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Readers' Tickets:—
Tickets to the number of 8,760 were issued to readers,
namely:—4,744 at the Tate Library, 3,216 at the Balham Library,
and 800 at the Tooting Library. Tickets are available for a
period of twelve months.
Annual Stocktaking:—
The Tate library was closed in July for the purposes of
annual stocktaking and cleaning. At the Balham Library the
stocktaking was done during the period that the building was
closed for alterations. The books at both Institutions were
examined and checked with the stock-registers, with the result
that every book except one at the Tate Library could be
accounted for.
The interior of the Tate Library has been recently repainted
and distempered.
Catalogues:—
In January, the Committee published an Author-List of
the books in the Balham Library and an Indicator-Key for Class E
(Prose Fiction). A catalogue of the books in the Tooting Library
was printed a few weeks later.
Card catalogues have been placed in each library and the
usual lists of additions issued at intervals during the year. So far
as funds will permit, every facility is given for readers to become
acquainted with the books which are added from time to time to
the libraries.
New Rules and Regulations:—
The new Rules and Regulations, applicable to all the public
libraries in the Borough, were put into operation on the 1st of
January. So far as these libraries are concerned the new rules
have effected the following alterations:—
1—The earlier opening of the Reading Rooms and Lending
Departments daily.