SCHOOL LIBRARY TO BE ESTABLISHED.
The Students of the Raleigh Academy, who are members of the Polemic Society, have determined to establish among themselves a Circulating Library. We with pleasure learn, that through the highly laudable liberality of the inhabitants of this city, their efforts will be crowned with success. This Library will be for the benefit of the above mentioned Society and those citizens who have contributed to its establishment. We wish sincerely to see such institutions in every town and neighborhood in the State, whose population will admit it. Nothing can conduce so well to diffuse a taste for learning and information as libraries of this kind, judiciously selected, where each indivdual has the use of several hundred dollars worth of books, by only contributing a small sum. Go on, young gentlemen, to improve in learning and virtue, and you will hereafter be amply rewarded for the pains you now take to store your minds with useful knowledge.
—Editorial Raleigh Register, March 8, 1808.
LIBRARY HOURS, 1808.
POLEMIC LIBRARY.
I am under the necessity of informing those gentlemen who are subscribers to the Polemic Library, that it is very inconvenient for me to attend the Library at any other hours than those which have been before stated, viz., from 10 to 12 o'clock on each Saturday. I hope they will not make applications for books at any other time.
June 26. A. Bagley, Librarian.
—The Minerva, Raleigh, June 30, 1808.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
