The Content and Format of American Public Library Reports: (Part 2)

A small library that attained brevity effectively and with admirable restraint, is the Rockford Public Library in Illinois, in a cream and white and black one‐fold enclosure showing on its cover a dim picture of the former 1902 building and a bright view of a new modern building. It is also a campaign document, for the only text in it beside the tabulation of a few well‐chosen service and financial figures is a one‐sentence statement: “Levy of the full library tax for the next three years will make possible an addition to the present building, thus assuring the citizens of Rockford services adequate to the expanded needs of the community.” The back cover gives a directory of branch locations and names of the trustees and librarian (which in this instance includes an unusual proportion of women— four of the nine trustees and a woman librarian).