Salt Lake Herald | 1899-12-31 | Page 23 | Salt Lake's Library Has 12,510 Volumes

ST LAKES LIBRARY hAS 12510 YOLIrS r Sitrigl Tlonsall Ioals During the Year I Dnr Tat Sal Lake Citys public library and free reading rom Is making rapid stride in popular favor is attested In the report for the second year of Its G r existence Its 109000 patrons and visitors vis-itors last year include rich and poor from every walk of Ueschol child rca teclerS mechanIcs professional and busIness men and housewives Starting with a collection of 1910 llQok In February 1898 the public library li-brary now contains 12510 volumes During the past year 7 volumes Were purchase 131 donated and 260 mag r tne were bound Since the library opened 576 books have bee discarded There are now 66U borrower cards in use and of this number 225 wee Is 5 e in 1899 only 100 hayIng been canceled can-celed The number or books loaned for home reading during the year was 68018 and the book consulted in the reference Toon1 numbered 37183 The classified circulation of books taken for home reading shows as follows fol-lows Fiction 43223 volumes juvenile juve-nile 16691 literature 133 history 137 biography 1056 geography 80 religion 590 sociology SO natural science 5S1 useful arts 328 fine arts 299 phlsoph 294 Utah SO French 9S German 51 philology 22 Total 6801 6018 For the eleven months of 1898 the circulation was 51071 and thO references refer-ences 33391 In the first year there were 832 vIsitors In 268 days the 1 brl was open and in 1899 109321 vie or In 24 library day On account of lack of sufficient funds the purchase of new bole ha been limited to too narw lines but the city council will doubtless give to the gve rstees this yea enough of the tax revenues to more rapidly acquire needed nee ed volume of standard works It I I costs aboUt 500 annual to maintain I the library and 00 each year for the acquisition of books is node to much in he opinion of these who know fully the institutions utility The library needs more room and undoubtedly the council will make undoubtely counci wl pro vision for the expansion L < t