Newspaper article on the the amount of books borrowed and activities at the Chicago Ridge Public Library in its first four weeks, accompanying photograph of Alice Lasky storytelling, 1966

              Ridge Library Users

Borrow 1958 Books

During First 4 Weeks

The Chicago Ridge Public

Library Commission an-nounced

Saturday that at the

end of the first four weeks

of operation the Library had

issued 758 Borrower's cards

and checked out 1,958 books.

The Library was open a total

of 92 hours, staffed at all

times by two volunteer help-ers

for a total of 184 hours

worked.

A story hour was conduc-ted

every Saturday morning

at 11: 00, attended by about

30 children each week.

Children have been the

largest users of the Li-brary's

facilities, and the

librarians would like the

adults of the Village to know

that there is a wide selec-tion

of adult fiction and non-fiction

books available for

their pleasure and informa-tion.

A few timely suggestions:

The New Perennials Prefer-red,

by Helen Van Pelt Wil-son,

Masers and Lasers, by

H. Arthur Klein, Intern, by-doctor

X, Two Blocks A-part,

by Juan Gonzales and

Peter Quinn, How to Pre-pare

for College, by Abra-ham

H. Lass, How to Dec-orate

for and with Antiques,

by Ethel Hall Bjerkoe

Mrs, Stanley Lorenzan

and Mrs. Harry Pote, Li

brary Commissioners, re

cently attended a two- da

workshop on ' Children'

Services in the Library1

( Sponsored by the State Li

brary, the course was hel

in a travelling ' Library Lab

oratory* on Wheels', whic

was parked outside of th

Bedford Park Library

where Miss Joanne Wojcik

Librarian, and her assistan

Mr. William Thuerer, wer

hosts for the two - da

session.

Chicago Ridge Librar

will be host on June 2

to all the Librarians in Sout

Suburbia, when the ' Travel

ling Publishers' Collection

of Children's Books' will b

exhibited in a Bookmobil

stationed outside of the Ridg

Library. This also i

sponsored by the State, an

Mr. John Dingman, Heac

Education and Training, 111

inois State Library, is brin

ing it to Chicago Ridge.

School Librarians, teach

ers, and any other intereste

adults will be weldometoth

display.