SCHOOL LIBRARIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 232, 1 October 1928, Page 6

SCHOOL LIBRARIES.

I notice with interest that the Government has granted a subsidy of £20 to the Mount Albert Grammar School. I do no. know what the library there is like, but no doubt there are the beginnings of a good collection. Boy* are very much better off than they were in my day. When I went to the Grammar School there was no library, but now, so I hear, there are about three thousand books in the library, including many volumes of standard literature. There are complete sets of "Everyman" and the admirable Home University Library, and the library even possesses the magnificent Oxford Dictionary in many volumes, of which there cannot be many set* in New Zealand. For its library the Grammar School is largely indebted to Mr. E. Earle Vaile, who endowed it. It occurs to me when I see the good books on a variety of subject* that my boy brings home that there are probably a good many old boys of this and otherschools who could help" these schools to build up fine libraries by giving either cash or books from their own collections. Some «f the books that fetch almost nothing at dispersal sales would be welcomed bv theso schools. OLD SYMONDS STREET.