1920 Annual Report for the Lane Memorial Library

REPORT OF TREASURER

RECEIPTS

Balance from last year: $ 42.13
Received from Town: 750.00
Currier fund: 70.00
Fines: 10.24
Cards sold: +  3.00
Total receipts: $ 875.37

EXPENDITURES

Paid for new books: $ 231.00
Binding books and magazines: 32.45
Salary of Librarian: 230.00
Janitor's services: 35.00
Electric lights: 35.83
Periodicals for reading room: 66.50
One cord soft wood: 10.00
5½ tons of coal: 90.76
Ten 40 watt electric lamps: 4.00
Wire screening: 2.20
Glue and tacks: .65
5000 gummed labels: 1.85
600 number cards: 5.75
Three record books: 3.16
Postage, stationery, money orders
and miscellaneous expenses:		 5.43
Mowing lawn 5 times: +  6.50
Total expenditures: -$ 761.98
Balance on hand: $ 113.39

AUDITORS' REPORT

  Hampton, N.H., February 19, 1921

We have this day examined the foregoing account of S. Albert Shaw, treasurer, and find it well vouched and correctly cast.

  CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS,
HOWELL M. LAMPREY
Auditors

STATISTICAL REPORT OF LIBRARIAN

For the year ending Jan. 31, 1921, there have been added to the library 156 volumes -- 46 by purchase and 10 by gift. Number of volumes catalogued, 5,965.

The circulation has exceeded that of any previous year. 10,160 volumes were issued to residents and 326 to non—residents, making a total of 10,486. Average per day, 105 volumes. Number of borrower’s cards issued, 180.

It is gratifying to be able to report a gradual increase in the use of the reference department by the pupils of the [Hampton Academy &] High School.

The attendance in the reading room has been very good on Wednesdays and Thursdays. On other evenings the attendance is usually light.

On the tables the following periodicals may be found for 1921:

Harper’s Magazine, Century, Review of Reviews, Outlook, Literary Digest, American Botanist, Geographic Magazine, Popular Science, Science and Invention, Outing, St. Nicholas, Woman’s Home Companion, Today’s Housewife, McCall’s, Youth’s Companion, American Boy, Scientific American, Leslie’s Weekly, Bird Lore, Granite Monthly, World’s Work, Union Signal, New England Homestead, Exeter News—Letter and The Hamptons' Union

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