RESUME OF LIBRARIAN’S REPORT

At the October meeting of the faculty the librarian reported for the library committee, on the operation of the library during the year 1918-19. A summary of the report is here- with given.

The librarian, Mr. Goodrich, was in the army half the year. During his absence Mr. Rugg, as acting librarian, carried the library very efficiently through the difficult period of S. A. T. C. adjustment. At the end of 25 years’ ser- vice Miss E. M. Newell resigned her position as assistant librarian, to take effect July 1, 1919. Appointments to the staff, of the same date, were, as chief cataloger, Miss Martha Emerson, librarian of N. H. State College; and as assistant in charge of circulation, Miss Ellen AMams, associate librarian, Skidmore School of Arts.

The building is noisy, dingy, ill ventilated, in part poorly lighted. The reading space is inadequate. Inflammable soft wood shelving has been installed to handle part of the book additions. All available space is now used. It is not the intent of the library to install this shelving where it will seriously impair the appearance of the building or hamper access to books. Therefore books are being stored on shelving in the basement of New Hampshire Hall. Over 7,500 are already there, and it is practically a fact that one old book goes out the back door to storage for every new one which comes in at the front.

The libraries of the college total about 150,000 vols. of these 20,000 are in the Tuck and Medical buildings, 7,500 in New Hamp- shire, about 110,000 in Wilson Hall, and the rest in seven other places about the campus. Last year 4,771 vols. were added and 16,302 catalog cards made. Expenditures; for books $9,861; for administration, $10,585.26; for building expenses $2,223.43; total $22,669.69. Budget for 1919-20: for books $19,307; for administration $13,000.; for building expenses $3,040.; total $35,347.

Certain additions to book funds became wholly or in part available toward the end of the year, and are here mentioned, although they affect chiefly the 1919-20 budget. These are: a special grant of SIO,OOO by the Trustees, to recoup departments which were unable to obtain books and serials, under war condi- tions, and to make possible certain large pur- chases ; a gift of S3OO. by Justin H. Smith, formerly of the faculty, the income, estimated at S7OO annually, from the fund established in memory of E. Phelps Johnson 12, to be used for the purchase of books in the field of the Social Sciences.

The library bought at auction the Allen col- lection of MS. material, relating chiefly to the 1819 controversy. It contains letters throwing some light on the Dartmouth university side of the question. Also two items printed in Hanover about 1778, when it was for a time called “Dresden” were secured.