Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-08
LIBRARIANS REPORT
Annual Report of The Librarian of WauseOn For The
Year 1916 Circulation of Books and Other
Activities of This Popular Institution

1929 per cent. in the number of adults
dong reference work and an in
crease of 27.9 per cent. in the num-
Der of young people and children do
ing reference work. The decrease in
the number of adult readers was S.52
per cent. while the decrease in the
number of juvenile readers was 1892
per cent. Continuing a practice com.
mon to libraries high school students
have been included among adult read
ers, though not among adults doing
reference work. In spite of the well
organized subscription library at Del
ia club women of that village still use
our library to do reference work.
Books Accustomed
The books and bound periodicals ac-
cessloned during the year numbered
$50. There were 240 volumes newly
purchased at cost Of S255.17. There
were also accessioned four volumes of
the New International encyclopedia
which had been paid for but not receiv-
ed in 1915. Likewise there were ac-
cessioned 35 volumes of newly bound
periodicals.. The cost of the binding,
including that of 164 rebound books,
was 1856. The periodicals, however
if we add original subscription prices,
represented an additional cost to the
library of $427O.
The accessioned books that were
gifts numbered 81, while two of the
| 35 newly accessioned periodicals were
also originally gifts Among the
donors were Rev. J. S. Elder, VINO
gave The fifteen volumes &c the Catho
lW encyclopedia; Mrs. w. +. Eaycr
Mss Bertha E. Hilton, and Master
William Eager, who added several
volumes to the Mary A. Bogart mem
oral shelf; the Stratford Shakespeare
{ lass, which added volumes to lie
Sl,aF espeare, Maeterlinck and Shaw
c. ection; M. L. Altstettcr, DR.. c. E.
Bennett, Mabel Grandy, C. D. Grrel.-
lei, Epworth League of the First
Methodist Episcopal church, Mrs. D.
p. Barkdull, Mrs. Frances Bayes,
Mrs. W. A. Scott, Margery Hum
phreys, Wauseon Woman's Club and
Congressman N. E. Matthews.
At the beginning of 1916 there
were 5,329 volumes of accessioned
books and periodicals in the library.
AS previously stated there were $50
!
year. On the other hand four vol
umes were lost. Thus there was a
net increase of 324 accessioned vol
umes for 1916, And at the beginning
of 1917 there was total of 1858 ac-
cesSioned volumes in the library. II
may be noted here that the accessions
were less in number in 1916 than in
1915 and in several other years, but
likewise the money appropriated anG
spent for books was less than in most
! of these former years. Though the
Gil cdiation of books has increased By
more than third what it was fou1
years ago and the use of the library
for purposes of reading and reference
work has doubled, the library appro
: priation has remained practically thu
: same. And there is imperative nee(
not merely in the supplying of NOR,
books, but likewise in the replacing O.
: many old favorites-for the book
that wear out through much use ar
usually among the most desirabl
books in the library Moreover, tn
2 providing of new book stacks is an al
; most immediate necessity, for wer
: all the books in circulation in the Ii
brary at one time nearly all the spac
!, now provided would be filled. Will
:, emergency Immediately by an in
creased tax appropriation, it may b
possible to meet it by a greater co
$ operation between the library and tn
I people of the community. In man
places a large part of the annua
r book fund is raised through publ
: benefit entertainments sponsored b
!, various civic bodies. Certainly n
: local institution should more deserv
Z such aid than the public library!
S The newly accustomed adult book
4 were divided into classes as follows
t Fiction, 63 volumes; general works, 8
= volumes; sociology, 20 volumes; rel
gion, 20 volumes; useful arts, Is vol
umes; literature, II volumes; fine arts
S 4 volumes; history, A volumes; bic
6 graphy, 2 volumes; natural sciences,
5 volumes; philosophy, 2 volumes an
r travel 1 volume. The newly acces
), stoned juvenile books were divided ir
+ to classes as follows: Fiction, 61 vo
n umes; general works, "a volumes
7 sociology, 18 volumes; literature, 1
Il volumes; useful arts, 10 volumes
T travel, volumes; natural sciences,
n volumes; biography, volumes; fin
$ arts, volumes; history, volumes
d religion, 2 volumes; and philosoph,
d l volume.
n Other Gifts
y Quite as important as the gifts {
n books were the gifts of pictures to |
e placed in the library. The children {
i the late Albert S. Bloomer and Mr.
D Bloomer presented a large panoram
le photograph of the business section {
n the west sled of North Fulton stree
t. The picture was taken by Dunckl
/ berg about 1871 or 1872. Mrs. ].
il. Safer, of Columbus, presented to tt
r, library two large views in sepla I
is the ruins of Rome. All three picture
N were framed when presented and wei
ut hung in the reference and readir
rs rooms.
u The Wauseon Woman's Club pr
e, sented to the library a cash gift
l. ten dollars. In the fall Mrs. F.
oil Wolf and Mrs. C. H. Jordan plantt
n the tulips for the tulip bed in fro
of the library. Expressions of got
will and proffers of assistance la
IL been made by number Of friends
90 the library and surely attest to tt
TX firm hold that the institution has
or the life of the community. Again tn
of year are thanks due to the publishe
er of the three local newspapers for pu
T. fishing free of charge news items fro
r. the library and for sending copies
as their newspapers regularly witho
he charge for use in the reading roc
IN and for permanent filing.
ly The library is still the reposito
or for the lineage books and the pc,
le- odicals of the local chapter of t
IN Daughters of the American Revol
Sc, tion and for the state travelling libra
ID books received by the Woman's Clr
re These books and the periodicals, ha
ne ever, do not figure in the library acct
ice sion and circulation records, nor
ay, about 800 bound government doc
ng ments and numerous unbound mag
for zines and pamphlets, valuable !
ge purposes of reference, figure in t
he accession record,
Jas Periodicals
ng In 1916 the library subscribed
Der six weekly and nineteen monthly ms
,us Continued on page ESht)