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enough to meet the need. The Supervisor
of Work with Children of the Boston Public
Library in her report for 1919, states that
"
Children form the greater proportion of
readers in the reading rooms, and this prob-
ably diminishes to a considerable degree the
use of the rooms by adults. At one read-
ing room, three-fourths of the readers
are children."
A feature of the work with children is the
story hour. " To be a good story teller is
to be a king among children.'* Children have
a natural fondness for stories, and the story
telling is used to supplement and to lead to
good reading. For foreign-born children,
stories in their native language are told.
In the sunmier many persons go off to the
country; in the larger cities, as a rule, they
are permitted to borrow a number of books
for an extended period. Younger persons
who do not leave the city in the summer gen-
erally prefer the outdoors, particularly the
playgroimds. Playground hbraries have,
therefore, been established. Here again the
library goes out to its reader. The book
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