Soon this work was extended, but the object of the libraries was diverted.

Instead of collections of books on special subjects to assist the club women in their studies, the traveling cases were arranged in miscellaneous groups, and were sent to schools, to factories, to lonely farms, mining camps, lumber camps, and to isolated towns and villages.
Iowa now has more than twelve thousand volumes, half of them reference books, in circulation.

Eighty-one permanent libraries have grown out of the traveling libraries in Iowa alone.

After the traveling cases have been coming to a town for a year or two, people wake up and agree that they want a permanent place in which to read and study.

Ohio has over a thousand libraries in circulation, having succeeded, a few years ago, in getting a substantial appropriation from the legislature to supplement their work.