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Oct. 16, 1930 p.1: Vocational Desk is Added to Library

“Information on Professions and Women’s Movement is in Reading Room”

LIST TO INCLUDE BOOKS

A vocational desk, containing various kinds of information on women’s occupations and the women’s movement, is a new addition to the reading room of the library. This is made possible by the co-operation of the circulation department of the library with the vocational department.

Information given there is for the most part in books, magazine articles, and posters made by the Institute of Women’s Professional Relations. All of these will be changed occasionally to keep new material always on the desk. Interesting novels and biographies will be placed there from time to time.

There will be some general books there, such as Fleischman’s “Careers for Women,” and Hatcher’s “Occupations for Women;” and books on the women’s movement here and abroad, like Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own.”

For those who are especially interested, clippings on all sorts of occupations for women may be obtained from Mrs. Woodhouse’s office.

Oct. 2, 1930 p.5: Library Reserve Room has New Regulations

“Students Get New Privilege Under Time-Saving and Money-Saving Plan Adopted This Year”

Students using the reserve room of the library have been asked to comply with several new regulations this year. These recent rules have been adopted as time-saving and money-saving devices, according to Miss Mary Ruth Angle.

Under the new honor system students are allowed to get the books from the shelves and return them to the desk. All books are arranged in alphabetical order, and a student assistant keeps the books in perfect order. At the entrance to the room is an assistant who checks each girl’s books as she leaves the room. This is to safeguard the removal of books that are at a demand. The library staff does not want this to cause any student embarrassment but it is merely a precautionary measure.

Other reserve room regulations are the same as formerly with the exception that the room now closes at 9:30 p.m.

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Oct. 2, 1930 p.5: Many New Novels Will Be Placed in Library

“Fiction Room is to Contain Novels, Recent Purchases, Histories, Biographies, and Poetry”

TO HAVE NEW SEVEN-DAY BOOKS

Plans are underway in the library for the enlargement of the collection of books in the fiction room, with the hope that it may become a real reading room, where students and patrons of the library may have a quiet, comfortable place for recreative reading, reports Miss Irene Newton, circulation librarian. Here are to be shelved, not only novels and recent purchases of the library, but books in other fields, such as biography, history, travel, and poetry, as well. An order of new books for the seven-day shelf is now being prepared for circulation.

The fiction room is open every morning from 10 to 12 and from 3 to 5 every afternoon. The students and patrons are urged to come in during those hours and make use of the room.

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Nov. 27, 1929 (p.4): Rules for Library Usage Announced

“Reserve Books May Not Be Taken From The Room Except Overnight”

STACKS ARE NOT OPEN

Library hours on weekdays are from 8 A.M. to 10 P.M. On the main floor of the library are the reference room on the right and the periodical room on the left. The loan desk where books are charged for use outside of the building is in the main entry hall facing the entrance. The stacks, which house the greater part of the book collection are back of the loan desk and are not open to students. The offices are also on the main floor.

On the second floor on the right is the fiction room, open from 10 to 12 a.m. and 3 to 5 p.m. Here a student may select her own book, but must have it charged before leaving the room. Here also is kept a case of seven-day books, those of special interest which have recently been added to the library. Students are not allowed to use books other than fiction in this room. It is not for study of any kind. On the left at the head of the stairs are the Library Science quarters, a laboratory and class room. At the back opening into the hall, is the reserve room. On the right at the back is a special rest room, fitted out by the freshman class of 1928.

In procuring a book, the student should consult the card catalog, copy the author’s name, title, and call number (found on upper left-hand corner of the card) on a pink slip and present this at the loan desk. When the attendant has secured the book the student must sign both cards. The attendant will then stamp the date due in the back of the book. As many books as desired may be borrowed from the stacks at a time, but are always subject to the recall by the librarian. Books may be renewed for an additional two weeks if not needed by some one else. A fine of two cents a day will be charged for all books not returned on time.

No books or magazines, bound or unbound, are to be taken from the reference room or periodical room. All such material should be returned to its proper place on the shelf after use.

In the reserve room books may be secured which the instructors have put on reserve for certain classes. Reserve books may not be taken from the room at any time during the day. They may be taken out for overnight use by signing your full name upon the cards. Books may be taken out at 9 o’clock at night and must be returned by 8:30 the next morning. Failure to return a book on time incurs a fine of 25 cents for the first hour and 10 cents per hour thereafter. Removal of a book from the reserve room will result in a fine of 10 cents per hour.

Mutilation or injury of any kind to library books or periodicals will result not only in a fine to cover damages or replacement, but also in a withdrawal of library privileges.

All reference questions should be asked at the reference desk in the reference room on the right of the entrance. The reference librarian will be glad to assist in using the ready reference books in the library, in working up bibliographies, in looking up quotations, dates, etc., and in answering any puzzling questions which may arise.

Nov. 7, 1929 (p.1 and 2): Library Becomes a Prison Vault For Poor Visitor

To the already long list of tales concerned with the absent-mindedness of the college professor and incident may be added that happened recently on our own campus—though not, be assured, to one of our faculty.

A visiting instructor, who accompanied the delegation form a little eastern college to play day Saturday, finding herself tired out at the end of the day, decided to forego the excitement of “Children of the Moon” for the quiet pleasure of an evening at the famous library of the North Carolina College for Women.

She entered its sacred portals early in the evening, secured a select volume—could it have been “How to Arouse and Maintain Enthusiasm in Sports?”—and settled herself down to read.

But alas! She know not to what she was subjecting herself! All unbeknowing, she had entered a modern lotus land where books are the flower and the hard chairs the greensward whereon the drugged one reclines. Is it sleep or merely insensibility?

Time passed. The clock struck ten. The girl at the desk yawned, announced that the library was closing, powdered her nose, pulled down the iron slide, and locked the doors. The lights went out one by one. The front door clanged behind the departing librarian.

As the lights went out a little gasp came from the corner of the library, and an authoritative voice cried out, “Turn on those lights! I have not finished my book yet.” There was no answer. Darkness and silence shrouded the library.

The phys. ed. Lady, realizing that the building was closed for the night, frenziedly began trying to find her way out. For hours she wandered around, upstairs, downstairs, in the basement, trying every door, feeling her way over countless obstacles in the dark. Ever and anon she called aloud.

Finally the professor discovered a door with a night-latch, got it open, and escaped to the open air. Returning to her dormitory, she related a story to an interested group of listeners. “I thought I should have to stay all night,” she said. “Wouldn’t that have been terrible?”

And that is the latest contribution to the classic tales of Frosh greenness, Scotch stinginess, English density, and Jewish shrewdness, and Intellectual absent-mindedness!”

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Nov. 29, 1928 (p.4): Sophomore Class Gives Silver Tea in the Library

“Is to Celebrate the Opening of the New Reading Room Which Is Project of Sophomore Class”

The sophomore class gave a silver tea in the reading room which they have recently furnished in the library, Saturday afternoon from 4 till 6 o’clock, the purpose being to raise money to help pay for the new furniture in the room.

Mary Delia Rankin and Kate Graham met the guests at the door and directed them upstairs to the receiving line. This was composed of Elizabeth Monty, Olive Green, Mary Jane Wharton, and Evelyn McNeil. A number of guests, both students and faculty, called during the afternoon.

The class of ’31 adopted as its project the furnishing of this room, which is not to be used for serious study, but merely for light reading. The furniture is attractive and well chosen. Olive Green was the chairman of the committee in charge of furnishing the room.

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Nov. 15, 1928 (p.3): Advisory Council Has Meeting On Monday

“Appoint Committee to Discuss Noisy Conditions in the Library Reserve Room with Mr. Stone”

The Advisory Council, consisting of leading students of the campus, met the 12th of November at chapel period for a discussion of campus problem.

The topics brought up before the meeting were the trampled grass and the confusion in the post office and the library. A committee composed of Sara Brawley, Clara Guignard, and Katie Gravely was appointed to see Mr. Stone about the noisy conditions in the library, especially in the reserve room.

The Advisory Council is made up of sixteen girls who are leaders in campus activities. They are: Clara Guignard, Ruth Clinard, Rachel Aycock, Mattie Query, Polly Denson, Elizabeth Monty, Virginia Hassel, Katie Gravely, Mary Clara Tate, Frances James, Mickey Brown, Sara Brawley, Annette Rudisill, Edith Webb, Sue Underhill, and Elizabeth Combs.

Sept. 28, 1928 (p.1): College Offers Library Degree

“Twenty-Five Students Take Up This Work After Having Two Years A.B. Work”

MR. STONE HEADS DEPT.

In recognition of the possibilities of library work as a vocation, the college is for the first time offering a full time course leading to a degree in library science. Twenty-five girls, one of them a graduate of N.C., are making this work their major. A full time librarian is recognized as head of a department in any high school or college and is paid accordingly. Majors take the regular A.B. course during their freshman and sophomore years. Thirty hours of library science, including reference work, cataloguing, and circulating are required during the last two years of the college. The students may devote the rest of their time to English, History, Psychology, and their minor subject.

Two members were added to the library staff this summer—Mrs. Pierce and Miss Sankee. Mr. Stone is head of this department. The fiction room has been made into a study room for the library students, who are allowed to use the stacks at any time. The room is provided for individual desks for their use.

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May 5, 1927 (p.3): Ms. T.M. Barker of Atlanta Here

“Speaks to Students Concerning Opportunities for Library Work in South”

FIELD IS NOT CROWDED

Miss Tommy Dora Barker, librarian of the Atlanta Carnegie library and director of the Atlanta library school, spoke on “Librarianship, a Growing Profession,” to a fairly large number of students interested in librarianship on Tuesday, April 26, at 5 o’clock, in Miss Laird’s classroom in the Administration building.

Mr. Shaw, college librarian, introduced the speaker. Miss Barker first spoke of visits to several North Carolina libraries, also telling something if the work of the North Carolina Library commission, at Raleigh, where six special librarians are employed at serving the people of the state.

The library field is uncrowded, and there is increasing need of trained librarians, according to Miss Barker. Training is librarianship is given at library schools, of which there are ten or twelve in the United States, she continued saying that applicants should be graduates of a standard college. Two or four months of experience in library work are asked; this requirement cannot be demanded of all students, however, she declared, for some have not had access to a good library. The girl who is planning to be a librarian should know at least two modern languages; French, German, and Spanish are the most needed, Miss Barker stated. A knowledge of sociology, psychology, history, physics, and other sciences is indispensible, for as the speaker said the librarian’s field is “the whole field of knowledge.”

The Atlanta library school opens on September 15. Applications should be sent in before the middle of July. The course lasts nine months. Holidays included ten days at Christmas, two at Thanksgiving, and four or five in the spring. The course comprises technical training in cataloguing, reference work, compilation of bibliography, and work in library organization. A thorough acquaintance with “the librarian’s working-material books” is gained. During the second semester children’s library work is studied. Thirty-four hours of practice work in the Emory university library are required for graduation.

The library school places all graduates. The demand is greater for college and university librarians. The salary for beginning librarians is usually $1500, with an opening for advancement to a maximum, in the south, of $3600, a year.

Advanced courses in the various kinds of library work are given at Columbia university, Simmons college, Western Reserve university, at the Carnegie library school of the Pittsburg, Pa., library, and at a few other schools. Catalogues of a few other library schools are on hand at the college library, and Mr. Shaw or the library assistants will be glad to show them to any one interested in library work.

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Feb. 17, 1927 (p.1): Contemporary Art Shown in Library

“Document Room on Second Floor is Mecca of Interested Students and Public”

IS LOCALLY SPONSERED

An art collection, consisting of the works of contemporary American artists, and totalling more than $27,000 in value is on display in the document room on the second floor of the Library building.

The paintings, which were hung on Saturday under the supervision of Miss Molly Anne Peterson of the home economics department, are open to the public from 3 to 6 o’clock in the afternoon and from 7:30 to 10 o’clock in the evening. They will continue on display until the middle of next week.

The collection was obtained for exhibit by the Greensboro Art association, which has done much in the past to arouse local interest in art. The Rev. H.L. Canfield of the Universalist church is president of the association. Miss Abigail Rowley of the English department of the college is secretary.

One of the most interesting pictures, centered around the figure of an Indian and entitled “In His Garden,” is a work from the hand of Walter Ufer and was on display at the Sesqui-Centennial exhibition. The most expensive of the collection, also an out-of-door scene, is a work by Horatio Walker entitled “Maple Sugar” and is values at $3,000.

The majority of the pictures are landscape work, but a number are excellent character studies. Notable among these in conception is “Arthur Heseltine,” by Robert Vonnoh. “Peonies,” by Frederick J. Waugh, is representative of the more conventional studies.

The following are the pictures on display: “Little Sister,” Murray Bowley; “Up Hill Road,” Gardner Symons; “Their Debut,” Louise Ritman; “Trout Stream,” E. Irving Couse; “In His Garden,” Walter Ufer; Adirondack Woods,” Paul King; “Arthur Heseltine,” Robert Vonnoh; “A South Wind,” Cullen Yates; “Gulls, Peggy’s Cove,” Ernest Lawson; “Pandora,” George Elmer Browne; “Summer Afternoon,” W. Elmer Schofield; “Donatello Head,” Leslie Thompson; “Wood Interior,” Emil Carlsen; “House in the Woods,” Ben Foster; “Off Shore,” Eric Hudson; “Resting,” R. Stone Breding; “Rhododendron,” Anna Fisher; “Silent Stream,” Jonas Lie; “Pennsylvania Woods,” Charles Warner Eaton; “Last Lights on Rainier,” Evylina N. Miller; “Bywood,” A. Bower; Nocturne,” A.H. Gorson; “Maple Sugar,” Horatio Walker; “Peonies,” Frederick J. Waugh; “Bonfire,” William L. Lathrop; “White Mountains,” Jay Connoway.

Sept. 23, 1925 p.1: Changes Appear in the Library this Year

“The Reserve Books Are Moved Upstairs and the Stacks Are Closed To Students”

CO-OPERATION IS DESIRED

The outside of our library would never give a hint that it is not the same place as it was last year. Just one peep inside if the seemingly unchanged building, however, would reveal such wondrous changes that one could easily see that our library is not the same at all.

The one glance would show us a conspicuous determined-looking “quiet” sign on the desk, girls stealthily walking around on tip-toe, and books in the stacks barely peeping out of a small space in the back of the librarian’s desk. These and many other changes are all results of the new system being used in the library.

Perhaps the most important of these changes is the fact that the stacks are closed. It seems that the books in there has a most unfortunate habit of disappearing in great numbers last year, and it is hoped that by shutting them up securely and allowing no student to see them without first filling out a slip found near the card catalogue, this annoying habit of theirs may be broken.

Students may still visit the shelves for the fiction, reference, and periodicals rooms, but the stacks are to have no more student callers.

There are other changes besides the closed stacks and the unusual quiet. The reserve books, which where formerly kept at the main desk, are now in the northeast corner of the room, second floor, to the rear of the fiction room.

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Oct. 6, 1924 p.3: Library Has Three New Members this Year

The library (like every other department of the college, has increased both its staff and its equipment. There are three additional members on the staff: Miss Catherine J. Pierce, Evelyn Mendenhall, and Elizabeth Simkins.

New books dealing with almost every subject have been added. Some of the latest fiction has been obtained. Among the books are: “The Fir and the Palm,” Bibesco; “The Prisoner Who Sang,” Bojer; “You Too,” Burlingame; “The High Place,” Cabell; “Tantalius,” Easton; “The King Versus Wargrave,” Fletcher; “The Enchanted Garden,” Forman; “Waste,” Herrick; “Labyrinth,” Hull; “The Education of Anthony Dare,” Marshall; “Hazard,” Mavity; “Justice and the Peace,” Niven; “The Clevedon Case,” by Nancy and John Oakley; “The Squire,” Richards; “Mistress Wilding,” Sabatini; “Deirdre,” Stephens; “Red Sand,” Stribling; “The Gay Ones,” Towne; “The Dream,” Wells; “The Traveller in the Fur Cloak,” Weyman; “The Orange Divan,” Williams.

A list of other new books can be obtained from the leaflet, “Library Notes,” which is published monthly and kept on the desk in the library for use of the students.

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April 29, 1922 p.6: College Takes Big Stride in Building Program

“Library Moved to Basement of McIver and Construction on New One Begun”

With the opening up of the new wing to McIver Building, the practical completion of the Practice House for Home Economics, with construction under way on the Library, the Gymnasium, and the Alumnae Building and with three dormitories under way that will be open next fall, the North Carolina College for Women is continuing the building boom started last year with the erection of a new dining hall and another dormitory.

During the whole winter the campus has been busy with workmen, and during the Easter holidays the work came to a climax when the foundations for the gymnasium were laid, the new wind was given over to classes and the library was moved over into the basement of McIver in order that construction might begin at once.

When students returned after the vacation, the books had moved their resting place, and a visit to the library now necessitates a greater amount of energy, and a greater amount of self control in keeping the usual atmosphere that is found in the stately and dignified halls of a college library. Using about eight rooms, the library staff has whipped into shape a well organized library which will be used until the new one on College Avenue is completed.

Plans provide for a building costing $100,000 and trebling its present capacity. The reference and history rooms will be doubled in capacity and in the rear of the stack room will be several seminar rooms.

The gymnasium, which will be located on the extreme western side of the campus, will be rustic in construction, and will entail an expenditure of about $5,000. The roof will be of steel, and the sides will extend only six feet up, leaving the rest of the building open, protected by canvas drops in bad weather. This provides for outdoor gymnastics throughout the winter, and will combine all the features of modern gymnastic equipment. The structure will be 90x50 feet, large enough for a basketball court and an indoor baseball diamond. Owing to the large number of students expected next year both the old and new gymnasium will be used.

The Practice House for the Home Economics students is a brick house, built colonial style, equipped with every modern convenience. The seniors spend a certain time in the House each term, managing it in every detail. The furniture is being painted by the students, and the selection of the furniture and the arrangement has been done entirely by them. The House is located on the eastern edge of the campus, convenient to the new wing of McIver Building, the top floor of which will be made into a modern laboratory for Home Economics.

The Alumnae building which was started recently, will provide a place for former students and visitors to stay while at the college. The cafeteria will be erected first, and is almost completed. It will be opened next fall, and will provide for faculty and students who will not be able to get meals at the college. The building will be located across the street from the campus on Spring Garden street, and when the whole structure is completed will cost $100,000. It will contain 28 bedrooms, a cafeteria, a nursery, one lounging room and three parlors, which can all be thrown together, and the basement, which will be fitted up as a play room. Outside the cafeteria an open court will be fixed so that tables can be put out of doors in nice weather.

Three new dormitories will be open next fall and will cost $360,000 when completed and equipped. They are on the western side of the campus, formed into a group with two other dormitories, surrounding an open court.