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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 10, 26 March 1947, Page 5

the Government provides the books. The actual book borrower, does not pay a subscription. C.L.S. provides the following services:—

(i) Free Public Libraries “A” Service. The C.L.S. will supply Whakatane with 450 books (315 nonfiction and 135 fiction). These books (not necessarily all of them) would be exchanged at the thrice-yearly visits of the C.L.S. van. The library would be entitled therefore to receive 1350 books per annum from this source. Your Librarian or Committeemen would make their own choice of the books from the van.

(ii) The Request Service. In addition to the* above bulk supply of books, all libraries operating under C.L.S. have the right to make use of the thousands of books at Headquarters of the C.L.S. upon request. (iii) Subject Loan Collections. Again to supplement the issue from the van and the material supplied through the Request and Information service, collections of, collections of 20 to 80 books on' almost any subject are issued free to libraries for two monthly periods. Some of the subjects covered are: Agriculture and gardening, occupations and hobbies, sports and pastimes, home management, business (advertising, factory, retail, secretarial, salesmanship, window dressing etc.), New Zealand history, literature and drama, languages, film and theatre, music, science, medicine, phychology and philosophy, sociology, education and technical subjects, etc. etc. (iv) Inter-Library Loan. “Interloan” is the practice of mutual aid in lending by which the libraries in New Zealand improve their service to readers. The libraries work together and consolidate resources. It is an extention of the Request Service.

(v) Periodical Service: To enable users of the Public Libraries to have access to a considerably wider range of periodicals than such libraries can afford regularly to buy.