— The library survey of 1924 showed that in the twenty- four years since the first library was built, there have been established in Oklahoma eighty-six libraries now open to the public. Since then fourteen more have been opened as the result of continued effort on the part of a women's club. Forty-four of these libraries are supported entirely either by the women's clubs or through the solicitation of women's clubs. They are found in communities ranging from the tiny village of three-hundred souls to the thriving town of six thousand inhabitants. The number of books varies from a few hundred to several thousand and these are augmented by books lent by the Library Commission. There still are thirty-five free libraries which occupy rented rooms or space donated by some interested person. In many instances the librarian is a club woman who gives her time, or it may be that the members of the club take turns in acting as librarian. Furniture and equipment fre quently are lent. The story of these one-hundred libraries shows that usually the library is started off by a book shower under the auspices of the women's club. The supply of books is increased by donations and by purchase with the proceeds of all sorts of socials, entertainments and plays. At first, the circulation is limited to the members of the club and their families but as soon as the supply of books will war rant it is extended to the public when the library becomes known as "Free." Naturally, as the number of readers increases, interest grows and money is easier to obtain. Then comes the final tug, to obtain from the city authorities an acceptance of the library and a tax levy for its support. Once accepted by the city, it becomes a "public library," supported by taxation and directed by a Library Board. Usually, through the courtesy of the appointing power or the demands of the patrons, the club is represented by at least one member on this board. Illustrating the manner in which these mighty oaks grow from tiny acorns, we have chosen to write some of the details about a few of the libraries, although it seems scarcely fair to single out any for special mention. Olustee is a town of seven hundred persons in south western Oklahoma. In 1906 the New State Club was or ganized and in 1908 the library was started by every mem ber donating as many books from her own shelves as she felt she could spare. A fee of a dollar a year for adults and twenty-five cents a quarter for children was charged. Every subscriber was allowed two books a week, and if a person wished an additional book, he might have it on pay-
—117— ment of ten cents. This money, together with that obtained by giving various sorts of entertainments was used to pur chase new books. Rent always has been donated and libra rians who are officers of the club serve without remunera tion. Books are chosen carefully and the usual service of a reference library given as fully as possible. The library is kept open two afternoons a week, and reports one hun dred subscribers representing a probable reader list of five times as many. One of the oldest libraries still owned and controlled by club women is that of the Pioneer Club at Atoka. This club owns the attractive club house which contains its five thousand books. The club was incorporated in 1905 and the club-house was built in 1908. The library, which is the only one in the town of two-thousand inhabitants, is open to the public, and the librarian serves without pay. This club is limited in membership as experience proves that a few vitally interested women accomplish more than a larger miscellaneous group. The library of Yukon, a town of one thousand persons, was started by a group of women eighteen years ago as a circulating library with twelve members and twenty-four books. For seven years the library was kept by one of the club members in her home and then eleven years ago a cot tage and four lots were purchased and the library opened to the public. The library now contains a thousand books and during the three days every week on which it is open, the librarian puts out from forty to fifty books. The club has been accumulating a fund and expects soon to erect a new building. The work is financed by the dues of club members and home talent plays and entertainments. In 1911, the Sorosis Club of Waurika opened a small free library. In January, 1925, the men of the town awakened to the fact that the Sorosis Club had thirty-two hundred books and a building fund of eleven hundred dol lars. The Business Men's Club then generously offered to assist them to erect a building. So much for a glimpse of the library work of individual clubs. While they were working, the State Federation of Women's Clubs has been active also. During the later ter ritorial days and the early days of statehood, the federation maintained a traveling library of nearly a thousand books. These were divided into "trunks" containing about seventy- five volumes and for a number of years these trunks were a boon to many communities. When the books were no longer needed the best ones were donated to the war camps. —118— The federation always has taken an active interest in the eleemosynary institutions of the state, books and maga zines being contributed by clubs and individual club women. The Industrial School for girls has a library of sixteen hun dred volumes which were donated by club women and as sembled and catalogued by Mrs. J. R. Dale, secretary of the Oklahoma Library Commission. Believing that it is the duty of the state to provide books for its people, the state federation labored long and faithfully for legislation which would provide for a system of traveling libraries. They were rewarded in 1919 when the present library commission was established and began to function under the efficient management of Mrs. J. R. Dale, who has been executive secretary ever since the commission was created. At every session of the legislature it is still necessary for the women to lobby for appropriations but there has been a steady growth in the work of the commission and an in creasing demand for traveling libraries, until now more than two thousand are in circulation and they are growing constantly in popularity.
—119— SOME RECENT BOOKS BY OKLAHOMA AUTHORS
Allen, C. M. The "Sequoyah" Movement. 1925. Harlow. Blachly, F. F., and Oatman, M. E. Government of Okla homa; 2d ed. rev. 1926. Harlow. Benedict, John D. Muskogee and Northeastern Oklahoma, 3 vols. 1922. S. J. Clarke, Chicago. Calvert, Maude Richman. First Course in Home Making. 1924. Turner E. Smith, Atlanta, Ga. Everyday Living for Boys and Girls. 1925. Same. Claxton, Philander P., and McGinnis, James. Effective English; Junior. 1925. Allyn and Bacon. Combs, Josiah H. Folk-Songs du Midi de Etats-Unis. Les Presses Universitaires de France, Paris. Dale, E. E. Lafayette letters. 1925. Harlow. Dale, E. E., and Buchanan, J. S, History of Oklahoma. 1924. University of Oklahoma. Dawson, J. Paul. Life Lines. 1925. D. W. Banzett, Ed mond. Gibbs, H. P. The Poems of John Yaller Cat. 1924. Gibbs. Hagan, Horace H. Eight Great Lawyers. 1923. Harlow. Hen Toh (Bert C. Walker). Yon-Doo-Shah-We-Ah (Nub bins). 1925. Harlow. Howard, Inez G. The Chrysalis of Romance. 1925. Times- Mirror, Los Angeles. Huff, Bessie M. How to Publish a School Paper. 1924. Mentzer. Hunt, De Witt. Manual for Hand Woodworking. 2 vols. 1925. Harlow. Johnson, Edith C. To Women of the Business World. 1923. Lippincott. Jones, Richard Lloyd. A Stop at America and Other Sat urday Sermonettes. 1926. Tulsa Tribune Company. Kull, Alexander. Deuces Wild. 1926. Harlow. Lee, Joshua Bryan. Public Speaking Manual. 1924. Har low. Lee, Muna. Sea-change. 1923. Macmillan. McDougal, Mary Carmack, and McDougal, Violet. Wan dering Fires. 1925. Stratford.
—120— Methvin, J. J. In the Limelight, or History of Anadarko and Vicinity from Earliest Days. No date. Methvin. Miley, Cora E. Myths and Legends of Greece and Rome. 1925. Harlow. Nice, M. M. A Child Who Would Not Talk. 1925. Re print, Pedagogical Seminary and Journal of Genetic Psychology. Length of Sentences as a Criterion of a Child's Progress in Speech. 1925. Reprint, Journal of Educational Psychology. O'Keefe, James W. Life and Other Verses. 1923. Trave. Oskison, John Milton. Wild Harvest. 1925. Appleton. Rainey, George. The Cherokee Strip. 1925. Rainey. Rascoe, Burton. Theodore Dreiser. 1925. McBride. Roe, Vingie E. The Splendid Road. 1925. Rogers, Will. The Illiterate Digest. 1924. Boni. Scroggs, Joseph Whitefield. Complete Living. 1924. Scroggs. Small, A. A. The Children of Union. 1925. Union Pub lishing Co. Smith, Laura M. American Relations with Mexico. 1924. Harlow. Sparling, E. Earl. Under the Levee. 1925. Scribners. Stewart, A. H. Training for Power and Efficiency. 1924. Harlow. Tilghman, Zoe E. The Dugout. 1925. Harlow. Outlaw Days. 1926. Harlow. Walker, Bert C. See Hen-Toh. Winslow, Thyra Sampter. Picture Frames. 1923. Knopf.
—121- FINANCIAL REPORT
1925-26 Available Expended Appropriation—Fund No. 1, Salary of Secretary ....$ 2,000.00 $ 2,000.00 Appropriation—Fund No. 2, Salary, Asst. Secretary 1,800.00 1,800.00 Appropriation—Fund No. 3, Wages, extra help ... 5,500.00 Traveling Library Director 1,800.00 Reference Librarian 1,500.00 Stenographer 1,200.00 Packer and Shipper 600.00 Instructor, Summer School 300.00 Bookmender and incidental help 100.00, Appropriation—Fund No. 4, Travel ing: Board members 500.00 422.77 Appropriation—Fund No. 5, Com munication 500.00 500.00 Appropriation—Fund No. 6, Trans portation _ 200.00 200.00 Appropriation—Fund No. 7, Print ing 1,000.00 996.18 Appropriation—Fund No. 8, Other expense _ _ 25.00 22.63 Appropriation—Fund No. 9, Office supplies : 750.00 743.29 Appropriation—Fund No. 10, Equip ment—Books 10,000.00 10,000.00 Appropriation—Fund No. 11, Office Equipment 250.00 250.00 Total expended $22,434.87 Unexpended balance $ 90.13
—122— SURVEY OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF OKLAHOMA—1925-1926 SERVICE REPORT ($1.00 per capita is estimated as a fair appropriation for efficient library service, and 6 books per capita as a proper average for circulation.)
Tax Circ. CITY Popula Evalua Income Vols. Vols, Circula Librarian per tion tion added tion capita 125,000-50,000 Oklahoma City .... 125,00 0 $117,938,000.00 $56,820.00 54,124 4,984 466,088 Mrs. Mabel Peacock 3.73 Tulsa 000 103,000,000.00 43,932.00 45,544 4,952 315,456 Alma Reid McGlenn 2.53 50,000-16,000 no, >• Muskogee...... 30,27 7 30,150,652.00 20,215.00 25,710 3,366 155,166 Mrs. Cora Case Porter... 5.12 Okmulgee"—^! 25,00 0 17,072,547.00 8,283.00 18,384 1,638 60,060 Mrs. Izora Ground „_.. 2.4 • Enid.-.-lif. 22. 000 13,993,577.00 7,500.00 19,044 1.772 66,243 Mrs. Jessie L. Parks Ml^?»;ZA 3.01 - Sapulpa.. 19,00 0 7,447,531.00 6,440.00 11,221 856 60,126 3.16 16,000-10,000 Mildred C. Naylor Ardmore..l..!.:'i 20. 000 6,500.00 17,355 127 46,423 Mrs. Myrtle Jones 2.32 Bartlesville 18,00 0 10,500. 000.00 8,382.54 14,429 2,183 82 965i-Bj.u£EW . J3rown_-_. 4.6 Shawnee-"...... 15,50 0 8,454: 600.00 9,894.83 22,975 2,103 77,789 Mrs.Trimmier Sloan Funk 5.01 McAlester...;."... 15,00 0 8,360: 902.00 4,243.00 12,630 1,130 65,000- Mrs, Phoebe E. Hayden 4.3,3 p- Ponca City:-... 13,50 0 5,583, 080.00 10,151.05 11,922 2,817 74,259 Mrs. Violet E. Kohler, 5.5 i—• -y Guthrie.ri..--- 13,42 0 5,250: 000.00 3,374.00 16,027 728 30,671 Mrs. W. N. Pattillo 2.2 CO „. Chickasha 12,00 0 8,435 ,001.00 4,385.00 8,339 810 24,184 Mrs. J. A. Thompson 2.01 P3^--^"Bristow—.. 12,00 0 4,133 ,000.00 4,500.00 4,253 1,360 32,473 Bern efti? Jackson 2.2 > Lawtonr.i;^. 11,00 0 5,165 ,168.00 5,900.00 5,900 1,358 46,831 Mrs. Mamie Small 4.22 10,000-5,000 \>-Pawhuska„ 10.,00 0 7,218,556.00 4,000, 3,370 1,476 17,748 Mrs. Carrie V. Morris 1.77 —~Duncan:r...j:. 10,,00 0 2,050, 4,047 1,047 25,597 Mrs. S. O. Moseley. 2.55 ^>Durant.r.u'.'..— 10,,00 0 1 Just bein ; establis hed ' ~y Henryetta.'N.-^- 10,,00 0 4,488,295.00 4,973, 9,974 771 22,165 Mrs.- Frances Threadgill._2 :50' 2V2T" ^>Blackwell.;...i 10,00 0 4,488,827.00 8,162 5,475 830 42.720 Mrs. R. M. Parkhurst .82 4.27 El Reno.--.L-. 10.00 0 4,792,326.00 6,220 10,647 1,265 53,967 Mary Elizabeth Wilson .62 5.39 Miami 10: 000 4,357,255.00 2,000 8.225 2,200 39,000 Mrs. T. C. Young...... 20 3.90 > Cushing i 10: 000 4,000,000.00 2,170 3,523 123 10,740 Miss Brown....:.... _C .217 1,07 '' Sand Springs.... 10: 000 2,305,554.00 1,643 3,943 1,069 20,934 Mrs. Cosette Gottry .164 2.09 - Altus 8: 000 2,500,000.00 2,195 4,216 123 21 224 Mrs. M.E, Lloyd .274 2.65 -^Tonkawa 7.00 0 3,600 4,048 327 15^000 Lucy-A: Gresty.'.F..- .514 2.14 ^ Drumright- 6.00 0 No repor - Still water..—.:. 6: 000 4,000,000.00 4,000.00 2,557 924 21,803 IMrs. Harriet Woodrin g-^wnfedoo^*- 66 3.63 •^ Pauls Valley:. 6,00 0 No repor 5,000-3,000 "Woodward...... 5.00 0 2,599,579.00 3,127.40 8,561 541 23,146 Metta M. Woodward- .625 4.62 -^>-Vinita 5:00 0 2,530,259.00 1,500.00 5,196 800 15,980 Mrs. N. K. Warner .30 3.1 _^>Alva 5:00 0 2,408,788.00 4,000.00 2,589 473 8,892 Mrs. G. M. Lisk .80 1.77 y> Perry 5;00 0 2,131,460.00 2,372.00 6,023 517 15,611 Mrs. Emilie LeBus .47 3.1 '_>_dinteinv. 5:00 0 2,113,039.00 3,200.00 5,380 926 28,510 Perdita J. Alvord..:.. .64 5.7 y Frederick.. 5:00 0 2,271.55 6,223 625 15,625 Mrs. Birdie Robinson- .45 3.1 Collinsville 5:00 0 750.00 1,660 228 6,401 Mrs. Lucy C. Pleas .15 1.28 Nowata.ii. 5:00 0 1,200.00 2,055 115 4,680 Nell Davis.—.
W SURVEY OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF OKLAHOMA—1925-1926—(Continued; SERVICE REPORT ($1.00 per capita is estimated as a fair appropriation for efficient library service, and 6 books per capita as a proper average for circulation.)
Tax Vols. Appro. Circ. CITY Popula Evalua Income Vols. Vols, Circula Librarian • per per tion tion added tion capita capita Wilson..;—— 4,500 1,000.00 2,429 738 14,429 Alice Lawrence .22 3.2 Claremorel... 3&&SZ 4,500 2,058,006.00 3,694.12 3,383 554 12,779 Jennie Hopkins .82 ;- Mangum."_U.. 4,000 600.00 2,660 526 13,000 Mrs. Mary T. Bryan .15 3.25 >Anadarko..„. 4,000 "27022,*975"00 1,800.00 3,725 331 12,644 Mrs. SarahAllphin..-^r .45 3.16 >Wagoner--.i:. 3,500 2,007,000.00 1,825.63 7,370 432 16,499 Leona Bateman .52 4.71 -Sayre r 3,500 1,400,000.00 1,312.38 2,524 655 18,463 Mrs. W. B. Rook .37 5.27 /-?- Yale -i.'.:._ 3,200 1,200,000.00 1,636.37 3,050 157 12,756 Fra-nces-Wagnerl .51 4 !f_ 3,000-1. M<. Walters I 3,100 795 1,510 400 8,450 Mrs." E. Voegelein._' .25 2.7 ,£; .^ Tahlequah-. 2,600 1,500.00 2,325 386 5,765 Essa Gladney '.57 2.2 Jf\ ^"Newkirk 3,100 1,240,081.00 1,194.63 3,483 567 18,674 Mrs. Anna L. Willson.. .38 6.02 |V> Hobart v- 3,000 1,904,396.47 2,400.00 7,761 761 27,137 Mrs. W. A. Phelps .80 9.04 :" 'Elk City... - 2,814 2,195,938.00 2,795.01 6,256 912 29,724 Mrs. Margaret Wood- .99 10.5 " '--Cordellr.y.i.., 2,500 1,000,000.00 1,000.00 3,919 152 11,841 Sadie Kizer .40 4.7 ^^ Cherokee.—.. ,%%&& 2,200 667.00 2,225 175 Mrs. Etta G. Watkins. .30 Fairview.II.:, 2,200 1,287.50 2,890 227 I Ula Frost .58 3.87 Colored Branches
Okla. City (Dunbar) I Not report ed separa tely. Elphanie Wood Young ]_ 984.00 2,192 Lueda Meadows L J>~ Muskogee Col. Public 1,208.93 8,145 Ethel M. Tucker.. L (Not a branch) *\V\ Okmulgee (Dunbar) 1,925 Maude J. Carter.. * Sapulpa Not report ed separa N. C. Day - Enid., Not report ed separa Hattie Smith. .Guthrie (Excelsior). 1,384.00 7,047 1,139 I 2,248 Elmira Johuson... FREE AND CLUB LIBRARIES—1925-26 Reported
Place Library Popula Quarters Vols. Circ. Librarian tion Antlers Club Library 2600 School 2,000 1,500 Miss Maurine Har- graves Britton _ Free Library- Building 800 Edwin L. Richard Pub. Library son Brok. Arrow 2500 2,093 2,050 Miss Helen Neibling Cherokee Pub. Library 2200 2,200 600 Miss Etta G. Wat- kins Erick Com. Library 1784 Building 811 2,280 Mrs. C J. Schmelzer Garber.....! Pub. Library 2000 City Hall 615 900 Haskell- Club Library given to Ha skel High Sch ool Libra l<* Hollis Public 2500 City Hall 530 900 Miss Ella S. Hos- tutler Hunter. Welfare Lg 400 Donated 393 1,440 Miss Alda Wilson Kaw City World Book Study Club 3000 Room 562 Mrs. R. M.Wilson • .. I •••• • Madill Club 3000 Room 1,544 6,288 Miss Hazel Rabon Olustee New State Club Room 981 2,360 Miss Pauline Blair Watonga Free 1800 Court House.. 1,500 2,600 Mrs. J. C. Boyce Waurika Public 1500 Building 2,363 3,553 Mrs. J. H. Gresham Wilburton.... Club 2500 City Hall 1,800 Mrs. A. C. Strong Yukon Club 1500 Building 1,033 4,189 Mrs. Nora Belisle
No Report For 1926. Ada—Forn.igh.tly Club Library." '• : Arapaho—Fernald. • Arnett—Club Library. \. Atoka—Pioneer. Beaver—Club Library. Broken Bow—Delphian Club Library.—"YWO.T. Houry^ - - Caddo—Club Library. Covington—Club Library- Fairfax—Public. Crandfield—Delphian Club Library. Hinton—Free Library. — Hominy—City Library. Hooker—Free Library. --..,. Hugo—Public Library. Idabel—Delphian Club Library. Jennings—H. S. and Public. Keota—Club Library. ''*/*• M Morris—Club Library. - Picher—Public Library. Prue—Free Library. — °^sA ~- 'Vt Quay—Review Club Library. '^v^t£ Roff—Club Library =v. '/> Shattuck—Club Library. -^ 6 Skiatook—Research Club Library. ?\s~ Stigler—Delphian Club Library. » *$1A~U CL .. ^OkNAA-y Supply—Entre Nous Club Library. Wewoka—Public Library. Checotah—Delphian Club Library. 3,&^ Guymon—Public Library.
—125— REPORT OF STATE SCHOOL LIBRARIES 1925-26 Total Expendi- i Place School Enroll Fac Library Expendi ture Books Librarian ment ulty Staff ture Magazines Ada-iLL'. .East Central State Teachers College 1,700 40 ,355.03 ,875.84 E. C. Wilson > Alva.. i .iNorthwestern State Teachers College.. Chickasha..;i_ .'Oklahoma College for Women 726 42 8,021.-6 2,232.71 [Blanche L. Hawks Claremore __: .[Oklahoma Military Academy 200 12 2,075.00 950.00 J. J. Hill I /-Durant—-. :.. .Southeastern State Teachers College.- 3.678 42 6,878.29 2,233.89 Paul B. Cullen I' -Edmond—.- -iCentral State Teachers College „ 'Ruby Canton •— {~J Goodwell.i...-- .Panhandle State School of Agriculture..- .„. ^^>Langston ... .'Colored Agri. and Normal University V5 Lawton-,.....- .'Cameron State School of Agriculture 225 379.00 163.00 Frances Spencer I Miami ._• Northeastern Oklahoma Junior College 200 900.00 1,350.00 Sophia Kreterkv"' .. Muskogee-.... State School for the Blind 135 1.921.63 1,846.63 Pearl P. Smith ^ Norman.. University of Oklahoma 4,500 Jesse L. Rader >Norman.. Law School 200 4,770.001 2.400.00 A. H. Huggins — Norman.— Geological Survey 90.00 John S. Redfield — ^Oklahoma City—I University Hospital School of Medicine.. _.. Helen L. Kendall ' Oklahoma City.1.. University Hospital Training School for Nurses. 152.50|Ruth Poindexter .-•- Stillwater—.—.. Agricultural and Mechanical College 6,286.74 Elsie D. Hand —~ Sulphur- School for the Deaf ^>-Tahlequah— Northeastern State Teachers College 1.300.00 Dorothy K. Cleaveland ^/Tishomingo-- Murray State School of Agriculture.. 150.14 Dovie ThorntoiW—-- •./•Tonkawa.—'.J: Oklahoma State Business Academy 600.00 Lula Doeuges ""^"' Warner... Connor State School of Agriculture " Weatherf ord Southwestern State Teachers College.... 699 27 4,880.00! 2,300.00|Mrs. Eula C. Froman - Wilburton:...;: School of Mines and Metallurgy.. 200 11 275.00lF!orence Graves Miller REPORT OF STATE INSTITUTIONAL LIBRARIES 1925-26
Place Institution In Execu "Library Book Superintendent Librarian mates tives Staff Euad- Ardmore7\A) W Confederate Soldiers' Home.. George W. Lewis. p Enid.."\\.\k 'Institute forFeebleminded ! ' ' jC. D. Louthan Granite State Reformatory t 681 I 3 I ^. 3 I 250.00 Dr.'George A. Waters. L. M.Carson Helena West Okla. Orphans' Home ' ' ' .——'..„...... 'j-^V,L.-Higginbotham_. McAlester State Penitentiary.. 2,093 I • 2 j 62.00 (Gen. W. S.. Key S. H. Williams, Chap x '••••• • | ' ' «\ ™ [Harry Miller, Pris. McAlester (Boley).. Training School for Negro Boys ._ ' ' '.. ' J. H. Lilley-.TTrrr.-:. ' Norman— 'Central State Hosp. for Insane... 1,520 [ _ ' 175.00 ID. W. Griffin.... ,W,i< Oklahoma City. Union Soldiers' Home „.. 100 ' 9.00 Chris Madsen _ i!iO>Pauls Valley Training School for Hovs _ John W. Scott. ^-tS~-$ j.Pryo™~-~r- Easc„„*/-M.It Okla„ . Orphansrv„.u ' HomXJ e 24-,AC6 Earl-Witt .--:...._ i..-. ' --ST/ Supply We>t Okla. Hosp. for Insane No library Dr. E. L. Bagby...:-rrT. K Taft- Deaf, Blind and Orphans' Home (Col.)— _| 284 10 J. R. Johnson \ ' Tecumseh Industrial School for Girls 212 , Mrs. M. B. Conkling. Flossie Dent., _^> Vinita... East Okla. Hospital for Insane 125.00 •Dr. F. M. Adams REPORT OF DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOL LIBRARIES 1925-26 %^^^^ .\„ . \ Bacone.'—....-i 'Bacone College. ' B. D. Weeks..... ' 0> Bethany. 'Bethany- eniel ' A. K. Bracken.—. -Cordell— [Christian College..- 265 I 9 [ 1 350.00 [W. Claude Hall.- Ima-Mae Pipkin Fkfiwi Durante.—. Okla. Presbyterian College for Girls.... [ E. H. Hotchkiss. Enid... Phillips University... „.' I. N. McCash.... Alice See.. Guthrie::.... Catholic College for Young Women- 400.00 [Mother M.Mechtilde Sister M. Ignatia Oklahoma City.. Oklahoma City University.. 522.41 Eugene Antrim.. Shawnee Oklahoma Baptist University.. 277.97 J.,R. Lawrence... Mrs. W..D. Moorer Shawnee.."....! t. Gregory's College Ex^pffvJT Smithville::.... Fulsom Training School 100 35.00 iW: B. Hubbell 'Linda Lane Fowler Tulsa.-.r.. : University of Tulsa 415 27 1,718.89 IF. G. Dill Gertrude Bichards - FINANCIAL REPORT OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES—1925-26
RECEIPTS EXPENDITURES ( SALARIES City Library Year From Bldg. Heat Quarters Estab. Cost of Bldg. Tax Other Books Periodi- Binding grounds & Miscel Staff Janitor Levy Sources icals Repairs Light laneous Altus CityAud. _.. 1921 $2,195.00 572.83 $47.00 $780.00 $540 00 Alva Citv Hall. .-' . 4,000.00 503.49 19.50 32 25 72 76 372.00 Anadarko City Hall 1907 1,800.00 478.82 61.25 4.50 416.68 900.00 Ardmore 1 Carnegie 1905 $15,000 6,500.00 215.26 227.70 4.49 1,975.24 439.88 812.23 2,584.60 240.00 1913 Bartlesville. ..'Carnegie 10,000 8,382.54 630.41 3,592.45 500.00 150.10 3,720.00 420.00 1921 8,162.50 301.51 1,239.97 183.85 158.02 *13,024.30 Donated 194.43 1,422.00 30.25 Bristow. 'Building. .. . 1912 4,500.00 1,104.36 63.91 2 75 150 00 364.67 2,283.00 360 00 Cherokee Rented rm. 1912 667.00 125.00 27.00 35.00 480.00 Chickasha Carnegie 1904 10,000 4,385.00 448.00 200.00 614.00 380. '4 387.00 2,030.00 360.00 Claremore. 'City Hall 1914 3,694.12 .. . 1,019.66 56.70 "36775 577.00 247.:-!:. 1,122.50 Clinton Citv Hall. ... 1921 3,200.00 195'lT 1,283.00 75.00 90.40 151.00 246.18 133.70 1,312.00 30.00 Collinsville Carnegie 1917 8,000 750.00 284.28 71.08 37.84 240.00 120.00 Cordell Carnegie 1911 9,400 1,000.00 142.40 47T95 ~1L75 ------115.60 480.00 48.60 Cushing City Hall 1921 107.83 21.50 8.45 252 81 480.00 DO Drumright H. S. rm 1921 Duncan. 'Citv Hall. - 1920 2,050.00 700 00 100.00 225.00 300.00 25.00 00 Durant Temp. bldg. 1926 Elk City „ Carnegie 1915 10,000 2,400.00 395.01 1,096.68 66.50 11.53 319.30 116.12 182.93 650.00 351.95 Carnegie 1902 12,500 6.220.00 291.00 1,501.32 194.00 342.08 2,963.48 368.96 64 '.87 2,587.00 300.00 Enid Carnegie 1910 25,000 7,500.00 500.00 2,673.32 242.45 97.00 391.24 317.91 447.98 3,510.00 300.00 Enid (Col.) Boom 1924 Fairview 'Citv Hall. ..' 1908 1,287.50 231.44 50.00 1 196.00 840.00 Frederick Carnegie 1915 10,000 2,271.55 145.50 800.00 85.00 300.00 300.00 400.00 1,093.75 300.00 Guthrie. Carnegie 1900 35,000 3,374.00 263.93 350 00 430.00 887.93 1,590.00 480.00 Guthrie (Col.)....[Building. 1,384.00 200.00 J 152.00 80.00 24.00 720.00 Henryetta. 1 Building. "l920" 4,973.00 187.70 535.49 126.40 209.80 1,237.51 120.56 521.56 1,619.40 100.00 Hobart ' Carnegie 1912 9,000 2,400.00 789.09 86.20 91.78 257.00 198.85 198.85 780.00 117.00 Lawton— 1 Carnegie .- 1905 20,000 5,900.00 2,000.00 955.73 1.500.00 1,680.00 720.50 1914 25,000 385.00 223.00 McAlester. .'Carnegie 4,243.00 800.00 . 1 ™ "~ 435.00 2,100.00 300.00 Mangum 'Court House 1922 600.00 Carnegie 1920 l6~000 2,000.00 ... ,. 70.00 10.00 150.00 70.00 200.00 600.00 120 00 Muskogee Carnegie 1908 60,000 20,215.00 2,741.50 955.00 388.70 965.20 326.82 935.92 3,507.13 8,659.49 1,020.00 Muskogee (Col.) Building. 1914 1,200.00 7,060.67 4.18 180.00 92 23 636.00 60.00 Newkirk City Hall 1920 1,000.00 19X63 236.52 8.50 37.29 480.00 Nowata High School ~ 495.00 705.00 456.27 45.00 990.00 Oklahoma City Carnegie 1901 64,800 50,820.00 6,000.00 561.82 800.00 1,500.00 7,700.00 2,050.00 2,550.00 29,020.00 1,200.00 Okla. City (Col.) Building. 1921 6,000 6,000.00 Okmulgee Building. 75,000 8,283.00 2,200.00 1 209.25 1,100.00 483.00 3,900.00 600.00 Okmulgee (Col.) Building. 1 720.00 Pauls Valley. City Hall 1925 II ... 1 II 1 Pawhuska. . City Hall 1921 165.34 492.94 59.02 487.22 1,733.00 266.50 Perry. Carnegie 1903 10,000 2,372.00 167.02 325.00 101.50 115.05 258.58 297.75 38.23 1,083.45 84.90 Ponca City Carnegie 1910 7,200 10.151.05 4,167.07 217.71 468.81 9,439.00* 245.00 394,95 3,290 00 300.00 FINANCIAL REPORT OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES—Continued
Cost RECEIPTS EXPENDITURES SALARIES Library Year Cost of From Bldg. Heat City Estab. Quarters Bldg. Tax Other Books Periodi- Binding rrounds & Miscel Staff Janitor Levy Sources icals Repairs Light laneous Hall.— 1920 3.300.00 1,643.71 61.60 237.76 153.51 133.84 1,142.00 Sapulpa Carnegie 1917 30,000 6,440.00 758.25 284.35 73.34 59.08 575.30 247.81 3,8 9.08 600.00 Sapulpa (Col.) — H. S. rm. 1923 1919 1,200.00 115.00 617.42 36.85 13.00 7.85 7.05 480.00 Carnegie 1902 15,500 9,894,83 2,178.80 314.24 1,892.09 526.65 364.78 3,660.00 290.00 1921 4,000.00* 641.25 29.00 50.00 622.34 720.00 400.00 Carnegie 1905 10,000 1,500.00 375.00 2n.00 100.00 180.00 600.00 to 1921 3,600.00 1,545.19 105.75 600.00 292.96 300.00 Tulsa. Carnegie 1913 55,000 43,932.00 9,000.00 719.10 726.00 1,524.00 3,792.00 25,320.00 960.00 CD (Est.) Tulsa (Col.) Rented bldg 1924 84.00 900.00 City Aud 1923 1.500.00 149.41 390.11 56.37 25.28 85.24 85.66 900.00 106.75 Carnegie 1912 10,000 2,367.59 285.62 96.80 185.17 1.200.00 600.00 Walters Room 1922 625.00 170.00 265.00 25.00 25.00 480.00 City Hall 1921 1,000.00 68.07 282.25 87.15 10.00 75.07 613.60 Carnegie 1917 10,000 3,127.40 114.97 441.51 52"65 1X39 530.22 159.93 183.90 1,680.00 Yale- Rented bldg. 1920 1,636.37 120.84 23.00 I 50.25 10.10 52.66 1,275.00 *Ponca City, $9,000 for lot from other city funds. *Stillwater,fl,943.41 set side for bldg. INDEX
A. L. A., 7, 15, 16, 31, 48, 53, 67, Children's Book Week, 13-14, 30, 73, 74, 75, 76. 73. Ada, 106. Choctaw County, 20, 35, 57, 84. Adair County, 35, 79. Cimarron County, 20, 25, 57, 84. Adult education, 76. Claremore, 107. Alfalfa County, 20, 35, 57, 79. Cleveland County, 21, 35, 57, 84. Altus, 71, 91. Clinton, 71, 88. Alva, 112. Club libraries, 116-19, 125. American Association of Univer Coal County, 18, 21, 35, 57, 85. sity Women, 26, 27. Collections, not fixed, 75. Anadarko, 81. Collinsville, 109. Antlers, 107. Colored libraries, 38, 62, 124. Appropriation, 36, 49. Comanche County, 21, 58, 85. Arapaho, 88. Cordell, 112. Ardmore, 82. Cotton County, 21, 58, 86. Arnett, 88. Counties, see name of county. Associations, library, see A. L. A., County libraries, 73-74. Oklahoma Library Association, Covington, 74, 89. Southwestern Library Associa Craig County, 21, 58, 86. tion. Creek County, 86-87. Atoka, 79, 118. Cushing, 71, 104. Atoka County, 20, 35, 57, 79. Custer County, 18, 21, 58, 88. Authors, Oklahoma, 120-21. Delaware County, 21, 35, 58, 88. Bacone, 96. Denominational school libraries, 41. Bartlesville, 111. Department of Education, 76. Beaver, 79. Dewey County, 18, 21, 35, 58, 88. Beaver County, 20, 35, 57, 79. Drumright, 71, 87. Beckham County, 20, 57, 79-80. Duncan, 71, 108. Bethany, 98. Durant, 34, 71, 81. Blackwell, 13, 71, 92. Blaine County, 20, 35, 57, 79. Edmond, 70, 98. Blind, books for, 7, 27, 54, 76. El Reno, 81-82. Board of Education, 8, 62-64. Elk City, 79. Boards, library, see Trustees. Ellis County, 21, 35, 58, 88. Book Week, see Children's Book Enid, 71, 74, 88-89. Week. Erick, 33, 80. Branch libraries, 62-64. Exhibit, art, 26; Sesqui-centen- Bristow, 13-14, 35, 71, 86. nial, 48. Britton, 98. Extension work, University of Broken Arrow, 109. Oklahoma, 70. Broken Bow, 95. Bryan County, 20, 35, 57, 81. Fairfax, 32, 102. Fairview, 96. Caddo, 81. Federation of Women's Clubs, 26, Caddo County, 20, 57, 81. 31, 66-67, 71, 116-19. Canadian County, 18, 20, 57, 81-82. Financial reports, 36, 42-43, 122. Carnegie Corporation, 67-68, 72-73. Frederick, 108-109. Carter County, 18, 20, 57, 82-83. Free and club libraries, 39. Cataloguing, 49. Certification, 9-11, 49, 72. Garber, 74, 89. Checotah, 95. Garfield County, 21, 58, 74, 88-89. Chemical library, 85. Garvin County, 18, 21, 58, 90. Cherokee, 79. Geological survey library, 85. Cherokee County, 20, 57, 83-84. Gifts, 74-75. Chickasha, 90-91. Goodwell, 108. —130- INDEX Grady County, 18, 21, 58, 90-91. Lincoln County, 18, 22, 35, 59, 94. Grandfield, 109. Logan County, 22, 59, 94. Granite, 91. Love County, 22, 35, 59, 95. Grant County, 21, 35, 58, 91. Greer County, 21, 58, 91. McAlester 105-106. Guthrie, 70, 94, 116. McClain County, 18, 22, 35, 59, 95. McCurtain County, 22, 35, 59, 95. Harmon County, 21, 35, 58, 91. Mcintosh County, 22, 35, 59, 95. Harper County, 22, 35, 58, 91. Madill, 96. Haskell, 96. Major County, 22, 35, 60, 96. Haskell County, 22, 35, 58, 91. Mangum, 71, 91. Helena, 79. Marshall County, 23, 35, 60, 96. Henryetta, 32, 35, 71, 101. Mayes County, 23, 35, 60, 96. High school libraries, 27. Meetings, library, see different Hinton, 81. library associations. Historical society, 100. Miami, 32, 71, 103. History of Oklahoma libraries, Morris, 101. 68-77. Mothercraft classes, 26, 27. Hobart, 93. Murray County, 23, 35, 60, 96. Holdenville, 33. Muskogee, 33, 70, 96-97. Hollis, 91. Muskogee County, 23, 60, 96-97. Home reading courses, see Read T ing Courses. ]\ egro libraries, see Colored Hominy, 102. branches. Hooker, 108. Newkirk, 71, 92. Hospital library service, 64. Noble County, 23, 60, 97-98. Hughes County, 22, 35, 59, 91. Norman, 85. Hugo, 71, 84. Nowata County, 23, 35, 60, 98. Hunter, 74, 89. Okfuskee County, 23, 35, 60, 98. Idabel, 95. Oklahoma City, 14, 62-64, 70, 71, Individual loans, see Reference 99-100. department. Oklahoma County, 18, 23, 60, 98- Industrial School for Girls, 107, 99. 119. Oklahoma Education Association, Institutional libraries, 72, 127. 16, 26, 52. Oklahoma Library Association, Jackson County, 22, 35, 59, 91-92. 16-17, 51, 52, 66-68. Jefferson County, 22, 35, 59, 92. Okmulgee, 13, 35, 71, 101. Jennings, 33, 71, 104. Okmulgee County, 18, 23, 60, 101. Johnston County, 22, 35, 59, 92. Olustee, 91-92, 117-118. Osage County, 23, 60, 102-103. Kaw City, 92. Ottawa County, 23, 60, 103. Kay County, 22, 59, 92-93. Keota, 91. Pauls Valley, 31, 71, 90. Kiefer, 87. Pawhuska, 34, 71, 102. Kingfisher County, 22, 35, 59, 93. Pawnee County, 23, 35, 60, 104. Kiowa County, 18, 22, 59, 93. Payne County, 18, 23, 60, 104-105. Penitentiary library, 106. Langston, 94. Perry, 97198. Latimer County, 22, 35, 59, 94. Picher, 103. Law library, 85, 100. Pittsburg County, 23, 61, 105-106. Laws, 8, 9-11, 30. Ponca City, 34, 92. Lawton, 32, 71, 85-86. Pontotoc County, 18, 24, 35, 61, Le Flore County, 22, 35, 59, 94. 106. Legislation, see Laws. Positions, 72. Libraries, see kinds of libraries. Pottawatomie County, 18, 24 61 Library training, 8, 17, 49, 77. 74, 106-107. See also Certification. Prue, 103. —131— INDEX Public health, 26. 129; free and club libraries, 39, Pryor, 96. 125; institutional libraries, 41, Publications, 8, 30, 76-77. 127; penitentiary, 15; public Publicity, 75. libraries, 37, 123-124; state Pushmataha County, 24, 35, 61, school libraries, 40, 126; travel 107. ing libraries, 20-25, 57-61.
Quay, 104. Taft, 97. Tahlequah, 32, 83-84. Beading courses, 28-29; A. L. A., Tax-supported libraries, counties 54, 76; U. S. Bureau of Edu without, 35. cation, 7, 54, 76. Texas County, 24, 35, 61, 108. Reference department, 7, 26-27, Tillman County, 24, 61, 108-109. 54, 75-76. Tishomingo, 92. Revised Braille, see Blind, books Tonkawa, 32, 71, 93. for. Traveling libraries, 7, 18-26, 56, Roger Mills County, 24, 35, 61, 57-61, 75. 107. Trustees, 8, 30, 62-64, 72. Rogers County, 24, 61, 107. Tulsa, 27, 70, 71, 110. Tulsa County, 24, 61, 109-110. Sand Springs, 32, 71. Sapulpa, 71, 87-88. U. S. Bureau of Child Hygiene, 8. Sayre, 32, 71, 80. U. S. Bureau of Education, 28. School, summer library, see Li University of Oklahoma, 70. brary training. School libraries, see kinds of Vinita, 71, 86. schools. Vocational board, 8. Seminole County, 18, 24, 35, 61, Vocational education, 8, 26. 107. Sequoyah County, 24, 35, 61, 108. Wagoner, 110. Sesqui-centennial Exposition, 48. Wagoner County, 24, 61, 110. Shawnee, 74, 106-107. Walters, 71, 86, 116. Shattuck, 88. Warner, 97. Skiatook, 109. Washington County, 24, 61, 111. Smithville, 33, 95. Washita County, 24, 61, 112. Southwestern Library Associa Watonga, 34, 80-81, 116. tion, 48, 51. Waurika, 31, 92, 118. State institutional libraries, 41. Weatherford, 88. State library, 100. Wewoka, 32, 107. State school libraries, 40, 126. Wilburton, 94. Stephens County, 24, 61, 108. Wilson, 71, 83. Stigler, 91. Women's clubs, see Federation StUhvater, 71, 104-105. of Women's Clubs. Sulphur, 33, 96. Woods County, 24, 61, 112. Supply, 113. Woodward, 33, 113. Summer library school, see Li Woodward County, 24, 61, 113. brary training. Wynona, 103. Surveys, 7, 117; colored branches, 38; denominational school libra Tale, 13, 71, 105. ries, 127; financial, 42-42, 128- Yukon, 82, 118.
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