Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-07-19

reference work during = the nine
months of the school year was nearly
ten per day. Compared with the sta
tistics for the previous year, those
for the past year showed an increase
in the number of adult readers, but
decreases in the number of adult ref
erence workers and child readers,
while the number of young people
doing reference work was almost ex-
actly the same, an increase of only
five being shown.
Books Accustomed
The books and bound periodicals |
accessioned during the year numbered |
$50. This is the least number of vol
umes added to the library in any year
for number of years, the reason
being that the county commissioners
without consulting the library trus-
tees, had cut the library appropria-
tion for the year. Fortunately, how
ever. when the matter was brought
to the attention of the commission
ers they promised for the coming
year to restore the appropriation to
the usual amount 81, 900. There
were 90 volumes newly purchased dur
ing the year at cost of $105.56.
There were also accessioned four vol
umes of the New International Ency-
clopedia, which had been paid for, but
not received with the earlier volumes
of the set. Likewise there were ac-
cessioned 33 volumes of newly bound
periodicals. The cost of the binding,
including that of 13 rebound books,
was $34.20. The bound periodicals,
however, if we add original subscrip-
tlon prices, represented an additional
cost to the library of $43.80. The ac-
cessioned books that were gifts num-
bered 21. Among the donors of books
were Mr.. and Mrs. M. L. Altstetter,
Miss Marie brennan, Mrs. Homer
/ George, Miss Anna Greenleaf, Davis
] B. Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs. W. c..
Schafer, Stratford Shakespeare Glass,
Congressman Shook, F. H. Reighard,
Rev. H. E. Plehn, and Emmaus Lu-
theran congregation, and E. P. Wen
eel.
At the beginning of 1917, there
were 1888 accessioned books and
bound periodicals in the library. AS
!; previously stated, there were $50 vol
umes newly accessioned during the
year. On the other hand two vol
umes were withdrawn, and one was
lost. Thus there was net increase
OF lat accessioned volumes for 1917.
And at the beginning of 1918 there
) was total of $500 accustomed vol
|; umes in the library. The newly ac-
: cessioned adult books are divided into
classes as follows: Fiction, At vol
umes; general works, 81 volumes;
:, literature, 8 volumes; history, 6 vol
: umes; sociology, volumes; useful
: arts, volumes; biography and reli-
, gion, volumes each; and natura
K sciences, l volume. The newly aeces.
: stoned juvenile books are thus di.
: vided into classes: Fiction, 80 vol
f umes; general works, A volumes; So
T cial sciences, volumes; biography
: and literature, 2 volumes each; anc
e fine arts, useful arts, and natura
Y sciences, 1 volume each.
Mention should also be made her,
of the fact that in 1917 the librar,
s spent $11.43 for printed Library o
f Congress catalog cards and $3.50 fo
: cardboard filing boxes for the IN
r bound magazines, thus adding greatl,
|
S, well as making it possible to handl
Z the magazines more easily.
"a Periodicals
n In 1917 the library subscribed fo
le eight weekly and II monthly maga
N zines, together with the MONTH
IS American Library Association Book
y. list, and the monthly Readers GIid
to Periodical Literature, both neces
IS sary library tools. For subscriptio
l, to the various periodicals there wa
v paid out during the year $65.86.
er The library also received regularl
lie as gifts five weekly and eight month
Sc ly periodicals, one daily newspaper
" and two daily government publics
at taons. Likewise important were th
al gifts of older magazines, donated b
as local residents for use In the refer
ar ence department. Among the donor
es of magazines, both new and old, dul
ing 1917, were the Ladies' SEWN
Id club of the Catholic church, the loc;
Or Christian Science society, the trus
" tees of the Mary Baker Eddy fun,
OF the Ladies' Aid Society of the Cor
gregational church, the local branc
of the W. C. T. u, Mrs. H. j. BacE
-; man, y. +. Gfeenough, and II. }
70 70 Meister.
20 Other Gifts
~ A gift that brought ,rth many e1
70 pressions of appreciation from pas:
- - ers-by was that of the new shrul
:. ~ berry planted in front of the librtr
% by the Wauseon's Woman's clu
-, Likewise attractive was the beautifl
- bed of tulips that had been plante
or r the previous fall by Mrs. C. H. Jol
"a u dan and Mrs. F. H. Wolf.
of Ia4 : The War Work
We The great war has brought new n
or sponsibilities to all American librarie
It's For the first time in history, Amer
or can soldiers at the. front are bein
ng supplied regularly with circulatin
ce books and magazines. Early in tt
IT. fall of 1917 the Wauseon library ws