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THE LIBRARY LOG
No. 2.             Ten Numbers Per Year
Published by the Public Library for the Citizens of Milwaukee  February, 19 I8
A GREAT NEED
BOOKS FOR OUR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS

Hundreds of thousands of them are need-
ed for the WAR SERVICE LIBRARIES
maintained at cantonments, training camps,
posts, forts, naval stations, on vessels, and
overseas.
OUR MEN MUST HAVE THESE
BOOKS
They want them for their leisure hours-
for recreation and study. They are eager
to read and books must be provided.
WILL YOU HELP?
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE
IN THE BIG CAMPS. Library Buildings
have been erected by the American Library
Association in 34 of the large camps. Each
building accommodates from 10,000 to 15,000
volumes and from 175 to 250 readers.
In every camp from 8 to 20 branch li-
braries are maintained in Y. M. C. A., K. of
C., and Y. W. C. A. buildings, and in hos-
pital reading rooms; and each branch needs
from 500 to 1,500 of the A. L. A. books.
Library Deposit Stations containing 50 to
100 books each are being established in bar-
racks and mess shacks. There will be a
hundred or more of them in some cases.
MEN OVERSEAS are being supplied from
dispatch offices established at Atlantic ports,
and by the purchase of books in Europe.
A librarian has been sent to France to
supervise their distribution, and to make
certain that every organization which serves
our troops is supplied with the books it
needs.
IN SMALLER CAMPS. Books are being
sent by the Association direct to scores of
Chaplains, Y. M. C. A. and K. of C. secreta-
ries and to officers. Some of these have a
few hundred men and need a few hundred
books; others need many thousands of
books.
A FUND of $1,700,000 (including grants for
buildings) has been given by the American
people for the work. Not a dollar of this
fund will be spent for administration at
headquarters or in the field that can be
saved for books, but it must cover the erec-
tion and maintenance of buildings; the pur-
chase of equipment and supplies; salary and
expenses of librarians and assistants (many
of whom are not volunteers) in camps, dis-

patch offices, and in France; travel; trans-
portation of books and supplies (a very
large part of which can not be at govern-
ment expense); subscriptions to periodicals,
and the purchase of such books (hundreds
of thousands of them) as will not be ob-
tained as gifts.
WHAT REMAINS TO BE DONE
Half a million books are still required to
meet the actual needs of men in 34 large
camps. Another half million are needed im-
mediately for the military forts, posts and
small camps, for vessels and barracks. For
the men on transports and overseas there
is need of an almost unlimited supply. For
every MAN in service there ought to be a
BOOK in service. And books wear out.
They must be replaced frequently. HUN-
DREDS OF THOUSANDS WILL BE
PURCHASED. But every dollar available
for purchases is needed for the sort of books
that can not be expected as gifts.
THEREFORE,
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MUST
BE OBTAINED AS GIFTS.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
You can pass on to the men in khaki the
books you have enjoyed but will not read
again.
You can give them some of the books you
like best-books you would like to keep.
THEY will like them, too.
You can send. novels, tales of adventure,
detective stories and standard fiction; up-
to-date books on civil, mechanical and elec-
trical engineering, the trades, business, the
professions and agriculture; recent text-
books on military subjects, mathematics,
the sciences, and foreign languages; books
of travel, history, biography, poetry and
the present war; dictionaries and new
encyclopedias; interesting books in foreign
languages.
NOTIFY THE PUBLIC LIBRARIAN
BY TELEPHONE
GRAND 2686
He will send for the Books

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