COUNTY BOROUGH OF DERBY. 



Thirty= Eighth Annual Report 



Free Library, Museum, and Art 

 Gallery Committee. 



The Committee have much pleasure in submitting to the Town 

 Council their Thirty-eighth Annual Report. 



All the buildings are in a good state of repair, and it has 

 l>een necessary to spend litt'.e upon them during the current year. 



The Librarian's Report, and the tables appended will give all 

 details respecting the inner working of the Library, and will show 

 that the past year has been a busy one, and that the efficiency of 

 the Library has been fully maintained. 



The arrangement for an annual subscription to Messrs. W. H. 

 Smith & Son for the continuous supply of a hundred of the best non- 

 fiction books still woiks admirably, both for the readers and for 

 the Library. We get new books at once, and if the interest in them 

 be only a passing one, they are returned, while if-they are likely 

 to be of permanent value, they are purchased at cheap rates after 

 six months' use. A new departure has been made in the Reference 



