1921 Annual Report for the Lane Memorial Library

REPORT OF TREASURER

RECEIPTS

Balance from last year: $ 113.39
Received from Town: 800.00
Currier fund: 70.00
Fines: 12.40
Cards sold: 2.40
Catalogues sold: +  1.25
Total receipts $ 999.44

EXPENDITURES

Paid for new books: $ 281.70
Lumber for box: 2.72
Electric lights: 38.08
17,700 lbs. coal: 143.01
Pencil pointer: 1.00
Cleaning library building: 6.25
Rebinding books: 30.30
500 book labels: 3.50
Periodicals for reading room: 65.00
500 library cards: 4.00
1 cord pine wood and housing: 10.00
Electric light and shade: 7.15
10 electric bulbs 4.00
Salary of librarian 265.00
Janitor's services: 35.00
Mowing and raking lawn: 7.15
Nails, 40c; oil, 44c; screws, 15c: .99
Glue, $2.40; broom, 50c: 2.90
Stationery, 90c; 1 loose leaf cover, 75c: 1.65
Postage and money orders: 2.43
Inks and pens: .40
New key and fitting same:: .90
Freight on books to & from Dover: +  1.62
Total expenditures: -$ 914.75
Balance on hand: $ 84.69

AUDITORS' REPORT

We have this day examined the foregoing accounts of the Treasurer of the Library Trustees, S. Albert Shaw, and find them properly vouched for and well cast. We find a balance on hand of $84.69.
  CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS,
HOWELL M. LAMPREY,
Auditors

STATISTICAL REPORT OF LIBRARIAN

  Hampton, N.H., February 3, 1921.
Number of volumes added to the library for the year ending January 31 -- by purchase, 167, and by gift 28, making a total of 195.

Number of books replaced, 12.

Number of volumes catalogued, 6,160; 66 books were rebound.

There has been a slight decrease in circulation from the preceding year. Number of books issued to residents, 9,765; to non-residents, 255; magazines loaned, 259, making a total circulation of 10,279.

Largest number of books issued in one day, 225; smallest number, 12. Average per day, 99.

The attendance in the reading room during the past year was about the same as usual. Subscription has been entered for the following periodicals:

Century Magazine, St. Nicholas, Popular Mechanics, Literary Digest. Worlds Work, American Boy, Woman’s Home Companion, Youths Companion, Geographic Magazine, American Botanist, Outlook, McCall’s, Granite State Monthly, Outing, Scientific American, Bird Lore, N. E. Homestead, Harper’s Magazine, Life, Collier’s, Exeter News-Letter and The Hamptons Union.