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The Chairman (Councillor Harrison) and Rev. W. Reed,
M.A., were appointed to attend the Summer Meeting of the
University Extension Students held at Oxford as delegates of the
Committee.
The Commercial Union Assurance Co., supplied six fire
buckets to West Hill, and six to the Allfarthing Lane Branch
Library, free of cost to the Council.
A notice board from the Emigrant's Information Office will
probably soon be placed in the Allfarthing Lane Branch Library.
Mr. W. T. Bradley, the Branch Librarian at Allfarthing Lane
Branch Library, has been appointed Librarian-in-Charge at the
Putney Library. He has been succeeded by Mr. A. Nash, SubLibrarian
at Clapham Library. There has been no other change
on the staff.
The Committee was of opinion that a uniform scale of salary
should be adopted; and after due consideration and adjustment
such scale has been introduced by the Council, which will apply
to all subordinate members of the staff.
The Committee desires to place on record their appreciation
of the zeal and earnestness with which the library staff have performed
all the duties entrusted to them.
During the year 501 new books have been purchased and
460 replacements made to the West Hill Library, and 286 and
110 respectively to the Allfarthing Lane Branch.
The stock of books at West Hill Library now consists of
17,500 volumes, and at the Allfarthing Lane Branch 2,966
volumes.
The number of readers' tickets available at West Hill on
31st March, 1904, was 2,650 as against 2,111 the previous year; at
Allfarthing Lane Branch 1,995 as against 1,864 the previous year.
The issue of books at West Hill has reached 54,904, an
increase of 3,327 on that of 1903; and that at Allfarthing Lane
Branch has been 39,899, an increase of 890.