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Call Station Opened in Kaufmann's Store
On Monday, January 8, the first call station of the Library
and its first agency of any kind in the business district, was
opened in the store of Kaufmann Brothers, through the courtesy
of the firm. The station is open daily during the hours that
the store is open, with assistants from the Library in charge.
Each day the requests left for books by cardholders are sent to
the Library and the books delivered at the station that night or
the next morning by Kaufmann's wagons. Books borrowed at
the Library may be returned at the station and vice versa.
Persons who have never had borrowers' cards may obtain them
on application at the call station.
For some years those in charge of the Library have believed
that a great and effective work could be accomplished through
a branch library in the down-town district, but so far it has not
been possible to establish one. The Library therefore welcomes
this opportunity to test the value to the people that down-town
facilities may afford, feeling certain that many persons who do
not live near the Central or branch libraries would like to borrow
books but do not because of the time and trouble involved
in making a special trip for the purpose.
German Books
Two years ago the German Library Association of Pittsburgh
generously presented this Library with its entire collection
of German books, numbering about 4,765 volumes.
Owing to circumstances resulting from the building operations
at the Central Library it has not been possible to catalogue
these and make them available to the public until the present
time. Most of them are now catalogued and on the shelves,
many volumes having been attractively rebound. A large number
of the titles appear in the present issue of the Monthly Bulletin
and more will be found in the issue for next month.
In cataloguing the collection it was found that one or more
volumes were missing from many sets, and it occurred to us
that some of these volumes might still be in the hands of mem-
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