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Library has been re - papered, painted and furnished in harmony with the new part and a splendid new systems of lighting introduced, also a drinking fountain and lavatory has been installed. While the circulation of this library has averaged for a number of years eighteen thousand volumes, and in 1915 went as high as nineteen thousand, and which is about twice the circulation at most libraries in Ontario of this size, it is expected that because of the increased accommodation the circulation will be still further increased. Visitors and others interested in libraries claim that the Clinton library is one of the most up- to- date in the Province, and is not excelled by any town of its size. Much of the credit for the success of this institution must be given to the indefatigable President, Mr. W. Brydone, who has given an immense amount of time and thought in the creating of the library and in the completion of the new building, as well as the librarian, Miss M, Rudd, who has been most thorough In her work of rearranging the several thousand volumes."
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Clinton Board of Trade has been spent in the erection of a roomy annex, and the Library Board decided that as far as possible they would re -organize the Library throughout and adopt the most modern methods in an effort to make the Library "up-to- date," in every way. The
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Children's Department, but in the Clinton Library special attention has been given to this and twelve hundred volumes of books specially suitable for children have been placed in a large bright room at the disposal of the children. The
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Carnegie Annex of the Clinton Public Library is now being fully appreciated by the multitudes of local readers, as the splendid large stack room with its twelve hundred square feet and nearly eight thousand volumes was last week
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