Newspaper article:Page 2 of Wooster Republican, published in Wooster, Ohio on Thursday, December 7th, 1882 - Wooster Republican December 7 1882
- Article title
- Wooster City Library Association
- Newspaper title
- Wooster Republican
- Date of publication
- 1882/12/07
- Page number
- 2
- Organization
Wooster City Law Library Association.
To the Citizens of Wooster and Wayne Co.
At a recent meeting of the Board of Managers and Auxiliary Committee of the above named Association, on motion of Mr. J. G. Sanborn, it was "Resolved, That Rev. Dallas Tucker and Judge J. P. Jeffries be constituted a committee to prepare for publication in our city papers an address to the citizens of Wooster and Wayne county, presenting therein the character and object of the above named Association, with such other suggestions as the committee may deem advisable."
In pursuance of the duty thus imposed, the undersigned would make the following statements:
A public circulating library, wherever established, is a recognized public good. In this respect Wooster has been long far behind many of her sister cities, and it is our pleasure to state that many of our citizens, ladies and gentlemen, who have long felt the need, have at last succeeded in effecting the organization of a Library Association, and are now actively at work in its behalf. Although it would seem quite unnecessary to state the purpose of such an association, it may be welt, nevertheless, to say, that the object of the present one is identical with that of other such associations, namely, the dissemination of useful knowledge, and to place within the reach of all a line of well selected books, on all subject of general literature. Many of our people, indeed, have libraries of their own, and sufficient for their ordinary needs, but by far the largest number of our citizens have no such luxury, and are consequently often unable to indulge their literary taste and improve their minds from their inability to secure proper books for doing so. The Association, by the establishment of a good circulating library, hope not only to create a taste for reading where none naturally exists, bur also furnish reading matter to those who, though they may desire to read, have not the means for purchasing the necessary books. The benefits of the youth of our city and county is an especial motive in this effort. These young people........