Borough of Derby. 
SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 
FREE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM COMMITTEE, 
For the Year ending September 29th, 1887. 
HE Free Library and Museum Committee in presenting their 
Sixteenth Annual Report, desire to congratulate the Council 
on the continued and increasing prosperity and utility of the 
Institution. 
It will be seen that large additions have been made to the 
Lending Library during the year. To this Department a New 
Musical Section has been added, which at present contains copies 
of the best known oratorios and operas, books of standard songs, 
and copies of standard text books on musical subjects. This 
department is already proving useful, and no doubt will be extensively 
drawn upon as time goes on. ‘The number of books bound and 
repaired during the year amounts to 4054. With the exception of 
the magazines and the book music, these have all been done on 
our own premises, by our own workmen. 
Fewer additions have been made to the Reference Library, but 
both it end the Specifications of Patents continue to be very largely 
consulted, and the issues show a steady increase. 
The alterations in the gas arrangements referred to in last 
year’s Report continue .to work satisfactorily, and the Committee 
note with pleasure the fact that the gas bill is lower by £21 
than last year’s, and by £25 than that of 1885. The reduction in 
