Excerpt from The Library and Its Administration: State Normal School at Worcester, Mass.; Pamphlet A

Apprentice library. - For the use of classes serving as apprentices in the public schools a portion of our library is reserved. These books are duplicate copies of some in the general library, are distinguished from them by labels of a different color, and the slip used in borrowing them is also of a different color.

The books in the Apprentices' Library are such as are found most useful as supplementary to reading, geography and history lessons; and in many cases several copies of each are furnished. But the apprentices are not confined to the use of these books alone they have the same access to the general library that the other classes enjoy.

New-book table. - Before new books are given their permanent place on our shelves, they are exhibited for a few days, or perhaps a few weeks, on a special table known as the new-book Table, which is placed where it can be seen by all. The length of time they are thus shown is fixed by the frequency of purchase of new books, which varies a good deal; when they are being added rapidly to the library the time of display for each is necessarily shortened. The accommodations of the table being lim ited, the books that have been there longest must be taken away to make room for the new arrivals. But when, for any reason, fewer books are being bought than usual, each will stay the longer on the N ew-book Table. This gives all books a sort of introduction to pupils, though nobody is required to give any attention to this display. As a matter of fact, however, the table is an object of constant interest to our students, who by occasional reference to it get a pretty good notion of the additions to the library.

Special collections. - N ear the entrance to the main hall of the school are placed two small bookcases, labelled, respectively, Suggestions for a School Library, and 'suggestions for a Teacher's Library (see 'wing - frame' The books in these cases are not used by the school; in fact they are the only books in the entire collection thatare kept locked up. But the cases have glass doors and the titles and the authors of the volumes can be plainly seen. Neither case is full. Plenty of space remains in each for future additions; but each has a representative collection of what, in the opinion of the school authorities, are among the best books for the teacher and for the school. They are intended to serve as suggestions to our students in these two lines and it is very common to find students of the senior class, notebook in hand, making lists of these books for future use.

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