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The Committee have recently undertaken the revision of
the stock at the Tate Library with the object of eliminating
obsolete works in the technical and other sections, and replenishing
the shelves with newer books. They trust that their efforts
to maintain the libraries in a state of efficiency by the periodical
examination of the stock, will be appreciated by readers and
conduce materially to the general usefulness of the Institutions.
Catalogues:—
A new Catalogue of Prose Fiction (with " Indicator-Key ")
was published in March, and the usual lists of additions were
issued at intervals during the year.
Number of Books Issued:—
231,425 volumes were issued from the two libraries. The
number borrowed during the previous year was 236,475. The
slight decrease in the statistics of issues is accounted for by the
fact that a large number of popular books had to be withdrawn
for re-numbering, etc., during the preparation of the new catalogue.

Total number of books borrowed since the adoption
of the Public Libraries Acts 2,026,832