The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-05-19
CARNEGIE LIBRARY
Librarian Makes Report for First Three Month
of the Year.


months of January, February and
March is as follows:
The library was open afternoon and
evenings for the circulation of books,
reading and reference work II days.
The average daily attendance was
50. Number of visitors 50. The new
registrations were II j~uvenils, -
adults and l2country patrons, making
a total of IS.
The total number OF volumes leased
was 1928: about 554 yolumns were of
the best n~o-fction The standard
books of fiction, includes a large per-
cent of the above circulation. The
greatest daily circulation was %.
The above includes the chiJdren's
report which is as follows; Number
of volumes leased was POPS; Of these
about - were non-tiction. The great
est daily circulation was 50.
The readers numbered BAL, ot whom
f76 were men, 434 women, and 1881
we're children. The greatest daily at
tendance was 80.
There is still a very gratifying in
crease in good reading and reference.
The reference workers numbered 40.
1913 books, 235 magazines, II clippings
and ) pamphlets were leased for home
use while numerous books and maya
zines were used in the reference room.
The encyclopedias and Who's Who
in America were consulted daily by
the high school students and the pupils
of the grades have learned to consult
Champlin's Encyclopedia for young
people without being assisted. A
third study club files its topics for
reference material and members of the
Music Study club have consulted the
encyclopedias for biographical sketch
es of the great composers of music.
Aside from furnishing reference
material for students and people of
our W town, we have supplied
references and material for So sub
jects submitted us by mail.
Many newspaper articles have been
filed for reference use and to complete
our files of magazines we have had
the cooperation of the following
named libraries from which we have
received the following number of
magazines: Huron College Library,
33 magazines: Mitchell Carnegie Lii
brary, 81 magazines: Sisseton Libra
ry, II magazines: Minnesota State Lii
brary Commission, 200 magazines.
In return for the above magazines We
have sent 81 duplicate magazines to
Huron College Library, 81 to Mitchell
Carnegie Library, and ~ to Sisseton
Library.
The following pamphlets have been
filed for reference use: minerals of
Canada ''History and Resources of
the Yukon Territory ''Mackensie
Mountains and the Yukon Basin"
"Politics without a Politician, - ''The
| Short Ballot Tariff Act of 1909"
and ''The Revival in Korean Churches
in 1909"
% books by gift and 80 books bv
purchase have been ~catalogued, max
ing the total number of accessions
1889. Many books have been mended
and a few made ready for the bindery.
8 books were lost through smallpox
being in the homes in which they were
leased.
We are very grateful to those who
presented the following gifts: Sisseton
library, three volumes of The History
of the Nineteenth Century year by
year.
The Al books contributed by the
subscribers of the Minneapolis Jour
nal have not come but word has been
received that they would be shipped
as soon as possible.
In answer to my advertisement for
old magazines, Mrs. Schneider con-
tributed many numbers of the World
Work, World Today and McClures
Magazines: Mrs Downie, the Cosmo-
politian Magazines for the years 1897,
1898, 1899, 1900 and the Northwestern
Christion Advocates: DR.. Ferguson,
many numbers of Golfers Weekly
and Literary Digest.
Old magazines are still wanted and
if they are duplicates of what We have
we send them to other libraries to
| complete their files or send them to
the Library Commissio of Minnesota
in exchange for magazines we need.
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