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REPORT OF THE CLAPHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY
SUB.COMMITTEE,
For the Year ended 31st March, 1912.
The Sub.Committee have pleasure in presenting the Twenty.
IFifth Annual Report on the work of the Clapham Library.
The number of books issued during the year was 140,527 in
the Lending Library and 22,615 in the Reference Library, being
a total issue of 163,142 volumes, and a daily average of 674 volumes
for the 242 days on which the library was open.
The number of books now in stock is 18,571, of which 14,798
are in the Lending Library and 3,773 in the Reference Library.
Advantage has been taken of the compilation of a new general
subject.catalogue of the Lending Library to re.arrange the books
in the various classes, and to discard a number of obsolete and
worn.out works.
4,183 readers' ordinary tickets (including renewals) and
1,388 students' tickets were issued during the year in the Lending
Library.
In order to allow of further provision for show.cases, and
better accommodation for serving readers, the counters in the
Lending Library have been altered under the superintendence of
the Borough Engineer. Collapsible gates have also been erected
for shutting off the Lending Library (when closed) from the other
departments of the institution.
The Sub.Committee desire to express their cordial thanks to
the donors of various books, periodicals, etc.
The Borough Council, in November, 1911, re.appointed the
Mayor (Alderman Dawnay, J.P.), Alderman Lidiard, and Councillors
Bulcraig, J.P., Cox, Cundall, Duncan, Henderson and Young