This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...already I have learned to keep my finger on the intellectual pulse. It varies greatly in different parts of the county, but nowhere is one troubled by the demand for the 'best seller, ' and in general the books selected from the shelves of the wagon are those of the greatest intrinsic worth." To Atlanta, the centre of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...already I have learned to keep my finger on the intellectual pulse. It varies greatly in different parts of the county, but nowhere is one troubled by the demand for the 'best seller, ' and in general the books selected from the shelves of the wagon are those of the greatest intrinsic worth." To Atlanta, the centre of library activity in the southeast, belongs the distinction of establishing the first free circulating library, supported by the people, in the State of Georgia. The history of this movement, which ineluded the combining of the property of the Young Men's Library Association with the $ 125,000 bequest by Andrew Carnegie and the annual appropriation of $5,000 from the city council, is told by Miss Anne Wallace, then librarian, in the first annual report of the Carnegie Library of Atlanta: "The Young Men's Library Association, which was organized in 1867, had for thirty years struggled to maintain a public library for the city. Without endowment and without municipal aid, the association was crippled in its endeavors; yet, by the individual effort of its directors and members, property to the amount of $ 100,000 had been accumulated. Realizing that the day of the subscription library was over, the directors tried to devise some plan to make the library free to the citizens of Atlanta. About this time, Mr. Walter M. Kelley, who was an active member of the directory, succeeded in interesting Mr. Andrew Carnegie in the efforts of the directory to make the library free. Mr. Carnegie, with characteristic generosity, offered to give the city $100,000 to build a new library if the city would furnish a site and guarantee $5,000 a year for its support. Later, Mr. Carnegie gave $25,000 to the building fund. The directors of the library and the mem...
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