HARLEM LIBRARIAN
Esther Walls, director of the North Manhattan Library Project (a project using new Federal funds) and head of the New York Public Library's Countee Cullen Branch, gave a picture of Harlem that was refreshingly different from the one presented by the sensational headlines across the country. She told how her library strives to be an exciting center for the community, always inventing new activities: a little theatre, current history groups, photographic groups, book discussions that attract as many as 300 people. New grants may expand library work in the more deeply deprived parts of Harlem, she said. She welcomed books that may help the Negro child see his own environment favorably -- but she warned that books showing wider horizons are necessary, too.
University of Iowa. Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives
