REPORT OF THE LIKKAKI\\. II 



effort will be made by the staff to establish these conditions. 

 That the reading-room should be quiet goes without saying, of 

 course. But occasions do arise when a serial volume must be 

 taken out. Special permission given personally by the Librarian 

 will gladly be allowed when this condition occurs. The use of 

 reprints for outside consultation will continue to be encouraged, 

 also, as a means of controlling the taking out of serials. With 

 the comfortable tables and capacious side shelves in the stack- 

 rooms, besides the space for forty-four readers at the round 

 tables in the reading-room, the habit of using the library for 

 reading should gradually replace the one of scattering the library 

 contents throughout the buildings, and the necessity for assured 

 quiet in the library is a necessary corollary to this changed 

 custom. 



The budget for the years 1924-1925 (not including salaries) 

 were combined for the reasons stated in the 1924 report. This 

 budget totalled $15,366.86. The expenditure was mapped out in 

 the report as follows: books, $1,300.00; current subscriptions, 

 $3,000.00; binding, $2,000.00; supplies, $500.00; express, 

 $200.00; and back sets, $8,000.00. This money was actually 

 spent in an apportionment as follows: books, $2,000.00; current 

 subscriptions, $3,300.00; binding, $2,151.58; supplies, $584.58; 

 express, $150.00; and back sets, $7,160.70; total, $15,366.86. 



The large overlap of $700.00 in the amount spent for books is 

 accounted for in three ways. This part of our library, including 

 many monographs, has been neglected, in order to keep up our 

 subscriptions to serials, and a certain accumulation of books, 

 such as dictionaries, and even catalogues, had to be purchased; 

 a part of the items are really properly assignable to back sets 

 since they are important monograph series; and thirdly, the 

 main bulk of the issue of Abderhalden: Handbuch der Arbeits- 

 methoden has come during these two years. The overlap in 

 subscriptions of $300.00 is due to the fact that we had $300.00 

 of our appropriation left and so paid our subscriptions ahead 

 for 1925 to this amount. This is done advisedly, also, for many 

 new German subscriptions have been taken on in 1925 so that, 

 in order to continue, we shall need more than our usual $1,500.00 

 in 1926 for this purpose. The binding ran over the $2,000.00 



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