The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-15

to its usual percentage, AGO books and
247 pamphlets having been added. These
made moi only to keep up with new pub
legations lea but ALSO to satisfy all reason
comparatively few very expensive or
ornamental works have been bought. yet
the general character of our purchases
has been OF q higher average than usual,
fiction OCCUPYING a considerably smaller
place than heretofore IN our yearly al
dftfons.
Since the foundation of the Library, g.
$50 volumes. exclusive of pamphlets. have
been placed upon IT'S shelves. The very
large circulation. of the past year has ne
books, of which number 1880 have been
replaced. Making due allowance for
books books previously removed. the ac-
be fairy. estimated at about $1,000 vol
umes 2,s46 pamphlets. Among the
additions worthy. of mention may be
Works Of Contemporary Artists, the
Egyptian Book of the Dead, Bridgens,,
Gostumss of France. Switzerland and
letter.: History Of Banking, published by
the journal of Commerce.: General Sta
tutes Of New Jersey Q709-1Ss0. rev, ed;
OF Commons of the British Parliament
Ql7lo-1773l:. Furness New Variorum Edi-
ton Of Shakespeare; Haydn's Dictionary
Quarter Century of the United States;
Trails Social England. and Gratz's His
very fine line OF biography, including such
works as Elias Boudinot's Life and Let
tiers; Youman's Pioneers of Science in
nard: The LIE Of james Mccosh; The
Life of Maria Mitchell: Rae's Life of
Sheridan: Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson;
and Correspondence of Rufus King; Bar
ras' Memoirs: Constants Memoirs of Ma
poleon; John Sherman's Recoilections of
Forty Years. and Bulfinch's LITE and Let
ters.
Our Library now contains TN bound
volumes of periodicals, of which 6'6SS are
n laeese Sets ~ nave ro0l been f,, aun n,'t an % n 1nGo@-
Gus others have received additions.
The work of supplying the Library with
no q ne sns psTioda slaW. i9ae fhe r rn pSol efba i
been purchased, the lacking ones being
nosh " sa 9ba aorS and ID v rare: % o camnsass hit It
part of our Library. We find these per-
iodicals with their indexes Invaluable in
ton would speak Of the great ia assistance
derived from the Cumulative Index pub
lished by the Cleveland Library. which
rent year supplies a long felt want, and
proves itself an admirable supplement to
Poole.
The work of binding and cataloguing
~-S 0SA-A5 - hG4l(A
Our register now shows that q, 962 peo-
pie have received borrowers cards since
the opening of the Library, July 6, 1891.
OF this number, 1902 have been registered
during the past year.
In its circulation for home reading, the
Library shows its greatest increase. The
largest day of the year was April Is, the
smallest, August s, on which dates re-
spectively 2,949 and 1874 books We're circu-
lated. The daily circulation averaged
1,l2o- During the S. months of the Ii
brary's existence it has loaned to the
public 1924. 75 volumes, making a monthly
average of 29,610. If to our home read
ing circulation of 402, 450. be added the
reference room use of 50, 391, a total of
49, 41 volumes will be given, representing
the actual use during the year of books
belonging to the Library. This does not
include the periodicals in the reading
room, which have a very extensive use.
of which no record is kept.
For the second year of our Library life
we aye recorded a fiction percentage of
S6.17. From this time a gradual decrease
has taken place, until this year we re-
port H.14 To this should be added the
fact that on the whole, we send out Il
better class of fiction than formerly,
In our catalogues having beeen worn out
and not replaced In this connection
should also be mentioned. that for con
v~entence sake, many works of science.
travel, history and biography, written
specially for the young In story form,
have been considered as juvenile fiction.
so that the percentage of this class can
not rightly be said to entirely represent
light reading.
The following table of statistics gives
the number and percentage of each class
c~irculated.-