| Show SAt SALT T LAKE READS MORE AND MORIn MOR In April Per Persons ons Availed Themselves of the Privileges of the Building Report Shows Salt Sal Lake City Is fast coming to lo the front as a a. city of ot book readers Since the public library went Into the new new building given giten the city by John Q Packard Packard Packard Pack Pack- ard th the amount of ot book reading has quadrupled according to the annual re report report re- re port port of the board rd of f trustees o of the li library li- li i tj i p presented el e b by President t to John o D D. Spencer to the City Council last nightA night A feature of the work for the year was the Introduction of the set of fifty books into nto the Y M 1 C C. C A A. and several of ot the outlying schools In February the Library li library Li- Li brar was patronized by persons and andIn andin andin in April the number inci Increased eased to Another innovation was the cent 10 loan collection This has been successful In Inasmuch Inasmuch inasmuch In- In as It has paid off orr the cost of the he books purchased and paid for far new ones The addition of the new bronze tablet bearing the Lincoln Gettysburg address Is declared to be a beautiful gift The Miss 1 Johanna Sprague de declares declares declares de- de clares In the report that although the open shelf system Is expensive because of ot the number of books book that disappear it has been a stimulus for reading I Estimates of needs for the coming year ear are Salaries binding and repairIng repairing repair repair- I f J ll 1 db fl ri Ing 1250 printing etc 1000 building maintenance total There e was a balance O on hand June 1 1 9 1906 of 3 3 Taxes i s sO collected ld during ln the year ear were and fines and and- other revenue 01 making a total of I Disbursements were I leaving lea a balance on han hand l of The number of volumes on hand Is 28 year r There 2471 revoY volumes were s purchased JUd donated during found the j previously missing 39 and three received In exchange making a total added of ot There were lost volumes and nd umes there are now In the library roThe vol vol- vol The growing popularity of ot the library Is shown by the membership which has Increased increased increased In in- I creased during the year by The number of ot membership cards In June 1906 was and cards were issued and cancelled The total membership Is Is now I The number of ot books books' loaned for home reading was and the average daily dally loans The estimated number of visitors during the year was and dally daily The library was open days das and for circulating of ot books days The classification of the books lent during the twelve months Is Interesting Fiction Is Is of ot course the leader with volumes and books for the little ones classed as Juvenile next with 34 The other classes of ot books taken out are Bibliography 60 philosophy 1325 I religious 1436 sociology 1712 philology natural science 1274 1214 useful arts I 2006 fine arts 1194 literature history history his his- I tory geography and travel 2467 biography 2312 German books booles French Spanish 3 3 Schools 2180 fiction loan collection 1394 total circulation tion There are reference books In the library classified as follows follows- Dictionaries Dictionaries Dictionaries Diction Diction- aries and atlases bound periodicals 2640 medical R Utah library l Including ii 12 portable government e maps publications publications b 2021 old and rare books |
