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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...Harbors Virginia....... Vhite Bear. Winneliztgo... 1non;t...... Worthington Zumbrotai..... 1ncludes unex upon application. icnded balatnce. Ilncluded in book account.. ing. e. Recently organized under city control: no statistics available. furnished by council. All items oi expenditure have been tabulated by the commission, and may be had. Includes additional Carnegie gift. 9. For six months. DEPARTMENT OF TR.-"IELING LIBRARIES. Mrs. Karen M. Jacobson, Librarian. The traveling library, started in I900, is an effort on the part of the state to promote the education of its citizens by sending out books to communities not otherwise provided for. The removal of the Commission headquarters from Minneapolis to the New Capitol, St. Paul, has resulted in increasing the number of applications during this biennial period from I99 to 419. Citizens visiting their beautiful capitol have for the first time heard of the traveling library and gone home to express their appreciation of this branch of education conducted by the state, by applying for a library. That a reading habit may be formed, the libraries are made up largely of recreative reading, both fiction and non-fiction, with a belief that in some cases this habit may lead to serious study, that in every case it will serve to bring to Minnesota's growing population a wider knowledge and quicken the moral sense. Though originally the traveling library was designed for rural communities and for towns and villages where no public libraries exist, the recent library development as instanced by the spread of Carnegie libraries, has made the traveling library, with the more recent copyrighted books, a valuable adjunct to the small public library. To the public library of limited volumes...