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OFFICERS President, Hon. JOHN BIGELOW, LL.D. First Vice-President, Rt. Rev. HENRY C. POTTER, D.D., LL.D. Second Vice-President, JOHN S. KENNEDY, Esq. Secretary, CHARLES HOWLAND RUSSELL, Esq., 40 Lafayette Place. BRANCHES-REFERENCE Lafayette Place, 40. (ASTOR.) Fifth Avenue, 890. (LENOX.) CIRCULATION MANHATTAN. East Broadway, 31. (CHATHAM SQUARE.) East Broadway, 197. (Educational Alliance Building.) 7th Street. 106 Avenue C. 8th Street. 135 Second Avenue. (OTTENDORFER.) 13th Street, 251 West. 23d Street, 130 West. 34th Street, 215 East. 42d Street, 226 West. 59th Street, 113 East. 65th Street, 116 West. 76th Street, 538 East. Near 8th Avenue. (JACKSON SQUARE.) Near 7th Avenue. (GEORGE BRUCE. Dept. headquarters.) Near Broadway. (RIVERSIDE.) 79th Street, 222-224 East. Near 3d Avenue. (YORKVILLE.) 82d Street. 2279 Broadway. (ST. AGNES.) 91st Street, 121 West. 100th Street, 206 West. 110th Street, 174 East. 123d Street, 32 West. 125th Street, 218 East. Bet. Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. (BLIND LIBRARY.) Street, 922 St. Nicholas Avenue. (WASHINGTON HEIGHTS.) VOL. VIII. OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS JANUARY, 1904. No. 1. REPORT FOR DECEMBER, AND SUMMARY FOR JULY-DECEMBER. REFERENCE DEPARTMENT. The following table shows the operations of the Reference Department of the New York Public Library for December, 1903, with the corresponding figures for the last six months, as compared with the corresponding six months of 1902: During the calendar year ending December 31, 1903, the number of volumes actually received (including exchanges) was 25,803, and of pamphlets, 70,258. The number of volumes catalogued was 43,857, and of pamphlets, 34,583. The total number of cards written was 141,993. The total number of readers during the calendar year was 174,248, and the number of volumes consulted was 468,457, not including those used at the free reference shelves. There are now on the shelves of the Astor and Lenox Branches of the Library, available for readers, 614,293 volumes and 232,962 pamphlets. CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT. During the calendar year ending December 31, 1903, the number of volumes circulated for home use was 2,788,566; the number of readers consulting books from the shelves was 349,451; the number of new registrations was 43,476; the number of readers (minors) was 218,073; the number of readers (total) was 507,601; the number of volumes accessioned was 22,223, giving a total on the shelves of the department available for readers of 332,177 volumes. The number of circulation branches has been increased to 22, by the addition on December 31, 1903, of four formerly independent libraries: the Harlem Library and the Tottenville Library corporations consolidated with the New York Public Library, turning over to it their books and all other property; the University settlement and the East Side Settlement (its library being known as the Webster Free Library) turned over their books and other library property. The Harlem library had on its shelves 24,333 volumes and had circulated in the year just passed 152,324 volumes; the Tottenville library, with 3,375 volumes, had circulated 14,733 volumes; the University Settlement library, with 5,479 volumes, had circulated 76,582; and the Webster Free Library, with 12,000 volumes, had circulated 106,468. The accession of these libraries raises the total number of volumes circulated in 1903 from the 2,788,566 given above for 18 branches to 3,138,673 for 22 branches, and raises the number of volumes in the department to 377,364. There is thus in the whole library a total of 1,224,619 pieces available for readers: 614,293 volumes and 232,962 pamphlets in the reference department and 377,364 volumes in the circulation department. The most popular books of the month were (in non-fiction): Wagner's “Parsifal,” Longfellow's Poems, Morley's "Life of Gladstone"; (in adult fiction): Rice's "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," Crawford's "Heart of Rome," Chambers's "Maids of Paradise"; (in juvenile fiction): Wiggin's "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," Alcott's "Little Women," Grimm's "Fairy Tales." |