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TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



jfree Xtbrarv) ano HDueeum Committee, 



For the Year ended September 30th, i8g2. 



THE Free Library and Museum Committee beg to present to the 

 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 will 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 



