MANUAL OF PRACTICE FOR USE IN DEPOSIT STATION LIBRARIES AND BRANCH LIBRARIES PREPARED BY CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY GARFIELD COUNTY LIBRARY EXTENSION DEPARTMENT ENID, OKLAHOMA JUNE, 1922 ENID EVENTS ENID, OKLA. There is no frigate like a book To take you leagues away, Nor any courser like a page Of prancing poetry. This solace, may the poorest take Without oppress or toll, How frugal is the chariot That drives the human soul! MANUAL OF PRACTICE 3 CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY j ENID, OKLAIIONA | j GARFIELD COUNTY LIBRARY EXTENSION DEPARTMENT LIBRARY SERVICE TO SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY J It is the aim of the Carnegie Public Library of Enid through l ! branches, community centers, school deposit stations and other = | agencies of the County Library Extension Department to make books S [ accessible to every individual in Garfield County, and to give train- J J ing in method and management to volunteer custodians of such | | libraries. j Every person of reading age may have one or two books (depend- ? I ing on kind of book) every two weeks. Books may be renewed for I ! two weeks by telephone or by mail. I Every school in Garfield County may have fifteen books every jj j sixty days. Schools having four teachers and upwards may have [ § fifty books. Books may be renewed by telephone or by mail. Every town and community in Garfield County may have 100 ■ | books every sixty days. Books may be renewed by telephone or mail. ! As the system grows, the goal to be reached is a library deposit ! ! in every school and community, and a branch library in every town | ! in the county in charge of a competent librarian and having its own ( 1 local library board, to advise with the central library board. j COST. \ Books are loaned free of charge. Transportation charges are | 2 paid one way whether books are sent singly or in groups. Custodians may prepay return transportation charges with fines ! collected on overdue books, but if a book is lost and paid for the [ ! money must be sent to the central library for the purchase of a new | ! book. j A fine of two cents per day is charged on all books kept over- | time, unless an extension of time has been granted. Application cards will be mailed free to individuals in the \ ( county, and their book requests sent by parcel post prepaid. Custodians are encouraged to send to the central lilbrary for ! 1 books requested by their patrons. Books may be selected in person by individuals, teachers, and \ 2 custodians. § j REGISTRATION ( Application cards are filed in one straight alphabetical file at the 2 ! central library for county and city borrowers. County applications = I at the central library are written in red ink as a mark of distinction. S i 4 COUNTY LIBRARY EXTENSION Application cards at central library or branches must be signed ! by a property owner not related to the applicant. A teacher’s application card for a school library must be signed | by a school trustee. j A custodian’s application card for a community center library j must be signed by the secretary of the club or organization sponsor- | ing the library. Branches attend to their own registration record. i \¥ \ BORROWERS’ CARDS Borrowers’ cards must be used at the central library, also at the ! branches, but are not required for checking out books from the school I and community deposit stations. ADVERTISING When a teacher, school board, club president or community I worker sends (or brings) in an application card properly signed, it is } understood that the books sent will be made available to the pat- S rons in the district as well as to the pupils of the school or mem- | bers of the club organization. Every custodian is asked to post a LIBRARY SIGN in a con- = spicuous place stating hours of opening and the rules governing the ; book circulation. When a library is sent to some place other than a ! school the custodian is requested to see that the principal of the local I school is notified also that the nearest newspapers make announce- | ments of the free library service. DISTINCTION BETWEEN BRANCHES, STATIONS, AND OTHER AGENCIES BRANCH — Auxiliary library, complete in itself, having its own ' permanent collection of books, either occupying a separate building ! or housed in one or more rooms in a school, social center, rented I store, postoffice, etc., and administered as an integral part of the $ library system. To rank as a branch the hours of opening need not i approximate those of the central library, but must conform to a regu- | lar schedule. | DEPOSIT STATION — Small collection of books sent for a defi- j nite time to a school, club, postoffice, store, home, etc. Collections | are frequently changed; stations have some permanency. Branches or stations may be in charge of a volunteer librarian (called custodian) or a paid librarian employed at the expense of a ! cc-operating institution or society. OTHER AGENCIES — Loans made at the central library or re- ! quests by mail or messenger. MANUAL OF PRACTICE 5' BOOK COLLECTION \ Permanent collection in branches frequently supplemented by ! r loans of newer books from the central library. j School and community center deposit stations supplied from \ | separate county collection in central library. j Equal desk service to city and county from central library j | collection. | Special requests or needs provided for by temporary loans from ! j central or county library collection. j CATALOUGE A separate card catalogue lists all books in the county collection, j { This catalogue is kept in the county library room at the central 2 i library. | | Branches have card catalogues of books in permanent collection. I jj ACCESSION RECORD (County Collection) Typewritten on 3x5 cards and kept at central library. Continu- j I ous numbers obtained by the use of a numbering machine, with a j statistical sheet record of additions and withdrawals. } SHELF LIST Typewritten on 3x5 cards. County collection kept at central j | library in separate file. For permanent collections in branches a du- » I plicate shelf list card is supplied for each new book added to a par- \ j ticular branch. This is filed at the branch in shelf list order. CHARGING RECORDS POCKETS — Each book to be circulated is provided with a book j J pocket. DATE SLIPS — The “Date Due” slip is pasted on the fly leaf, : { opposite the pocket. | BOOK CARDS — All books to be sent to school and community [ j deposit stations require two book cards, one for the charge at the \ j central library, the other for the convenience of the teacher or cus- j | todian when charging books to pupils and school patrons who are not j ! required to have borrowers’ cards. | Custodians must return book cards in book pockets. Two colors, blue and yellow, are used to aid the eye in sorting jj juvenile from adult cards for circulation statistics. CHARGING BOOKS FOR COUNTY USE AT THE j CENTRAL LIBRARY In charging a book to be sent to a county collection, the book j | card to be kept on file at the central library is stamped with the date ] j due, the name of the county branch, community station ©r — o—o—o—o—o—o— »<>—»— ,>—»—<>— <>—< > — <>— « —04. 2. To be familiar with library tools and thoroughly acquainted • with the “Manual of Practice/’ which is always to be kept on hand j ! for reference. ’ 3. To be responsible for library housekeeping. - 4. To spend any time not actually needed for routine work, in I ( getting acquainted with the books, so that better service can be given { | to the readers. This can quickest be done by reading prefaces to i j non-fiction and by looking over the chapter headings. The custodian j | while on duty must not read either book or magazine fiction; noth- l J ing breaks down library morale more surely. * 5. All shelves to be read at least once each week. Fiction to ! | be kept in alphabetical order by author and class books in class num- ! j ber order. Adult and children’s book shelves to be kept separate. ( j 6. Only books in good condition to be circulated. Custodian is ! j to do simple mending and fasten in loose leaves before issuing books ! | another time. Worn-out books to be laid aside and returned to cen- I = tral library in next shipment. | WHAT A COUNTY LIBRARY MEANS The county will own a collection of books chosen to serve all the j I people and all the interests of the county. These books will be divided | j into smaller collections and so distributed that every individual in § the county will have easy access to them. Each collection will be ! | kept fresh by constant exchange of books. Instead of much money spent to small purpose for books by a j number of communities and by many schools and individuals, every j ! community, organization, school and individual will be served with j | the books they need and desire from the county collection. | The constant rotation of books will make one thousand books do | | the work of ten thousand. The county will have a librarian who will be at the service of [ | every individual and every organization in the county to see that they I j ^re provided with the necessary books and to find information and j j advice for them on any problem that may confront them. | i