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APPENDIX. 



KEPORT OF THE DISTRICT LIBRARIES AND READING 

 ROOMS SUB-COMMITTEE. 



In accordance with the following resolution of the Library, Museum, 

 and Arts Committee of the 2nd December, 1886, 



" That a Sub-Committee consisting of six members to be designated 

 the District Libraries and Reading Rooms Sub-Committee, be appointed 

 to direct and superintend all matters connected with the management 

 of the North and South Lending Libraries, or any other branch 

 libraries and reading rooms that may hereafter be established in 

 connexion with the Central or Reference Library, and that with the 

 object of bringing the district libraries more into harmony with the Central 

 Library, the Sub-Committee report to this Committee whether the 

 district libraries are now capable, or could be rendered so by structural 

 alterations, of beiug utilized in the two-fold capacity of reading rooms 

 and circulating libraries, and generally as to any improvement the 

 Sub-Committee may deem desirable, in order to maintain the present 

 efficiency or future development of the district libraries." 



The Chairman of the Sub-Committee — Mr. Hall, Mr. Lunt, and the 

 Librarian, have visited the Evening Reading Rooms and the Lending 

 Libraries, and in regard to the latter have given special attention as to 

 what structural alterations would be required to establish Public Reading 

 Rooms in connexion with them, open both day and evening ; and the 

 notes made during this visit, with various suggestions, are embodied in 

 the following report. 



The great popularity of the Reading Rooms of the Central Library, 

 and the success which has attended the recent establishment of the five 

 branch evening reading rooms, together with the success which has 

 accompanied the establishment of reading rooms in connexion with the 



