The Call Number, Volume 1, Number 3, November 1939 Page: 4
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DENTON COUNTY BOOKMOBILE
Early in January of 1938, the Denton- County School board authorized the
purchase of a bookmobile to render library service to the schools of the
county. A custom body built by a company in Wichita Falls, Texas, was placed
on c one and a half ton Chevrolet truck chassis. It has shelf space for 2500
books, a desk, and is wired for electric lights; the entire cost of the book-
mobile came to about $1300.
The book collection of this traveling library is composed of all the
fiction owned by the elementary schools which are participating; and support
is obtained through a fee of $10 per teach in each school per year. Evdry
common school except one, and four of the eight independent schools in the
county, are affiliated with the county library; the total number of schools
participating is forty-nine.
The first trip was made on February 15, 1938. The teachers came in and
selected their quota of thirty books each from the 300 picture books, 1200
classified books and 1000 fiction books on the shelves.
When the first year ended in February 15, 1939, the records indicated that
30,000 books had been circulated to approximately 3,500 school children in the
county at a very low cost per book, and about 9,000 miles had been traveled.
On October 30, 1938, a 16 mm moving picture projector was added to the
equipment; since then picture shows are given regularly at the schools which
have electricity.
The above article was written by Ned Conner, a student in our library
school. Ned has had charge of the Denton County bookmobile since its purchase
in February of 1938. He is a junior in the college and a library major. We
are expecting someday to find him in Who's who in library service. He is an
excellent student and a credit to the Department.
LIBRARY AIDED BY SCIENCE
Four hundred dollars worth of photostatic equipment which can bring the
rarest book or the most priceless map or manuscript in the world on a bit of
inexpensive film to the North Texas State Teachers College library, has just
been installed at the college.
As far as is known here, the University of Texas library is the only
other in the state which is using similar equipment. It includes two machines,
a Graflex photorecorder which takes pictures of book pages at the rate of one
picture every two seconds, and an Argus reading machine which projects develop-
ed film on a small reading screen or on a larger wall screen.
A film library has already been begun at the college and will be expand-
ed. The machines will also be available to the library service department, which
later plans to use them in offering a course in documentary reproduction.-- Dallas Morning News, Sunday, Nov. 12, 1939.
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