NEW USE FOR FREE LIBRARIES
Cardiff possesses in its public free library an institution which claims distinction for the spirit of enterprise permeating its system of management, says the London "Daily Mail." The latest, and perhaps thi most notable, illustration of this is to be found fa the establishment of a telephone enquiry department. Mr Farr, the chief librarian, stated that during the short period it has been in existence the department has worked very satisfactorily. The enquiries received cover a very wide range, from questions relating to conscription, co-operation, and boilers, to ladies' fans, hedgehogs, old age pensions, and tailoring. When time is required tor an answer to be given the enquirer is rung up later. Regular borrowers of books are able to find out over the telephone whether ascertain volumn is available,Jand to ask for it to be kept until called for. The ramifications of the department may be judged from the following specimens of questions asked and answered in the course of a few hours :--Number of Protestants and Roman Catholics in Wales? What patents have been taken out for buffer springs? Whose is the quotation, "Make new friends, but keep the old?"
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3145, 24 March 1909, Page 4
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196NEW USE FOR FREE LIBRARIES Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3145, 24 March 1909, Page 4
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