Show great library la an appeal for help has recently been made by the library at oxford which is the largest university library in the corid and is surpassed j by only five national libraries the nationals at paris the british museum the imperial library at st petersburg and the royal libraries at munich and berlin it receives for all purposes forty five thousand dollars a year and needs money to support its staff to a prepare its catalogue which is now years behind the times to heat the portrait gallery to repair the building the finest public edifice of the time of james I 1 and to provide shelves for books in alie museum which has just been put at its disposal the contains over half a million volumes the separate titles in the catalogue amounting to a million and a half the new accessions of blobs boobs and pamphlets are nearly sixty million A year it has the second largest numismatic collection in the british empire books and coins are declared by the librarian to be in a state of chaos owing to the lack of funds the library needs at least seventy five thousand to be kept efficient fici ent and he calls on the public for assistance as oxford owing to the agricultural depression is too poor to support its own library |