The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-14
LIBRARY
MEETING
The Election of Officers
For the Next
Year.

/ Secretary-E. W. Campbell
/ Treasurer-W. c. Parke.
Trustees for One Year-Dr. A. L.
Rodgers, j. H. Fisher, F. r. Howard.
Trustees for Two Years-C. H. Ath-
erton. w. R. Bryan, W. d. Alexander.
/ Trustees for Three Years-M. NJ.
Scott, w. c. Parke, E. w Campbell.
THE LIBRARIANS REPORT.
| To the Trustees of the Honolulu Libra
ry and Reading Room Association.
Gentlemen: The past year has been
an encouraging one for the library.
| The circulation is on the increase,
| though the membership is still much
| smaller than it should be.
All the books have now been looked
over, and with the exception of some
| that were very old and useless, cata-
| logued and shelf-listed.
! There is now a new and complete
dictionary card catalogue to refer to,
which is a great help. number of
/ the books in the library, especially
some of those on religion and medicine,
are so much out of date, that their
| room is more to be desired than the
| books themselves, consequently they
have been discarded. Some scientific
works on shells, ETC., were transferred
to the Bishop Museum where they may
be of more use and receive better care
than is possible here
An inventory of all books recorded,
shows six missing or unaccounted for,
during the two years I have been in
charge of the library.
A donation of twenty-eight books on
history, travel and art, for reference
use. together with a special book case
in which to keep them has been pre-
scented to the library, by Mr.. and Mrs.
w. F. Allen, and Mr.. c. r. Bishop.
DR.. A. Marquee has also given some
useful material in the form of opera
scores, which will supply an untitled
want.
The accession of books for the year,
is as follows: General works. "a vols;
philosophy, 10 vols; religion, IA vols;
sociology, % vols. philology, vols;
science % vols; useful arts, % vols;
fine arts, 80 vols; literature, not in
Guiding fiction, 46 vols; travel, 4s vols;
biography, AZ vols; history, Al vols;
fiction, 211 vols; total vols, $50.
Books purchased, AL vols: gifts, 6S
vols; juvenile books, Y vols; refer
ence books, SO vols; bound magazines,
81 vols; books rebound, III vols.
Books discarded, 6S1 vols; transferr-
ed to Museum, 1913 vols; worn out, IA
vols; lost and paid for, vols; re-
placed, yols.; lost in circulation, II
vols; missing at inventory, vols.
Donors of books are as follows: DR..
w. d. Alexander, Mrs. w. f. Allen,
DR.. r. w. Anderson, Mrs. n. L. D.
F'rasher, Mrs. Grinbaum, B. G.. Holt.
W. c. Lyon, Dr. A. Marquee, Mrs. H.
Wilcox
There are also other donations, viz
Commissioners of Agriculture and For
estry, First Report, 1904; Commits
sioners of Agriculture and Forestry,
Year Book u S. Dept Agriculture;
Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton, Farmers Bulletins; Hawaiian
Territorial Medical Society, Transac-
lions, 1904; Territory of Hawaii, Re-
port of the Governor 1904; Mr.. Saito,
japanese Consul, Fifth Financial and
Economic Annual of japan, 1905; Ha-
waiian Forester and Agriculturalist;
Planters Monthly; u. S. Fish Commits
sion, Aquatic Resources of the Hawai-
ian Islands, by Jordan and Evermann,
2 PTS; Harvard University, Year Book,
1904-5; Yale University, Year Book,
19O4-5; Library of Congress, A. L. A.
Catalogue; Library of Congress, Re-
port of the Librarian; Library of Con-
gress, History of the Library of Con-
gress; U. S. Dept. of Commerce and
Labor, Reports and Bulletins.
These publications are very useful in
the library, especially those of the
Territorial Government. If every de-
partment of the government would
send their reports to the library, as
they are published it would be very
much appreciated.
The circulation of books has been as
follows:
Unbound magazines and other gen.
eral works, 22O; philosophy. 1SS; reli-
gion, 14o; sociology, 49, philology, 10;
science 322; useful arts, So; fine arts.
165; literature, not including fiction,
$780,. travel, 1868; biography, SOB; his
tory. 663: fiction, 1884; total, 19O4-5,
1878; total 1904, 1896; increase,
1888
Largest circulation in any month,
204S for March, 1905; smallest circnla-
ton in any month, 1855 for June, lSooA
average circulation in any month. 1888.
largest circulation in any one day, lao
on Feb. 81. 1905; smallest circulation IN
any one day, 20 on Sept. 1, 1900 aver
age circulation in any one day, %.
Fiction is "A per cent of all books
circulated.
Number OF members now in library.
users of reference books, not members,
ISL; readers in Reading Room, not
members since April 1, 1905, 54S2.
I am pleased to say that there has
been one new life member this year
OF our old regular membership, four
have withdrawn, six have removed
from Honolulu and three have been
dropped for non-pay ment of dues.
Comparatively few of the school
children have so far returned to draw
books, since the summer vacation, but
I hope it will not so continue
The telephone which has been in
stalled in the library is a great con-
venience.
Before closing this report it is fitting
that I should refer to my trip to the
Coast this summer which was made
possible by your kindness il granting
me leave of absence for two months