Excerpt from Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library, 1875 Upon the other points to which reference is made by the committee, the Trustees accept with pleasure the conclusion to which it arrived. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Fifty-Eighth Annual Report of the Trustees of the New York State Library: For the Year 1875 Sm I have the honor to transmit the fifty-eighth annual report of the trustees of the New York State Library. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Fourteenth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library, 1866 Sm: I have the honor to transmit to you, herewith, the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library, prepared in obedience to the fourth section of the Ordinance relative to the Public Library, passed on the 2oth of October, 1863. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Twenty-Sixth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library, 1878 In presenting the usual summary of library work for the year, there will be found a gratifying increase in the extent and value of the collections. Two new Branches have been established; one at the South End, and one at Jamaica Plain. The amount of donations has been swelled by the gift of the library of the Mercantile Library Association. The quality of the works added to the popular libraries has been higher 111 grade. The number of volumes shelved 111 Bates Hall are 203, 928; in the Lower Hall, 35. 862 in the basement in the branches, making a total of volumes, an increase for the year of volumes, or 12 per cent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library, 1888 The total issues from all the libraries for the year were 934, 593, against volumes in 1886. This diminution is partly owing to the temporary closing of the active South Boston and East Boston branches for repairs of the build inos, and to a falling off in Jamaica Plain and Dorchester, while the South and North End branches showed a gratifying increase. Since the opening of these various libraries, now belonging to the City of Boston, or under its charge, there have been distributed to readers since 1853, volumes, of which more than one-third were issued from the Lower Hall Library in Boylston street. The use of the reading-rooms for periodicals shows a marked improvement. The 933 magazines and literary weeklies found readers a gain of over from the previous year. Of this aggregate numbers were delivered from the desk of the hall in the Central Library devoted to this purpose. The wear and tear of the library books is specially felt in the collect-ions dedicated to popular use. In the past year books were condemned, either as imperfect or worn out. The books from both halls and from the branches which from excessive circulation required rebinding numbered about volumes. The volumes unrecovered from borrowers in all the libraries were only 49. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library, 1877 The reading-rooms of such libraries as were opened to the public, including Sundays, through the year, received Visitors on 360 days, during which readers made use of periodicals, an increase of readers and of periodicals. The employment on Sundays of the branch reading-rooms, as intimated in the last report of the Trustees, has become so limited that a portion of them has been discontinued. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.