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The collection of books in the galleries of the Reading 

 Boom has continued to receive additions by the incorporation 

 of new works of interest and importance, and the substitution 

 of new for older editions. The number of additions to each 

 of the two interleaved copies of the Catalogue of this collec- 

 tion has been 149. 



III. Binding. — The number of volumes and sets of 

 pamphlets sent to be bound in the course of the year has been 

 12,065, including 2,517 volumes of newspapers. In conse- 

 quence of the frequent adoption of the plan of binding two or 

 more volumes in one, the number of volumes returned 

 has been 8,413 ; in addition to which 384 pamphlets have been 

 separately bound. 173 volumes have been repaired at the 

 binder's. Besides this, the following binding work has been 

 ■done in the Library itself : — 4,848 volumes have been 

 repaired ; 381 broadsides, &c., have been inserted in guard- 

 books ; and 1,835 volumes have been formed, in a light 

 style of binding, of reports, time-tables, parts of periodicals, 

 &;c. ; the plan introduced in 1892, and extended in 1894, of 

 •carrying out such work in the Library still proving very 

 satisfactory and economical. 



The following maps, charts, &c., have also been bound or 

 mounted during the year : — 25 atlases, 6 volumes of the 

 Ordnance Survey of Towns, 54 volumes of the 25-inch 

 Ordnance Survey, and 2 volumes of the 6-inch Ordnance 

 •Survey have been bound ; 47 sheets of the 1-inch (and under) 

 Ordnance Survey, 56 sheets of the English Admiralty Charts, 

 101 sheets of the ■" Hydrographie Frangaise," and 250 

 general maps have been mounted on linen, and 332 maps, fcc, 

 mounted on cards. 



IV. Reading Room Service. — The number of volumes 

 returned to the General Library from use in the Reading 

 Room has been 898,428 ; to the Royal Library, 19,520; to the 

 Orenville Library, 1,242 ; to the Map Room, 3,753 ; to the 

 presses in which books are kept from day to day for the use 

 of readers, 477,439 ; and to the Oriental Department, 5,484 ; 

 making a total amount of 1,405,866 volumes supplied to 

 readers during the year. The number of readers during the 

 year has been 194,924, giving an average of about 643 

 daily, the room having been open on 303 days, and an ' 

 average of over seven volumes daily for each reader, not 

 reckoning those taken from the shelves of the Reading Room 

 by the readers themselves. 



JS'eiusjKf.j^er Room.. — The total number of readers during the 

 year has been 13,031, giving a daily average of 43. The 

 number of volumes replaced after use was 41,031, giving a 

 daily average of over three volumes to each reader, not 



0.97. B 2 reckoning 



