Part of a nation-wide drive for ten million books to be distributed to the armed forces, Widener and the other University libraries are serving as deposit stations for receipt of books contributed to the Victory Book Campaign, a drive sponsored by the U.S.O., the Red Cross and the American Library Association.
Books may be left at either entrance to the Widener building, at the House libraries, and at the larger special and departmental libraries of the University.
Camp librarians report that the greatest demand is for fiction, which includes, adventure, aviation, historical novels, humor, mystery, sports and westerns, and recent technical and scientific books, including law and medical texts, mathematical books of all kinds, biography, history and current affairs.
Also asked for are English grammar books and travel volumes.
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