The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-05
THE YOUNG MEMS. INSTITUTE
FEATURES or ITS lNNUAL MEEI-
 INC LAST EVENING.

Continued Prosperity of This Old and | Honored New Haven The Year's Report-EIection of Directors. I At the annual meeting of the Young | Mems Institute held last evening, Pres ident French presiding, directors were elected for the coming year as follows: Charles E. Graves A. Heaton Robert
 son. F. W. J. Sizer, William s. Pardee, Willard F. Ensign, Alfred w. Minor. Following is the annual report of the institute:
 To the Members of the Young Mems h.
 stitute:
 The recurrence of the annual meeting
 calls for a brief review of the conduct
 of our affairs during another twelve
 month. At the outset, it is pleasant to
 note the graudal increase of our mem
 bership, which has been steadily grow
 ing for the past two years, This is due
 partly to the increased efficiency of the
 management, and partly to the loyalty
 of our patrons. A larger number have
 entered the family membership class
 by reason of the greater privileges to
 which they are entitled. For five dol
 lars year we now make no restrictions
 in the number of books or magazines to
 be drawn at a time, nor in the period
 of use, unless there is a call for some
 of the books by another patron. This
 is a rare opportunity for students and
 investigators, who often desire to have
 at hand a large number of books while
 ix, SNf
 All members will do well to consider
 whether the extra charge does not
 compensate fully by these added op-
 portunities.
 Tn the early fall the trustees made an
 arrangement under m extended lease
 for q new front to the store under the
 reading room, which has so beautified
 the building as to make it the most at tractive on the whole street, While these repairs have somewhat curtailed the income available for books tempo rarlly, in the end the library will reap the benefit of the change. The build ing is now in first class order, and Is steadily increasing in value.
 No change has been made in the reading room except to place the cur rent magazines in new case. This is so arranged that titles can all be seen at a glance, and reader can se- cure the one of his choice without nun ming over the entire set. Beneath the magazines, in the same case, we have placed the Cyclopedia Britannica (which has been rebound) and other | work of reference. The most popular bound magazines have been brought | down from the chess room and placed | on the top of the shelves, where they l are now accessible Tn the near future 1t would be wise arrangement to lo- | cate these bound magazines on new shelves, to be placed in the parlor, and | modelled after others already in use there. We must soon make additional | arrangements to accommodate our card catalogue, which has outgrown it's | limited space. This will be all the | more necessary when the librarian | his work on the subject cat alogues. This will require a greatly number of cards, and when will make our library fully | equipped in this respect, being provid- ed with title, author and subject cata- logues. Some idea of the cataloguing work may be conceived when I state that the library of the worlds best literature, purchased by us this year (30 volumes in alb required over 2,000 cards, This is considered of so much | importance that the library bureau has r issued catalogue cards since this work waa done
 During the year our juvenile depart ment has been thoroughly rearranged by the transference of books of this class on all subjects to the front part ,f the room. Formerly only books of
 fiction were thus separated. Now all juvenile books on other subjects, such IS history, travel science, etc, are grouped together thus furnishing a decided advantage to our patrons who seek to cater to the growing desire of he young people in their households. This has tendency also to elevate the character of the reading now eagerly sought by them.
 The librarians report indicates to 'ou the character of the reading most sought after by our patrons, which loes not differ materially from that of ormer years. Fiction is, of course ar in the lead, while everything per aiming to Cuba and the Philippines ; las been constantly in circulation. WeHly CupleS Ol DdNlu I1dTuiD | rave been on the move for more than ,
 fix months, and hardly ever is copy f eft on the shelves for twenty four tours. In our regular and special loan departments we now have forty-five opies of "Richard Carvel" with a 1 waiting list of fifty patrons who are ager to peruse the novel last talked bout. 1 sometimes question whether I ve are not filling our shelves with too < arge a number of ephemeral books, ( whose titles will hardly be looked at fter 8 few years more. Yet, we must r onduct the institute in such a way as I 0 cater to the current wants of the ; community. They desire fresh books in vivid way the customs nd manners of these and former days l Books of reference they can always nd in larger numbers at the university nd public library, and our funds will ot allow us to compete with them. To eep an ample supply, therefore is the rue policy for us to follow. Fresh lean books, in attractive bindings ven if they are not the latest pubi- ations, are sure to be drawn and read or considerable period. For exam le, we have recently added new and edition of Kipling's works,