The Archive · 1938

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Great Need for Improvements

To the Editor of the "Nonri-Cumxa Dany News Si, ieee eae eae ae ae cee conditions of lighting, ventilation, and noise which prevail in the pre~ jan-hour of dipping into what I should scribers, but surely the subscribers are entitled to clean air, good lighting conditions and quiet, in order of the library, These are impossible expires shortly. will be allowed, good brary conditions been more necessary than at the present time, when We are more or less confined to the Settlement and conditions in schools and colleges are far from normal.

There is more need than ever for the Reference Library, but how can use of it under present conditions?

Tam quite sure that more suitable premises can easily be found now, and if the Council takes this step it will earn the gratitude of hundreds of people to whom the Ubrary is a very real and necessary part of their fe here, Sussenmsen por Tweuve Years, Shanghai, Msr, 23,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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