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RURAL LIBRARIES
By WAYNE C. NASON, Assistant Agricultural Eco.nomist, Division of Farm Population
and Rural Life, Burcau of Agricultural Economics
CONTENTS
Page Page
Efficiency and satisfaction as related Types of rural library service, with
to agriculture ---__-__-- --__- 1 specific examples-Continued.
The opportunity of the library in ag- County libraries--_______ - --- 16
ricultural education___-------- 1 Advantages of the county library
Library facilities for farm readers__ 4 system-- ____._ __-__---._. 41
Types of rural library service, with How libraries are started---------- 44
specific examples --__---- 4 The survey------------- 44
State extension libraries _----- 5 The campaign ------------ 45
Membership-fee libraries _----- 7 The book automobile_------------- 45
Municipal libraries --------- 8 Library buildings---__---------- 47
School-district public libraries__ 11 Library publicity ----------- 48
Township libraries -----_- 13 Conclusion__--- ------------ 50
Community libraries --__--_-- 14
EFFICIENCY AND SATISFACTION AS RELATED TO AGRICULTURE
RURAL LIBRARIES naturally grow out of the demand for
efficiency in agriculture. Efficiency and satisfaction are the
keynotes of successful farming of the future. Skill is taking the
place of chance; brain is superseding brawn; intelligence is replacing
blind hope; education is displacing ignorance.
The farmer also needs and wants facilities for general culture
and for a larger, richer, and more varied life. Along with efficient
farming, and perhaps as a product of it, should go a contented farm
people and a satisfying farm life. Cold efficiency is not enough. A
mechanical type of life is not satisfying. Human elements are to be
considered. The desire for financial reward may spur efficiency, but
only happiness and contentment can maintain it. Efficiency is a
means and not an end. The objective is a good kind of rural lifegood
homes, schools, churches, libraries, hospitals, and social and
recreational facilities. Only these can keep the successful farmer on
the farm. Only intelligence and skill can create and maintain a
satisfactory farm life.
THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE LIBRARY IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
Education is an important factor in efficiency. Through education
farmers can make themselves adequate to the solving of the perplexing
problems confronting agriculture to-day.' Here is the great
opportunity of the library, for the library is recognized as the second
line of educational defense. The farmers of to-morrow may be edu1
Studies by departments and colleges of agriculture of the relation of education to farm
income among 4,979 farmers in nine States apparently show that the annual earnings of
high-school graduates are 50 per cent greater than are those of common-school graduates
and that the earnings of college graduates are 100 per cent greater than are those of highschool
graduates.
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Nason, W. C. (Wayne Crocker), b. 1874. Rural libraries., book, April 1928; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5941/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.