Petition from Sandusky Residents Requesting Purchase of Library Materials

Sometime in the first decade of the twentieth century, local residents gave a petition to the Carnegie Library Committee (Sandusky Library) requesting that the library purchase the title International Library of Technology.

The first name listed on the petition was that of E.B. Krieger, a reporter with the Sandusky Star Journal. Most of the individuals who signed the petition were men in technical fields who worked in transportation or manufacturing businesses in the area.

The International Library of Technology was a series of textbooks for persons in the trades or the field of engineering, published in Scranton, Pennsylvania, by the International Textbook Company, in conjunction with the International Correspondence Schools. The textbooks were published on a wide variety of topics, and came in several editions. An article in the February 14, 1909 issue of the Sandusky Register indicated that the Sandusky Library indeed did purchase a copy of the International Library of Technology.