ABSTRACT
Courses of University Extension and similar lectures are delivered in many libraries, and where the latter are willing the choice of lecturer, subject, course fees, and advertising, together with financial liability, will be left to them. No more than a business concern can a library afford to neglect the value of publicity, and the advertisement of its resources is undertaken in numerous ways. If a street-register of borrowers is maintained at the library it should be examined from time to time, and a circular letter descriptive of the activities of the library should be sent, with a form of application for membership, to those residents who are not already registered as borrowers. The hospital librarian is responsible for the receipt, circulation, and return of books so borrowed. In some towns the library makes a contribution to the local Institution for the Blind, and in return enjoys the right to refer readers there for supplies of books to read.
