Two traveling library systems will be established by the Library War service of the American Library association for the troops along the Mexican border. Miss Ethel McCollough, librarian at Evansville, Indiana, arrived in El Paso recently to organize and manage one of these traveling library systems.
The territory to be covered by this system, which has its headquarters in El Paso, will be from the vicinity of Deming, New Mexico, to and including the “Big Bend” district. Miss McCollough is a graduate of the New York State Library school and has wide experience in public library and state library commission work.
Traveling library boxes will e built and filled with books about the war, books on military subjects, and general reading, and will be sent out to the various posts and stations all along the border. The boxes will contain perhaps only 50 volumes each, but they will be exchanged between different posts from time to time so that in the course of a few months several hundred different books will be made available to every soldier along the border.
The plan followed in the organization and development of this border service is one which was recommended by Chalmers Hadley, librarian of the Denver public library, after his thorough investigation of conditions during the month of April. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – July 25, 1918
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