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Along The Way
By Emily Kill*tie /
The Duplin County-Dorothy
Wightman Friends of the Library
presented a plaque in memory of
Mrs. Louise Boney to the Duplin
County-Dorothy Wightman Board of
Trustees last week.
, The plaque will hang in the county
library on Seminary Street in
Kenansville. Each year the Fnends
of the Library will select a person
actively involved with the Duplin
Library as an outstanding volunteer
and his or her name will be engraved
on the Louise Boney Memorial
plaque, Duplin Friends of the
Library president Tom Fife
explained. According to Fife and
members of the Duplin County
Library Board of Trustees. Mrs.
Boney has served both organizations^
and was instrumental in acquiring
the first bookmobile in the 1950s.
This week Along the Way is
featuring a history of the Duplin
County Library written by Pau
Barwick and published in the April
26, 1956 issue of THE DUPLIN
TIMES. The Duplin Library is one of
many tributes that can be credited in
part to the efforts of Mrs. Boney.
Duplin County Library
Since 1947, the Duplin County
Library Service has shown continued
increase in the number of books
available for circulation and the
actual circulation.
"We are proud of the growth of
our county library," County Libra
rian Dorothy W ghtman said. 1
don't think television has hurt us. It
did at first," she said, "but now the
novelty has worn off."
Duplin County's library has 14,792
volumes on its shelves. This shows
an increase of 1,000 volumes since
last July when the fiscal year ended
and inventory was taken.
The main library is located near
the courthouse in Kenansville and is
staffed by Miss Wightman. Most of
the work around the county is done
on a voluntary basis. In addition to
the central library, there are four
local libraries. One is at Faison, Rose
Hill, Wallace and Warsaw.
In each of these local libraries, the
librarian is appointed and paid by
the town with the exception of Rose
Hill, where the librarian is a volun
Each town has provided and fur
nished a room for the library. Some
are in the community and others are
in the city hall, which is the case in
Warsaw.
In 1948, a bookmobile was pur
chased by the county library through
state aid funds. Each year this truck
makes several trips around the
county to deliver books to community
libraries and to volunteers in various
rural communities. In such commu
nities, these volunteer workers
circulate books among farm families.
The bookmobile has a capacity of
800 books. Miss Wightman is the
driver of the bookmobile and finds
that the turn-over is very good
during the year throughout the
county.
Through the bookmobile last year,
7,749 volumes were circulated. Ac
tually, this is a small decrease over
the previous year. But on the other
hand, an increase was shown in
circulation from the central and local
libraries.
Because of the bookmobile, whicn
made 130 trips during 1955, more
reading is done by farm families than
would be done otherwise. The 130
trips last year represents 359 stops
and 4,444 miles traveled.
When weather conditions are
favorable most of the year, more
trips are made and more miles
traveled during a year. For the past
two years, hurricanes, extreme cold,
extreme hot days and rainy days
have decreased the number of trips
over a year's schedule.
Duplin County has continued to
show progress each year with its
library. In 1947 there were 3,700
books on the shelves. Today there
are 14,792 volumes.
An indication of the useage of
books is revealed through the circu
lation growth since 1946.
In 1946, the circulation was
14,884; 1947, 21,623; 1948, 17,046;
1949, 27,862; 1950, 30,980; 1951,
34,138; 1952, 32,841. Bad weather
conditions kept the bookmobile from
making its remilar rounds in 1953.
32.164; the year in which television
invaded eastern North Carolina as a
novelty and new media of enter
tainment; 1954, 35,033; the biggest
year ever registered for book circu
lation in Duplin; and in 1955, a
decrease was shown with 32,471
volumes circulated. Miss Wightman
said bad weather conditions and an
overlapping, more than usual of
crops was responsible for the de
crease.
The county library is financed
through the county and state. From
the county each year, $1,800 is
appropriated and from the state, the
library receives $3,600.
For several years, the county
library was housed in a very small
building which was badly in need of
repairs. When Hampton Williams
sold the property to the county for
construction of Duplin General Hos
pital, he gave his old office building
to the county with the understanding
that it was to be u?e.1 for a county
library building, litis new structure
was moved from the original site to
behind the agricultural building in
Kenansville and occupied in July,
1953.
The Trustee* of the Library are
interested in the growth of its
facility. Mrs. Lawrence Southerlaod
of Kenansville is chairman; Mrs.
Hugh Morrison, Wallace, secretary;
with other trustees of Mrs. N.B.
Boney, Kenansville; Mrs. Louise
Fussell, Rose Hill; Mrs. W.R.
Clifton, Faison; Mrs. Paul Potter,
Warsaw; and Mrs. Alvin Kornegay, (
Albertson.
A.C. Hall, chairman at the Board
of County Commissioners; and F.W.
McGowen, county auditor, are
es-officio members of the Board at
Trustees.
Announce
Birth
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Bell of Route
2, Mount Olive, announce the birth
of their daughter, Laura Elizabeth,
on May 12, 1985, at Wayne Memo
rial Hospital in Goldsboro.
Mrs. Bell is the former Robin
Stroud, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Claro Stroud of Kenansville. The*,
paternal grandparents are Mr. an^9l
Mrs. Delmas Bell of Route 2, Moun^fc
Olive. ^
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