Bangor Public Library Annual Reports for the Year 1949
- Title
- Bangor Public Library Annual Reports for the Year 1949
- Alternative Title
- Bangor Public Library Annual Reports for the Fiscal Year January 1, 1949-December 31, 1949 Prepared for Publication January 24, 1950
- Publisher
- Bangor Public Library
- Contributor
- Purbush-Roberts Printing Co., Inc.
- Date
- 1949
- Description
- One of the interesting tasks set this library by the Public Library Inquiry of the Social Science Research Council, which was concluded in 1949 and whose results are now being published in a series of books, was to define the purpose of the library. In abridged form, my definition was as follows: The purpose of the Bangor Public Library is to preserve and disseminate knowledge and thought as recorded in print--to provide recreation through print--and to provide a maximum of assistance to its clients in the use of its collections. We are a general library yet we are also a library of record. We aim to provide printed material on all subjects likely to be of concern or interest either to present or potential users of whatever age or education. We recognize the scholarly resources of our neighbor library of the University of Maine and are interested that each library shall complement the other. The home-use privileges of the Bangor Public Library are free to all residents and to whoever, regardless of place of residence, works, goes to school, or pays taxes in Bangor.
- Contents
- Charles E. Adams--Endowment of the Bangor Public Library--Board of Managers and Trustees--Report of the Librarian--Abbreviated Report of Treasurer--Report of Trustees of the Hersey Fund--Library Personnel--Statistics of the Library--Harry Deane Benson--Bookplate Designed by Rockwell Kent in 1949 for the Louise Baldwin Thompson Fund
- Subject
- Bangor Public Library--History
- Library administration
- Public libraries
- Public services (Libraries)
- Type
- Annual reports
- Spatial Coverage
- Bangor (Me.)
- Language
- English
- Source
- Bangor Public Library Special Collections
- Note
- Cover photograph by Robert T. Dymond.
- Rights
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- Date Issued
- 1950