LIBRARIAN’S REPORT, 
To the Chairman and Members of the Derby Free Public 
Library and Museum Committee. 
GENTLEMEN, 
I have much pleasure in laying before you my Twelfth Annual 
Report and with it the usual tables showing the inner working 
of the Library. On these I may with propriety make a few ex- 
planatory remarks, which I hope will be of interest both to you and 
_ to the large section of the general public who use the Library. 
Table 1 deals with the Lending Library stock, which is now 
larger than ever before, the total number of books being 19,337, 
about a thousand more than last year. 631 new books have been 
_ added, and the replacements, which include books worn out during 
this year and last, number 806. The number -of worn-out books for 
‘the current year is only 394, and all of these of any value have been 
replaced. Nine volumes have been lost and paid for, two coming 
from infected houses have been destroyed, and four have been 
totally lost through default of borrower and guarantor. About £100 
more than last year has been spent on the Library, and the Book 
Committee have been able to keep it thoroughly up to date. Table 
2 deals with the issues, and here it will be noticed that we are 
about gooo lower than last year in the gross, and 32 lower in daily 
average. I find that this is the case in other towns as well, and 
