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The practice of issuing students' tickets enabling borrowers to
have additional books of a non-fictional character has been adopted,
and has been much appreciated by readers.
During the year 652 volumes have been re-bound, and many
hundreds of minor repairs have been carried out by the Library staff.
Reference
Department.
The privilege of free access to the books in this department is
still much appreciated by residents in Putney. The
Library is also extensively used by persons living in
the neighbouring districts. As the books are on open shelves, no
statistics are available as to the number of books used, but it is
estimated that over 150 persons use the reference department daily.
During the year 106 volumes have been added, making the present
stock 2,307 volumes.
Magazine
Booms.
These rooms continue to be used by a large number of readers,
and it is very unusual to be able to find a chair vacant
after 7 p.m. Thirty-two monthly magazines and reviews,
5 quarterlies, and 49 weekly periodicals are placed in these rooms.
The magazines and reviews are transferred to the lending department
at the end of the month, where they are in great demand for home
reading.
News
Room.
The list of newspapers, &c., provided in this room includes
31 daily newspapers, among which are Birmingham,
Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester,
and Plymouth daily journals, 56 weekly newspapers and periodicals
and 41 monthy and quarterly publications.
The Sub-Committee again have much pleasure in recording their
satisfaction with the work of the Librarian and his staff.
I ables of information relating to the issues of books, classification
ot stock, &c., will be found on pages 289 and 290.
List of newspapers, periodicals, magazines, &c., will be found on
pages 292-293.
Signed on behalf of the Putney Library Sub-Committee.
JAS. EDW. PARKER,
May 7th, 1908. Chairman.