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Magazine
Boom.
This room is very much appreciated, and is frequently crowded.
Twenty-eight monthly magazines and reviews, five
quarterlies, and 36 weekly periodicals are placed in
this room.
The monthly magazines, reviews and quarterlies are transferred
to the lending department and are issued for home reading, through
the indicator.
News
Boom.
The list of newspapers, &c., contains 28 copies of daily newspapers,
including some of the more important
provincial dailies, and 94 weekly newspapers and
periodicals.
During the past autumn estimates were obtained for painting
and renovating the exterior of the building, for constructing means
of access to the flat roof, for fixing a bath in the Caretaker's quarters,
and for additional lighting in the news room. These works were
carried out under the supervision of the Surveyor at a cost of £60.
The Sub-Committee have much pleasure in expressing their
appreciation of the satisfactory manner in which the Librarian and
his staff have discharged their duties.
Tables of information relating to the issues of books, classification,
&c., will be found 011 pages 298—301.
For list of newspapers, periodicals, &c , see pages 302—3.
Signed on behalf of the Putney Library Sub-Committee,
D. JACKSON,
Chairmen.