COUNTY BOROUGH OF DERBY. 



Thirty=Seventh Annual Report 



-OF THE- 



Free Library, Museum, and Art 

 Gallery Committee. 



The Committee have much pleasure in ■submitting to the Town 

 Council their Thirty-seventh Annual Report. 



The tables appended and the Report of the Librajrian to the Com- 

 mittee will give all necessary details as to the work of the Institu- 

 tion, and will, they think, sufficiently demonstrate that the last 

 year has been one of steady prosperity and increased usefulness. 



In the Library, the only new departure has been the entering 

 into an agreement with Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son, by which 

 the Library can have in exchange for their subscription, one 

 hundred of the best books (non-fiction) which can be changed at 

 pleasure, and of which the Committee have the option of purchase 

 at second-hand rates if after sufficient trial, it is thought desirable 

 to acquire them for the Library. The experiment has worked 



