COUNTY BOROUGH OF DERBY. 



Thirty= Fifth Annual Report 



OF THE 



Free Library, Museum, and Art 

 Qallery Committee. 



CHE Committee are pleased to lay before the Town Council their 

 Thirty-Fifth Annual Report, and to be able to place on record 

 another year's successful work. 



In the Library, the year has been a very busy one. Every month 

 has shown an increase in the issues as compared with those of the 

 previous year, and the gross increase amounts to about fifteen 

 thousand volumes, while the daily issue has nearly reached six 

 hundred. In the Children's Department this upward movement has 

 been i.articularly marked, and still continues. The Book Selection 

 Committee have done their utmost in keeping the Library Stock quite 

 up-to-date in all departments, but continue to feel most keenly the 

 want of more room. They have been able partially to meet the 

 difficulty by withdrawing a number of books which liad become 

 obsolete, and they will try"" to do this from time to time, but more 

 space has become an urgent necessity if the usefulness of the Library 

 is to remain unimpaired. The statistical tables compiled by the 

 Librarian, which are appended to this Report, will give detailed infor- 

 mation on all important points. 



