Borough of Derby. 
PWENLY-FIRST. ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE 
Sree Library and Museum Committee, 
For the Year ended September 30th, 1892. 
HE Free Library and Museum Committee beg to present to the 
oa Town Council their Twenty-first Annual Report, and have much 
pleasure in doing so, believing that the Institution under their 
charge was never more prosperous than at present, and that its work 
is being successfully carried out. 
The record of the books issued varies little from that of last year, 
but all details will be found in the Librarian’s Report, and in the 
exhaustive tables appended to it. New books have been added 
freely in both Lending and Reference Departments, the additions 
numbering 843 in the Lending Library, and 342 in the Reference 
Department. In addition to these, 589 worn-out volumes have been 
replaced, so that the total additions to the Library during the year 
number 1774, and, when all the money voted to the Book Committee 
has been expended, a sum of about £700 willl be found to have been 
appropriated to the expenses of the Library department, which the Com. 
mittee consider to be the most important of those under their charge. The 
first portion of the Catalogue of the ‘‘ Devonshire” Library has been 
published, and embraces all the printed books in that valuable collection, 
and the cataloguing of the pamphlets and prints is now being proceeded 
with. A supplementary Catalogue of 119 pages has also been published, 
which embraces a reprint of an earlier supplement, and also contains 
the names of about 2,200 books added to the Library since June, 1890. 
The building is in a good state of repair. The news rooms and 
corridor have been thoroughly painted and cleaned during the summer, 
the work having been previously done in 1887. The Committee are very 
