Libraries, the Military, and Reading in WWIMain Menu"Books Wanted" Poster"Hey Fellows!" PosterWar Service Committee Bulletin"What the Training Camp Libraries are Doing" ArticleCamp Sevier, South Carolina"Soldier -- Attention" Pamphlet"Knowledge Wins" Poster"Prepare Now" BillboardLearn MoreAbout this Project and its CreatorLicensing InformationNancy A. Henkef97604946e4cb8523b92723cf260a5f0621dd114
Prepare Now for the Job You Want
1media/Prepare Now_thumb.jpg2022-04-04T13:14:34-07:00Nancy A. Henkef97604946e4cb8523b92723cf260a5f0621dd114404352A black and white photograph of a billboard. The text reads, "Prepare now for the job you want. Your public library will lend you books on any subject -- free. Come in and look 'em over."plain2022-04-04T13:15:35-07:00National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures[1917-19180Soldiers--Employment re-entryLibraries and soldiers--1910-1930War DepartmentNo known restrictions on publication.JPEGNancy A. Henkef97604946e4cb8523b92723cf260a5f0621dd114
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1media/Prepare Now.jpg2022-04-20T12:41:08-07:00"Prepare Now" Billboard7plain2022-05-03T14:14:19-07:00Encouraging reading for self-improvement continued after soldiers and sailors returned home. After the war, the Library War Service Office “shifted their attention to the public library as the logical agency to alleviate the ex-servicemen’s readjustment problems” (Young 81). This 1919 billboard was aimed at those who had been discharged from Camp Dodge, Iowa, and linked reading with better employment post-war. (Note that the image of the soldier on this board was the same one used on the Hey Fellows! poster.)
