New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-05

OPENING TIE LIBRARIES.

NOV EMENlO lltAI HAVE BEEN MADE.
SEVENTEEN ,URCEs OF PLEASURE TO READERS
DETAILS OF THE REPAIRS AND ADDITIONS.
There are seventeen public Libraries in this
city Some of them circulating, Others free To
members to read in the rooms while Others allow any
one TO take the books to his home, requiring only the
Recommendation OF responsible resident In the city.
Nearly all of them closed during part the
mer for the purpose of cleaning the
and rearranging and examining the books In
several of them valuable additions have been made.
and the great consulting library is undergoing
alterations There is only free circulating library
the city, and with two exceptions, the reference libra
rics closed Sunday OF them only open
few hours any day. and closed In the evenings
when needed by clerks and students The rules Of
one library restrict certain class of reading Sunday
but allow all works OF trav ell history, biography and
poetry TO be read.
The Apprentices Library, at No. 1s East Sixteenth
ST., viii be- reopened to-day 1t founded in 1920
the use Of mechanics apprentices. Recently it was
thrown open 10 any employed woman, and largely
patronized by the public school teachers. There were
S,247 readers last year. and 100000 volumes
culaed, onethrd OF them being novels. or this large
circulation among 80 many readers only forty books
lost In the readingroom there are 400 periodi-
calls le and the OF there last year
was 10000. The rooms closed on Sundays and on
legal holidays. There is admission fee the library
General Society OF Mechanics and Tradesmen The re-.
cent popularity which the cheap literature has obtained
books as oheaply rs they may be obtained there.
be Ia Sa sS @ nay1s
ersoly 10y the different libraries that read every
closed the last two weeks of August. This was the
Ts S Se%as e have Dad IN four
present $4,000 volumes the shelves, and about 500
chasing committee TO buy every popular book that is
printed About 50 per cent of the books read
which now occupies the floor above the library will
for the majority Of ire readers Who wish to
use 1t in the evening new building at broadway and
use OF the library This is properly circulating library
though there Is also reference department which may
may become member by paying the initiation fee but
fees. ~ w "
Tho free readngroom and library OF the Cooper Union
August, during which time there a general over
paper stauds were varnshed and the walls kasomined.
Ihere mas not been any addition 10 tho library this
and magazines file in the reading room which open
every day from October til August, from a. M 10 10
p, m, including Sundays and holidays report crcu-
lated In the course OF the that the story
added to inc buiang had rendered the walls unsafe
The library Of the Young Mems Christian Association
closed Tor weeks while the walls were Dens Sai
soned and al the floors OF the reception and reading
been made to the books in the library OF the dele
cases OF expensive maps on art science and medicine
which have not yet been oatalogued. They viii be
placed In tho library In few days hoped by MANY
members OF the association that ut distant day the
have been begun, by when they may have circnatnS
library III with the 10 900 volumes now IN the
reference library. - ~
The Young Womens Christian Association library
was closed last month"; but has been rcopened for the
year IL contains $500 volumes A card of admission
to the full privileges OF the library will given on
personal aph' aton TO any selisupporng woman liv.
Ing IN this Guy who Will satisfactory reference
Girls under years not allowed take
unless the librarian gives them permssion This is che
only library III New-York exclusively women de-
pendent upon their exertons support The cir
cuation last ii, 600 volumes, divided among
1000 readers, and yet only one book was lost.
Extenslve alterations are being made at the Aston
Library In Lafayetteplace which will delay tho opening
nnul OCTOBER Tie entrance and stairway leading TO
the library has been removed from the third OF the
building 10 the middle or It, The space formerly occ-
pied by the stairway will be fitted up a council room
Inc new wing recently built the of the old
building mace necessary change In entrance IL ia
expected hat 10000 new books VIII be placed the ne
portion OF the library ready for 1t Ia opened
| next month ~ b
Lenox Library, at F1fth-ave and Seventieth-st has
been Closed since the last OF June. No
have been made In the interior OF the building aimee IN
was closed, though slight repairs been rade
on the outside The date OF opening the library mas not
been announced but public notice will he given
the newspapers soon the committee meets and de-
/ cides when To open IT.
The Free Circulating Library, at No. SO Bond.st has
been open all summer TINS library hes been exist
ence only but has already become very POPULAR
Any resident OF the city, properly recommends may
obtain books there without expense. The WORN la
i1ed on by voluntary subscriptions.