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Show FREE LIBRARY MAKES VERY GOOD SHOWING Some interesting data 'is contained in the annual report of Librarian Miss Sprague of the Salt Lake free public library, which was submitted to the board of directors and approved at the monthly meeting held yesterday afternoon. after-noon. In her report Miss Sprague refers re-fers to the work of the library as follows: fol-lows: "The year has been a most satisfactory satisfac-tory one, both in the line of accessions to the library ahd of Increase In circulation, circu-lation, a gratifying feature of the latter lat-ter being a proportional Increase over last year In the number of non-fiction books Issued." A pretty tribute is paid to the former librarian, Miss Annie E. Chapman, deceased, de-ceased, by Miss Sprague In the beginning begin-ning of her report The report shows the total number of volumes In the library on June 1. this year, to be 23,199. The number of volumes vol-umes acquired during the year was 2441 and the number lost and discarded was IOC, giving an increase of 2035. The number of reference books Is 5UC. including in-cluding a medical library of 9S volumes and 2l books for the blind. The Increase In the number of library members during the year was 2354, and the total membership on June 1, 1004, was 12.5SS. There were during the year 99.42S books lent for home use and CG, 4S9 lent In the reading-rooms. The total to-tal number of visitors to .the library during the 298 days that the doors were open is estimated at 194, 29G. Tho total receipts of the library from fines, etc, amounted, lo $619.80. During the year 117 bound volumes and 130 pamphlets were donated to the library. |