1917 Annual Report for the Lane Memorial Library

REPORT OF THE LIBRARY COMMITTEE

RECEIPTS
Received balance from last year: $4.00
From Town: 550.00
From Currier Fund: 35.00
From Fines: 6.54
From Catalogues sold: 1.00
From Library Cards: +  1.25
Total receipts: $597.79
EXPENDITURES
Paid for new books: $183.47
Rebinding books: 20.48
Periodicals for reading room: 58.65
Record book and postage: 1.08
Soldiers' library: 40.00
250 cards: 1.75
350 book labels: 2.25
Salary of Librarian: 225.00
Janitors' services: 35.00
Library supplies: 3.30
Freight: .50
Putting wood in basement: 3.00
Mowing lawn four times: 2.00
Stationery, ink and pens: 1.32
Cedar Sweepings and Soap powder: .60
Money orders and postage: .36
Washing windows: +  1.20
Total expenditures: -$579.96
Balance on hand: $17,83

AUDITORS' REPORT

  Hampton, N.H., February 5, 1918.

We have this day examined the foregoing accounts and find them correctly cast and well vouched
.
  SIMEON A. SHAW,
CHARLES F. ADAMS,
Auditors.

The accessions to the library for the year ending Jan. 31, 1918, have been 163 volumes by purchase, and ten volumes by gift. Also twelve volumes have been replaced. Total number of volumes on catalogue, 5,364. The circulation among residents has been 8,428 volumes; among non-residents 379, making a total of 8,807 volumes. Number of volumes issued the previous year, 9,303.

Perhaps the severe winter had something to do with the decreased circulation. Also the many stormy evenings and bad walking caused a noticeable decrease in the attendance at the reading room.

Owing to the scarcity of fuel, the committee deemed it advisable to close the reading room until April 1st on Monday and Thursday evenings; also on Tuesdays and Friday evenings when stormy.

On the tables in the reading room the following periodicals may be found:
Harper’s Magazine, Scribner’s, Century, Review of Reviews, Outlook, Literary Digest, American Botanist, Geographic Magazine, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Outing, St. Nicholas, Youth’s Companion, American Boy, Scientific American, Ills. London News, Leslies’ Weekly, Electrical Experimenter, Exeter News-Letter, New England Homestead, Ladies Home Journal, To-Day’s House Wife, The Hamptons Union, Bird Lore, Life, and the Union Signal, the latter being presented by the W. C. T. U. of Hampton.

  J. A. ROSS,
S. ALBERT SHAW,
CHARLES M. BATCHELDER,
Library
Committee.