Government Documents in Small Libraries Reprinted from Report of Board of Library Commissioners of Ohio for the Year ending November 15, 1909.

"Government Documents in Small Libraries" by Charles Wells Reeder is an instructive handbook from the early 1900s, offering advice to small libraries about handling official government papers. The book goes over the problems these libraries have when trying to get and take care of these documents. It shows how to pick out and pass around these papers, stressing that libraries should get things that fit what their townspeople need. Reeder talks about ways small libraries can get government papers, like using special libraries that hold them and getting them through deals with lawmakers. He points out useful papers such as farming news, school reports, and numbers from the Census Bureau. The author wants librarians to talk to people in their towns to find out what government info they want, so they can make their collections more helpful. This book helps librarians learn more about government papers and better help the people who use their libraries.