Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, state of Montana . t reported) did not spend their library fund while a largenumber spent much less than their allotment, some as low as$ and even sixty and forty cents. In Park county onlythree districts, or 5 per cent of the whole, purchased librarybooks tho there were 32 districts each with less than 100books. In Fergus county 111 districts did not order librarybooks. The same was true in 72 per cent of the districts ofChouteau county and 66 per cent of the districts of Stillwatercounty. Powell and Valley counties have enviabl
Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, state of Montana . t reported) did not spend their library fund while a largenumber spent much less than their allotment, some as low as$ and even sixty and forty cents. In Park county onlythree districts, or 5 per cent of the whole, purchased librarybooks tho there were 32 districts each with less than 100books. In Fergus county 111 districts did not order librarybooks. The same was true in 72 per cent of the districts ofChouteau county and 66 per cent of the districts of Stillwatercounty. Powell and Valley counties have enviable records, asall districts added new books to their school last year. There 8-4 FIFTEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT were 171 districts of the state that did not spend their libraryfund in two years and many districts that let their libraryfund lie idle in the treasury for three or more years. In 300 schools of the state there were no library bookswhatever and in 351 schools there were scarcely enuf booksto be called a library. In Fergus county alone 90 schools hadlittle or no Such uns:glitly, insanitary and neglected buildings may be found in practicallyevery county. It often happens in districts in which there are severalschools that only the school near which the trustees live orwhere the trustees children attend, receives all or nearly allthe books from the library fund. In 1917 a certain school inJefferson county had a large, well selected library whileanother school in that same district did not have a singlebook and a third school had eight or ten very old batteredbooks tucked away in a vacant desk. Such unfairness may beduplicated in almost every county. It is seldom that library books are selected with thechildren in mind—at least the little children. Books suchas The Jurisdiction of Justices, How to Play Chess, Demonismof Witchcraft, The Wife Thou Gavest Me, Ten Nights in a SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 35 Bar Room, Beverly of Graustark, Life of Frederick the
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