our sources from which we collect money: catalogues, readers' cards and postal cards. I collection for each month. The Library was op the winter months we did open on Sunday. We tr at other times not over tw hes the policy of the B especially on those days Christmas, Fourth of July drawn for home reading other day, still it justifies No attempt has been ber of volumes issued in count has been kept of vi Furniture purchased Number of papers in use NAME Review of Reviews The Cosmopolitan. The Arena. Frank Leslie's Po time. During the year 365 volumes were bound for the first Circulation. The Library was open every day in the year. During the winter months we did not open on Sunday afternoons because of the lack of heat. I do not think it really pays to open on Sunday. We tried it last summer, and for several Sundays in succession we would not have a single reader and at other times not over two or three. The holiday issue justifies the policy of the Board in keeping the Library open, especially on those days that are not generally observed. On Christmas, Fourth of July, etc., while the number of volumes drawn for home reading was far below the average of every other day, still it justifies us to keep open. No attempt has been made to keep a record of the number of volumes issued in the reading room. In fact, no account has been kept of visitors to the reading room at all. Furniture purchased for the Library room, a paper rack. Number of papers in use 31; number of magazines in use 22. Magazines. NAME. Review of Reviews. Appleton's Popular Science Monthly. The Century. The Cosmopolitan. Harper's Monthly. The Forum. North American Review. Current Literature. The Arena. Atlantic Monthly. rs. TS. ered chairs. I chair. hair. le in ladies' room. ble in Librarian's room. e table. newspaper files and newspapers. ber of unbound volumes of magazines and mphlets; also one six-foot radiator. on of this property was donated by the Com. e Sedalia Public Library Association. Conclusion. o thank your honorable body for the perfect. kindness to me; and hope the citizens will aps you have made to make this enterprise of to Sedalia. EMMA B. BASKETT, Librarian. mittee on Library Reading Rooms and Grounds. ctors of the Sedalia Public (Free) Library: actual results of the work of the Committee eading Room are concerned, the reports of Librarian will furnish full information. peat the number of books and periodicals It added during the year, and of new books. As the adm gence to make the library use class of special students T umes that hold highest aut In the first class, the b |