Library Report

DURING THE PAST YEAR, Baker Library has acquired 17,117 volumes, o£ which 14,126 volumes were purchased and 2,991 presented as gifts to the library, according to the annual report of the Faculty Committee on the Library. In the same period 104,136 books of the library's 520,000 were charged for outside use, a total which does not include books taken from the Tower Room or the stacks to be read in the building.

The gifts to the library included rare editions, special book collections, and manuscripts. The books purchased were largely acquired on recommendation of the faculty members who based their choice on the books' usefulness to the student body as a whole.

Increasing use of the library as educational methods progress along the lines of greater individual study and reseat ch by the student was anticipated in the annual report which was submitted to the faculty by Norman K. Arnold, chairman of the Library Committee, Nathaniel L. Goodrich, librarian, and Profs. C. N. Allen '24, H. M. Dargan, A. L. King, W. A. Robinson, and H. F. West '22.