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*  1910 - Miss Myrtle Allen card catalog placed in the reading room, a collection of 6,317 books along with 29 monthly, 8 weekly magazine and 6 daily and 3 weekly newspapers. The reading room was open each weekday for 7 hours and "Sabbath afternoon" for two hours. No statistics were kept, but the reference department seemed used twice as much as any previous year.
 
*  1910 - Miss Myrtle Allen card catalog placed in the reading room, a collection of 6,317 books along with 29 monthly, 8 weekly magazine and 6 daily and 3 weekly newspapers. The reading room was open each weekday for 7 hours and "Sabbath afternoon" for two hours. No statistics were kept, but the reference department seemed used twice as much as any previous year.
 
**  The loan of books to teachers begun when the library became a school district library was continued with the purchase of books solely for use in schools.
 
**  The loan of books to teachers begun when the library became a school district library was continued with the purchase of books solely for use in schools.
**  A traveling library department was established during this year and for each month of the year, a collection of from 30 to 50 books in a small books case was sent to each school in the city. These books could be taken home by the students so a basis for the school branches to be established in the 1920's and later was made.
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**  A traveling library department was established during this year and for each month of the year, a collection of from 30 to 50 books in a small books case was sent to each school in the city. These books could be taken home by the students so a basis for the school branches to be established in the 1920's and later was made. <ref>History of the Wayne County Public Library: a research paper submitted to the Kent State University Library School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Library Science, by Joyce A. McKnight. June, 1970, p. 18.</ref>
*  1939 - Fall, [[County Budget Commission]] granted $1,500 for the purchase of the library's first bookmobile. The truck was manufactured by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Corporation Indiana Body Company] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond,_Indiana Richmond, Indiana].
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*  1939 - Fall, [[County Budget Commission]] granted $1,500 for the purchase of the library's first bookmobile. The truck was manufactured by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Corporation Indiana Body Company] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond,_Indiana Richmond, Indiana]. <ref>History of the Wayne County Public Library: a research paper submitted to the Kent State University Library School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Library Science, by Joyce A. McKnight. June, 1970, p. 31.</ref>
    
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