The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-03

W0iin, Nils G.-Modern Swedish
 aris and crafts in pictures.
 T1b's VI at the end of this re port LOWS the number of books fl fb. rary at the beginning c. .ne ar 1881 as 141,170. I'm ra IT of books added during tho yea s given as 5,426, the mum. Der sold, worn out or lost, as 4,152 making a net gain of 1,274 vol. umes and the total number oi books on hand, as of January l 1892, 142,444.
 The Library Stan
 The transfer of the Waterville Branch to it's news quarters, with separate room for children and the necessity for sending an extra person to the branch to take charge of this room, when there was no one who could be spared from our professional stan and nc possibility of adding to our ex- penditures the salary, of an extra person, resulted in our increasina the professional staff from 21 to 22 persons and decreasing the mending room force from 4 to 3 persons. In this way we solved one problem but brought up an- other which will have to be met when the present depression is over; that of replacing this fourth person in the mending depart ment. Miss Ann Cronin who was for a year a general assistant in the children's and loan depart ments was placed in charge of the children's room at Waterville.
 Two resignations occurred dur ing the year, that of Miss Mildred Nelson in September and Miss Ro- sella Cunningham in October, both Of these people leaving us to be married. Miss Nelson's position in the cataloging department was filled by the appointment of Miss Marguerite Shanahan, a graduate of New Rochelle college and a member of our staff from 1924 to 1927. Miss Shanahan left the li- brary in 1927 to go to college and we were very glad to have her re- turn to us upon the completion of her college course. Miss Cunning hams position in the children's s department was filled by the pro- motion of Miss Concetta Ciaccio who had been for two years an assistant in the mending depart ment. The vacancy in the chill dren's department, resulting from Miss Cronin's transfer to the Wa terville branch, was filled by the appointment of Miss Mary Gilbert.
 An opportunity was given every member of the staff to attend one day of the annual conference of the American Library association held in New Haven from June 22- 27 and to visit at that time the new Sterling Memorial library of Yale university. This is the only time in its fifty-three years as an organization that the American Library association has met any where in the state of Connecticut and thus near enough for anyone other than the librarian and occa- sionally one or two members of the staff to attend.
 Two members of our staff, dur ing their four weeks summer va cation. availed themselves of the opportunity to acquire additional professional training and experi- ence. Miss McEvoy continued her courses in library science at Columbi university and has now to her credit one-half of the points necessary for a Bachelor of Library Science degree. Miss Mary Hardy spent the month of July working for practical experi ence in the business branch of the Newark public library which is to be the best business library in the country. Both of these people were benefited by the experience which study or work in anothr and larger field can give and the library in turn is benefited by their added knowl- edge, new ideas and increasing ef- ficieEcy in the management of their respective departments.
 The Central Building
 The amount of money available during 1881 for repairs, three hun dred dollars, permitted us to con- sider only those things which seemed particularly urgent or which could be done at a compar- atively low cost. Under the first heading. we class the installing of new radiators in the genealogical room which has for years back been difficult and almost imDossi- ble to heat. Under the second. the painting of the vestibule and main