-T- * i^ :« Nov 7 bond referendum
Librarian
“Voters of Orange .County
stand to reap direct and definite
benefit from passage of the com*
ing state bond issue,” Louise C.
Hamlin, Librarian of the Hills
boro Confederate Memorial Li
brary said today.
One of the 10 issues in the
Nov. 7 referendum is an ur
gently needed building for the
North Carolina State Library in
Raleigh,, which the State Library
will share with the Department
of Archives and History. Accord
— ing to Mrs. Hamlin the State Li
brary has so increased its serv
ices to local libraries in recent
years that it can no longer op
erate efficiently from the im
provised and crowded quarters'1
it now occupies.
“Local readers often use the
State Library without knowing
it,” Mrs. Hamlin said, “and its
services have enabled us to ex
tend better library service to
Orange County at a considerable
saving in local tax dollars.” Ex
plaining some of the services
rendered by the State Library to
the local library, Mrs. Hamlin
mentioned its book processing
..1 center, “talking books” for the
blind, professional consultant
service to local libraries, and ad
ministration of state and federal
r financial aid funds. The Hills
* ■ boro library will receive-nearly
$5,500 in state and federal aid
this year to supplement the local
appropriation for library sendee.
“The State Library’s book pro
cessing center alone saves us
several hundred dollars a year,”
Mrs. Hamlin said. New books
bought by the state’s local li
braries are ordered, catalogued,
and processed for circulation at
the book processing center in Ra
leigh. This results ia much larger
price discounts than could be ob
tained if each local library or
dered its books in small quanti
ties directly from the publishers.
The processing center has also
made possible a sharply reduced
salary expenditure from local
funds, for book processing per
! sonnel.
Books not in the local library’s
collection are made available
through the State Library’s in
terlibrary loan service, and many
such titles are borrowed each
month from the Raleigh library
for local readers, Mrs. Hamlin
said. Films used by Four-H clubs
and other community groups are
borrowed from the State Libra
ry. Also, professional personnel
of the Raleigh library organize
state-wide workshops each year
at which personnel of the local
libraries are trained in the vari
ous processes of library opera
tion. Marlene C Perry, Orange
County Bookmobile Librarian, at
i tended a recent workshop at Wil
son.
“The State Library is now op*
erating front intolerably crowded
and poorly lit offices scattered
among seven buildings, some of
which have been condemned by
state authorities as unsafe,” Mrs.
Hamlin said. “There can be no
doubt that this agency has given
us a big dollar's worth of service
for every dollar spent on it. If
it is to continue these services to
us it must have quarters ade
quate to the job.”
The -Nov. 7 bond referendum
ballot is arranged in a way which
will enable voters to either elect
or reject all or any one of the
10 works the state plans to fi
nance through the bond issue.
State Treasurer Edwin Gill re
cently said that the debt service
requirement of the proposed,
bond issue was provided for by
the General Assembly of 1961,
*and that no increase in taxes
would result from passage of the
bond referendum.
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