The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-10-11
EDGERToN, WIS, Oct. 5, 1912.

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To the Board of Directors of the Ed
gerton Public Library:
Ladies and Gentlemen:-I have the
pleasure of submitting the annual re-
port Of the library for the year ending
June 80, 1872
The total number of borrowers added
during the year was 1870, of which s.
were adults and 105 were children.
At the beginning of the school year
all the grade teachers were invited to
the library, and the arrangement of
our books was explained and teachers
cards were issued.
This made it possible for each teach
er to draw as many books as she want
ed to use in her work; these books to
be kept for one month.
Grade lists were checked with the
books in the library, and the superin
tendent of schools posted reading lists
in each grade offering special stand
ing to the children who read certain
number of these books during the year.
This brought many children to the Ii
brary who had never borrowed any
books before.
From November 1st to April 1st the
library was kept open four afternoons
and evenings each week instead of
three.
1888 volumes were added, 342 by pur-
chase and As were gifts. Twenty-slx
volumes were sent as Christmas pres
ents from c.. O. Keinbusch Of New
York; and some very valuable material
was received from the Wis. Historical
Society and the Wis. Geological Survey.
Among the notable purchases for the
year were 20 volumes of American his
tory, which were paid for from the
Nancy and Austin Burdick American
history fund.
A Cenury dictionary was purchased
for our reference room which will make
our dictionary reference up to date.
Thirty-eigh adult books and 81 chill
dren's books were withdrawn because
they were worn out, making total of
II.
Occasional lists of our books have
been printed and handed out at the
warehouses and left on the hotel coun-
ter, gaining few new borrowers, by
people who had not known of the priv
ileges of the library.
Miss Castor of the Library school
spent the month Of March with us,
completing the catalog and classifying
and putting on the shelves an accu-
mutation of public documents. She
also gave to the eighth grade and the
freshman class some instruction in the
classification and arrangement of our
books, that they might feel at home
and know how to find material when
they come here. She also started a
story-hour which was continued by the
librarian with the help of the first
grade teachers until the weather grew
too warm for it.
The picture exhibits were held In the
Woman's room during the winter; one
collection of copys of American ar
lists, and the other Edwin Abby's
series of the Holy Grail. The school
children and Sunday school students
and teachers were invited to see these.
The book committee has endeavered
not only to satisfy the tastes of the nc
ton readers, teachers and students,
but to provide interesting and helpful
material for all classes of readers.
The total circulation of books for the
year was Is, 308, 10, 582 of these being
adult books and A, 726 were children's.
Some interesting facts were shown
by comparison with last years sta
tistics; the circulation increased 2,413.
The percentage of non-fction read In
creased from 81 per cent to AZ per cent.
1t is impossible to keep any accurate
account of the amount of reference
work done, out this increases each
wear, especially the work done for the
high school students and the mems and
women's clubs, and the past year
good deal of work was done for the
seventh and eighth grades.
The, library now subscribes for 81
magazines and two daily papers, which
are circulated the same as books. The
total circulation of periodicals for the
wear was 3,787.
Respectfully submitted,