The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-13
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
REPORT OF BUSINESS FOR
TWENTY ONE DAYS.
All Glasses Patronize the Institution
Orders for New Volumes-Gifts
Made and Promised-Historical
Society's Aid.

AS an infallible indication of the
popular patronage given to the public
library and free reading room, the fact
is cited that within the 81 business
days since the institution opened, 2,62o
books were loaned, 2,11O reference vol
umes were consulted, $3.50 applications
were made for borrowers cards ana
134S cards were issued. During this
time over 5000 persons have entered
the library to avail themselves of the
reading privileges and to take out
books. The attendance yesterday and
the number of transactions were as
large as on any day since the opening.
The patrons, old and young, are rep
resentative of every aVocauon ana
condition of life in this city.
THE NUCLEUS AND ACQUISITIONS
The report of Miss Chapman, the
acting librarian, also shows that 9,o62
volumes. exclusive of unbound maya
zines and pamphlets, were received
from the Pioneer Library association,
but about $50 of this number required
re-binding and repairs.
Orders are now in for 1,OOO new VOL
umes of fiction, Juvenile and educa-
tionaI works. such as are most needed
for popular demands. The fact that
these books will have to come from
several different publishers, makes 1t
uncertain when the entire shipment
will be received. Other orders Will be
placed shortly, and before midsummer
the total number of volumes IN the
library will approximate $4,000. In
the magazine line, the collection will
soon be complete by the receipt of
several bound volumes that were here
tofOre missing.
GIFTS OF BOOKS MADE AND
PROMISED.
Since the opening of the library, DR..
Plummer has donated II bound medi-
cal works, 80 unbound magazines and
IS miscellaneous pamphlets. Six vol
umes were the gift of F. II. Hesse, and
John Lawrence has donated one. Sec
rotary of State Hammond has honored
the library's requisition for copy of
the Revised Statutes of Utah, and will
make up a lot of territorial and state
reports and legislative journals. Bound
volumes of the Financial Chronicle,
the property Of w. F. Cotton, will. ac-
cording to his expressed Intention, be
given to the library. A large number
of substantial book gifts will be made
as soon as the catalogue is completed,
so that intending donors. may know
best what to give.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S AID.
It is the purpose of the Utah His
torical society to make the library
trustees the custodian in trust of
large number of relies, rare books,
diaries and other private writings. I'm
til the society obtains a permanent
home, the library quarters will be
safe and suitable repository of the
proposed loans. In connection with the
historical society, the trustees of the
library will endeavor to make the col
lection of Utah publications complete
in every respect.
SOME ATTRACTIVE FEATURES.
In the library vault are complete
files of The Herald, Tribune, News and
defunct newspapers, all bound since
the earliest issues. This collection is
most valuable. 1t belongs to the city
recorders Office.
Besides having the thousands of VOL
umeS on almost every conceivable sub
ject, the library receives regularly the
daily papers from the large cities, the
Salt Lake papers, the standard illus
trated weeklies and all the current
magazines. All these are for the free
use of the public, subject only to
proper rules and regulations, and it is
small wonder that the institution has
taken a strong hold on the people, es-
pecially those who have not the means
to buy all the books they wish to read.
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