Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: StJMMARY The classroom and home libraries are small collections of books sent into the schoolrooms and homes of the children, where there is no branch library within easy reach. They are considered supplementary to all other ways of getting books to children, and, broadly speaking, are probably transitory. During the past school year there were 381 classroom libraries and 38 home library clubs. An indirect way that children's reading is influenced is by a constant effort on the part of the library to help the teachers and to cooperate with them. CHAPTER V HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARIES Ever since Cleveland has been erecting high schools it has been taken as a matter of course that a special library room must be included in each building. The library in the first high school was a general public library, but when the present Central High School was built in 1895 there was included a library room which has been used as a special reference library for the students ever since. At present, of the 10 high schools in Cleveland, only the two commercial high schools have no library rooms in the buildings, but branch libraries are in both cases very near. However, the need for library rooms in these two high schools is felt, and it is hoped that they may be supplied in the near future. Administration Op High School Libraries High school libraries are conducted on a cooperative basis by the Board of Education and the Library Board. The Board of Education supplies the room with its furnishings, light,heat, janitor service, reference books, and some magazines. The public library selects the librarian and pays her salary; also that of any library assistants and pages needed. It buys the books for circulation, some of the magazines, all supplies, and carries on the administration of t...