Omega Starts Library for House - The Rattle, Jan. 1932
As appeared in The Rattle - Vol. XX - No. 4 - January 1932
Last year, a little later than the present time. writes Chapter President Edgar Newcomer, Omega at Penn State started a chapter library. We had book shelves built into our card room which completely changed its appearance, making it look more homelike. Then we sent out our plea to alumni and parents to send us books of any kind of which an ordinary library should be composed.
About two weeks later packages started to roll in from all over the country. Our call had been answered to rather a surprising extent. The shelves started to fill and soon we had 415 volumes. These included histories, biographies, technical books, fiction, mystery, and books on other diverse subjects. So you can see that in less than six months our library expanded remarkably and became very extensive as to the different scopes of reading matter. We offer our sincere thanks to our alumni and friends who donated books in order to make our library as complete as it now is.
At present we have the sixth largest library of any of Theta Chi chapters, and we will not be satisfied until we, Omega Chapter, have the largest library.