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What the Soldiers Read
Stevenson, Burton E. | February 7, 1918 issue

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The national organization of the men and women of the library profession, the American Library Association, is demonstrating that books are effective both as munitions of war and as a contribution to the morale of the men. The campaign waged by the Association in the fall to make books available to the men netted a sum amounting to more than $1,500,000. A Library War Service was then organized, holding official relations with the Commission on Training Camp Activities, with the Librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam, as General Director of the War Service. Under Putnam's direction, libraries have been organized in the sixteen National Army camps.

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BOOKS; LIBRARIES; MORALE; WAR; LIBRARIANS -- United States; UNITED States. Army; UNITED States
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