1906 Annual Report for the Lane Memorial Library

REPORT OF LIBRARY COMMITTEE

RECEIPTS
Received balance from last year: $1.51
From Town: 150.00
Fines: 3.20
Sale of Library cards: 0.50
Loan of books: 0.90
Sale of catalogues: +  0.30
Total receipts: $156.41
EXPENDITURES
Paid for new books: $78.81
Rebinding 32 volumes: 10.55
Books, labels and cards: 2.75
Salary Librarian, afternoon and evening: 60.00
5 doz. sheets covering Paper: 1.00
Freight and express: 1.40
Money orders, postage and stationery: +  0.54
Total expenditures: -$155.05
Balance on hand: $1.36

Number of volumes added by purchase 75.

Number of volumes presented 8. The books presented are as follows:
Author List of N.H. State Library Supplement, June, 1, 1906; Vital Records of the Town of Dorchester, Mass., 1826—1849; Records relating to the Early History of Boston; Brief Biographies of William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens; Report in regard to the Gradual Abolition of the Crossing of the Highways by Railroads at Grade in Mass.; Reports of the Interstate Commerce Commission for 1904—5; Memoirs of Pliny Earl. M. D.

Number volumes in the library 3,011. Number of volumes issued afternoons, 1,831: evenings, 1,485; total, 3,316. Average number 64. Average number last year 54.

  S. ALBERT SHAW,
CHARLES M. BATCHELDER,
EDGAR WARREN,
Library
Committee.