Atlanta Daily World

Adults Sought To Increase
Use Of Library Services

BY GEORGE COLEMAN

Atlanta public libraries are holding "Visit Your Library — Know Your Library Week," November 9-15, with a special appeal to adult residents to become more library conscious and use a public utility which they are helping pay for.

The library of today has found itself surrounded by a rapidly progressing world filled with television and radio shows, pulp magazines, countless newspapers and information branches for all governmental sources.

And yet, with all these, it is estimated that non-partisan and beneficial information has escaped the eyes and minds of a great majority of the public. Many authorities believe that today, with an ever constant threat of impending crisis surrounding the earth, understanding is one of the most vital of all things.

PLAN CELEBRATION

The celebration is being sponsored by the Friends of the Library Association with the hope of seeing valuable books read by more people in the future than statistics show have used the service in the past.

The association in Atlanta is a close knit organization, with Mrs Ernestine Brazeal as its president. The goal sought is to:

1. Form an association of persons interested in the promotion of books and libraries.

2. To encourage and stimulate greater use of branch libraries.

3. To help build a more enlightened citizenry through the library and it's resources.

THREE LIBRARIES

Three up to date library branches are available to the Negro community: the Auburn Branch, the West
Hunter Branch, and the University Homes Branch.

The infinite services rendered by these libraries have been accepted almost as a household commodity by the public, but too often taken for granted without full realization of what is received.

Records show that in 1951 a total of 53,847 books were taken home for various purposes from Negro libraries out of a 134,700. A break-
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Breakdown of the figure reveals that youths are the main users of local libraries, and housewives are next on the list.

COMMUNITY NEED

The libraries perform needed community services everyday, Mrs. Annie L. McPheeters, librarian said.

Relating many tasks performed by each organizations, Mrs. McPheeters declared, "What our community is interested in we are."

The librarian explained that information which would cause individuals to become acquainted with economic, national and worldly problems can be found, free for the asking.