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tain a statement of receipts, expenditure, balance on hand, number of 
members, number of volumes in library, number of volumes issued, 
number of newspapers and periodicals, assets, and liabilities, for each 
of the Ontario libraries reporting to the Department. The list of 
questions which I submitted was as follows: — 
When was library first established ? 
Is it in a special building, or where ? 
How is it supported ? 
What is the total income ? 
How many on the staff ? 
What salaries paid ? 
Have you any branches ? 
How many assistants in each ? 
How many books at present ? 
How many pamphlets ? 
What catalogues used—card, printed, or manuscript ? 
What system of classification ? 
Do you prefer any other system ? 
Do you use any and if so, what indicator ? 
Do you publish bulletins of new books— 
On a board in the Library ? 
Or in the newspapers ? 
Have you any special rule for buying fiction ? 
What is your annual circulation of books ? 
How does circulation of fiction compare with total circulation ? 
Do you permit readers to have access to the shelves ? 
Do you approve of it ? 
Is your library open on Sunday ? 
Have you any special provision in your library— 
For children ? 
For ‘school pupils ? 
Have you any connection with the public schools ? 
Have you any special collections of books ? 
Do you keep scrap-books, for clippings, prints, etc. ? 
Are there any fittings or other conveniences peculiar to your library ? 
Outside the province of Ontario, there are at present not more 
than half a dozen free public libraries in the Dominion. These are 
at St. John, N.B., Chatham, N.B., Halifax, N.S., Winnipeg, Man., 
Victoria, B.C., Vancouver, B.C., and New Westminster, B.C. To 
these have been added two endowed free libraries, the Fraser Institute, 
Montreal, and the Portland Library, St. John, N.B. 
