With four floors of old stacks and two floors of new, it is apparent that a considerable amount of walking is required of the circulation assistants. Lee Leighton, part-time assistant, returns from the stacks with a patron's selection of books.
At the circulation desk, First Assistant Mrs. Carol Phelps using the new charge out machine checks out books to a patron, while a young man waits for his book selections to be brought from the closed stacks behind the circulatión desk.
The large main lobby contains the public card catalog on the left, the circulation desk in the background and several thousand of the newer fiction and nonfiction books available for circulation.
Bangor Public Library founded in 1883 opened its doors on Harlow Street on December 20, 1913. The main building houses three public service departments--Circulation, Children's and Reference. Behind the scenes departments include Office personnel, Accessions and Classification Department, Catalog Department, Periodicals and Binding Department and Extension Department. The stacks are located at the rear of the building.
Many more pictures could and perhaps should have been taken to fully show all the varied and diverse activities that go on both in full view of the public and behind the scenes at the Bangor Public Library. However, I have tried to give the viewers of these photos a bird's-eye-view of some of the highlights of the activities carried out in their library. It is my hope that through these pictures the viewer will have a better understanding and appreciation of one of the community's prime sources of educational as well as recreational materials.
