cya.*] ^Wlton . ( «oqos Aisiqn i® fais** M . u n PUBLIC LIBRARY INFORMATION AND REGULATIONS MILTON, MASS. PUBLISHED BY THE TRUSTEES 1907 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/details/informationregul1907milt o b H cL, MILTON PUBLIC LIBRARY m c <5 t 4 Opened February 23, 1871 Present building opened June 11, 1904 TRUSTEES Amor L. Hollingsworth, Chairman Nathaniel T. Kidder, Treasurer Roderick Stebbins, Secretary Orrin a. Andrews H. Helm Clayton John F. Perkins Charles E. Rogerson Arthur H. Tucker Joseph C. Whitney -4 LIBRARIAN Gertrude Emmons Forrest BRANCHES East Milton Reading Room Ellsworth Building, Adams Street Josephine M. Babcock, Assistant in charge Mattipan Reading Room Bartlett’s Library Building, corner Blue Hills Parkway and Blue Hill Avenue Ellen F. Vose, Assistant in charge Russell Reading Room Corner Randolph Avenue and Hillside Street Jennie W. Kennedy, Assistant in charge A weekly delivery of books from the Central Library to the East Milton and Mattapan Read- ing Rooms is made on Tuesday ; to the Russell Reading Room on Saturday. A weekly house-to-house delivery in Blue Hill and Brush Hill districts is made on Thurs- day. DEPOSIT STATIONS Convalescent Home Town Farm Melley Shop Station Public Schools 2 Deliveries of books to the schools are made as follows : — Glover and Houghton, the first Monday of each month. Belcher and Wadsworth, the first Tuesday of each month. High, Consolidated, and Thacher, the first Thursday of each month. Tucker and Sumner, the last Thursday of each month. LIBRARY HOURS Central Library, week days, 9 a.m. to 6 P.M., legal holidays excepted. Wednesday and Sat- urday evenings, 6 to 9. Sundays, 12 M. to 5 p.m., November to May. East Milton Reading Room, week days, 3 to 5.45 p.m. and 6.30 to 8.30 p.m., legal holidays excepted. Closed at 6 p.m. Thursdays during July and August. Mattapan Reading Room, week days, 3 to 8 p.m. , legal holidays excepted. Closed at 6 p.m. Thursdays during July and August. Russell Reading Room, Friday and Saturday evenings, 7 to 9, legal holidays excepted. 3 INFORMATION AND REGULATIONS GENERAL INFORMATION The library is free to all residents of Milton. Temporary residents are granted the same privileges as residents. The library system consists of the central library, three branch reading rooms, three deposit stations, and a house-to-house delivery covering Blue Hill and Brush Hill. The house-to-house delivery service is made pos- sible by the income of a fund left by the late Governor Wolcott for that purpose. In addition to the weekly delivery, there are at each branch reading room, from two hun- dred to four hundred books on deposit, some of which are changed each month, and which may be taken out in the regular way. Books borrowed at the central library may be renewed or returned at any of its branches ; books borrowed at the branches may also be renewed or returned at the central library. 4 A Bulletin giving: titles of new books added to the library is published quarterly ; it is ready for distribution about the 15th of Janu- ary, April, July, and October, and may be obtained free at the central library or at the branches. It will be mailed to any address for twenty -five cents a year. Recommendations for the purchase of books not in the library should be made on the regu- lar forms provided for that purpose. Such recommendations receive careful consideration. By a system of inter-library loan, this library is often able to borrow from other libraries books needed for special research. Applica- tion for inter-library loan should be made to the librarian. The library is classified by the Dewey deci- mal system, the main classes of which are the following : — 000 General works 500 Natural science 100 Philosophy, includ- 600 Useful arts ing Ethics 700 Fine arts 200 Religion 800 Literature 300 Sociology, ^including 900 History, including Education Biography and 400 Philology Travel 5 No numbers are assigned to English fiction, which should be called for by author and title. The children’s room is open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Here are shelved about twenty- five hundred books suitable for boys and girls under sixteen years of age. No book is added to this collection which is not first reviewed, and the reading of the children who use the room is carefully supervised. Parents desir- ing help in the selection of books for their children should consult with the assistant in charge, who has for reference selected lists of books suitable for all ages. The library receives regularly over seventy periodicals. With the exception of a few du- plicates, the current numbers do not circulate. At the end of the current month all periodi- cals may be taken out and may be kept seven days ; at the end of the second month they may be kept fourteen days. Bound volumes of periodicals circulate under the same rules as books, except bound volumes back of ten years, which are not issued for home use. The library has several hundred photo- graphs, illustrating Greek and Roman sculp- 6 lure, Italian art, cathedrals, etc., which may be taken from the library. Exhibits of photographs or paintings are often held in the art room, notices of which are bulletined at the library and announced in the local newspapers. REGISTRATION Registration may be made at the central library or at any of its branches. The signa- ture of a parent or guardian is required for persons under twenty-one years of age. Each person registered is assigned a number, which should always be given to the assistant at the desk when taking out books. If call slips are sent to the library, this number should be put on each slip. Registrations are good for two years (provided the person remains a resident of the town), at the end of which time they must be renewed, in order that addresses may be kept up to date. Borrowers are requested to report change of residence at once. The person in whose name a book is issued is responsible for all fines accruing upon the same. 7 BOOKS FOR HOME USE All borrowers are allowed as many books as they may need at one time, provided but one is a seven-day book. New fiction, current periodicals, and certain other books for which there is great demand, are issued for seven days only and are not re- newable. Other books may be kept fourteen days and may be renewed. If books for special study are needed for more than fourteen days, borrowers should state at the issue desk the length of time required. All books at the end of fourteen days are subject to recall if needed by other borrowers. The date when a book is due is stamped on the dating slip at the back of each book issued. Certain books, on account of their cost, rarity, or character, are withheld from general circulation. Teachers may take from the library such books as are needed by their pupils for sup- plementary reading, subject to such rules as the librarian may prescribe, the expense of transportation to be borne by the schools. 8 RENEWAL Books issued for seven days are not renew- able. Books issued for fourteen days rnay be re- newed. Books issued for more than fourteen days may be renewed only when such renewal does not interfere with the needs of other borrowers. Renewal may be made by mail or telephone, the request stating borrower’s number, the title and number of the book, and the date on which it becomes due. Transfer of books from one borrower to another is not allowed. RESERVE Reserve postal cards may be purchased for one cent at the central library or at the branches. These cards should be filled out with the title of the book desired and properly addressed. When the book comes in, the postal card will be sent to the borrower and the book will be held for him two days. 9 FINES A fine of two cents per day (legal holidays excepted) is charged on each book kept out over the time allowed, and three cents for each notice of such detention sent by post. For every two weeks a book is over de- tained, an additional penalty of twenty-five cents is charged. One week after a book is due, notice is sent to the person to whom the book was issued ; and two weeks after a book is due a second notice is sent. Borrowers are expected to note the expira- tion of the time limit. No claim to exemption from fine can be established because of the failure of any notice to or from the library. Fines continue to accumulate for a period of four weeks, from the time when the book should have been returned, unless, prior to expiration of that period, the borrower reports the book as lost and pays the full cost of re- placing it. A book so detained for more than four weeks shall be considered lost, and the person detain- ing it shall, in addition to accrued fines, pay the full cost of replacing the book. 10 All books must be returned to the library whenever the trustees so order, and a fine of one dollar will be charged for each volume detained after a time limit has been given by special notice by mail. CONTAGIOUS DISEASE Books will not be received from houses in which there is contagious disease, nor will they be issued to persons living in such houses during the period of contagion. If library books are already in a house when a case of contagious disease breaks out, they should not be returned to the library, but should be given to the agent of the board of health to be fumigated. No fine will be charged for books so detained. CARE OF BOOKS All books and periodicals must be used and handled with care. The attention of borrowers is called to the following law : — 11 Commonwealth of Massachusetts [Chapter 81, Acts of 1883,] Be it enacted , etc., as follows : Section 1. Section seventy-nine of chapter two hundred and three of the Public Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows: — Whoever wil- fully and maliciously or wantonly and without cause writes upon, injures, defaces, tears or destroys a book, plate, picture, engraving, map, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, manuscript, or statute belong- ing to a law, town, city or other public or incor- porated library, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, or by im- prisonment in the jail not exceeding six months. Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 24 , 1883. Violations of this statute will be prosecuted according to the law. 12 J RECENT ADDITIONS Bishop. Botchkaveva. Bucher. Bucher. Cerf. Chapman. Cram. Dargan. Dawson. Dickinson. Egan. Emerson. Gompers . Henderson. Hopkinson. Lodge . McCrae . Maeterlinck . Millais. Ogg. Palmer. Peabody. Phelps . PnxTIrpsnr Putnam. Roosevelt. Sedgwick. Spargo . Thayer. VanRensselaer , Wilder. MILTON PUBLIC LIBRARY April 1, 1919 Industry and trade . 380 Yashka - my life as peasant officer and exile. B Practical wireless telegraphy. 654 Vacuum tubes in wireless communication. 654 Alsace-Lorraine since 1870. 943.44 Songs and poems. 811 The sins of the fathers. 814 The cycle's rim. 811 Living bayonets ; a record of the last push. 940.91 Children well and happy. 649 Ten years near the German frontier. B The early years of the Saturday Club. 928 American labor and the war. 331 The aims of labour. 331.8 Greek leaders. 920 Christopher: a study in human personality. 134 In Flanders fields and other poems. 821 The Burgomaster of Stilemonde. 842 Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous. B National progress, 1907-1917. 973.91 Altruism: its nature and varieties. 171.8 Education for life: the story of Hampton Institute. 370 Selected Articles on A League of Nations. Ref. 172. 4 'labor 'party. . 396 On duty and offjletters written in- France, May 19 17 -Sept ember 1918. 940.91 The great adventure: present day studies ini American, nationalism. 814 Dante. B Elements of socialism. 335 VojLleys from a non-combatant . 940.91 A ijnanual of homemaking. 640- Personal identification. 573.6 B Tallentyre .Translator w Voltaire in his letters.’ Atherton. Ferber . Ferber. Gibbs . Gordon. Lockhart. MacGrath. Marmol . Reynold s . Rideout. "Sapper" . Scott . VanDyke . Walpole. Welles. Wolcott. FICTION Ths avalanche. Chaerful - by request. Empa McChesney & Co. Thje black stone. Thja Sky Pilot in No Manx’s Land. The fighting shepherdes’s . / The private wire to Washington. Amalia: a romance of the Argentine. Green Valley. TinCowrie Dass. The human touch. A daughter of two worlds. The valley of vision. The secret city. Anchors aweigh. A gray dream and other stories of New England life. . ‘ ■ f a h ' , \Y ■£> V 1 » j 4 . - ■ • ■ ' ;;l ■ . *. r - . h a a <. ! i MILTON PUBLIC LIBRARY RECENT ADDITIONS May 1, 1919 American Academy of Political and Social Science. Industries in readjustment. 306 Archer. The peace-president. B Baker. Dramatic technique. 808.2 Benson. The white eagle of Poland. 947.06 Beston. Full speed ahead. 940.91 Bunkley . Military and Naval recognition book. 355 Burke. Nights in London. 914.2 Burroughs . Field and study. 504 Camp. Athletes all. 796 Canfield. The day of glory. 940.91 Dahamel . Civilisation. 940.91 Gregory ,Lady. The Kiltartan poetry book. 891.6 Jellicoe . The Grand Fleet, 1914-1916. 940.91 Jordan. The kinship of self control. 131 Kipling. The years between. 821 Kirby . Military abbreviations. Ref .355 Laski . Authority in the modern state. 321 Luckiesh. Light and shade. 515.63 Moeller . Mol i ere: a romantic play in three acts. 812 Pack. The war-garden victorious. 635 Roosevelt. Autobiography. B R$?eht'hal . ' Reconstructing America.'"* 1 ~ 331 . 8 Slater. Living for the future. 216 Spargo. Bolshevism. 323.2 Strachey . Eminent Victorians. 920 Swinburne . Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne. B FICTION Abbott . Old Dad. Arnim. Christopher and Columbus. Beresford. The Jervaise comedy. Comstock. The valley of vision. Conrad. The arrow of gold. Dillon. The Americans. Gibbons . A little gray home in France. Hurst. Humoresque . King. The city of comrades. Leacock. The Hohensollerns in America. MacGill . . Glenmornan. Nicholson. Lady Larkspur. Porter. Dawn. Prouty . Good sports. Rickard. The fire of green boughs. Ruck. A land-girl’s love story. Snaith. The undefeated. Turner . Simple souls. L MILTON PUBLIC LIBRARY RECENT ADDITIONS June 1 , 1919. Balfour. Dr. Elsie Inglis B Barrie . Alice sit-by- the-f ire . 822 Benwell . History of the Yankee Division 940.91 Cabot. Social work 360 Cantacuzene, Princess. Revolutionary days; recollections of Romanoffs and Bolshevik!. 940.91 Chamberlain. Vacation tramps in New England 917.4 DeBooy . The Virgin Islands, our new possessions. 317.29 Egan. The war in the cradle of the world. 940.91 Fletcher. Indian games and dances. 970.6 Gilliland. My german prisons. 940.91 Hay,Isn. The last million: how they invaded France and England. 940.91 Hayward. How to become a wireless operator. 654 Hooker, Sir Joseph. Life and letters. B Huntington, Ellsworth. World-power and evolution. 575 LaMotte , Peking dust. 915.1 Leathern. The comrade in white. 940.91 Levine. The resurrected nations . 940.9 Loisette . Assimilated memory. 154 Lowell . Greater European governments. 354 Noyes . The new morning. ^ 821 Rickenbacker . Fighting the flying circus. 940.91 Russell. - ~ Proposed roads to freedom^ 335 Speare. World war issues 940.91 Surette . The appreciation of music. 780 Whi tlock,Brand. Belgium. 940.91 FICTION Dodge. Rosy. James . Travelling companions. Marshall . The Clintons and others. Paine . Dwellers in Arcady. Patricia Brent , spinster. Rohlfs. Room no. 3 Wemyss . Oranges and lemons. BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS Bachman . Great inventors and their inventions y926 Brown. Rainbow Island. Godoy . When I was a girl in Mexico. y917 .2 Grey. Rusty Miller. Hale. Little Allies. Heyliger . Fighting for Fairview. Parkman. Fighters for peace. y920 Perkins . Cornelia. Pier. Dormitory days. Smith. Good old stories for boys and girls. - ;.%} - ■ • J. /4V U • ' .L ‘JL V X'l’.ilR ' . , i . • ■ ; • . - ,y , 1 . -■ ixii . • f- ; • > * - . t ^ ^ . ,• .*\t *y