Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-11
THE OTIS LIBRARY END SUCCESSFUL YEAR
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Continued from third page.) indicates the scope of the years work by his record of books issued, which included:
 Fiction for grown people, 72,3S5 volumes, 59.80 per cent: biography 1852, 1.12 per cent; travel geography, etc, 1871, LA per cent; history 1,34S, 1.12 per cent; literature 3,009, 249 per cent; fine arts 1,235, 1.02 per cent; useful arts 929, IT per cent; science 1,045, .S8 per cent. philology 10S and sociology HOS, 1.01 per cent; religion 76S, .64 per cent; philosophy 5S0, A4S per cent; magazines and miscellany 3,379, 2.7I per cent; fiction for young people S,407, 1898 per cents other books for young people S,407. 6.95 per cent; books in foreign languages 3.4SS, 2.S9 per cent
 The total was 121,062 volumes.
 Daily average of issues S98 volumes.
 Library open BOA days. Reading room open S42 days.
 New book borrowers registered dur ing the year 1902; borrowers re-regis- tered since June 1, 1908, S6S; total registration since June 1, 1893, 20,360.
 Volumes worn out and discarded 673; volumes rebound 91S.
 New books added: By gift 592, by state grant 51, by purchase 1898; to-
 
 165; total number of volumes in the library SS,7SS. net gain in volumes 956.
 Number of visitors in the reading room on Sundays, October l, 1908, to June 30. 1909, 1,779., Cards added to the catalog 3,S12: number of cards now in the catalogue 740S3.
 Books in Foreign Languages.
 Mir. Trumbull says: The most nota- ble features in the variations of issues as compared with the previous year are the increases in books in foreign languages and in books for the young.
 The increase in. the issue of books in foreign laguages is mainly due to the introduction of more than three hun dred books in Hebrew or Yiddish, which were presented to the library by the Hebrew Progressive Education- al association when this organiza ton was dissolved during the past autumn. These books having been placed in the library for general use have at tracted a large number of readers who have never before made use of our privileges because they were only aV- customed to the books of their own language. It is to be hoped that the resources of the. library will admit of d new supply of such books during the coming year, as they are useful to a large class of readers, and it is im portant that the supply should be kept up. at least in sufficient quantity to make deficiencies good.
 The use of books in other foreign languages appears to continue in full measure, and would doubtless show an increase without the new feature to which I have alluded. While we are impressed with the importance of the issues of books in all foreign lan- guages. We are, from the experience of the past year more and more fre- quently confronted with the fact that maintaining supplies of books in six different foreign languages, as we are attempting to do makes a serious drain upon resources which are in no way increased to meet the increased demands.
 Two Pressing Needs.
 Two items, money, and room for books and people, are the most press ing needs of the library. l feel that should present these needs more urg- ently than ever before. as they have never been so urgntly felt during the seventeen years of the career of the library as free library. Many such institutions. especially in this state and in Massachusetts, are doing less work for their communities at a great CT expense, and under endowments six or even eight times as large as ours.
 Mir. Trumbull appends list of books added from the library funds, the state grant and by gift, for the purpose of showing the character and scope of some of the more important additions.
 Officials and Staff.
 The trustees of the Otis library in clude: William A. Aiken, president; John c. Averill, treasurer; Adams P. Carroll, Frank L. Woodland, Henry A. Tirrell, Oliver L. Johnson, Archibald Mitchell.
 The library staff numbers: Jona- than Trumbull, librarian and secre- tary; assistants, Miss Imogene A.Cash. Miss Harriet G. Cross, Miss Elizabeth Welden, Louis J. floss; substitutes, Miss Martha A. Ward, Miss Mildred Rogers, Louis s. Vanderwaart.