Great success has attended the canvass in Cambridge for books to be sent to war libraries in camps at home and in France, more than 2,200, volumes having been received by the branch collection return in the Widener Library, and about 3,000 at the Cambridge Public Library. The books were of all sorts, but fiction predominated.
The War Service of the American Library Association which has been making the collection during the past week hopes that the books will continue to come in, as they will be needed as long as the war lasts, and the supply must be constantly replenished. All collection stations will be kept open indefinitely and the public is urged to form the habit of turning in their new books as soon as they have read them. More than a half-million volumes are needed at once in France and space has already been reserved in transports and freighters to send over thousands of books to Europe every month.
Contributions made through the Widener Library should be left in the Farnsworth Room, the Lower Reading Room, or with the doorkeeper at the Massachusetts avenue entrance.
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