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...cent. did so. The decrease is probably to be attributed to the facilities offered by the class-room libraries. The total number of books loaned for the year has been 85,897. In 1889-90 it was 84,191. The large number of admittances granted to the stack in 1889-90 were found to cause much inconvenience. Every effort is therefore being made to reduce the number of stack cards issued from year to year...
...volumes now in the library is 371,255; the total number of pamphlets, 300,863. The number of books used last year was 92,109, as against 84,191 for 1889, 80,906 for 1888, and 74,902 for 1887. The use of cards admitting the holders to the stack has been somewhat restricted owing to the disarrangement of books which was found to result from frequent handling. About 290 books of those reported missing since 1883 are still unaccounted for; 141 of these disappeared from the reserve books and 149 from the stack. The work of cataloguing has fallen...
...very urgent, and the best plan is to build a large room at the north-east corner of Weld Hall, at a very short distance from Gore Hall, so as not to darken the delivery room and the present reading-room, which is to be converted into a large stack, able to contain about 500,000 volumes. The new reading-room is to be connected with Gore Hall by means of archways, and is to contain about 30,000 reference works in wall book-cases. The amount of money needed would be about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars...
...books are being removed from the stack in Gore Hall to the basement beneath the reading-room...
...obliged to wait, is doing a positive injustice to his fellow-students. Thoughtlessness has been made to serve as the mask for a multitude of sins in the past, but we now intend to give the true name to such actions, viz., inexcusable selfishness. He who collects a stack of books in an out-of-the-way corner is doing no more nor less than robbing his comrades of the privileges for which they...