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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2002
New Jersey's libraries are an important adjunct to its educational sys-
tem, aided by a law permitting taxes to be levied for their establishment
in any community. There are 337 municipal libraries and 11 county libraries. The Newark Library, founded in 1888, achieved an exceptionally
prominent position under the leadership of John Cotton Dana. Only four
towns of more than 2,000 population are without library service. There
are 4,000,000 books in use, and many city libraries have provided outlying
rural sections with reading matter by means of the library truck. The New
Jersey Public Library Commission was established in 1900 to encourage
and aid library service throughout the State. It has headquarters at Trenton, where it acts as a clearing house for book requests, aids in establishing new libraries, and gives advice on all questions and problems that
affect libraries in New Jersey.
Several New Jersey museums contribute a broadening influence to education. Largest and widest in its service is the Newark Museum, one of
the first of such institutions in the country to specialize in science and industry. It also has important art and historical collections. Noteworthy in
the historical field are the New Jersey State Museum at Trenton, the Historical Museum at Morristown, and the Museum of the New Jersey
Historical Society in Newark. The Montclair Art Museum's collection
consists chiefly of paintings and sculpture, and the Paterson Museum features natural science. Among the museums developed by State colleges
and universities, the most important are the Stevens Institute of Technology Museum at Hoboken, largely devoted to mechanics and science,
the Museum of Historic Art and various scientific collections at Princeton
University, and the geological and agricultural museums at Rutgers University.
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