Library
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Taking Good Reading To
Ng Outports
Helpful Service from Rabaul Library
Prom Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, April 21.
THE Rabaul Regional Library was re furbished a couple of months ago when it was newly painted, supplied with cane chairs, pictures, pot-plants and other oddments to make it more attrac tive to those of the reading public who wish to spend a quiet evening there.
A special Children's Corner has been installed also—with nurserv-rhyme frieze and low shelves and benches. Pupils of the European school are brought along to visit en masse one afternoon per fort night when they are instructed in library usage and entertained with a story hour.
Most important of all, the library has received some hundreds of new books and more are on the way.
One of the most popular services that the library supplies is the forwarding of parcels of boqks to outport readers.
Applications for parcels of books may be made by individuals or grouns who ex change the books amongst themselves.
The post-office carries them free and masters of coastal vessels are co-operative in delivering and picking up books from remoter outposts.
Parcels of magazines and newspapers are also sent to registered country bor rowers. * Readers may select titles of books from a catalogue supplied by the library but frequently he or she merely indicates the variety of reading preferred and leaves the rest to the librarian.