Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-10-10
LESS FICTION
IS Being READ
Library Report Shows
Our People Serious
Minded

The Honolulu Library Association
held its annual meeting yesterday
and heard the reports of the officers
for the year. The Association has
had a number of plans in mind for
development and improvement, but
no positive action was taken as the
funs available are not of a size to
warrant expansion.
Secretary Campbell read the fol-
lowing very interesting report:
Gentlemen: bringing together
the records of the several months, the
figures presented are gratifying Us a
measure OF what has been accom-
plished. and are also suggestive of
larger possibilities.
The year closed with 81 members
on the list of paid subscriptions; 2SS
pupils awaited themselves of the priv
ileges open to them.
Circulation
The circulation for the year was
i20,432 volumes, an increase Of 1891
over that of the previous year. 1t
is pleasing to note decrease As
per cent. in the amount of fiction
issued, and an increase in the cir
culation of the other classes of
books, notably of travel, literature,
fine and useful arts, sociology and
philosophy. The largest increase was
In sociology and travel, to both of
which classes a large number of re-
cent publications has been added.
The following books have had a
large circulation: William James.
Pragmatism w. II. Thomson. Brain
and Personality; l.. +. Ward, Pure
SOCIOLOGY; Nicholas Murray Butler,
True and False Democracy; II. G..
Wells, New Worlds for Old; Carl
Snyder, New Conceptions in Science;
Il. A. Gardner, Handbook of Creep
sculpture: A. G. Benson, Altar Fire:
iC. II. Kennedy, The Servant in the
House: Lord Cromer, Modern Egypt;
Ellsworth Huntington, Pulse of Asia !;
, G. T. Ladd, In Korea with Marquis
, Ito. These are only a few of the
, books in various classes that have
, attracted readers, but serves as an
, index of the demand for the latest
thought.
Additions
. Nine hundred and two volumes
}. were added to the Library during
e the year; 159 were bound periodi
!. Gals. 81 gifts, and ZIG We're added
e by purchase.
!. Reading Room
>. On the tables of the reading room
y are 100 magazines and 23 newspa
pers; 95 are American publications
8 local, and % foreign. The appre
/. citation of these Is evident from tn,
= attendance, which has been 1909
" This is conservative estimate an,
T. does not include the Sunday attend
II ance.
=, Reference Department
}. The usual work in this department
; has been carried forward, but 1t
c very desirable that this branch O
the work be extended. The attend
ance was 1907. Two condition
:, need to be changed in order tina
the efficiency of this department ma
be increased. With the presen
arrangement there is not room, con
venient or comfortable, for consultin
the books that are available. Thi
IS could be remedied with small ey
r. penditure. The largest use of rel
n erence books is made by pupils fror
$, the different schools, and for thel
;, needs suitable material should be a
y, hand select list of books In ma
ture study has been furnished the II
brarian by one of the Normal Schoc
instructors, and these books will 500
be on the shelves. BY charging tn
s, collection in other subjects in tn
H. same way, the library would becom
in a greater degree an adjunct {
e. the public schools.
The recent acquisition of the Reat
- er's Guide to Periodical Literatur,
4 covering the years 1900 to date, SUI
plements the Poole's Index, an
/ makes easily available the materii
of the leading periodicals.
1 Grateful acknowledgment is mad
| of the purchase of expensive cataloi
and photographed material indi
pensable in the technical work of Il
librarian.
| Catalog Department
/ An inventory of the books Wi
completed July l. 1908. At the tin