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EIGHTY-EIGHTH    ANNUAL    REPORT 


OF   THE 


TRUSTEES 

OF  THE 

PUBLIC  LIBRARY 

OF   THE 

CITY  OF  BOSTON 

1939 


BOSTON 

PUBLISHED    BY    THE    TRUSTEES 

1941 


THE    PUBLIC    LIBRARY    OF    THE    CITY    OF    BOSTON:     PRINTING    DEPARTMENT. 
4,10.41  I  2E00 


TRUSTEES   OF  THE   PUBLIC  LIBRARY 


ROBERT  H.  LORD,  President 

Term  expires  April  30,  1942 

FRANK  W.  BUXTON 

Term  expires  April  30.   1940 

JOHN  L.  HALL  ELLERY  SEDGWICK 

Term  expires  April  30,  1941  Tenn  expires  April  30,  1943 

LOUIS  E.  KIRSTEIN 

Term  expires  April  30,   1944 


MILTON    E.    LORD 

Director,  and  Librarian 


FORM  FOR  GIF  TS  AND  BEQUESTS 

Gifts 

/  give  to  I  he  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  of  the  City  of 

Boston  the  sum  of „ 

to  be  used  at  the  discretion  of  the  Trustees  (or  for  a  purpose  to 
be  specified). 


Bequests  for  General  Uses 

/  give  and  bequeath  to  The  Trustees  of  the  Public  Librar]) 

of  the  Cit^  of  Boston  the  sum  of 

„ for  the  general  uses  of  the  Library. 


Bequests  for  Specified  Uses 

/  give  and  bequeath  to  The  Trustees  of  the  Public  Librar}) 

of  the  Ci/p  of  Boston  the  sum  of 

for  the  purchase  of  books  (for  the 

purchase  of  books  on  a  specified  subject  if  desired,  or  for  some 
other  purpose  to  be  specified). 


ORGANIZATION  OF  THE  LIBRARY  DEPARTMENT. 

The  Library  is  a  unit  of  the  municipal  government  of  the  City  of  Boston  and  at 
such  is  known  as  the  Library  Department  of  the  City  of  Boston.  It  is  governed  by  a 
Board  of  Trustees. 

The  Trustees  of  the  PubHc  Library  of  the  City  of  Boston  were  organized  in  1852. 
They  are  incorporated  under  the  provisions  of  Chapter  114  of  the  Acts  of  1878,  as 
amended.  The  Board  for  1852  was  a  preliminary  organization;  that  for  1853  made 
the  first  annual  report. 

The  legal  title  is  The  Trustees  of  the  Public  Lihrar^  of  ihe  City  of  Boston. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  is  made  up  of  five  citizens  at  large,  appointed  by  the 
Mayor  of  the  City  of  Boston  for  five-year  terms,  the  term  of  one  member  expiring  each 
year.  The  following  citizens  at  large  have  been  members  of  the  Board  since  its 
organization  in   1852: 


Abbott,  Gordon.  A.B..   1926-1931. 
Abbott,  Samuel  Appleton  Browne,  A.M., 

1879-95. 
Appleton,  Thomas  Gold,  A.M.,   1852-56. 
Benton,  Josiah  Henry,  LL.D.,   1894-1917. 
Bigelow,  John   Prescott,  A.M.,    1852-68. 
Bowditch,  Henry  Ingersoll,  M.D.,  1865-67. 
Bowditch,    Henry    Pickering,    MJ)., 

1894-1902. 
Boyle,  Thomas  Francis,    1902-12. 
Braman,  Jarvis  Dwight,    1869-72. 
Brett,  John  Andrew,  LL.B.,   1912-16. 
Buxton,  Frank  W.,  A.B..   1928- 
Carr.  Samuel,   1895-96,   190&-22. 
Chase,   George   Bigelow,  A.M.,    1876-85. 
Clarke,   James   Freeman,   D.D.,    1879-88. 
Coakley.  Daniel   Henry.   1917-19. 
Connolly.   Arthur   Theodore,    1916-1932. 
Currier,  Guy  Wilbur.  1922-1930. 
Curtis.   Daniel    Sargent,   A.M.,    1873-75. 
De  Normandic,  James,  D.D.,    1895-1908. 
Dwight.  Thomas.  M.D..   1899-1908. 
Dwinnell,  Clifton  Howard,  B.S.,  1927-28. 
Everett,   Edward,  LL.D.,   1852-64. 
Frothinghara,  Richard,  LL.D.,   1875-79. 
Gaston,   William  Alexander,    LL.B., 

1923-27. 
Green,  Samuel  Abbott,  M.D.,    1868-78. 
Greenough.    William    Whitwell,    1856-88. 
Hall,  John  Loomer,  A.B.,  LL.B..   1931- 


Haynes,    Henry   Williamson,    A.M., 

1880-94. 

Hilliard,  George  Stillman,  LL.D., 

1872-75;    1876-77 

Kenney,    William    Francis,    A.M., 

1908-1921. 

Kirsfein,  Louis  Edward,   A.M.,   D.c.s., 

1919- 

Lewis,  Weston,  1868-79. 

Lewis,  Winslow,  M.D.,  1867. 

Lincoln,  Solomon,  A.M.,   1897-1907. 

Lord,  Robert  Howard,  PH.D.,  1936- 

Mann,  Alexander,  D.D..  1908-1923. 

Morton,  Ellis  Wesley,    1870-73. 

Murray  Michael  Joseph,  LL.B.,  1921-26. 

O'Connell,  William  Cardinal,    1932-36. 

Pierce.  Phincas.   1888-94. 

Prince,  Frederick  Octavius,  A.M.,  1888-99, 

Putnam,   George,   D.D.,    1868-77. 

Richards,  William  Reuben,  A.M.,  1889-95. 

Sedgwick,  Ellery.  A.B.,  LITT.D.,  1930- 

Shurtleff.  Nathaniel  Bradslreet.  LL.D., 

1852-68 

Thomas.  .Benjamin  Franklin,  LL.D., 

1877-78. 

Ticknor,  George,  LL.D..  1852-66. 

Walker.  Francis  Amasa,  LL.D.,  1896. 

Whipple,  Edwin  Percy,  A.M.,  1868-70. 

Whitmore,  William  Henry,  A.M.,  1885-«8. 

Winsor,  Justin.  LL.D.,  1867-68. 


PRESIDENTS  OF  THE  TRUSTEES 

Edward   Everett,    1852-1864 
George    Ticknor     1865 
William  W.  Greenough     1866-88 
Henry  W.  Haynes,  May  7,   1888-May    12,   1888 
Samuel  A.  B.  Abbott,  May  12,   1888-April  30,  1895 
Frederick  O.  Prince,  October  8.   1895-May  8,   1899 
Solomon  Lincoln,  May   12.    1899-October   15,    1907 
James  De  Normandie,  January  31,  1908-May  8     1908 
Josiah  H.  Benton     May  8,   1 908-February  6,   1917 
William   F.  Kenney,   February    13,    1917-May   7,    1920 
Alexander   Mann,   May  7.   1920-January  22,    1923 
Arthur  T.  Connolly,  April   13,   1923-June    13,   1924 

May  2,  1927-June  22,  1928 
Louis  E.  Kirstein,  June   13,    1924-June   19,   1925 

June  22,    l92S-June  21      1929 

May  15.  1931 -May  20,  1932 

May  6,  1936-May  7,  1937 
Michael  J.  Murray,  June   19     1925-July  2,   1926 
Guy  W.  Currier,  July  2,   1926-May  2,    1927 
Gordon  Abbott.  June  21,   1929-June  20     1930 
Frank  W.  Buxton.  June  20,   1930-Mav   15,   1931 

May  6,  1935-May6,  1936 
Ellery  Sedgwick.  May  20,   1932-May   5,1933 

May  7,  1937-May  6.   1938 
John  L.  Hall.  May  5,  1933-May  18,  1834 

May  6,  1938^May  5,  1939 
William  Cardinal  O'Connell,   May   18,    1934-May  6,   1935 
Robert  H.  Lord.  May  5.  1939- 


LIBRARIANS 

From  1852  to  1858  the  chief  officer  of  the  Library  bore  the  title  of  Librarian; 
fiom  1858  to  1877  Supcrintendeni;  from  1877  to  1923  Librarian;  from  1923  to  1934 
Director;  since   1934  Director,  and  Librarian. 

Capen,  Edward,  Librarian,  May    13,    1 852-December    16     1874. 

Jewett,  Charles  C,  Superintendent,   1858-January  9,   1868. 

WiNSOR    Justin,  ll.D.,  Superintendent,  February  25,   1868-Sepfember   30,    1877. 

Green,  Samuel  A.    M.D.,  Trustee,  Acting  Librarian,  October  I,  1877-September  30. 

1878. 
Chamberlain,  Mellen,  ll.d..  Librarian,  October   1,  1 878-September  30.   1890. 
DwicHT,  Theodore  F.,  Librarian,  April  13,  1892-April  30,  1894. 
Putnam,  Herbert,  ll.d.,  Librarian    February  11,  1895-April  3,  1899. 
Whitney,  James  L.,  a.m.,  Actiijg  Librarian,  March  31,   1 899-Decembcr  21.    1899; 

Librarian,  December  22     1899-January  31.    1903. 
Wadlin,  Horace  G.,  LITT.D..  Librarian    February  1.  1903-March   15.  1917;   Acting 

Librarian,  March   15.   1917-June   15,   1917. 
Belden,  Charles  F.  D.,  a.m.,  ll  b.,  litt.d..  Director    March  15,  1917-Oclober  24, 

1931. 
Lord,  Milton  E.    a.b..  Director  and  Librarian,  since  February   1,    1932, 


LIBRARY  SYSTEM,  JANUARY  1,  1939 


Departments. 
^Central  Library,  Copley  Square  . 
'East   Boston    Branch,   276-282   Meridian   St. 
§South  Boston  Branch,  372  West  Broadway  . 
||FelIowc«  Athenaeum   Branch,  46  Millmont  St. 
*CharIestown  Branch,  43   Monument  Square 
*Brighton  Branch,  40  Academy   Hill  Road  . 
JDorchester    Branch,   Arcadia,   cor.   Adami   St. 
tLower  Mills  Branch,  1110  Washington,  cor,  Richmond  St. 
JSoulh  End  Branch,  65  West  Brookline  St. 
t Jamaica  Plain  Branch,  12  Sedgwick,  cor.  South  St. 
iRoslindale  Branch,  4210  Washington  St. 
*West  Roxbury  Branch,  1961   Centre  St. 
*Mattapan  Branch,  8-10  Hazleton  St.  . 
»North  End  Branch.  3a  North  Bennet  St. 
§Neponset  Branch,  362  Neponset  Ave, 
§Mt.  Bowdoin  Branch,  275  Washington  St. 
§Allston   Branch.    161    Harvard   Ave.  . 
fCodman  Square  Branch.  Washington,  cor.  Norfolk  St 
JMt.  Pleasant  Branch.  335  Dudley,  cor  Vine  St. 
♦West  End  Branch.   131  Cambridge  St. 
$Upham's   Corner  Branch.   500  Columbia  Rd. 
{Memorial   Branch,  cor.  Warren  and  Townsend  Sts. 
♦Boylston  Branch.  433  Centre  St, 
§Orient  Heights  Branch,  5  Butler  Ave. 
$City  Point  Branch,  Municipal  Bldg.,  Broadway 
♦Parker  Hill  Branch.   1497  Trcmont  St.       . 
♦Hyde  Park  Branch.  35  Harvard  Ave.,  cor.  Winthrop  St. 
♦Faneuil   Branch,  419   Faneuil  St. 
§Andrew  Square  Branch,  394  Dorchester  St. 
•Jeffries  Point  Branch.  222  Webster  St. 
•  Baker  Library,  Harvard  Graduate  School  of  Business  Administration  Jan.   15.   1927 
♦Kirslein  Memorial  Library  Building:  20  City  Hall  Ave.       .         .         May    7,  1930 

Business   Branch,  first   and  second  floors; 

Kirstein    Branch,    third    floor. 
§PhiIlips  Brook*  Branch,  12  Hamilton  St.,  Rcadville     .         .         .         May  18,  193i 
{School  Department,   126  Tyler  St July     I.  1938 

^  In  the  case  of  the  Central  Library  and  some  of  the  branches  the  opening  was  in  a 
different    location    from    that    now    occupied.  *In    building    owned    by    City    and 

controlled  by  Library  Board,  fin  building  owned  by  City,  and  exclusively  devoted 
to  library  uses.  Jin  City  building,  in  part  devoted  to  other  municipal  uses.  §OccuDie» 
rented  rooms.  llThe  lessee  of  the  Fellowes  Athenaeum,  a  private  library  association. 
JUnder  agreement  with  Harvard. 


^Opened, 

May 

2. 

1854 

Jan. 

28. 

1871 

May 

1, 

1872 

July 

16, 

1873 

Jan. 

5, 

1874 

Jan. 

5. 

1874 

Jan. 

25. 

1875 

June 

7, 

1875 

Aug. 

1877 

June. 

1876 

Dec. 

3, 

1878 

Jan. 

6, 

1880 

Dec. 

27. 

1881 

Oct.. 

1882 

Jan. 

1, 

1883 

Nov. 

1. 

1886 

Mar. 

It. 

1889 

Nov. 

12. 

1890 

Nov. 

12. 

1890 

Feb. 

1. 

1896 

Mar. 

16, 

1896 

May 

1, 

1896 

Nov. 

1, 

1897 

June 

25, 

1901 

July 

18, 

1906 

July 

15. 

1907 

Jan. 

1. 

1912 

Mar 

4, 

1914 

Mar 

5. 

1914 

Oct. 

15, 

1921 

CONTENTS 


Report  of  the  Trustees 1 

Financial  Statement 16 

Report  of  the  Examining  Committee        ...  22 

Report  of  the  Director 35 

Appendices 

A  —  Summary  of  Expenditures  of  the  Library,  1930-1939  79 

B  —  Appropriations  and  Expenditures  for  Personnel, 

1930-1939 81 

C  —  Appropriations  and  Expenditures  for  Books, 

1930-1939 87 

D  — Personnel 90 

E  — Book  Stock 110 

F  —Use  of  Books 144 

G  —  The  Catalogs 1 49 

H  —  Printing  and  Binding  .          .          .          .          .          .  150 

I    —  Lectures,  Concerts,  Exhibitions       .          .          .          .  151 

J   —  Trust  Funds       .          .          .          .          .          .          .  1 60 

K  —  Officers  of  the  Library  as  of  December  31,1 939       .  1  76 


To  The  Honorable  Maurice  J.  Tobin 
Mayor  of  the  Cifp  of  Boston. 

Sir: 

The  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  of  the  City  of  Boston 
present  the  following  report  of  its  condition  and  affairs  for  the 
year  ending  December  31,1 939,  being  the  eighty-eighth  annual 
report. 

ORGANIZATION  OF  THE  BOARD 

The  Corporation  organized  at  the  annual  meeting  on  May  5, 
1939  with  the  election  of  the  Reverend  Robert  H.  Lord  as 
President,  Mr.  Frank  W.  Buxton  as  Vice  President,  and  Miss 
Elizabeth  B.  Brockunier  as  Clerk. 

Mr.  Louis  E.  Kirstein,  whose  term  as  Trustee  expired  on 
April  30,  was  reappointed  for  the  term  ending  April  30,  1 944. 

BUDGET  ESTIMATES 

The  estimates  submitted  as  of  November  1,  1938  for  the 
maintenance  of  the  Library  during  the  year  1939  were  later 
amended  and  reduced.  These  estimates  were  as  follows: 


Item 
A. — ■  Personal    service 
B. — -Service  otlier   tiian    personal 
C. —  Equipment 
D. — •  Supplies 
E. —  Materials 
F. — ■  Special    items 
H. —  Emergency   relief    projects 
Total     . 


Estimated 

$1,070,388.58 

129,149.50 

1 58,550.00 

24.795.00 

26.875.00 

1 .669.56 

79.000.00 

$1,490,427.64 


Allowed 

$1,039,859.34 

103,404.00 

61.300.00 

21.192.00 

19,600.00 

1.669.56 

41.786.20 

$1,288,811.10 


RECEIPTS  OF  THE  LIBRARY 


The  receipts  which  may  be  expended  by  the  Trustees  for  the 
maintenance  of  the  Library  consist  of  the  annual  appropriation 
by  the  Mayor  and  the  City  Council,  and  the  income  from  Trust 
Funds  given  to  the  institution  and  held  and  invested  by  the  City 


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Treasurer  under  the  direction  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Library. 
During  the  year  1 939  these  receipts  were : 


Annual    appropriation  ........ 

Income  from  trust  funds  held  by  Trustees  of  Public  Library 
Income  from  other  trust  funds  held  for  benefit  of  Public  Library 
LInexpended  balance  of  trust  funds  income  of  previous  years 
Unexpended  balance  of  gifts  for  immediate  use  .... 

Total 


$1,288,811.10 

24.791.46 

32.864.95 

258.660.87 

172.87 

$1,605,301.25 


Receipts  which  were  accounted  for  and  paid  into  the  City 
Treasury  for  general  municipal  purposes  during  the  years  were 
as  follows: 

From   fines $23,449.71 

From   sales  of  waste  paper      .........  78.96 

From  sales  of  catalogs  and  other  publications         .....  303.61 

From  commission  on  telephone  pay  stations     ......  548.82 

From  payments  for  lost  books 655.08 

Refunds,    fees,    etc. 66731 

Total        ....    $25,703.49 

EXPENDITURES  OF  THE  LIBRARY 

The  total  amount  expended  during  1 939  was  $  1 ,39 1 , 1 69. 1 0. 
This  was  divided  as  follows : 

From    city   appropriation $1,271,195.27 

From  the  income  of  trust  funds  ........  119.899.86 

From  gifts  for  immediate  use 73.97 

ADDITIONS  TO  THE  LIBRARY 

The  number  of  volumes  added  to  the  Library  during  the  year 
was  7 1 ,820,  obtained  chiefly  by  purchase,  but  in  some  part  also 
by  gift  and  exchange. 

Against  the  above-mentioned  gain  there  was  a  total  loss  of 
60,779  volumes,  arising  chiefly  out  of  volumes  reported  lost 
or  missing,  condemned  copies  not  yet  replaced,  thus  making  the 
net  gain  for  the  year  1 1 ,04 1 .  The  total  number  of  volumes  in 
the  Library  at  the  close  of  the  year  was  1 ,704,729. 

The  total  amount  expended  for  books,  periodicals,  news- 
papers, photographs,  and  other  library  material  from  the  city 
appropriation  and  the  income  of  trust  funds  was  $171,257.40. 

USE  OF  THE  LIBRARY 

The  total  number  of  books  borrowed  for  home  use  during 
the  year  was  3,865,275.  The  use  of  books  and  other  library 


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materials  within  the  Library's  premises  for  reference  and  study 
is  for  the  most  part  unrestricted,  and  it  is  therefore  impracticable 
to  record  it. 

In  addition  to  the  above  noted  use  of  the  Central  Library  and 
the  thirty-two  Branch  Libraries,  deposits  of  books  were  made 
available  to  946  agencies,  including  schools,  institutions,  and 
engine  houses. 

COMPARATIVE  STATISTICS  FOR  1938  AND  1939 

A  comparison  of  certain  statistics  for  1939  with  those  for 
1 938  is  given  below : 

1938  1939 

Total  expenditures:  city  appropriation,  trust 

funds   income,   and  gifts   .  .  .         $1,383,860.59     .  .     $1,391,169.10 

Expended  for  books  and  otiier  library  ma- 
terials from  city  appropriation  and 
trust    funds    income    . 

Number    of   volumes   added 


Number  of  volumes  discarded 
Total  number  of  volumes  in  the  Library 
Number  of  volumes  lent  to  borrowers  . 
Number   of   lard   holders 


156,631.89  .    .    171.257.40 
66,376  .   ,      71.820 


73,369  .  .  60.779 

1,693.688  .  .  1.704.729 

3.979.850  .  .  3.865.275 

175.950  .  .  175.800 


BOOKS 

A  library  exists  in  order  to  provide  books.  In  our  Central  Li- 
brary this  is  being  done  reasonably  well  because  the  Library  has 
a  number  of  trust  funds  from  which  the  income  can  be  used  for 
the  most  part  for  no  other  purpose  than  the  purchase  of  books  of 
a  scholarly  reference  or  research  character. 

For  the  Branch  Libraries  there  are  very  few  trust  funds  for 

the  purchase  of  books.  Dependence  has  to  be  placed  therefore 

almost  entirely  upon  the  appropriations  made  by  the  City  for 

that  express  purpose.  The  amounts  appropriated  during  the  last 

ten  years  are  given  below  for  comparative  purposes. 

1930 $160,000 

1931 175.000 

1932 160.000 

1933 75.000 

1934 100.000 

1935 100.000 

1936 55.000 

1937  .......  75.000 

1938 73  875 

1939 55.000 


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The  appropriations  of  recent  years  have  been  so  restricted  that 
for  the  last  five  years  the  Branch  Libraries  have  not  been  able 
to  add  even  enough  books  to  replace  those  which  were  having 
to  be  removed  from  use.  As  a  result  there  are  at  present  in  the 
Branch  Libraries  over  50,000  fewer  volumes  than  five  years  ago. 
Year  by  year  the  number  of  volumes  removed  from  use  has  ex- 
ceeded the  number  of  volumes  added  by  the  following  amounts : 

1935 4,257 

1936 9.091 

1937 3,930 

1938 20,841 

1939 11,890 

The  result  is  that,  whereas  before  the  depression  an  average 
gain  of  from  10,000  to  12,000  volumes  might  be  expected  an- 
nually, there  is  now  occurring  each  year  an  annual  net  loss  in  the 
book  stock  of  the  Branch  Libraries  in  approximately  the  same 
amount. 

It  is  clear  that  the  continuing  heavy  reduction  in  the  book 
appropriations  in  recent  years  has  fallen  chiefly  upon  the  direct 
popular  public  service  of  the  Library  in  its  Branch  Libraries. 
The  funds  appropriated  by  the  City  for  books  are  devoted  al- 
most exclusively  to  the  purchase  of  books  for  the  Branch  Li- 
braries. They  are  not  used  for  meeting  the  book  needs  of  the 
Central  Library ;  the  income  from  trust  funds  given  for  that  pur- 
pose only  cares  for  those.  Instead  it  has  been  directly  upon  the 
work  of  the  Branch  Libraries,  for  the  citizens  of  Boston  in  their 
respective  sections  of  the  city,  that  the  effects  of  the  reduced 
book  appropriations  by  the  City  have  fallen  heavily. 

BUILDINGS  AND  EQUIPMENT 

For  a  period  now  extending  for  some  five  years  back  atten- 
tion has  been  called  to  the  increasingly  crowded  condition  of  the 
Central  Library  building.  Forty-five  years  have  elapsed  since 
it  was  first  occupied  in  1 895.  An  annex  to  it  was  erected  twenty- 
two  years  ago  in  ]  9 1  7—  1 9 1 8.  There  has  been  no  subsequent  pro- 
vision of  additional  space. 

The  ordinary  annual  growth  in  the  book  collections  of  a  large 
library  of  reference  and  research  such  as  our  Central  Library 


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is  in  itself  a  matter  of  direct  concern  in  this  respect.  For  every 
eight  volumes  added  one  foot  of  additional  shelving  space  is  re- 
quired. One  hundred  volumes  require  12|/2  additional  feet  of 
shelving;  one  thousand  volumes,  125  feet  of  shelf  space.  For 
ten  thousand  volumes  there  are  needed  1 250  feet  of  shelving,  or 
approximately  one  quarter  of  a  mile  of  running  shelf  space. 

In  1939  alone  there  was  a  growth  in  the  book  collections  in 
the  Central  Library  Vv'^hich  totaled  some  29,830  volumes,  most 
of  which  in  recent  5'^ears  were  purchased  from  the  income  of  trust 
funds.  These  volumes  placed  side  by  side  required  well  over  half 
a  mile  of  additional  shelving  space.  That  this  growth  represented 
only  the  ordinary  annual  increase  in  the  book  collections  of  the 
Central  Library  is  indicated  by  the  comparable  figures  of  growth 
of  25,944  volumes  in  1936,  24,996  volumes  in  1937,  and 
25,447  volumes  in  1938.  Constant  growth  of  this  kind  carries 
with  it  increasing  difficulties  not  only  in  the  housing  of  the  book 
collections,  but  even  more  directly  in  the  adminstration  of  the 
books  for  public  use  in  the  public  departments.  An  individual 
volume  in  a  large  library  which  has  a  million  volumes  or  more  is 
of  value  in  most  instances  only  insofar  as  it  can  be  used  in  relation 
to  kindred  volumes  among  the  million  or  so  other  volumes  in  the 
library's  collections.  The  difficulties  of  accomplishing  this  in  our 
long  since  overcrowded  Central  Library  building  are  becoming 
steadily  greater  year  by  year. 

So  likewise  has  the  space  problem  become  acute  in  the  matter 
of  provision  of  adequate  facilities  and  quarters  for  the  library 
staff  in  the  Central  Library.  The  building  was  not  constructed, 
even  in  the  original  instance,  with  adequate  provision  of  space 
and  facilities  for  the  staff  of  a  large  library.  From  1 895  to  1 939 
the  number  of  regular  full  time  workers  in  the  Central  Library 
building  has  increased  from  1  72  to  347,,  not  to  mention  an  addi- 
tional group  of  W.P.A.  workers  which  has  at  times  been  as 
great  as  125  in  number.  The  staff  quarters,  originally  inade- 
quate, have  been  steadily  encroached  upon  in  one  way  or  an- 
other as  the  building  has  become  increasingly  crowded  in  all 
directions.  There  is  now  crying  need  for  improvement  and  ex- 
pansion of  toilet  facilities,  locker  space,  rest  rooms,  lunch  rooms. 


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training  course  class  rooms,  staff  library,  and  the  various  mis- 
cellaneous facilities  and  space  necessary  for  a  staff  of  several 
hundred  individuals.  This  has  been  a  matter  of  pressing  impor- 
tance for  a  number  of  years. 

It  is  therefore  gratifying  to  be  able  to  report  here  that  during 
1939  there  was  accomplished  a  first  step  toward  relieving  the 
space  problem  in  the  Central  Library  for  the  immediate  future. 
On  February  11,1 939  the  heating  and  lighting  plant  operated 
by  the  Library  itself  since  1895  was  discontinued  in  favor  of 
purchasing  steam  and  electricity  from  the  Boston  Edison  Com- 
pany. This  arrangement  was  effected  in  order  to  achieve  economy 
in  operating  costs,  economy  in  avoiding  a  capital  replacement 
which  would  become  necessary  w^ith  the  three  years  immediately 
ahead  in  an  important  part  of  the  generating  plant  if  continued, 
and  finally  economy  in  space  in  the  crowded  Central  Library 
building.  By  the  end  of  the  year  all  of  the  discontinued  equip- 
ment had  been  removed,  except  one  engine.  With  the  expected 
removal  of  that  in  the  early  part  of  1 940  a  considerable  amount 
of  basement  space  will  then  be  available  in  which  to  set  up  addi- 
tional book  shelving  and  to  arrange  for  improved  locker  and 
toilet  space  for  the  library  staff.  Thereafter  the  next  step  will  be 
to  effect  re-allocation  of  departmental  and  other  space  to  bring 
relief  in  many  crowded  quarters  of  the  building.  The  importance 
of  this  for  improving  the  Library's  service  to  the  public  is  great 
indeed. 

Another  matter  which  is  of  urgency  is  that  of  effecting  a 
permanent  solution  of  the  problem  of  the  tile  roofing  of  the  Cen- 
tral Library  building.  In  the  original  construction  of  the  roof 
no  permanent  under-roofing  was  provided  under  the  decorative 
tiles.  Such  an  under-roof  is  highly  necessary  in  a  northern  climate 
in  which  the  cracking  and  breaking  of  tiles  through  frost  and 
other  action,  plus  the  eventual  loss  of  plasticity  in  the  cement 
binding  the  individual  tiles  together,  result  soon  or  late  in  breaks 
and  leaks  in  the  tile  roofing.  With  no  under-roof  to  stop  such 
leaks,  damage  is  threatened  constantly  to  our  fine  building  and 
its  invaluable  contents.  For  a  number  of  years  the  annual  cost 
of  maintenance  and  repair  of  the  tile  roofing  has  ranged  from 


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ten  to  twelve  thousand  dollars  a  year.  In  1937  the  Library's 
engineers  made  an  exhaustive  study  of  this  roofing  problem. 
They  recommended  the  construction  of  a  permanent  roof  under 
the  decorative  tiles  as  the  only  way  in  which  to  end  the  constant 
annual  expenditure  for  repairs  and  maintenance.  Although  the 
cost  of  such  a  fundamental,  but  permanent,  solution  appears  to 
be  great,  it  is  nevertheless  believed  that  as  considerable  as  this 
cost  would  be  it  would  prove  in  the  long  run  to  be  actually  less 
than  that  of  following  indefinitely  the  present  uneconomical  prac- 
tice of  annual  patching  and  repairing  of  the  present  single  tile 
roof  in  cycles. 

It  is  pleasant  to  be  able  to  record  here  that  in  the  course  of 
1 939  work  was  finally  begun  upon  the  repair  and  renovation  of 
the  Old  West  Church  which  the  West  End  Branch  Library  had 
had  to  vacate  in  1937  because  of  its  unsafe  condition.  This  work 
has  been  carried  on  as  a  project  of  the  Work  Projects  Admin- 
istration of  the  Federal  Government,  under  the  sponsorship  of 
the  Public  Buldings  Department  of  the  City  of  Boston,  acting 
on  behalf  of  the  Library.  It  is  expected  that  the  v>^ork  will  be 
completed  in  the  first  half  of  1940. 

Also  it  is  pleasant  to  record  that  in  1 939  the  Allston  Branch 
Library  was  provided  with  enlarged  and  improved  quarters  in 
the  same  building  in  which  it  has  occupied  rented  space  since 
1 929.  This  change  was  effected  without  increase  in  rental  cost. 

FEDERAL  EMERGENCY  RELIEF  PROJECTS  CARRIED  ON 
UNDER  THE  SPONSORSHIP  OF  IHE  LIBRARY 

Under  the  auspices  of  the  Work  Projects  Administration  of 
the  Federal  Government  there  was  continued  during  1939  the 
long  range  program  of  activities  designed  to  provide  for  the  Bos- 
ton Public  Library  improved  and  modern  methods  for  the  class- 
ification and  cataloging  of  its  book  collections. 

Two  large  projects  initiated  in  earlier  years  were  carried  on 
to  further  points  in  1 939.  One  of  these  had  to  do  with  effecting 
a  reclassification  of  the  scholarly  book  collections  of  the  Central 
Library  along  the  lines  of  the  classification  developed  by  the  Li- 
brary of  Congress.  The  other  was  concerned  with  providing  a 


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uniform  plan  and  process  of  cataloging  for  the  book  collections 
of  the  Branch  Libraries,  as  well  as  a  reclassification  of  these 
along  uniform  lines  based  on  a  simplified  arrangement  of  the 
decimal  classification  devised  by  Melvil  Dewey. 

Several  hundred  individuals  were  employed.  Their  wages 
were  provided  by  the  Federal  Government.  Special  provision 
for  incidental  expenses  was  made  by  the  City  as  the  sponsor's 
contribution. 

These  important  activities  were  carried  on  as  part  of  an  ex- 
tensive long  range  program.  With  minor  exceptions  this  program 
has  functioned  well  over  a  number  of  years.  Gradually  there 
was  brought  into  being  among  the  W.P.A.  workers  the  substan- 
tial body  of  reasonably  well  trained  workers  necessary  for  carry- 
ing on  such  highly  technical  projects  as  the  two  described  above. 
Then  in  June  1939  the  Emergency  Relief  Act  of  1939  was 
passed  by  the  Congress  with  a  mandatory  provision  that  relief 
workers  who  had  been  on  W.P.A.  projects  for  longer  than 
eighteen  months  were  to  be  dismissed.  The  effects  of  this  manda- 
tory dismissal  provision  proved  exceedingly  disastrous  for  carry- 
ing on  the  W.P.A.  projects  sponsored  by  the  Library.  Chit  of 
496  then  employed  on  the  two  projects  443  (89%)  had  to  be 
dismissed  by  September  1  st.  It  subsequently  proved  possible  to 
have  only  relatively  few  of  these  trained  workers  of  several  years 
experience  restored  to  the  rolls.  The  result  has  been  a  heavy 
blow  to  the  successful  prosecution  of  the  work. 

GIFTS 

The  Library  received  many  important  gifts  of  books  and  other 
library  materials  during  the  year.  A  list  of  the  m.ore  important 
of  these  is  to  be  found  in  the  Appendix  on  pages  142—143, 

There  should  be  singled  out  here  a  particularly  satisfying 
evidence  of  continuing  interest  in  the  work  of  the  Library.  In 
May  there  was  received  a  1 4th,  and  again  in  November  a  1 5th, 
anonymous  gift  of  money  for  story  telling  in  the  public  schools, 
particularly  in  those  parts  of  Boston  in  which  the  Library's  own 
branch  library  buildings  are  without  adequate  quarters  for  story 
telling  in  the  libraries  themselves.  Each  of  this  long  series  of 


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anonymous  gifts  —  generally  in  the  amount  of  fifty  dollars,  and 
frequently  more  —  has  come  from  a  single  individual  who  once 
had  a  direct  share  in  the  Library's  work  as  a  member  of  its  staff. 
Wliat  is  particularly  pleasant  is  that  these  splendid  gifts  reveal 
a  continuing  interest  in  the  school  children  of  Boston  and  the 
work  which  the  Boston  Public  Library  attempts  to  do  for  them. 
The  donor  is  now  no  longer  a  resident  of  Boston  and  has  indeed 
a  far  more  direct  association  at  the  present  time  with  a  community 
other  than  Boston  and  a  library  other  than  the  Boston  Public 
Library.  It  is  striking  tribute  to  the  excellent  work  which  Boston's 
story  tellers  do  so  quietly  and  effectively  in  awakening  an  urge 
and  developing  a  love  for  good  reading  in  school  children. 

It  is  the  hope  of  the  Trustees  that  from  knowledge  of  an  ex- 
ample of  this  sort  there  may  come  recognition  on  the  part  of 
citizens  of  Boston  that  the  Library  can  put  to  good  use  gifts  of 
money  or  books,  whether  they  be  small  or  large,  and  for  almost 
any  socially  desirable  purpose  in  which  an  individual  donor  may 
be  interested. 

CARE  AND  INVESTMENT  OF  TRUST  FUNDS 

From  time  to  time  as  necessary  during  the  year  meetings  were 
held  by  the  Finance  Committee  of  the  Trustees  for  the  purpose 
of  directing  the  City  Treasurer  in  the  investment  of  the  funds  to 
which  the  Frustees  hold  title  and  of  which  the  City  1  reasurer 
serves  as  custodian  on  behalf  of  the  Trustees. 

Also  the  firm  of  Messrs.  Stewart,  Watts  and  Boliong,  Cer- 
tified Public  Accountants,  was  retained  to  list  and  check  the 
holdings  of  both  cash  and  securities  belonging  to  the  Trustees  of 
the  Public  Library  and  to  certify  that  these  had  been  found  to 
be  actually  in  the  custody  of  the  City  Treasurer.  This  listing  and 
checking  was  subsequently  verified  by  the  Trustees  themselves 
on  June  6,  1939  by  going  personally  to  the  vaults  of  the  City 
Freasurer. 


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ADMINISTRATION  Of  TRUST  FUNDS  ESTABLISHED  UNDER  THE 
WILL  OF   THE  LATE  JOSIAH  H.  BENTON 

Under  the  twelfth  clause  of  the  Will  of  the  late  Josiah  H. 
Benton,  and  as  subsequentlj'-  modified  by  an  Agreement  of 
Compromise  dated  January  15,  1935,  the  Trustees  of  the  Pub- 
lic Library  were  designated  as  the  residuary  legatee  of  the  Ben- 
ton Estate.  The  Will  provided  that  the  residuary  estate  should 
be  divided  into  two  equal  parts  and  designated  as  the  Benton 
Building  Fund  and  the  Benton  Book  Fund  respectively.  The 
Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  received  also  the  Children's 
Fund,  established  separately  under  another  provision  of  the  Will. 

BENTON  BUILDING  FUND 

January  22,  1938  -  January  21.  1939 

As  required  by  the  terms  of  the  Will  the  Benton  Building 
Fund  is  held  "as  an  accumulating  fund,  the  income  and  interest 
to  be  added  to  the  principal  and  reinvested  as  principal,  until  the 
total  amount  thereof  shall  be  two  million  dollars  ($2,000,000) 
.  .  .  such  total  sum  of  two  million  dollars  ($2,000,000)  to  be 
applied  to  the  enlargement  of  the  present  central  library  building 
in  Boston,  or  to  the  construction  of  another  central  library  build- 
ing in  such  part  of  the  City  as  may  be  then  most  desirable  for 
the  accommodation  of  the  people  of  said  City  ..." 

As  an  accumulating  fund  the  Benton  Building  Fund  had  on 
its  anniversary  date  of  January  22,  1 938  a  principal  amount  of 
$1,644,118.57.  During  the  year  immediately  following,  from 
January  22,  1938  to  January  21,  1939,  inclusive,  the  income 
and  other  additions  were  reinvested  and  added  to  the  principal, 
with  the  result  that  on  January  22,  1 939  the  principal  amount 
had  then  become  $1,733,103.77. 

The  net  income  for  the  period  of  January  22,  1938  to  Jan- 
uary 21,  1939,  inclusive,  was  in  the  amount  of  $54,997.67,  rep- 
resenting income  from  investments  to  the  amount  of  $57,247.51 
and  a  liquidating  dividend  to  the  amount  of  $26.75,  and  losses 
from  securities  matured  to  the  amount  of  $2,257.50  and  admin- 
istrative expenses  to  the  amount  of  $  1 9.09.  This  net  income  was 
reinvested  and  added  to  the  principal  amount.  Also  there  W£is 
added  to  the  principal  amount  during  this  period  the  sum  of 


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$33,987.53,  received  from  the  Surviving  Trustee  under  the  Will 
of  the  late  Josiah  H.  Benton,  as  part  of  the  principal  and  in- 
come of  the  Martha  Ellen  Fisher  Trust,  a  life  trust  which  had 
been  set  up  under  the  Will,  with  the  provision  that  on  its  ex- 
piration it  was  to  become  a  part  of  the  residuary  estate  and  be 
divided  equally  between  the  Benton  Building  Fund  and  the 
Benton  Book  Fund.  The  total  net  additions  to  the  principal 
amount  of  the  Benton  Building  Fund  during  the  period  from 
January  22,  1 938  to  January  21,1 939,  inclusive,  thus  amounted 
to  $88,985.20. 

BENTON  BOOK  FUND 
January  22.  1938  -  January  21.  1939 

On  its  anniversary  date  of  January  22,  1938  the  Benton 
Book  Fund  had  a  principal  amount  of  $1,136,480.25.  During 
the  year  immediately  following,  from  January  22,  1938  to  Jan- 
uary 21,  1 939,  inclusive,  there  occurred  a  net  increase  in  the 
principal  amount  by  the  sum  of  $22,377.00,  with  the  net  re- 
sult that  on  January  22,  1939  the  principal  amount  had  then 
become  $1,158,857.25. 

The  net  loss  in  the  principal  amount  was  $2,003.75,  repre- 
senting losses  from  securities  matured  to  the  amount  of  $2,032.50, 
less  a  liquidating  dividend  to  the  amount  of  $26.75,  This  was 
offset  by  the  addition  to  the  principal  amount  during  this  period 
of  the  sum  of  $24,382.75,  received  from  the  Surviving  Trustee 
under  the  Will  of  the  late  Josiah  H.  Benton,  and  representing 
one  half  of  the  principal  of  the  Martha  Ellen  Fisher  Trust,  a 
life  trust  under  the  Will,  which  upon  expiration  was  to  become 
part  of  the  residuary  estate  and  be  divided  equally  between  the 
Benton  Building  Fund  and  the  Benton  Book  Fund.  The  total 
net  additions  to  the  principal  amount  of  the  Benton  Book  Fund 
during  the  period  from  January  22,  1938  to  January  21 ,  1939, 
inclusive,  thus  amounted  to  $22,377.00. 

The  net  income  from  the  Benton  Book  Fund  for  the  period 
was  in  the  amount  of  $44,003.48,  representing  income  from  in- 
vestments to  the  amount  of  $45,645.08,  losses  from  income  secur- 
ities disposed  of  to  the  amount  of  $165.00,  and  administrative 
expenses  to  the  amount  of  $1 ,476.60.  As  provided  by  the  Agree- 


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ment  of  Compromise  of  January  15,  1935,  this  net  income  was 
distributable  in  the  proportions  of  60  %and  40%  to  the  Trus- 
tees of  the  Public  Library  of  the  City  of  Boston  and  the  Rector 
of  Trinity  Church  in  the  City  of  Boston  respectively.  It  was 
distributed  as  follows: 

To  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library    .  .         .     $26,402.09 

To  the  Rector  of  Trinity  Church    ....        1 7.601 .39 


$44,003.48 
In  addition  to  the  income  set  forth  above,  there  v/as  also  dis- 
tributed in  1939  the  amount  of  $9,604.77,  representing  income 
from  the  Benton  Book  Fund  (chiefly  that  part  received  from 
the  Martha  Ellen  Fisher  Trust)  which  had  been  delivered  to 
the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  in  Jime  1 938  by  the  Surviv- 
ing Trustee  under  the  Will  in  connection  with  the  third  and  final 
payment  of  the  assets  of  the  Benton  Estate.  This  additional  in- 
come was  distributed  in  the  proportion  of  60%  and  40%  respec- 
tively as  follows: 

To  the  Trustees  of  the  PubUc  Library       .         .         .     $5,762.86 
To  the  Rector  of  Trinity  Church     ....       3,841.91 


$9,604.77 
The  total  payments  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  thus 
amounted  to  $32,164.95;  to  the  Rector  of  Trinity   Church, 
$21,443.30. 

USE  OF  INCOME  FPxOM  BENTON  BOOK  FUND 
BY  TRUSTEES  OF  THE   PUBLIC  LIBRARY 

That  portion  of  the  income  from  the  Benton  Book  Fund 
which  is  payable  to  the  Trustees  of  the  PubHc  Library  is  to  be 
applied  by  them  "for  the  purchase  of  books,  maps  and  other 
library  material  of  permanent  value  and  benefit  for  said  Library ; 
meaning  and  intending  hereby  that  such  income  shall  be  applied 
for  books  desirable  for  scholarly  research  and  use."  As  of  Jan- 
uary 1 ,  1 939  the  Trustees  had  available  for  this  purpose  a  bal- 
ance of  unexpended  income  in  the  amount  of  $234,038.14.  As 
of  January  22,  1 939  they  received  a  payment  of  income  accrued 
to  that  time  in  the  amount  of  $32,164.95,  thus  making  a  total 
balance  of  unexoended  income  in  the  amount  of  $266,203.09. 


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Against  this,  during  the  calendar  year  1 939,  they  expended  for 
books  and  other  library  material  in  accordance  with  the  above 
provision  the  sum  of  $96,156.20.  As  of  December  31,  1939 
the  balance  of  unexpended  income  was  $170,046.89. 

USE  OF  INCOME  FROM  BENTON  BUILDING  FUND 
BY  TRUSTEES  OF  THE  PUBLIC  LIBRARY 

As  provided  by  the  terms  of  the  Will  the  Benton  Building 
Fund  is  held  '*as  an  accumulating  fund,  the  income  and  interest 
to  be  added  to  the  principal  and  reinvested  as  principal,  until  the 
total  amount  thereof  shall  be  two  million  dollars  ($2,000,000) 
.  .  ."  As  set  forth  with  detailed  figures  above,  the  Benton  Build- 
ing Fund  has  been  held  as  such  an  accumulating  fund,  and  the 
income  therefrom  has  been  reinvested  and  added  to  the  prin- 
cipal amount. 

CERTIFICATE  OF  COMPLIANCE 
WITH  THE   PROVISIONS  OF  THE  WILL 

The  Will  requests  that,  in  addition  to  publishing  statements 
setting  forth  the  payments  of  income  from  the  Benton  Book 
Fund  and  the  investments  in  and  accumulations  of  the  Benton 
Building  Fund,  the  Trustees  publish  "a  certificate  that  said  in- 
come is  expended  and  said  fund  accumulated  in  accordance  with 
the  directions  of  said  will,  according  to  their  best  examination 
and  judgment  in  the  premises." 

In  accordance  with  this  request  the  Trustees  of  the  Public 
Library  hereby  certify  that  according  to  their  best  examination 
and  judgment  ( 1  )  the  income  of  the  Benton  Book  Fund  has 
been  expended  by  them  in  accordance  with  the  directions  of  the 
aforesaid  Will,  as  modified  by  the  Agreement  of  Compromise 
of  January  15,  1935,  and  (2)  the  principal  amount  of  and  the 
income  from  the  Benton  Building  Fund  have  been  invested  and 
accumulated  in  accordance  with  the  directions  of  said  Will. 

THE   children's  FUND 

In  accordance  with  the  terms  of  another  provision  of  the  Will 
the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  paid  in  1 939  to  the  Rector 
of  Trinity  Church  the  sum  of  $3,632.61,  representing  the  in- 


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come  from  The  Children's  Fund  for  the  period  of  January  1  to 
December  31,  1938.  The  Children's  Fund  was  given  to  the 
Trustees  of  the  PubHc  Library  under  the  Will,  with  the  pro- 
vision that  the  annual  income  therefrom  should  be  available  to 
the  Library  in  any  3'^ear  only  if  certain  conditions  should  be  met 
in  that  year.  Inasmuch  as  these  conditions  could  not  be  met  for 
the  year  ending  December  31,  1 938,  payment  of  the  income 
for  that  year  was  therefore  made  to  the  Rector  of  Trinity  Church 
as  required  by  the  Will. 

OTHER  TRUST   FUNDS 

The  following  payments  were  received  during  the  course  of 
the  year  and  funded  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  under 
which  they  were  made  available  to  the  Library : 

George  W,  Moore  Fund  —  Bequest  of  George  W.  Moore,  of  Bos- 
ton, in  the  amount  of  $21  7.00,  of  which  the  income  is  to  be  used 
for  the  general  purposes  of  the  Library; 

Francis  Jay  Underbill  Fund  —  The  sum  of  $524.70,  representing 
certain  proceeds  under  the  settlement  of  the  last  will  and  testament 
of  Francis  Jay  Underbill,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  from  which  the  in- 
come is  to  be  expended  for  the  purchase  of  books; 

Boston  Book  Fair  1938  Fund  —  The  sum  of  $1  72.70,  received  from 
the  Board  of  Trade  of  Boston  Book  Merchants,  representing  the 
excess  of  receipts  over  expenditures  by  the  Board  in  connection 
with  the  Boston  Book  Fair  as  held  in  the  Boston  Public  Library  in 
1938,  from  which  the  income  is  to  be  used  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Library  Staff,  in  recognition  of  the  excellent  services  of  the  various 
members  of  the  Staff  to  the  Book  Fair  of  1 938. 

The  Trustees  welcome  bequests  of  money  or  books  and  hope 
that  generous  testators  may  remember  the  Library.  It  is  from  such 
sources  only  that  they  can  make  purchases  of  rare  and  other  im- 
portant books  which  give  value  and  prestige  to  a  great  educational 
institution  such  as  the  Boston  Public  Library. 

As  a  matter  of  interest  to  the  citizens  of  Boston  the  Board 
has  pleasure  in  listing  the  present  trust  funds  of  the  Library  with 
explanatory  notes.  The  list  will  be  found  on  pages  163-1  lb. 


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EXAMINING  COMMITTEE 

The  Trustees  acknowledge  gratefully  the  assistance  given  by 
the  Examining  Committee  of  1939.  Its  membership  included 
the  following  individuals: 


Mrs.  Gordon  Abbott 
Mr.  Philip  J.  Bond 
Mr.  Robert  Cutler 
Dr.   Albert  Ehren fried 
Mr.  Henry  E.  Foley 
Mr.  Allan  Forbes 
Miss  Susan  J.  Ginn 
Mr.  Arthur  L.  Gould 
Mr.  Burnelle  G.  Hawkins 
Mr.  Herman  H.  Henkle 
Rev.  John  S.  Keating 
Rev.  Arthur  L.  Kinsolving 
Mrs.  Augustus  P.   Loring,  Jr. 
Mr.  A.  Lawrence  Lowell 
Mr.   John  L.   Lowes 
Mr.  John  W.  Lowes 
Mr.  Keyes  D.  Metcalf 
Mr.  George  N.  Northrop 


Rev.  Phillips  E.  Osgood 
Rev.  Charles  E.  Park 
Mrs.  Charles  B.  Perkins 
Mrs.  Edward  M,  Pickman 
Hon.  Abraham  E.  Pinanski 
Rev.  Richard  J.  Quinlan 
Mr.  William  K.  Richardson 
Mr.  B.  M.  Selekman 
M.  Harlow  Shapley 
Mrs.  Arthur  A.  Shurchff 
Rev.  Russell  H.  Stafford 
Mrs.  Donald  C.  Starr 
Mrs.  Joseph  A.  Tomasello 
Mr.  John  P.  Vaccaro 
Dr.  Henry  Viets 
Mr.  Laurence  Winship 
Mrs.  Frederick  Winslow 
Mr.  Charles  E.  Wyzanski 


Mrs.   Roy  A.  Young 

It  is  gratifying  to  have  the  generous  and  helpful  assistance  of 
citizens  who  are  willing  to  give  freely  of  their  time  and  interest 
in  examining  and  reporting  upon  the  Library  and  its  activities. 
Special  attention  is  called  to  the  significant  report  of  the  Com- 
mittee, which  appears  on  pages  22-34  immediately  following. 

CONCLUSION 

Attention  is  called  to  the  report  of  the  Director  of  the  Library 
as  found  on  pages  35—78  below.  It  presents  important  informa- 
tion concerning  a  number  of  developments  in  the  Library  in  the 
last  ten  years. 

The  Trustees  wish  to  express  here  their  appreciation  of  the 
e^^orts  of  the  library  staff  throughout  the  year  to  meet  the  needs 
of  the  citizens  of  Boston. 

Frank  W.  Buxton 
John  L.  Hall 
Louis  E.  Kirstein 
Robert  H.  Lord 
Lllery  Sedgwick 


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STATEMENT  OF  EXPENDITURES 


Expenditures  for  Personnel: 

Permanent  and  Probationary  employee*  (ex- 
clusive of  Printing  and  Binding  Department 
employees)  ...... 

Sundays  and  Evenings,  extra  and  other  service 
Expenditures  kor  Service  Other  Than  Person/ 

Printing  and  binding     . 

Advertising 

Transportation   of  persons     . 

Cartage    and    freight 

Light,  heat  and  power  . 

Rents,    taxes   and   water 

Bond   and    insurance    premiums 

Communication 

Cleaning         .... 

Removal    of    ashes 

Expert  .... 

Stenographic   and  copying 

Fees      ..... 

Photographic  and   blueprinting 

General    repairs 

Miscellaneous   services   . 
Expenditures  for  Equipment: 

Electrical       .... 

Motorless    vehicles 

.Furniture  and  fillings 

Office 

Books: 


City  Appropriation 
Trust  funds  income 

Manuscripts: 

Trust  funds  income 

Periodicals: 

City   appropriation 
Trust  funds  income 

Newspapers : 

City    appropriation 
Trust  funds  income 

Microfilms: 

City  appropriation 
Trust  funds  income 

Lantern  slides: 

City  appropriation 
Trust  funds  income 

Photostats : 

City  appropriation 
Trust  funds  income 

Posters,  prints  and  maps: 
City  appropriation 
Trust  funds  income 

Phonograph  records: 
Trust  funds  income 

Tools  and  instruments 

General  plant 

Carried    foru^ard 


$43,493.78 
93,316.04 


10,030.87 
1.844.87 

\, 367  39 
1.536.95 

.75 

7.871.08 

71.65 
667.00 

20.60 
.60 

14.93 
369.11 


$869,652.92 
89,938.53    $959,591.45 

172.71 

9.25 

2,174.94 

7,304.45 

35,621.34 

19,283.00 

1,894.90 

4.440.63 

1,250.50 

22.80 

1 ,048.00 

1 ,299.38 

141.85 

172.18 

20,609.47 

107.40        95.552.80 

137.42 

144.15 

869.48 

3.111.31 


136,809.82 
10,646.98 

11,875.74 

2.904.34 

7,871.83 

738.65 

21,20 

384.04 

4.80 
771.56 
236.33       176.527.65 


$1,231,671.90 


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AND  RECEIPTS,  DECEMBER  31,  1939 


Receipts  From: 

City  Appropriation   1939 
Income   irom  Trust  Funds 
James  L.   Whitney  Bibliographic 
Income   from  Children's   Fund 


Account 


$1,288,811.10 
56.956.41 
700.00 
3.261.48  $1,349,728.99 


Carried    iorward 


$1 ,349.728.99 


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STATEMENT  OF  EXPENDITURES 


Brought   forward 

$1,231,671.90 

Expenditures  for  Supplies: 

Office 

$7,749.65 

Fuel 

7.834.36 

Medical          .... 

48.07 

Laundry,   cleaning,   toilet 

1.385.32 

Educational   and  recreational 

19.50 

Agricultural 

133.60 

Chemicals  and  disinfectants  . 

198.24 

Miscellaneous 

1.643.17 

19,011.91 

Expenditures  for  Materials: 

Building        .... 

4,581.64 

Machinery    .... 

82.0! 

Electrical       .... 

1.982.07 

Miscellaneous 

1,774.58 

8.420.30 

Pensions  and  Annuities 

1 .298.55 

Workmen's   compensation 

36.00 

1.334.55 

\V.  P.  A.  Projects 

39.997.19 

Special  Items: 

James  L.  Whitney  Bibliographic  account 

1,757.33 

A.  L.  Whitney  Fund,  sick  benefits 

361.50 

Trust  Funds   Income,  Salary 

1,500.00 

Louis  E.  Kirstein  Fund,  Fuel 

23.60 

Judaica  Bookshelf  —  in  honor  of  Miss  Fanny  Go 

dstein                  73.97 

Children's  Fund,  Rector  of  Trinity  Church  , 

3,914.09 

7,630.49 

Binding  Department: 

Salaries           ....... 

60,065.58 

Transportation   of   persons     . 

2.40 

Gas,  light  and  heat 

807.82 

Communication 

78.30 

Repairs          .... 

182.93 

Furniture    and    furnishings 

15.00 

Tools  and  instruments  . 

27.65 

Supplies         .... 

8.77 

Electrical    material 

4.05 

Slock 

7,282.30 

68,474.80 

Printing  Department: 

Salaries          .... 

13,039.16 

Gas,  light  and  heat 

784.10 

Rent 

7.50 

Communication 

77.86 

Photographic  and  blueprinting 

211.14 

Repairs           .... 

15.50 

Electrical    equipment 

36.00 

Supplies          .... 

686.87 

Material          .... 

7.86 

Stock 

3,657.81 

Outside   work 

18.25 

18,542.05 

Carried   forward 

.1395,083.19 

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AND  RECEIPTS,  DECEN/IBER  31,  1939 


BroughA   formard        .... 
Balances  Brought  Forward  From  1938: 
I  rust  funds  income.  City  1  reasury 
James  L.  Whitney  Bibliographic  Account 
H.   C.   Benfley   Gift      .... 
Judaica    Bookshelf         .... 
Children's    Fund    ..... 


$1,349,728.99 


257,354.14 

1306.73 

13.70 

159.17 

3.632.61 


262.466.35 


Carried   forward 


$1,612,195.34 


[20] 
STATEMENT  OF  EXPENDITURES 

Brought  foTTvard $1,395,083.19 

Amounts  Paid  Into  City  Treasury: 

Fines $23,449.71 

Sales  of  catalogues,  bulletins          .....  303.61 

Commission  on  telephone  stations  .....  548.82 

Refunds,    fees,    etc.        .......  667.31 

Sales  of  waste  paper     .......  78.96 

Payments   for  lost  books 655.08         25,703.49 

Balance,  December  31,  1939: 

Trust  Funds  Income,  City  Treasury       ....  196,168.02 

James  L.  Whitney  Bibliographic   Account     .          .  249.40 

H.  C.  Bentley  Gift 13.70 

Judaica   Bookshelf 85.20 

Children's    Fund 2,980.00        199,496.32 

Balance  Unexpended,  December  31,  1939: 

General    Appropriation          ......  17,615.83 


To  Balance 


$1,637,89(183 


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AND  RECEIPTS.  DECEMBER  31,  1939 

Brought  forivard $1,612,195.34 

Receipts  From: 

Fines 23.449.71 

Sales  of  catalogues,  bulletins          .....  303.61 

Commission  on  telephone  stations  .....  548.82 

Refunds,    fees,    etc 667.31 

Sales  of   waste   paper   .......  78.96 

Payments   for   lost   look. 655.08         25,703.49 


To   Balance 


$1,637,898.83 


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REPORT  OF  THE  EXAMINING  COMMITTEE 

To  The  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library 
OF  THE  City  of  Boston. 

Gentlemen: — 

The  Examining  Committee  for  the  year  1939  respectfully 
submits  its  report. 

The  Committee  met  for  organization  in  May.  From  the  de- 
tailed reports  submitted  to  the  Vice-Chairman  since  November 
first,  the  members  of  the  sub-committees  have  labored  with  even 
more  than  the  usual  zeal  and  have  given  full  time  and  service  to 
the  vv^ork.  Their  reports  have  been  filed  with  the  Library  for 
examination  and  reference.  The  detailed  analysis  made  of  these 
reports  on  file  in  the  executive  office  and  the  care  taken  by  the 
officers  of  the  Library  to  follow  up  each  recommendation  until 
it  is  carried  out  demonstrates  better  than  any  general  acknowl- 
edgement how  thoroughly  and  in  what  spirit  the  Director  and 
his  assistants  co-operate  with  the  members  of  this  Committee. 
Again  and  again  in  the  reports  mention  is  made  of  the  competent 
and  courteous  help  given  to  the  individual  members  both  in  the 
main  building  and  the  branch  libraries, 

FINANCE  AND  BOOKS 
As  the  circulation  of  books  to  the  public  is  the  lif  eblood  of  the 
Library  and  the  reason  for  its  existence,  this  Committee  renews 
with  increased  emphasis  the  recommendations  made  by  former 
Committees  that  the  situation  as  to  the  book  stock  of  the  branches 
should  be  seriously  considered  and  action  taken.  It  urges  a 
larger  percentage  of  the  city  funds  for  the  purchase  of  books 
but,  fully  realizing  the  financial  situation  in  which  the  city  finds 
itself,  it  is  not  suggesting  an  increase  in  the  total  city  appropri- 
ation but  a  possible  return  to  the  proportional  distribution  of 
funds  that  was  found  desirable  in  earlier  years.  During  the 
seven  years,   1926-32,  eighty-five  cents  of  each  dollar  of  city 


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appropriations  for  salaries  and  books  was  spent  for  salaries, 
fifteen  cents  for  books;  during  the  six  years,  1933-38,  ninety- 
two  cents  for  salaries,  eight  cents  for  books;  during  the  current 
year,  ninety-five  cents  for  salaries,  five  cents  for  books. 

In  presenting  these  dramatic  figures  no  criticism  is  offered  to 
the  reduction  of  money  appropriated  for  books  in  the  first  years 
of  the  shortage  of  funds  as  it  may  be  necessary  temporarily  to 
save  the  book  account  in  order  to  avoid  losses  from  a  valuable 
personnel  but  if  the  book  collections  decrease  in  quality  and 
quantity,  the  use  falls  off  and  the  balance  of  the  total  appropri- 
ation is  impaired.  Therefore,  this  Committee  urges  a  careful 
study  of  the  proper  relationship  between  the  size  of  the  book  and 
salary  appropriations. 

City  appropriations  for  the  purchase  of  books  have  been  ap- 
plied principally  to  the  branch  libraries.  The  collections  in  the 
central  library  are  maintained  chiefly  from  trust  funds  whose 
relative  stability  has  kept  accessions  at  a  more  normal  level  than 
has  been  possible  in  the  branches.  The  Committee  has  in  this 
connection  three  suggestions: 

(1)  That  such  proportion  of  the  available  trust  funds  as  would 
not  prejudice  the  position  of  the  central  collections  might  be  used 
to  bring  the  purchase  of  types  of  material,  books,  and  periodicals 
in  the  past  acquired  from  city  funds  to  a  better  level. 

(2)  That  w^ith  increased  funds  for  scholarly  books,  efforts  be 
continued  to  avoid  unnecessary  duphcation  between  the  Library 
and  other  research  libraries  in  the  Metropolitan  area  and  that  a 
division  of  fields  of  interest  be  adopted  by  the  libraries  concerned. 

(3)  That  w^ith  the  limited  funds  available  for  buying  books  a 
stricter  supervision  should  be  considered  at  the  entrance  to  the 
central  library.  From  the  experience  of  similar  Hbraries  a  turnstile 
and  guard  at  the  door  reduces  the  loss  of  thousands  of  books.  Also 
spring  locks  are  recommended  for  the  doors  of  the  stack  to  reserve 
the  use  of  the  books  to  authorized  members  of  the  staff. 

In  1929  the  total  sum  expended  for  books,  periodicals,  and 
newspapers  was  $141,829.  In  1938  the  comparable  expendi- 
ture was  only  $73,400,  a  difference  of  nearly  fifty  per  cent. 
Municipal  economy  is  imperative  but  your  Committee  questions 
v.hether  the  upkeep  of  a  library  without  an  adequate  stock  of 


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books  is  true  economy  and  whether  such  economy,  as  far  as  the 
branch  libraries  are  concerned,  cannot  be  compared  in  some 
degree  to  economies  in  legitimate  welfare. 

The  situation  is  serious  especially  in  the  branches  which  serve 
the  less  prosperous  sections  of  the  city.  The  book  stock  is  in  a 
distressing  condition.  The  total  number  of  volumes  is  smaller 
than  it  was  five  years  ago  and  many  of  the  books  are  so  worn  and 
soiled  as  to  discourage  reading.  This  is  especially  true  of  chil- 
dren's books.  Many  standard  works  cannot  be  replaced  or  re- 
paired or  new  copies  acquired.  An  effort  is  being  made  by  a 
member  of  the  Committee  to  collect  children's  books  from 
friends.  It  is  suggested  that  if  a  list  of  such  needed  books  could 
be  published  in  the  newspapers  many  would  be  sent  in  as  the  fact 
that  they  were  wanted  for  children  would  appeal  to  a  large 
public. 

For  a  century  the  policy  of  the  Boston  Public  Library  has 
been  to  "provide  books  that  the  people  want  to  read  while  they 
are  new  and  as  many  copies  as  desired."  Are  we  departing  from 
that  policy  at  a  time  when  particularly  in  the  branch  libraries 
the  printed  v/ord  is  being  brought  to  the  unemployed,  the  un- 
educated and  the  foreign  bom  to  whom  this  source  of  information 
must  be  made  fully  available  if  the  American  form  of  democratic 
government  is  to  endure?  The  work  done  by  the  branches 
gives  2in  efficient  tool  for  adult  education  and  is  an  indispensable 
adjunct  to  our  public  school  system. 

BUILDINGS  AND  EQUIPMENT 

Here  there  is  presented  verbatim  the  report  of  the  Sub-Com- 
mittee on  Buildings  and  Equipment. 

"The  province  of  this  committee  might  easily  extend  far,  but 
probably  its  greatest  influence  lies  in  discussing  each  year  some 
one  topic  that  happens  to  interest  its  members,  and  this  year  it 
may  well  be  the  arrangement  and  future  development  of  the 
central  building  in  Copley  Square. 

"A..S  originally  planned  and  constructed  the  space  in  the  build- 
ing was  carefully  divided  between  three  distinct  objects,  which 
were  kept  completely  separate.   These  were  the  use  by  the  pub- 


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lie,  by  the  staff,  and  for  the  storage  of  books.  In  general,  though 
varying  somewhat  on  different  floors,  the  public  was  intended 
to  use  the  north  and  east  sides  of  the  quadrangle  and  the  staff 
the  southeast  corner,  leaving  for  the  stack  the  southwest  part. 
In  fact  the  stack  began  close  behind  the  delivery  desk,  and  ran 
unbroken  around  the  comer  until  it  ended  in  the  middle  of  the 
western  wall.  This  plan  of  keeping  the  three  functions  of  the 
Library  spacially  separate  is  far  from  unimportant,  but  it  has 
been  not  a  little  broken  down  by  subsequent  changes  and  en- 
largements. This  is  especially  true  of  the  stack,  which  in  a  h- 
brary  that  does  not,  and  probably  cannot,  allow  readers  to  work 
with  some  freedom  among  the  shelves,  should  be  kept  apart,  and 
should  never  become  —  as  it  inevitably  is  too  much  to-day  —  a 
thoroughfare  between  different  parts  of  the  building. 

"Since  there  is  a  general  belief  that  when  the  city  can  afford 
it  the  central  library  will  need  enlargement  the  changes  ought 
to  be  very  carefully  planned  with  a  view  to  the  best  distribution 
of  space  and  the  possibility  of  still  further  growth  in  the  stack. 
This  requires  all  the  more  thought  because  the  ornamental  parts 
of  the  present  structure  —  the  outside  facades  and  the  public 
portions  of  the  interior — must  be  scrupulously  pre3ei*ved.  The 
alterations  and  additions  needed,  even  when  not  immediately 
probable,  should  be  constantly  in  the  thoughts  of  the  Director 
and  his  staff,  as  in  fact  they  are;  and  it  would  be  well  for 
them  to  make  tentative  plans  from  time  to  time.  For  that  pur- 
pose, and  for  the  other  reasons,  the  committee  would  suggest 
that  complete  detailed  sets  of  blue  prints  of  the  past  and  present 
internal  arrangements  of  the  building  should  at  all  times  be  avail- 
able at  the  Library  where  the  Director  and  Trustees  can  consult 
them. 

"Meanwhile  not  a  little  can  be  done  to  improve  the  distri- 
bution of  the  space  in  the  present  building;  but,  of  course,  that 
means  catering  to  the  needs  of  some  departments  by  curtailing 
the  luxury  of  others,  a  proceeding  that  will  inevitable  cause  com- 
plaint ;  but  no  activity  of  the  Library  has  a  vested  right  to  room 
that  can  be  better  used,  and  the  Director  should  be  encouraged 
to  allocate  the  space  afresh  when  improvement  in  its  use  can  thus 


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be  made.  Perhaps  some  temporary  relief  might  be  obtained 
without  additional  expense  to  the  city  by  using  for  the  office  of 
the  Branch  Libraries  and  for  certain  other  activities  some  school- 
house  abandoned  by  reason  of  the  diminution  in  the  number  of 
children  in  the  older  parts  of  Boston. 

"From  the  point  of  view  of  good  city  finance  we  have  another 
suggestion  to  make :  Repairs,  for  example,  on  the  fast  deteriorat- 
ing tiled  roof  should  not  be  allowed  to  become  in  arrears  and 
thus  force  general  renovation  at  large  expense.  Such  cautions 
become  insistent  when,  instead  of  trusting  to  indefinite  future 
growth,  the  city  —  now  suffering  from  a  deficit  —  must  look 
forward  to  a  stationary  population  and  perhaps  diminishing 
revenues  from  taxation." 

STAFF    FACILITIES 

When  the  city  can  afford  the  much  needed  enlargement  of  the 
central  library  careful  plans  should  already  have  been  developed 
for  further  growth  in  the  stack  and  the  relief  of  the  grave  state 
of  staff  facilities  which  have  been  crowded  out  by  the  enormous 
extension  of  stack  space.  Since  1895  the  collection  of  books 
has  increased  over  two  and  a  half  times  and  the  personnel  has 
been  enlarged  from  1 72  to  the  present  roster  of  406.  The  drink- 
ing water,  eating  quarters,  lounges,  locker  rooms,  rest  rooms, 
medical  supplies  and  toilets  are  far  below  standard  requirements 
and  inadequate,  unattractive,  and  unsanitary. 

Until  the  new  plans  can  be  carried  out  several  years  must 
pass.  We  should  not  ask  the  personnel  of  the  Library  to  suffer 
such  conditions  a  day  longer  than  necessary. 

Your  Committee  urges  the  following  general  recommenda- 
tions in  order  to  raise  the  standard  to  that  required  by  the  Com- 
monwealth for  Industrial  Establishments  and  by  the  Boston 
Building  Law  where  persons  are  employed. 

( 1 )  That  certain  departments  be  moved  to  other  quarters  to  re- 
lieve pressure  and  allow  for  re-allocations  such  as  branch  head- 
quarters, binding,  newspaper  reading  room. 

(2)  That  rest  rooms  and  lounges  be  cleared  of  lockers  and  new 
locker  space  with  adequate  modern  toilets  be  located  near  the  point 
of  entrance  for  the  staff. 


[27] 

(3)       That  the  whole  problem  of  drinking  water  and  the  storing 
and  eating  of  food  be  investigated  and  solved. 

These  and  other  recommendations  in  detail  arc  on  file  for  ex- 
amination. 

With  full  realization  of  the  expense  these  changes  would 
bring,  we  feel  that  the  City  has  a  responsibility  to  its  employees 
as  well  to  the  public  which  they  serve.  We  demand  the  highest 
level  of  interest  and  effort  from  these  men  and  women  and  then 
compel  them  to  use  the  outmoded  equipment  which  our  building 
provides. 

Similar  recommendations  have  been  made  and  changes  urged 
with  increasing  emphasis  for  several  years.  This  Committee 
can  only  add  its  testimony  that  such  interior  conditions  in  con- 
trast to  the  beauty  and  dignity  of  the  outside  of  our  building 
deny  the  Library's  purpose  which  is  to  add  to  the  mental  and 
physical  health  of  the  people  in  the  City  of  Boston. 

This  Committee  is  fully  conscious  that  the  early  steps  neces- 
sary for  the  carrying  out  of  these  recommendations  are  being 
taken  by  the  Trustees  as  rapidly  as  the  conditions  permit. 

CATALOGS 

The  amount  accomplished  toward  reclassifying  of  the  book 
collections  and  re-organizing  the  card  catalogs  during  several 
years  was  noted  in  this  Committee's  1938  report.  The  loss  of 
large  numbers  of  workers  trained  for  his  specific  work  raises  a 
serious  problem.  Should  it  be  impossible  to  bring  the  relief 
workers  back  now  lost  to  the  projects,  a  long  range  program  of 
re-organization  should  be  planned  within  the  regular  budget  of 
the  Library.  A  step  in  this  direction  has  been  the  decision  to 
catalog  and  classify  by  the  new  codes,  the  major  proportion  of 
new  accessions.  There  is  also  need  for  revision  of  the  records 
of  other  currently  useful  books  to  avoid  confusion  and  waste  of 
time. 

The  following  suggestions  given  in  detail  in  the  report  on  file 
relate  to  the  use  of  the  Bates  Hall  catalog: 

( 1 )       The   free   distribution   of   small   printed   leaflets    with    brief 
instructions  on  the  use  of  the  catalog  is  advised. 


[28] 

(2)  A  guide  card  should  be  inserted  in  each  catalog  tray  bearing 
notations  about  the  catalog,  especially  in  regard  to  the  meaning  of 
symbols  and  other  guides. 

(3)  The  development  is  advised  of  an  annotated  card  catalog 
of  books  on  topics  of  current  interest  based  on  a  "Selected  List  of 
Books"  appearing  in  MoRE  BoOKS.  Attractive  posters  in  the  Hall 
should  direct  readers  to  proper  sources  of  information  and  the  staff 
members  daily  and  at  special  times  should  observe  the  effect  of 
these  aids  on  the  timid  and  confused, 

(4)  The  public  school  officials  should  be  asked  to  check  up  on 
the  instruction  given  to  students  in  the  use  of  library  catalogs  and 
extend  such  instruction. 

CHILDREN'S  WORK  AND  WORK  WITH  SCHOOLS 

It  is  recommended  by  your  Committee  that  a  contact  service 
be  established  between  the  schools  and  the  branch  libraries 
which  serve  them.  Teachers  could  then  give  v/aming  to  the 
branch  librarians  of  the  assignments  of  reading  so  that  the  books 
might  be  collected  in  advance.  Also  the  campaign  by  the 
teachers  on  the  careful  use  of  books  could  be  pressed  and  fol- 
lowed up.  In  this  way  the  loss  and  defacing  of  books  could  be 
further  reduced. 

The  curtailment  of  the  delivery  of  books  to  the  class  room 
is  only  one  example  of  the  great  need  for  more  books  in  every 
branch  of  the  library  sytem.  Books  for  small  children  are  es- 
pecially needed  as  only  a  small  proportion  can  be  replaced  or 
acquired. 

The  Children's  Room  in  the  central  library  needs  an  over- 
hauling of  the  electric  lights  to  make  reading  easier  and  save  cur- 
rent. Complaints  about  the  lighting  in  the  older  branches  are 
frequent  and  the  v/hole  m.atter  is  of  such  importance  in  the  chil- 
dren's case  that  it  is  suggested  that  an  expert  be  employed  to  re- 
port on  the  question.  Year  after  year  your  Committee  finds 
many  instances  of  inefficient  lighting.  It  is  as  necessary  to  have 
light  by  which  books  may  be  read  without  injury  to  the  reader 
as  to  make  provision  for  the  books  themselves. 

The  Cronan  "Story  Hour"  continues  to  be  successful  and  the 
librarians  report  great  increase  of  attendance  after  each  occasion. 
The  number  of  Story  Hours  has  been  curtailed  and  it  is  sug- 
gested that  they  be  restored  as  a  wise  investment. 


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Serious  overcrowding  in  the  children's  rooms  in  rented  quarters 
has  been  reported.  In  some  cases  a  move  has  been  made  to 
larger  quarters  where  the  rent  was  no  greater.  Your  Committee 
suggests  that  such  changes  should  be  considered  in  such  other 
cases  when  possible. 

USE  OF  THE  LIBRARY  AND  PUBLICITY 

The  reports  of  many  of  the  sub-committees  begin  and  end 
with  the  absolute  necessity  of  correcting  the  situation  in  regard 
to  the  funds  for  books  for  the  branch  libraries.  In  this  respect 
careful  consideration  needs  to  be  given  to  the  increasing  in- 
equalities in  the  proportions  of  the  expenditures  for  books,  re- 
pairs, and  salaries.  From  whatever  point  of  view  the  library 
system  is  regarded,  it  becomes  evident  that  the  reason  for  the 
existence  of  a  public  library  is  being  denied  if  it  can  no  longer 
fulfil  its  prime  function  —  the  purchase  and  distribution  of  books. 
The  approximate  purchase  of  books  for  the  branch  libraries  is 
$20,000  less  than  for  the  last  two  years.  The  branches  will  be 
more  than  ever  hampered  in  the  replacement  of  worn  out  books 
and  the  purchase  of  new  ones.  The  Committee  hopes  that  the 
Trustees  may  be  able  to  bring  to  the  attention  of  the  city  officials 
the  fact  that  if  the  Library  fails  to  maintain  its  pre-eminent  po- 
sition, the  reputation  of  the  city  itself  will  suffer. 

The  situation  can  be  improved  by  full  use  of  every  means  by 
which  the  needs  and  services  of  the  Library  are  brought  to  the 
attention  of  the  public.  The  Director  and  his  staff  are  doing  all 
in  their  power  toward  this  end  when  the  means  at  their  disposal 
are  considered.  Your  Committee  hopes  that  it  may  be  possible 
to  give  the  many  interesting  activities  and  human  happenings 
within  the  Library  system  more  publicity  in  the  newspapers. 
When  a  substantial  sum  can  be  set  aside  for  the  purpose,  recom- 
mendations made  by  former  sub-committees  should  be  carried 
out,  but  even  now  measures  can  be  taken  to  inform  the  public 
that  the  Library  will  welcome  donations  of  money  and  books. 
The  Committee  was  told  that  an  ex-fireman  had  made  a  small 
bequest  to  the  Library  in  his  will.  The  whole  story  would  make 
interesting   reading   and  if  the   public  knew   of  such   bequests 


[30] 

others  would  be  encouraged  lo  follow  such  an  example.  The 
Committee  recommends  that  the  Library  have  stamped  on  its 
publications  a  short  dignified  request  for  gifts  of  libraries,  money, 
and  books  beginning  with  its  insertion  in  More  Books  m  order 
that  the  effect  may  be  studied  before  proceeding  to  more  ex- 
tensive action. 

Complaints  have  been  made  in  the  branch  libraries  of  lack  of 
police  protection  when  disturbances  arise.  The  Library  as  a 
public  institution  has  every  right  to  police  protection  and  it  is 
recommended  that  the  matter  be  taken  up  with  the  Police  Com- 
missioner himself.  Another  point  the  Committee  wishes  to  make 
is  the  need  for  care  in  the  placing  of  books  on  the  open  shelves. 
It  is  felt  that  a  standard  of  good  taste  should  be  insisted  upon  as 
the  shelves  are  open  to  minors,  particularly  those  of  high  school 
age. 

BRANCH   LIBRARIES 

The  branch  libraries  serve  a  city  population  that  is  continual- 
ly shifting  and  by  reason  of  these  changes  the  regional  distri- 
bution of  our  branches  is  not  at  present  sound.  The  branches 
occupy  our  own  buildings,  municipal  buildings  and  rented  build- 
ings. It  is  suggested  that  where  the  building  is  rented  changes 
could  be  made  to  cover  the  whole  region  more  logically  and  bring 
better  service  to  the  people  who  need  it  most. 

Since  the  height  of  the  depression  their  has  been  a  steady  fall- 
ing off  in  the  borrowing  of  books  from  the  branch  libraries.  A 
considerable  volume  of  opinion  links  this  falling  off  with  the  lack 
of  books. 

Your  Committee  finds  the  greatest  need  among  the  branches 
as  in  other  departments  of  the  Library  is  for  BOOKS.  Children's 
books  are  urgently  needed  at 

Boylston  Codman  Square  Fellowes  Athenaeum 

Lower  Mills  Mt.  Pleasant  Neponset 

North  End  South  Boston  Uphams  Corner 

Books  of  all  kinds  are  particularly  needed  at 

Andrew  Square  Brighton  Charlestown 

Dorchester  East  Boston  Hyde  Park 

Lower  Mills  Mattapan  Memorial 

Phillips  Brooks 


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Hyde  Park  needs  books  on  the  useful  arts,  Uphams  Comer 
asks  for  books  on  the  mechanical  trades,  Mt.  Bowdoin  is  in 
need  of  an  additional  encyclopedia.  The  North  End  Branch 
wants  Italian  books.  In  every  case  the  NEED  FOR  MORE  BOOKS 
cannot  be  too  greatly  stressed. 

In  connection  with  this  recommendation  it  is  to  be  pointed  out 
that  the  losses  of  books  from  the  branch  libraries  have  been  re- 
duced in  the  last  five  years  from  12,000  to  7,000.  Owing  to 
the  excellent  work  in  following  up  the  persons  who  caused  the 
loss  of  the  books,  the  condition  is  being  gradually  corrected. 

The  other  two  major  needs  in  many  branches  is  for  better 
lighting  and  interior  painting.  The  Memorial  Branch  has  not 
been  painted  since  1926  as  neither  the  Library  nor  the  School 
Board  are  apparently  able  to  assume  the  expense.  Recommen- 
dation for  better  lighting  and  other  matters  in  detail  are  on  file 
in  reports  on  the  branches  by  members  of  your  Commitee  who 
wish  to  bear  witness  to  the  extraordinary  understanding  and 
sympathy  with  the  needs  of  the  people  in  their  communities 
manifested  by  the  branch  library  staffs. 

SPECIAL  DEPARTMENTS 

The  findings  of  the  Committee  on  Special  Departments  are 
on  file  for  examination  in  detail.  Your  Committee  quotes  from 
their  excellent  report  the  recommendations  in  connection  with 
the  Fine  Arts  Department,  the  Teachers'  Department,  the  Rare 
Book  Department  and  the  Music  Department,  also  the  Science 
and  Technology  Department  and  the  Statistical  Department. 

Fine  Arts  Department.  The  physical  condition  of  these 
rooms  is  not  satisfactory.  The  West  Gallery  is  dirty  and  the 
paint  on  the  walls  of  the  out-of-town  end  of  the  Fine  Arts  Read- 
ing Room  is  peeling  and  dropping  off.  The  West  Gallery  is 
crowded.  It  is  much  used  by  students  and  during  the  school 
year  by  groups  of  students  from  the  private  schools.  The  space 
at  present  in  the  Gallery  has  been  reduced  by  the  W.  P.  A. 
timekeepers  and  by  the  collecting  and  distributing  agent  of  the 
bindery.  When  possible  this  space  should  be  restored  to  the 
Fine  Arts  Department.     There  is  no  set  place  ft)r  exhibits  and 


[32] 

it  is  suggested  that  the  Department  work  in  concert  with  the  Mu- 
seum of  Fine  Arts  and  Fogg  Museum,  so  that  the  impact  upon 
the  public  of  a  definite  project  be  strengthened. 

Teachers'  Department.  The  Teachers*  Department  designed 
for  reference  and  research  by  teachers  is  well  supplied  with  ma- 
terial and  used  effectively.  The  shelf  room  is  insufficient,  and 
as  the  valuable  A.dams  Collection  of  old  books  is  at  present  tak- 
ing up  nearly  one-half  of  the  available  shelf  space,  this  should 
be  corrected  if  possible.  The  lighting  and  ventilation  of  this  De- 
partment are  not  good.  Readers  have  great  difficulty  in  seeing 
the  titles  on  the  lower  shelves.  This  condition  is  partly  due  to 
two  fine  canvasses  on  the  ceiling  which  absorb  and  interfere  with 
the  reflecting  of  the  lights.  The  ventilation  is  obtained  only  by 
opening  windows  with  resultant  drafts.  The  room  is  often  too 
hot  (sometimes  78°  F)  which  is  equally  bad  for  readers  and 
books. 

Rare  Book  Department.  The  present  Reading  Room  for 
the  Rare  Book  Department  has  to  be  used  as  in  other  cases 
throughout  the  building  as  a  passage  to  the  stacks.  The  present 
stacks  for  the  valuable  books  are  not  adequate  as  they  are 
of  the  open  steel  shelving  made  with  no  tops  and  backs  and  dust 
sifts  down  upon  them  from  above.  Such  shelving  might  be  kept 
covered  by  a  dust  curtain  until  better  storage  is  provided,  and 
some  careful  person  chosen  to  keep  these  shelves  and  alcoves  as 
free  from  dirt  as  possible. 

Music  Department.  The  situation  in  the  Music  Department 
is  at  a  standstill.  Its  location  is  against  the  use  of  the  room  for 
serious  study,  as  it  is  the  thoroughfare  to  the  Rare  Book  De- 
partment, which  makes  it  noisy  and  distracting. 

Science  &  Technology  Department  &  Statistical  Depart- 
ment. The  physical  facilities  in  the  Science  and  Technology 
Department  are  impaired  by  the  fact  that  the  card  catalog  is 
kept  in  a  different  room  from  the  reading  room  and  the  reading 
room  is  combined  with  that  of  the  Fine  Arts  Department.  A 
separate  room  for  applied  science  is  suggested  where  workers 
could  get  books  and  current  literature  which  would  improve  their 
technical  skills  and  make  them  better  workmen.  A  substantial  in- 


[33] 

crease  is  reported  in  the  reading  of  books  dealing  with  skilled 
labor.  If  this  fact  is  an  indication  of  a  general  trend  it  means 
that  this  Department  serv^es  a  very  useful  purpose  in  furthering 
education  among  workers  and  supplementing  the  training  af- 
forded by  our  public  schools. 

It  is  noted  in  the  Statistical  Department  that  the  books  are 
kept  on  open  shelves  which  is  not  the  case  in  the  Science  and 
Technology  Department.  In  pursuing  research  in  a  technical 
field  or  at  an  advanced  level  a  reader  is  much  aided  by  inspect- 
ing volumes  the  titles  of  which  he  may  not  know  and  others  he 
may  want  to  look  over  rapidly  before  making  up  his  mind  to  take 
out  the  book.  The  open  shelves  on  the  second  floor  are  not  so 
convenient  to  handle  because  there  are  few  reading  desks  and 
the  light  on  this  floor  is  poor.  In  all  the  important  contemporary 
fields  this  Department  fills  a  great  need  in  an  excellent  manner 
but  it  could  be  richer  in  the  orthodox  and  classical  treatises  of  an 
older  date  and  in  foreign  material. 

Business  Branch.  As  in  previous  reports  the  congestion  of 
the  Business  Branch  is  emphasized  —  a  condition  that  interferes 
with  the  usefulness  of  this  branch.  It  is  recommended  that  either 
the  Business  Branch  should  have  more  space  in  the  building  or 
that  some  considerable  proportion  of  the  back  files  be  moved 
into  some  other  space  to  make  room  available  to  readers. 

CONCLUSION 

The  minimum  requisites  for  a  public  or  any  other  library  are 
books,  a  roof  to  shelter  the  books,  and  personnel  to  care  for, 
handle  and  distribute  books.  The  crying  needs  of  our  Boston 
Library  may  be  taken  in  this  logical  order. 

We  must  have  books  or  we  deny  the  cause  of  the  Library's 
existence,  we  must  have  an  adequate  roof  and  space  in  our  build- 
ing and  we  must  so  manage  our  resources  that  the  health  and 
spirit  of  our  staff  are  not  impaired  through  impossible  conditions 
of  crov/ding  and  lack  of  ordinary  standards  of  sanitation. 

The  suggestions  are  reiterated  by  your  Committee  that  even 
with  the  need  for  rigid  economy  we  should  have  more  books  in 
the  branch  libraries,  that  some  of  the  activities  now  functioning 


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in  the  main  building  should  be  housed  elsewhere,  and  that  the 
staff  facilities  should  be  improved. 

Adopted  as  the  report  of  the  Examining  Committee,  Novem- 
ber 20,  1939. 

Elizabeth  W.  Perkins,   Vice  Chairman 


Katherine  Abbott 
Philip  J.  Bond 
Robert  Cutler 
Albert   Ehrenfried 
Henry  E.  Foley 
Allan  Forbes 
Susan  J.  Ginn 
Arthur  L.  Gould 
Burnelle  G.  Hawkins 
Herman  H.  Henkle 
John  S.  Keating 
Arthur  L.  Kinsolving 
Rosamond  B.  Loring 
A.  Lawrence  Lowell 
John  L.  Lowes 
John  W.  Lowes 
Keyes  D.  Metcalf 
George  N.  Northrop 


Phillips  E.  Osgood 
Charles  E,  Park 
Hester  Pickman 
Abraham  E.  Pinanski 
Richard  J.  Quinlan 
WilHam  K.  Richardson 
B.  M.  Selekman 
Harlow  Shapley 
Margaret  H.  ShurcHff 
Russell  H.  Stafford 
Polly   r.  Starr 
Trances  1  omasello 
John  P.  Vaccaro 
Henry  R.  Viets 
Laurence  Winship 
Mary  W.  Winslow 
Charles  E,  Wyzanski,  Jr. 
Amy  B,  Young 


[35] 


REPORT  OF  THE  DIRECTOR 

To  THE  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library 
OF  THE  City  of  Boston: 

I  submit  herewith  the  report  of  the  Director  of  the  Library 
for  the  year  ending  December  31,   1 939. 

SCOPE  of   IHE  REPORT 

In  various  quarters  concern  is  being  expressed  over  the  mount- 
ing expenditures  for  personnel  in  the  Library  during  the  last 
ten  years.  A  total  expenditure  for  personnel  which  in  1 929  was 
approximately  three  quarters  of  a  million  dollars  annually  has 
increased  in  ten  years  time  to  be  slightly  over  one  million  dollars 
in  1939. 

Such  a  sum  is  so  large  in  itself  and  bulks  so  large  (approxi- 
mately 84%  in  1939)  in  the  total  annual  expenditure  of  the 
Library  for  all  purposes  that  a  careful  survey  of  what  has  been 
happening  over  the  ten  year  period  appears  clearly  necessary. 
This  report  will  therefore  be  devoted  entirely  to  such  a  survey. 

The  presentation  will  be  along  the  following  lines: 

I.   Introductory  Statement. 

Increasing  Expenditures  for  Salaries  and  Wages  from 
1930  to  1939  Inclusive,  (pp.  37-38) 

II.  Increase  in  Personnel  Cost  Arising  Out  of  Salary  In- 
creases, (pp.  38—60) 

Salary  Increases,  (pp.  38-47) 

Up  to  June  4.  1937.  (pp.  38-41) 

As  of  June  4.  1937.  (pp.  41-44) 

As  of  June  3,  1938.  (pp.  44^6) 

IntheYear  1939.  (pp.  46-47) 
Status  of  Salaries  in  the  Boston  Public  Library  as  of 

December  31.  1939.  (pp.  48-51) 
Why  Are  There  So  Many  Individuals  in  the  Library 

To  Receive  Step  Rate  Increases  in  Pay?  (pp.51- 

57) 


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How  Long  Will  It  Take  to  Stabilize  the  Level  of 
Salaries  and  Wages  in  the  Library?  (pp.  57-59) 

Summary  of  the  Salary  Situation  in  the  Library, 
(pp.  59-60) 

III.  Increase  in  Personnel  Cost  Arising  Out  of  Increased  or 
Rearranged  Activities,   (pp.  60—72) 

Distribution  of  Personnel,  (pp.  60-61) 
Distinction  Between  Regular  Service  and  Extra  Ser- 
vice, (pp.  61-62) 
Cost  and  Number  of  Personnel,  (pp.  62-63) 
Total  Personnel,  1930-1939.  (p.  62) 
Full-Time  Personnel,  1930-1939.  (p.  63) 
Extra  Service  Personnel,  1930-1939.   (p.  63) 
Summary  of  Changes  in  Number  of  Personnel,  1 930- 

1939.  (p.64) 
Distribution  of  the  Increase  in  Full-Time  Personnel, 
1930-1939.  (pp.64-68) 
Decrease  in  Full-Time  Personnel  of  the  Director's 

Office,  (p.  65) 
Increase  in  Full-Time  Personnel  of  the  Division  of 

Business  Operations,  (p.  66) 
Increase  in  Full-Time  Personnel  of  the  Circulation 

Division,   (pp.  66-67) 
Increase  in  Full-Time  Personnel  of  the  Reference 
Division,  (pp.  67—68) 
Flas  the  Executive  Force  Been  Unduly  Expanded? 

(pp.  68-69) 
Has  There  Been  an  Over-Staffing  of  the  Library? 

(pp.  69-72) 
Summary  of  the  Number  of  Personnel  in  the  Library, 
(p.  72) 

IV.  Conclusions,  (pp.  73-74) 

V.  Recommendations,   (pp.  74-77) 


[37] 

I. 

INTRODUCTORY  STATEMENT 

INCREASING    EXPENDITURES   FOR   SALARIES   AND   WAGES 
FROM  1930  TO  1939  INCLUSIVE 

From  1930  to  1939  inclusive  the  Library's  expenditures  for 
salaries  and  wages  have  been  as  follows : 

For  the  year  ending  December  31.    1939     .  .     $1,032,696.19 

For  the  year  ending  December  31,    1929     .  .  770.367.26 


Increase   in   annual   expenditure    .  .  .  .     $    262,228.93 

This  is  an  increase  of  34%.  It  is  attributable  in  the  main  to  two 
factors : 

( 1  )  increases  In  individual  salaries  —  salary  increases  as 
granted  year  by  year  during  the  period  from  1930  to  1939 
inclusive  amounted  cumulatively  by  the  end  of  1939  to 
$219,323.88  per  year  in  the  gross; 

(2)  increases  and  adjustments  in  the  activities  of  the  Library 
—  increased  or  rearranged  activities  necessitated  the  employment 
by  the  Library  of  105  more  full-time  workers  in  1939  than 
in  1929;  at  the  entering  rate  of  $20.00  per  week  ($1040.00 
per  year)  the  salary  cost  for  these  1 05  full-time  workers  cumu- 
lated to  $109,200.00  (105  X  $1040.00)  additional  per  year 
in  the  gross. 

Both  of  the  above  large  amounts  are  gross  figures.  Together 
they  total  $332,155.99,  as  compared  with  the  net  figure  of 
$262,228.93  given  above.  Obviously  gross  figures  serve  only 
in  general  illustration  of  what  has  been  happening,  as  many  fac- 
tors act  to  reduce  them.  For  example,  an  Assistant  who  has 
reached  the  maximum  of  his  grade  at  $37.00  per  week  may  re- 
sign. If  the  vacancy  is  to  be  filled,  it  is  by  the  appointment  of  a 
Probationary  Assistant  at  the  entering  rate  of  $20.00  per  week. 
Or  a  Children's  Librarian  receiving  $39.00  per  week  may  re- 
sign. The  individual  who  is  subsequently  promoted  to  the  posi- 
tion begins  in  it  at  the  prevailing  minimum,  which  at  present  is 
$32.00  pyer  week.  Likewise,  for  example,  the  addition  of  the 


[38] 

1 05  full-time  workers  mentioned  above  was  offset  by  a  decrease 
in  the  number  of  part-time  workers  to  the  equivalent  of  20  full- 
time  workers,  so  that  the  net  additional  cost  was  actually  that 
for  85  full-time  workers  rather  than  105.  Even  so,  gross  figures 
such  as  the  above  must  be  given  in  order  to  show  from  what  the 
reduced  net  figures  have  com.e.  For  the  actual  net  figures  of  in- 
crease in  the  expenditures  for  personnel  year  by  year  from  1 930 
to  1939,  see  Appendix  D  on  pages  90-91  below. 

Both  these  gross  figures  and  the  net  figure  as  given  above 
indicate  that  it  has  been  rather  more  because  of  increases  in 
individual  salaries  than  because  of  increase  in  the  number  of 
individuals  employed  that  the  increase  in  expenditure  for  per- 
sonnel has  become  by  the  end  of  1939  annually  $262,228.93 
greater  than  at  the  end  of  1 929. 

Each  of  these  elements  entering  into  the  increasing  cost  of 
personnel  from  1930  to  1939  inclusive  merits  careful  examin- 
ation. 

II. 

INCREASE  OF  PERSONNEL  COST  ARISING 
OUT  OF  SALARY  INCREASES 

SALARY  INCREASES  UP  TO  JUNE  4.  1937 

Up  to  June  4,  1937  the  level  of  salaries  for  library  workers 
in  the  Boston  Public  Library  was  widely  recognized  as  un- 
desirably low.  In  as  many  instances  as  not  entering  salaries  were 
$11.00  and  $12.00  per  week  for  high  school  graduates  and 
$15.00  per  week  for  college  graduates.  A  library  school  gradu- 
ate might  under  certain  circumstances  be  fortunate  enough  to  re- 
ceive $20.00  per  week  at  entrance.  More  often  his  or  her  begin- 
ning rate  was  no  more  than  $15.00  per  week,  the  same  as  for 
college  graduates  with  no  library  school  training  at  all.  Obviously 
few  library  school  graduates  were  interested  in  beginning  at 
$15.00  per  week  in  the  Boston  Public  Library.  The  average 
beginning  rate  in  general  for  graduates  of  the  School  of  Library 
Science  in  Simmons  College  was  approximately  $25.00  per 
week  ($1 300.00  per  year).  That  for  the  graduates  of  the  School 


[39] 

of  Library  Service  in  Columbia  University  was  frequently  as 
much  as  $30.00  per  week  ($1565.00  per  year). 

In  the  Boston  Public  Library  the  average  of  all  salaries  as 
of  June  1,  1929  was  the  low  figure  of  $1434.45  per  year 
($27.49  per  week)  ;  the  determination  of  this  average  included 
every  salary  from  the  lowest  to  the  highest.  The  following  table 
(see  also  Appendix  D  on  pages  1 00-1 03  below)  shows  the  wide 
extent  to  which  low  salaries  then  existed  in  1929  in  the  Boston 
Public  Library,  particularly  for  the  library  workers  as  compared 
with  the  mechanical  and  similar  workers: 


%  of  Total  No. 

%  of  Total  No.                      of  Mechanical 

Salary  Range 

o 

Library  Workers              and  Other  Workers 

Under  $15.00  per  week    . 

16.2%        ....         0.8% 

Under  $20.00  per  week    . 

27.8% 

25.07o 

Under  $25.00  per  week    . 

49.0% 

36.5% 

Under  $30.00  per  week    . 

73.3% 

40.6% 

Under  $35.00  per  week    . 

83.2% 

54.6% 

Under  $40.00  per  week    . 

89.3% 

62.1% 

Under  $45.00  per  week    . 

94.8% 

87.1% 

Under  $50.00  per  week    . 

96.7% 

95.2% 

From  $10.00  to  $14.99  per 

week 

16.2% 

0.8% 

From  $15.00  lo  $19.99  per 

week 

11.6% 

24.2% 

From  $20.00  to  $24.99  per 

week 

21.2% 

11.5% 

From  $25.00  }o  $29.99  per 

week 

24.3% 

4.1% 

From  $30.00  to  $34.99  per 

Week 

9.9% 

14.0% 

From  $35.00  to  $39.99  per 

week 

6.1% 

7.5% 

From  $40.00  to  $44.99  per 

week 

5.57« 

9.1% 

From  $45.00  to  $49.99  per 

wee 

'k       . 

1.9% 

9.17o 

A  clear  conclusion  is  to  be  drawn  from  these  figures  that  the 
workers  in  the  mechanical  and  similar  groups  had  already  in 
1929  a  preferred  position  as  compared  with  the  workers  in  the 
bibliolhecal  group. 

For  the  mechanical  workers  in  the  Library  wages  had  been 
stabilized  at  relatively  high  levels  by  1929.  The  wage  gains 
achieved  during  the  preceding  boom  years  by  similar  workers  in 
private  employ,  frequently  under  conditions  of  organized  labor, 
worked  to  the  benefit  of  those  in  city  employ  as  well.  Binders, 
printers,  engineers,  firemen,  watchmen,  carpenters,  painters,  elec- 
tricians, elevator  operators,  janitors,  laborers,  cleaners  in  the 
service  of  the  Library  were  all  paid  at  the  rates  generally  pre- 


[40] 

vailing  in  the  community,  and  ever  since  have  continued  to  be 
thus  relatively  well  paid. 

For  the  library  workers,  on  the  other  hand,  the  period  from 
1 929  to  1 936  inclusive  brought  little  improvement  in  their  rela- 
tively disadvantageous  status.  In  only  four  of  the  seven  years  were 
salary  increases  possible  in  appreciable  amount,  and  then  not  to 
the  widespread  extent  necessary  for  raising  the  average  level  (see 
Appendix  D  on  pages  1 00-1 03  below) .  Funds  were  never  avail- 
able to  an  extent  sufficient  to  permit  an  annual  increment  to  all 
bibliothecal  workers.  In  the  central  library  particularly  there 
was  an  appreciable  number  who  had  had  no  improvement  in 
remuneration  since  1927,  and  some  not  even  since  1926  or 
1925.  By  the  end  of  1936  seventy-eight  per  cent  (78%)  of  all 
the  bibliothecal  workers  in  the  entire  library  system  were  still 
receiving  less  than  $30.00  per  week.  And  even  as  many  as  3 1  % 
were  receiving  still  under  $20.00  per  week.  Janitors  on  the  other 
hand  were  and  had  been  receiving  $33.00.  Seven  eighths  of  the 
33  branch  librarians  —  who  were  in  charge  of  whole  buildings 
—  were  receiving  no  more  than  $41.00,  while  rank  and  file 
watchmen  and  firemen  were  being  paid  $41.50,  carpenters  and 
painters  $42.00,  binders  $43.00,  printers  $44.00,  engineers 
$48.00.  For  the  mechanical  workers  these  wage  levels  were  en- 
tirely proper  in  terms  of  prevailing  rates.  For  the  library  workers 
they  were  highly  inadequate  in  terms  of  the  nature  of  their  work 
and  the  preparation  necessary  for  it.  Unfortunately  there  were 
for  Hbrarians  no  higher  levels  existing  elsewhere  in  the  com- 
munity with  which  to  point  the  desirability  of  salary  improvement 
for  those  in  the  Boston  Public  Library.  On  the  other  hand,  in 
other  departments  of  the  City  of  Boston  service,  higher  levels 
of  remuneration  appeared  to  exist  for  work  which  appeared  to 
be  of  an  equivalent  nature  or  which  had  requirements  not  dis- 
similar. And  to  reach  these  higher  levels  step  by  step  there  ap- 
peared to  exist  in  these  other  city  departments  an  adequate 
provision  for  annual  increments  in  remuneration. 

It  was  against  such  a  background  as  this  that  the  budgetary 
allowance  for  the  personal  service  account  of  the  Library  for 
1936  was  found  to  be  not  sufficient  to  permit  other  than  highly 


141] 

limited  action  in  the  matter  of  step  rate  increases  in  pay  for  that 
year.  It  became  clear  that  special  attention  would  have  to  be 
given  to  effecting  improvement  in  the  situation.  The  Trustees 
appointed  a  special  committee  from  their  own  number  to  carry 
out  a  thorough  study  of  the  problem  and  present  findings  to  the 
city  administration.  A  group  of  the  less  well  paid  members  of 
the  bibliothecal  staff  organized  themselves  in  support  of  more 
adequate  remuneration.  Conditions  in  general  contributed  to  ac- 
tion looking  toward  improvement.  The  result  was  that  the  bud- 
getary allowance  as  established  for  1937  was  at  a  figure  to  per- 
mit improvement  to  an  appreciable  degree. 

SALARY  INCREASES  AS  OF  JUNE  4,  1937 

As  of  June  4,  1937  it  was  possible  for  the  first  time  to  take 
action  on  a  widespread  basis  for  the  improvement  of  the  general 
salary  level  in  the  Library.  This  was  carried  out  along  two  lines : 

( I  )  the  establishment  of  an  adequate  minimum  level  of  remuneration 
for  the  bibliothecal  workers; 

(2)  the  uniform  application  of  the  principle  of  an  annual  increment 
toward  certain  maxima  for  all  bibliothecal  workers  instead  of 
for  only  a  part  of  them  as  in  preceding  years. 

The  result  was  that  in  the  case  of  1 1 5  individuals  a  minimum  of 
$20.00  per  week  was  established  for  Assistants  or  Probationary 
Assistants  who  had  qualified  by  passing  the  required  Entrance 
Examinations  for  the  Graded  Service  of  the  Library,  and  that 
to  303  other  individuals  an  increase  of  $2.00  per  week  was  given 
toward  the  maxima  of  their  grades.  In  addition  there  was  given 
to  certain  individuals  a  further  increase  in  basic  pay  to  per- 
mit a  discontinuance  of  ihcir  extra  work  evenings,  in  substantial 
completion  of  the  program  initiated  in  1933  for  the  establish- 
ment of  the  shift  system  in  the  central  libraiy ;  further,  an  increase 
from  25  cents  to  30  cents  per  hour  was  established  in  the  mini- 
mum rate  of  pay  for  part-time  work.  In  all,  441  individual  full- 
time  workers  received  increases  in  remuneration  in  1937.  The 
extent  to  which  this  represented  action  on  a  widespread  basis  is 
shown  by  the  following  figures: 


[42] 


Year 
1932 
1933 
1934 
1935 
1936 
1937 


No.  of  Fuli-Time  Workers 
Receiving  Increases  in  Pay 

None 
None 

203 

173 

149 

441 


The  increases  granted  in  1937  ranged  from  $1.00  to  $5.00  per 
week.  One  individual  received  $1.00  per  v^eek,  331  received 
$2.00  per  vv^eek,  1 7  received  $3.00  per  week,  1 9  received  $4.00 
per  week,  and  73  received  $5.00  per  week.  The  cost  of  the  in- 
creases as  paid  on  a  12  months  basis  in  the  following  year  was 
$63,905.12;  for  the  remainder  of  1937  only.  $36,956.44. 

This  action  in  1937  was  primarily  for  the  benefit  of  the  lower 
paid  group  of  library  workers.  It  provided  first  for  lifting  the 
remuneration  of  the  lowest  paid  group  substantially  toward  a 
more  adequate  minimum.  It  gave  also  to  all  of  the  library  work- 
ers in  the  middle  remuneration  group  a  single  step  increase 
toward  the  maximum  of  their  grades.  It  did  not,  however,  make 
any  provision  for  this  middle  group  of  workers  by  way  of  adjust- 
ment for  the  long  period  of  preceding  years  when  frequently  not 
even  single  step  increases  had  been  available  to  large  numbers  of 
them  toward  long  overdue  improvement  in  their  remuneration. 
Nor  did  it  make  any  provision  for  the  upper  group  of  positions, 
since  these  were  already  reasonably  well  remunerated.  So  like- 
wise did  it  not  make  provision  for  the  mechanical  workers,  since 
they  had  been  relatively  well  paid  from  even  before  1 929. 

The  following  table  shows  the  distribution  of  the  library 
workers  by  salary  ranges  before  and  after  this  widespread  action 
of  1937  (see  also  Appendix  D  on  pages  100-103  below)  : 


Salary  Range 

From  $10.00  to  $14.99  per  week 
From  $15.00  to  $19.99  per  week 
From  $20.00  to  $24.99  per  week 
From  $25.00  to  $29.99  per  week 
From  $30.00  to  $34.99  per  week 

Under  $15.00  per   week 

Under  $20.00  per  week 

Under  $25.00  per   week 

Under  $30.00   per   week 

Under  $35.00  per   week 


%  of  Total  No.  %  of  Total  No. 

of  Library  Workers         of  Library  Workers 
as  of  December  3 1 .  1 936       as  of  June  4.  1937 


5.2% 
26.0% 
23.5% 
23.7% 

5.2% 

5.2% 
31.2% 
54.7% 
78.4% 
83.6% 


0.0% 

2.9% 
44.6% 
19.6% 
15.5% 

0.0% 

2.9% 
47.6% 
673% 
82.8% 


[43] 

The  above  figures  substantiate  clearly  that  the  basic  improve- 
ment accomplished  in  1937  was  for  the  lower  paid  group  of 
library  workers,  particularly  those  (31.2%  of  the  total  num- 
ber) who  had  been  paid  less  than  $20.00  per  week  prior  to 
1937.  Even  after  this  widespread  action  of  June  4,  1937,  how- 
ever, nearly  one  half  (47.6%)  of  the  total  number  of  library 
workers  still  received  under  $25.00  per  week. 

By  this  1937  action  the  average  of  the  salaries  in  the  Library 
was  increased  from  $1434.45  as  of  June  1,  1929  to  $1530.15 
as  of  June  4,  1937.  This  was  substantial  improvement.  Still,  of 
the  various  City  of  Boston  departments  for  which  comparable 
figures  were  readily  available  for  that  date,  the  Library  Depart- 
ment had  even  so  the  lowest  average  of  salaries,  as  shown  below 
(see  also  Appendix  D  on  page  106  below)  : 

AVERAGE  OF  SALARIES  IN  CITY  OF  BOSTON  DEPARTMEN  1 S 

JUNE.  1937 


1  ransit    Depailmcnt  . 

Law     Deparlment 

F"  inance   Commission  . 
School    Buildings    Department 

Treasury  Department  . 

Election   Department  . 

Building  Department  . 

School    Department  . 


Street   Laying-Out    Department    . 

Auditing  Department  . 

Weights   and   Measures    Department 

Boston    Traffic   Commission 

Park  Department,  Cemetery  Division 

Assessing    Department 

City    Clerk    Department 

Soldiers'   Relief    Department 
Collecting    Department 
Supply   Department 
Park    Department 
Library    Department    . 


$3,761.26 

2,962.53 
2,840.10 
2.729.90 
2,604.76 
2.597.62 
2.592.21 
2.537.80 

2.360.68 
2,313.94 
2.240.00 
2,124.70 
2,063.38 
2.020.17 
2,009.53 

1.925.65 
1,728.58 
1.718.60 
1 .690.43 
1.530.15 


In  addition  to  the  salary  adjustments  mentioned  above  a  fur- 
ther action  was  taken  in  the  Library  Department  in  1937  which 
was  perhaps  the  most  important  of  all  for  the  Library  for  the 
future.  This  was  the  announcement  of  the  establishment  as  of 


[44] 

Januar}'  1,  1938  of  a  new  Classification  of  Personnel,  with  a 
wide  program  of  Qualifying  Examinations  and  Promotional  Ex- 
aminations with  which  a  system  of  pay  increases  was  to  be  artic- 
ulated. The  new  examinations  were  to  be  obligatory  for  all  in- 
dividuals entering  the  library  service  after  Januaury  1 ,  1 938 ; 
as  a  voluntary  choice,  however,  for  those  in  the  library  service 
prior  to  that  date. 

Under  the  new  arrangements  the  old  system  of  automatic  step 
rate  increases  in  pay  was  to  be  abolished  for  all  individuals  en- 
tering the  library  service  after  January  1 ,  1 938.  In  its  stead 
there  was  to  be  established  a  new  system  of  promotional  increases 
(grade  increases),  to  be  granted  only  on  an  earned  basis  after 
measurement  by  specified  examinations  and  upon  recommenda- 
tion after  executive  evaluation.  The  old  system  of  automatic  step 
rate  increases  in  pay  would  thus  disappear  entirely  from  Boston 
Public  Library  practice  as  soon  as  all  of  the  individuals  in  the 
library  service  prior  to  January  1 ,  1 938  had  reached  the  max- 
ima of  their  grades. 

The  implications  of  these  new  arrangements  were  far-reaching 
for  the  development  of  the  library  staff  and  its  remuneration. 

SALARY  INCREASES  IN  1938 

In  1938  salary  increases  were  granted  on  a  uniform  step  rate 
basis  of  $2.00  per  week  for  each  individual  worker  who  was  not 
then  receiving  the  maximum  remuneration  for  his  grade,  with  the 
exception  of  those  individuals  who  were  already  being  paid 
$40.00  per  week  ($2100.00  per  year)  or  more.  To  this  latter 
group  of  36  individuals  increases  were  not  granted,  in  accordance 
with  the  practice  adopted  in  general  for  City  of  Boston  depart- 
ments for  1938.  With  this  exception,  however,  the  1938  action 
in  granting  salary  increases  in  the  Library  was  for  a  second  year 
on  a  widespread  basis,  just  as  had  been  the  case  in  1937.  In- 
creases of  $2.00  per  week  were  given  391  individuals  as  of  June 
3,  1938.  The  cost  of  these  as  paid  on  a  12  months  basis  in  the 
following  year  was  $41,290.24;  for  the  remainder  of  1938 
only,  $24,118.76. 

During  1938  the  same  group  of  the  lower  paid  members  of 


[45] 

the  bibliothecal  staff  who  had  organized  themselves  at  the  end 
of  1936  in  support  of  more  adequate  remuneration  requested 
that  in  addition  to  the  regular  step  rate  increases  in  pay  granted 
in  1938  special  action  should  be  taken  looking  toward  further 
improvement  in  the  remuneration  of  the  middle  group  of  workers, 
as  distinguished  from  the  lowest  paid  individuals  for  whom  spe- 
cial action  had  already  been  taken  in  1 937.  Its  proposal  was  that 
this  middle  group  be  divided  into  three  categories,  to  be  deter- 
mined primarily  in  terms  of  increasing  educational  qualifications 
and  length  of  service,  and  that  to  these  three  categories  there  then 
be  given  further  increases  of  $1.00,  $2.00,  and  $3.00  per  week 
respectively,  in  addition  to  the  regular  automatic  step  rate  in- 
creases to  be  granted  in  the  amount  of  $2.00  each.  Since  an  ap- 
preciable portion  of  the  library  workers  concerned  would  be  in- 
dividuals who  had  been  in  the  library  service  for  a  considerable 
period,  there  would  thus  be  brought  about  by  special  action  a 
substantial  step  toward  the  improvement  of  their  remuneration  as 
an  offset  to  the  long  period  during  which  many,  particularly  in 
the  central  library,  had  had  no  improvement  whatever  in  their 
relatively  low  remuneration.  It  v^^ould  permit  thus  a  partial  ad- 
justment in  their  remuneration  sooner  than  could  be  the  case  in 
having  to  proceed  over  a  period  of  6  to  8  years  by  annual  incre- 
ments of  $2.00  toward  the  maxima  of  their  grades.  The  cost  of 
such  special  action  would  be  approximately  $35,000.00  on  a 
12  months  basis. 

To  have  added  this  sum  of  $33,000.00  to  the  large  sum  of 
$41,000.00  necessary  for  the  regular  step  rate  increases  of 
$2.00  per  individual  as  mentioned  above  would  have  resulted 
in  a  total  cost  of  $76,000.00  for  salary  increases  for  the  year, 
as  compared  with  the  cost  of  the  1937  action  at  $63,905.12  on 
a  12  months  basis. 

In  view  of  the  large  cost  ($41 ,000.00)  of  merely  the  regular 
step  rate  increases  of  $2.00  per  individual,  on  the  same  basis  as 
that  prevailing  in  city  departments  in  general,  it  was  not  found 
possible  to  take  action  in  1 938  except  for  the  granting  of  these 
step  rate  increases.  1  he  financial  situation  of  the  City,  not  to 
mention  other  considerations,  put  out  of  question  an  additional 


[46] 

expenditure  of  $35,000.00  for  special  action  on  a  basis  such  as 
that  which  had  been  proposed. 

It  was  instead  suggested  that  under  the  new  arrangements  for 
the  classification  of  personnel  which  had  gone  into  effect  as  of 
January  1 ,  1 938  there  existed  already  in  the  provision  of  Quali- 
fying Examinations  and  Promotional  Examinations  an  oppor- 
tunity for  those  who  were  in  the  library  service  prior  to  January 
1 ,  1 938  to  demonstrate  by  voluntary  action  their  eligibility  for 
additional  remuneration  on  a  promotional  basis.  It  was  pointed 
out  that  the  resulting  advantages  would  be  considerably  beyond 
those  which  would  follow  a  distribution  of  increased  remuner- 
ation simply  on  the  automatic  basis  which  had  been  proposed.  In 
that  very  year  of  1938  there  would  be  offered  the  first  oppor- 
tunity for  taking  the  new  Qualifying  Examinations  and  Promo- 
tional Examinations. 

SALARY  INCREASES  IN  1939 

In  1939  salary  increases  were  given  on  both  the  old  and  the 
new  bases.  Step  rate  increases  of  $2.00  per  week  were  granted 
to  all  individuals  who  had  been  in  the  service  of  the  Library 
prior  to  January  1 ,  1 938,  on  the  same  basis  as  that  prevailing  in 
city  departments  in  general,  up  to  the  maxima  for  their  positions. 
These  were  given  to  425  individuals.  The  cost  of  these  step 
rate  increases  for  the  following  12  months  would  amount  to 
$43,171.20;  for  the  remainder  of  1939  only,  $9,970.15.  Pro- 
motional increases  (grade  increases)  also  were  given  in  1939  to 
1 30  individuals  who  had  passed  in  1 938  the  required  Qualify- 
ing Examinations  and  Promotional  Examinations  as  a  basis  for 
receiving  promotional  recognition.  The  cost  of  these  promotional 
increases  (grade  increases)  for  the  following  12  months  would 
amount  to  $16,247.10;  for  the  remainder  of  1939  only, 
$3,986.28.  The  total  cost  for  all  increases  in  pay  in  1939  — 
both  step  rate  increases  and  promotional  increases  —  for  the 
following  12  months  would  amount  to  $56,887.59;  for  the  re- 
mainder of  1939  only,  $13,956.43. 

Of  the  1 30  individuals  receiving  promotional  increases  in  pay 
in  1 939  only  5  had  entered  the  service  of  the  Library  subsequent 


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to  January  1 ,  1 938.  Obviously  there  could  be  relatively  few  in- 
dividuals entering  the  library  service  after  January  1 ,  1 938  who 
would  be  ready  for  the  1938  Qualifying  Examinations  when 
given  in  the  following  May  and  June;  in  another  year  their 
number  would  supposedly  be  appreciably  greater. 

The  remaining  125  individuals  who  received  promotional  in- 
creases in  1939  had  been  members  of  the  library  staff  prior  to 
January  1 ,  1 938  and  had  voluntarily  presented  themselves  for 
Qualifying  Examinations  and  Promotional  Examinations  in 
1938,  in  order  to  demonstrate  their  eligibility  for  additional  re- 
muneration on  a  promotional  basis.  For  the  most  part  they  were 
individuals  who  had  been  in  the  library  service  over  a  consider- 
able period  and  at  lovv^er  rates  of  remuneration  than  their  edu- 
cational and  professional  qualifications  merited.  By  their  volun- 
tary efforts  they  had  demonstrated  their  eligibility  for  increased 
remuneration  on  a  promotional  basis.  To  them  therefore  these 
promotional  increases  were  granted  in  accordance  with  the  pub- 
lic announcement  made  on  June  1,  1937  on  the  occasion  of  the 
establishment  of  the  new  Classification  of  Personnel  and  Staff 
Examinations.  The  total  cost  on  a  1 2  months  basis  for  promo- 
tional increases  for  these  125  individuals  was  approximately 
$16,000.  By  contrast,  if  additional  remuneration  had  been 
granted  instead  on  a  basis  such  as  had  been  proposed  in  the  pre- 
ceding year  by  the  organization  of  certain  members  of  the  library 
staff  mentioned  above,  the  cost  on  a  1 2  months  basis  would  have 
been  approximately  $35,000.00.  Further,  such  action  would 
have  been  on  an  arbitrary  basis,  as  distinguished  from  the  action 
which  was  actually  taken  in  1 939  in  terms  of  individual  accom- 
plishment on  a  promotional  basis,  by  voluntary  election  on  the 
part  of  the  individual.  The  opportunity  to  proceed  on  this  basis 
was  open  freely  to  all  individuals  who  were  members  of  the  li- 
brary staff  before  January  1 ,  1 938.  Without  discrimination  each 
liad  an  opportunity  to  demonstrate  in  objective  fashion  and  on 
equal  terms  with  all  others  his  possession  of  certain  specific  com- 
petences (or  which  he  could  be  given  increased  recognition  in 
the  form  of  improved  remuneration  on  a  promotional  basis. 


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STATUS  OF  SALARIES  IN  THE  BOSTON  PUBLIC  LIBRARY 
AS  OF  DECEMBER  31.  1939 

The  action  taken  for  the  improvement  of  salaries  in  1937, 
1938,  and  1939  was  in  each  year  on  the  widespread  basis 
necessar}'  to  raise  the  general  salary  level  in  the  Library.  The 
following  table  shows  the  number  of  full-time  workers  receiving 
increases  in  each  of  those  three  years  as  well  as  in  the  years  im- 
mediately preceding: 

No.  of  Full-Time  Workers 
Year  Receiving  Increases  in  Pay 

1932 None 

1933 None 

1934 203 

1935 173 

1936 149 

1937 441 

1938 391 

1939 425 

That  the  general  salary  level  in  the  Library  had  been  raised 
is  shown  by  the  following  figures  indicating  the  average  of  all 
salaries  in  the  Library  at  significant  dates: 

Date  Average  of  All  Salaries 

June  1.  1929 $1434.45 

June  4,  1937  .                         ...          1530.15 

December  31.  1939    '.        ".        .        .        .          1706.58 

Whereas  at  the  end  of  1936  thirty-one  per  cent  (31  %)  of  all 
of  the  bibliothecal  workers  in  the  entire  library  system  were  being 
paid  less  than  $20.00  per  week,  at  the  end  of  1939  the  pro- 
portion had  decreased  to  1.5%.  Whereas  at  the  end  of  1936 
over  one-half  (55%)  still  received  under  $25.00  per  week,  at 
the  end  of  1939  the  proportion  was  slightly  over  one-quarter 
(26%).  Whereas  at  the  end  of  1936  nearly  four-fifths  (78%) 
were  being  paid  less  than  $30.00,  the  proportion  had  become  at 
the  end  of  1939  slightly  less  than  one-half  (49%). 

It  will  be  recalled  that  by  the  end  of  1 929  the  mechanical  and 
similar  workers  in  the  Library  had  already  had  their  wages 
stabilized  at  relatively  high  levels,  on  the  basis  of  the  rates  gen- 
erally prevailing  in  the  community,  and  that  they  had  therefore 


[49] 


already  in  1 929  a  preferred  position  as  compared  with  the  work- 
ers in  the  bibliothecal  group.  It  is  interesting  to  compare  the  rela- 
tive standing  of  the  two  groups  at  the  end  of  1929  and  1939, 
as  set  forth  in  the  following  table  (see  also  Appendix  D  on  pages 
100-103  below): 


Salary  Range 


%  of  Total  No. 
of  Library  Workers 


%  of  Total  No.  of 
Mechanical  &  Other  Workers 


Unde 
Unde 
Unde 
Unde 
Unde 
Unde 
Unde 
Unde 


$15.00   per  week 

$20.00  per  week 

$25.00    per  week 

$30.00   per  week 

$35.00  per  week 

$40.00   per  week 

$45.00   per  week 

$50.00   per  week 


1929 

16.2% 
27.8% 
49.0% 
73.3% 
83.2% 
89.3%, 
94.89?, 
96.7% 


1939 
0.0% 

1.5% 
26.3%, 
49.4% 
68.8% 
83.9% 
89.4^^ 
95.1% 


1929 

0.8%, 

25.0% 

36.5% 
40.6% 
54.6% 
62.1% 
87.1% 
96.2%o 


1939 

0.0% 
19.3% 
33.9'/; 

37.3% 
63.3% 
66.7% 
87.7% 
95.3% 


Salary    Range 

Fro.Ti  $10.00  to 
From  $15.00  to 
From  $20.00  to 
From  $25.00  to 
From  $30.00  to 
From  $35.00  to 
From  $40.00  to 
From  $45.00  to 


%  of  Total  No.  %  of  Total  No.  of 

of  Library  Workers    Mechanical  &  Other  Workers 


$14.99 
$19.99 
$24.99 
$29.99 
$34.99 
$39.99 
$44.99 
$49.99 


per  Week 
per  week 
per  week 
per  week 
per  week 
per  week 
per  week 
per  week 


1929 
16.2% 
1 1 .6% 
21.2% 

24.3% 
9.9% 
6.1% 

5.5% 
1.9% 


1939 
0.0% 

1.5% 
24.8% 
23.1% 
19.4% 
15.1% 
5.5% 
6.3% 


1929 
0.8% 

24.2% 
11.5% 

4.1% 
14.0% 

7.5% 
25.0% 

9.1% 


1939 

0.0% 

19.3% 

14.67o 

3.4% 
26.0%, 

3.4% 
21.0% 

8.6% 


The  conclusion  is  to  be  drawn  that  the  mechanical  and  similar 
workers  are  at  the  end  of  1939  still  in  a  preferred  position  in 
the  matter  of  remuneration  as  compared  with  the  bibliothecal 
workers.  For  example,  49%  of  the  bibliothecal  workers  still  re- 
ceive less  than  $30.00  per  week,  as  compared  with  37%  of  the 
mechanical  workers.  Sixty-nine  per  cent  (69%)  of  the  bib- 
liothecal workers  still  receive  less  than  $35.00  per  week,  as  com- 
pared with  63%  of  the  mechanical  workers.  Eighty-four  (84%) 
of  the  bibliothecal  workers  still  receive  less  than  $40.00  per 
week,  as  compared  with  67%  of  the  mechanical  workers. 

For  the  other  City  of  Boston  departments  figures  are  not 
readily  available  to  show  the  averages  of  salaries  paid  in  the 
various  departments  as  of  December  31,  1939.  It  will  be  re- 
called, however,  that  in  June  1937  —  after  the  widespread  sal- 
ary revision  in  the  Library  Department  accomplished  as  of  June 


[50] 

4,  1937  —  the  Library  Department  had  the  lowest  average  of 
salaries  at  $1 530. 1 5.  As  stated  above,  the  average  in  the  Library 
had  by  the  end  of  1939  become  $1706.58.  Substantial  as  this 
improvement  was,  it  was  however  presumably  not  large  enough 
to  raise  the  relative  position  of  the  Library  Department  any  more 
than  from  the  bottom  place  in  the  list  of  city  departments  to  a 
next  to  the  bottom  level.  At  $1706.58  the  average  for  the  Li- 
brary Department  was  far  below  the  average  for  the  School  De- 
partment, which  at  $2537.80  in  1937  was  apparently  in  the 
neighborhood  of  the  median  point  of  the  average  for  all  city  de- 
partments. If  there  is  reason  to  believe  —  and  the  signs  point 
that  way  —  that  the  American  public  library  is  primarily  an  edu- 
cational institution,  it  would  seem  not  improper  to  compare  the 
average  of  salaries  paid  in  the  Library  Department  of  the  City 
of  Boston  with  that  paid  in  the  School  Department  of  the  City 
of  Boston. 

Nor  is  the  Boston  PubHc  Library  average  at  $1706.58  con- 
siderably below  that  prevailing  in  City  of  Boston  departments 
only.  It  may  well  be  compared  also  with  the  latest  available  fig- 
ure ( 1 938)  for  the  average  of  all  municipal  salaries  in  all  United 
States  cities  of  over  500,000  population.  According  to  The 
Municipal  Year  Boof(  for  1939  (page  225),  this  average  of  all 
municipal  salaries  in  the  large  cities  of  the  country  was  $1 950.00. 
It  is  reasonably  safe  to  assume  that  the  figure  has  changed  rela- 
tively little  in  the  meantime. 

It  has  long  been  a  commonplace  that  librarians'  salaries  in 
general  are  everywhere  low.  The  salaries  paid  in  the  Boston 
Public  Library  are  relatively  not  high.  In  many  instances  they 
are  below  the  average,  as  compared  with  the  low  standard  for 
library  salaries  existing  in  general  throughout  the  country.  This 
may  be  seen  from  the  following  table  of  salary  ranges  in  effect 
as  of  November  1 ,  1 939  for  the  larger  part  of  the  positions  in 
the  public  libraries  of  the  leading  cities  of  the  United  States 
(see  the  April  1940  issue  of  the  Bulletin  of  the  American  Li- 
brary Association,  vol.  34,  p.  212)  : 


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City 

First 

Assistants 

Baltimore          .... 

$1080 

- 

$1560 

Boston               .... 

1720 

- 

1980 

Buffalo 

Chicago             .... 

1560 

- 

2340 

Cincinnati         .... 

Cleveland         .... 

1500 

- 

2600 

Detroit              .... 

2280 

- 

2340 

Los    Angeles    .          .          .          ^ 

2100 

Milwaukee        .... 

1800 

- 

2220 

New  York  City 

New  York  Public  Library  . 

1980 

- 

2220 

Brooklyn   Public  Library   . 

1620 

- 

2100 

Queens  Borough  Public  Libi 

ary   1320 

- 

2160 

Philadelphia 

1350 

Pittsburgh         .... 

1500 

- 

1740 

St.    Louis         .... 

1320 

- 

1770 

San   Francisco 

City 

Children's  Librarians 

Baltimore          .... 

$1380 

Boston 

$1660 

- 

2040 

Buffalo              .... 

Chicago             .... 

900 

- 

2880 

Cincinnati         .... 

1300 

- 

1650 

Cleveland         .... 

1380 

- 

2300 

Detroit               .... 

Los    Angeles    .... 

1380 

- 

1920 

Milwaukee        .... 

New  York  City 

New  York  Public  Library  . 

1980 

- 

2220 

Brooklyn   Public   Library   . 

1620 

- 

2100 

Queens  Borough  Public  Library   1320 

- 

2160 

Philadelphia 

1200 

- 

1740 

Pittsburgh         .... 

1458 

- 

1740 

St.    Louis         .... 

1320 

- 

1770 

San    Francisco 

1560 

- 

1920 

Catalogers 

$1320 

_ 

$1740 

1875 

- 

2080 

1440 

_ 

2880 

1480 

_ 

1860 

1560 

- 

2800 

1500 

_ 

1920 

1920 

- 

2160 

1380 

_ 

2220 

1440 

_ 

2220 

1320 

_ 

2160 

1200 

_ 

1840 

1320 

_ 

1800 

1440 

- 

2160 

Other 

Professiona 

lA 

sistants 

$1140 

_ 

$2040 

1040 

_ 

2080 

1320 

_ 

2200 

1320 

_ 

2640 

1260 

_ 

1800 

1380 

- 

3000 

1560 

- 

3500 

1500 

_ 

2280 

1560 

- 

2220 

900 

_ 

2220 

1320 

- 

2100 

1320 

_ 

2820 

1050 

_ 

1300 

1320 

_ 

1800 

990 

_ 

1620 

1200 

- 

1920 

WHY  ARE  THERE  SO  MANY  INDIVIDUALS  IN  THE  LIBRARY 
TO  RECEIVE  STEP  RATE  INCREASES  IN  PAY? 

The  question  is  frequently  raised  in  municipal  circles  in  Bos- 
ton as  to  why  there  are  so  many  individuals  to  whom  step  rate 
increases  in  pay  are  given  in  the  Library  Department  as  com- 
pared with  the  other  City  of  Boston  departments.  The  following 
table  shows  the  number  of  individuals  who  received  step  rate 
increases  in  pay  in  1939  in  the  Library  Department  and  in  the 
various  city  departments  for  which  figures  can  be  obtained  from 
the  list  of  departmental  changes  published  weekly  in  the  Boston 
City  Record : 


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Assessing    Department            .....  3 

Auditing   Department  ......  16 

Building   Department   ......  I 

Collecting    Department          .....  29 

Election    Department    ......  2 

Fire    Department            .          .          .          .          .          .  116 

Health    Department      ......  21 

I  lospital    Department    ......  86 

Institutions    Department         .          .          .          .          .  11 

Law    Department          ......  5 

Library    Department     ......  425 

Overseers   of   Public    Welfare      ....  345 

Park   Department 4 

Penal    Institutions    Department      ....  55 

Police     Department      ......  233 

Printing    Department    ......  7 

Public   Buildings  Department        ....  2 

Public  Works  Department 54 

Registry    Department    ......  6 

Retirement   Board         ......  3 

Soldiers'  Relief  Department          ....  9 

Street  Laying  Out  Department    ....  3 

Supply    Department      ......  6 

In  this  compilation  there  is  no  figure  for  the  School  Department. 
It  is  not  readily  to  be  found  in  published  form.  The  School  De- 
partment figure  surpasses  that  of  all  other  city  departments,  how- 
ever. Not  only  is  it  the  largest  of  the  city  departments,  but  also 
it  has  a  relatively  high  proportion  of  its  large  total  personnel  on 
a  sHding  scale  basis  in  the  matter  of  remuneration.  The  depart- 
ments having  the  next  largest  numbers  receiving  step  rate  in- 
creases in  1939  were  the  Library  Department  with  425,  the 
Welfare  Department  with  345,  the  Police  Department  with 
233,  and  the  Fire  Department  with  1 1 6.  On  the  other  hand 
certain  of  the  other  large  departments  such  as  the  Hospital  De- 
partment and  the  Public  Works  Department  had  only  86  and 
54  respectively. 

Such  differences  as  exist  in  the  above  respect  are  apparently 
attributable  to  the  fact  that  some  city  departments  have  most 
or  all  of  their  workers  on  a  step  rate  basis  of  remuneration  extend- 
ing from  a  beginning  minimum  to  an  eventual  maximum,  while 
others  have  their  workers  for  the  most  part  at  a  fixed  but  higher 
rate  of  remuneration  which  is  in  effect  from  the  very  beginning  of 
the  appointment.  In  the  Library  Department  only  about  one 
fifth  (that  is,  the  120  or  so  mechanical  and  similar  workers)  out 


153] 

of  the  total  of  nearly  600  workers  are  appointed  at  a  beginning 
rate  which  remains  the  established  rate  for  the  position  without 
any  later  change,  and  which  is  therefore  at  a  higher  rate  than 
would  otherwise  be  the  case.  The  remaining  460  or  so  biblio- 
ihecal  workers  in  the  Library  Department  are  all  paid  on  a 
sliding  scale,  step  rate  increase  basis.  The  entering  rate  for  them 
is  at  the  low  minimum  figure  of  $20.00  per  week.  From  that 
minimum  their  remuneration  is  increased  by  steps  up  to  the  maxi- 
ma of  their  positions,  in  accordance  with  the  following  scale : 


Probationary    Assistants          .... 

.       $20.00 

-  $25.00 

Assistants 

25.00 

-    37.00 

Second    Assistants           ..... 

41.00 

First    Assistants      ...... 

45.00 

Chiefs  of  Departments   &   Branch   Librarians 

!        50.00 

-    60.00 

In  the  Library  Department  in  1939,  outside  of  the  relatively 
small  group  of  mechanical  and  similar  workers,  not  a  single  new 
appointment  was  made  to  the  library  service  other  than  at  the 
minimum  beginning  rate  of  $20.00  per  week  with  but  one  ex- 
ception. In  fact,  during  the  entire  eight  years  from  1 932  to  1 939 
inclusive,  there  have  been  only  eleven  out  of  the  two  hundred 
or  so  appointments  which  have  been  made  to  the  library  service 
which  were  not  at  the  beginning  rate  of  $20.00  or  less.  Of  the 
35  appointments  made  to  the  library  service  in  1 939,  thirty-four 
(34)  were  at  this  minimum  beginning  rate  of  $20.00  per  week, 
and  the  single  remaining  appointment  was  made  at  the  minimum 
beginning  rate  for  chiefs  of  departments.  Obviously,  if  all  ap- 
pointments are  made  at  the  relatively  low  rate  of  $20.00  per 
week,  an  appreciable  number  of  step  rate  increases  are  necessary 
to  bring  eventually  to  each  of  the  workers  appointed  the  maxi- 
mum rate  of  remuneration  for  his  position. 

This  practice  holds  in  the  Library  Department  for  four  fifths 
of  the  entire  body  of  employees.  In  most  of  the  city  departments 
it  does  not  apparently  hold  to  a  similarly  wide  extent.  In  com- 
parison with  the  new  appointments  made  in  1 939  to  the  library 
service  in  the  Library  Department  there  should  be  placed  the 
many  appointments  in  other  city  departments  which  were  made 
at  rates  in  excess  of  the  $20.00  rate  used  ordinarily  for  all  posi- 
tions in  the  library  service  in  the  Library  Department  The  fol- 


[54] 


lowing  list  of  such  appointments  has  been  compiled  from  the 
weekly  lists  of  departmental  changes  as  published  week  by 
week  during  1939  in  the  Boston  Cit^  Record: 


1 — Associate  physician    (Hospital   Dept.)    . 

— Supervisor  of  poultry  (Penal  Institutions  Dept.) 
— Resident   physician    (Institutions   Dept.) 
— Pharmacist    (Institutions    Dept.)    . 

— Second-class   engineer    (Hospital    Depf.) 

— Engineer    (Institutions    Dept.) 

— Supervisor     (Supply    Dept.) 

— Assistant    corporation    counsel 

— Engineer   (Penal   Institutions   Dept.) 

— Engineer,    second-class    (Penal    Institutions   Dept.) 

— Bookbinder    (Printing   Dept.) 
— Marine   fireman    (Public   Works   Dept.) 
2 — Firemen    (Penal    Institutions    Dept.) 
3 — iFirst-cIass  firemen    (Hospital  Dept.) 
2 — Second-class   firemen    (Hospital    Depf.) 
3 — Firemen    (Institutions   Dept.) 
I — ^Fireman    (Public   Buildings  Dept.) 
1 — Monotype    keyboard   operator    (Printing   Dept.) 

8 — Officers    (Penal    Institutions   Dept.) 

I — Plumbing   inspector    (Buildings   Dept.) 

4 — Cylinder  press  feeders    (Printing   Dept.) 

1— Tollman-guard    (Public    Works   Dept.) 

1 — Senior  assistant  resident  physician   (Institutions  Dept.) 

1 — Assistant  resident  physician    (Institutions   Dept.) 

I — Ambulance  driver    (Hospital   Dept.) 

1 — Supervisor    (Hospital    Dept.) 

1 — Chief  clerk  (Law  Dept.)     .... 

I — Superintendent  golf  course    (Park   Dept.) 

2 — Assistant  supervisors   (Park   Dept.) 

1 — Ambulance   driver    (Public    Buildings    Dept.) 

1 — Assistant  supervisor   (Supply   Dept.) 

I — Visiting  dental   surgeon    (Hospital   Dept.) 

4 — Airport   signal    operators    (Park   Dept.) 

4 — Porters  and  furnace  lenders   (Public  Buildings  Dept.) 

1 — Lay  inspector  of  animals   (Health  Dept.) 

3 — Deckhands     (Institutions    Dept.)    . 

I — Deckhand  and  inland   mate    (Institutions  Dept.) 

3 — Male   nurses    (Hospital   Dept.) 

I  — Resident  physician  on  skin  service   (Hospital  Dept.) 
I  I — Junior  assistant  resident  physicians  (Institutions  Dept.) 

2 — Assistant  resident  physicians   (Institutions  Dept.) 

1 — Stockkeeper    (Public    Works   Depf.) 

I — Constable  (Building  Dept.)   . 

I — Constable    (Overseers   of    Public   Welfare) 

8 — Junior   law  clerks    (Law   Dept.)    . 
10 — Law    clerks    (Law    Dept.)    . 

2 — -Laborers    (Printing    Dept.)    . 


$57.50 

53.09 
5L75 
50.11 

48.00 
48.00 
47.92 
47.92 
45.00 
45.00 

42.20 
41.50 
41.50 
41.50 
41.50 
41.50 
41.50 
41.40 

38.67 
38.33 
36.60 
36.50 
36.42 
36.42 
36.00 
35.79 
35.00 
35.00 
35.00 
35.00 
35.00 

34.50 
34.50 
33.00 
32.58 
32.58 
32.58 
32.00 
31.00 
31.00 
31.00 
30.67 
30.67 
30.67 
30.19 
30.00 
30.00 


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—Janitor    (Public    Buildings   Dept.) 30.00 

—Secretary    (Public    Buildings    Dept.) 30.00 

— Assistant  supervisor    (Public    Works    Dept.) 30.00 

— Assistant  pa)anaster   (Overseers  of   Public  Welfare)      ....  28.75 

—Nurse    (Hospital   Dept.) 27.55 

—Pharmacist    (Hospital    Dept.) 27.00 

13 — Staff   nurses    (Institutions  Dept.) 26.40 

Assistant  cook    (Hospital   Dept.) 26.00 

Resident  on  neurosurgical  service   (Hospital   Dept.)        ....  25.17 

Assistant  pharmacist  (Hospital  Dept.)   .......  25.00 

Technician    (Hospital    Dept.)         ........  25.00 

Caddy   master    (Park    Dept.) 25.00 

1 — Stenographer   (Law  Dept.) 24.92 

-Laboratory  assistant   (Hospital  Dept.)    .......  24.92 

I— Baker    (Hospital   Dept.) 24.50 

-Pastry  cook   (Institutions  Dept.)    ........  23.33 

-Assistant  in  health  education   (Health  Dept.) 23.00 

98 — Floor  duty  nurses    (Hospital    Dept.) 23.00 

12 — Floor    nurses    (Hospital    Dept.)     ........  23.00 

3— Staff    nurses    (Hospital    Dept.) 23.00 

3— Male  nurses    (Hospital    Dept.) 23.00 

5 — Medical   social    workers    (Hospital    Dept.) 23.00 

I — Assistant    dietitian     (Hospital    Dept.) 23.00 

1— Chaplain   (Hospital  Dept.) 23.00 

1 — Clerk-typist    (Registry   Dept.) 23.00 

1 — Junior   accountant    (Supply    Dept.)        .......  22.50 

1 — Stenographer-Clerk    (Boston   Port  Authority) 22.42 

2— Matrons    (Health    Dept.) 22.00 

1— Matron     (Park    Dept.) 22.00 

1— Secretary    (Public   Buildings    Dept.) 22.00 

1 — Junior   accountant    (Supply    Dept.)        .......  21.00 

The  giving  of  such  a  list  as  the  above  is  not  intended  to  imply 
that  the  rates  of  pay  for  those  various  positions  are  too  high  or 
too  low,  or  in  fact  anything  other  than  what  is  entirely  proper 
or  just.  They  are  given  only  to  help  in  providing  an  answer  to 
the  question  as  to  why  there  appear  to  be  so  many  more  in- 
dividuals to  whom  step  rate  increases  in  pay  have  to  be  given  in 
the  Library  Department  as  compared  with  other  City  of  Boston 
departments.  Obviously  more  individuals  have  to  be  given  step 
rate  increases  —  and  also  more  step  rate  increases  as  such  have 
to  be  given  —  when  the  beginning  rate  is  uniformly  $20.00  per 
week  than  when  as  in  other  city  departments  the  newly  appointed 
individuals  begin  at  rates  which  are  generally  more  than  $20.00, 
and  frequently  very  appreciably  more.  A  library  assistant,  for 
example,  requires  nine  annual  step  rate  increases  of  $100  per 
3'ear  ($2.00  per  week)   to  proceed  from  a  minimum  entering 


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rate  of  $1040  per  year  ($20.00  per  week)  to  his  maximum  of 
$1930  per  year  ($37.00  per  week),  as  compared  with  the  six 
such  step  rate  increases  required  for  a  clerical  worker  to  go  from 
his  minimum  of  $1000  to  his  maximum  of  $1600  per  year,  or 
the  live  such  step  rate  increases  needed  for  a  police  patrolman 
or  a  fireman  to  go  from  his  minimum  of  $1600  to  his  maximum 
of  $2100. 

One  further  reason  that  more  step  rate  increases  —  and  also 
over  a  longer  period  —  are  having  to  be  given  in  the  Library 
Department  is  that  the  prevailing  rates  of  remuneration  in  the 
Library  Department  are  in  the  process  of  being  raised  from  an 
unusually  low  level  toward  the  average  level  for  all  city  depart- 
ments, as  set  forth  above.  Until  this  average  level  has  been  ap- 
proximated there  will  perforce  have  to  be  given  step  rate  increases 
to  a  larger  number  of  individuals,  and  over  a  longer  period,  than 
would  otherwise  be  the  case,  if  the  workers  in  the  Library  De- 
partment are  to  be  given  a  treatment  consistent  with  that  accorded 
to  other  city  workers. 

The  basis  on  which  stabilization  of  salaries  on  an  improved 
level  is  being  sought  in  the  Library  Department  is  the  following 
salary  schedule  as  established  in  1937: 


Probationary  Assistant,   Beginning 

Probationary  Assistant,  1st  Step 

Probationary  Assistant,  2nd  Step 

Probationary  Assistant,  3rd  Step 

Probationary  Assistant,  4th  Step 

Probationary  Assistant,  5th  Step 

Assistant,    Beginning 

Assistant,    I  st    Step 

Assistant,  2nd  Step 

Assistant,  3rd  Step 

Second    Assistant 

Children's  Assistant 

Reference  Assistant 

Cataloger 

Classifier 

Assistant,   4th  Step 

First  Assistant  . 

Children's    Librarian 

Reference  Librarian  . 

Cataloger  and  Classifier 

Assistant,    5th   Step   . 

Chiefs  of   Departments 
Branch  Librarians  . 


$20.00 
2L00 
22.00 
23.00 
24.00 
25.00 
25.00 
29.00 
33.00 
37.00 
4K00 
4L00 
4L00 
4K00 
4L0O 
4L00 
45.00 
45.00 
45.00 
45.00 
45.00 
$2610-$3I30 
2610-  3130 


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Tliis  salary  schedule  did  not  in  reality  set  up  new  levels.  Even 
as  far  back  as  1929  there  were  individuals  in  nearly  every  one 
of  these  categories  who  eventually  received  as  much  as  the  rates 
set  forth  above.  The  difficulty  existing  then  and  up  to  1937  was 
that  year  after  year  funds  were  not  being  appropriated  in  suffi- 
cient amount  to  permit  a  uniform  application  of  these  rates  in 
the  granting  of  step  rate  increases.  That  the  above  rates  are  not 
out  of  line  with  those  existing  elsewhere  can  easily  be  ascertained 
by  comparing  them  with  the  rates  paid  in  other  city  departments 
for  work  which  is  of  a  similar  level  or  which  requires  not  dis- 
similar qualifications-  If  any  doubt  exists  as  to  whether  or  not 
these  rates  are  adequate  for  what  is  expected  of  workers  in  the 
Library,  it  will  be  quickly  dispelled  by  an  examination  of  the 
qualifications  set  down  for  the  various  steps  and  grades  of  the 
Boston  Public  Library  service  in  the  separate  publication  en- 
titled Classification  of  Personnel  and  Staff  Examinations  issued 
by  the  Library  on  June  1,  1937;  and  perhaps  even  more  by  a 
perusal  of  the  examination  papers  as  actually  set  for  the  Li- 
brary's Qualifying  Examinations  and  Promotional  Examina- 
tions, as  published  by  the  Library  each  year  after  the  annual 
examinations  have  been  held. 

HOW  LONG  WILL  IT  TAKE  TO  STABILIZE 
THE  LEVEL  OF  SALARIES  AND  WAGES  IN  THE  LIBRARY? 

A  study  of  the  number  of  individuals  who  during  the  last 
three  years  have  been  proceeding  by  step  rate  increases  in  pay 
toward  but  have  not  yet  reached  the  maxima  of  remuneration 
for  their  positions  gives  the  following  figures: 

1937 441 

1938 427 

1939 425 

For  the  remaining  members  of  this  group  of  individuals  who 
were  in  the  service  of  the  Library  before  January  1 ,  1 938  to 
reach  the  maxima  of  remuneration  for  their  positions  there  will 
be  necessary  annual  step  rate  increases  in  pay  of  $  1 00  per  year 
over  seven  more  years.  The  number  of  individuals  who  will  be 


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eligible  on  this  basis  for  step  rate  increases  year  by  year  will  be 
as  followrs: 


1940 
1941 
1942 
1943 
1944 
1945 
1946 
1947 


388 
368 
338 
283 
231 
159 
77 
2 


Actually  the  number  may  be  expected  to  be  somewhat  smaller 
year  by  year,  by  reason  of  resignation,  death,  or  other  change 
which  cannot  be  foretold. 

The  cost  for  each  of  the  years  will  be  as  follows: 


1940 

$38,450. 

1941 

36,100. 

1942 

33.000. 

1943 

27.850. 

1944 

21.750. 

1945 

14300. 

1946 

3.950. 

1947 

100. 

Total  cost 

$175,500. 

For  these  individuals  who  were  in  the  library  service  prior 
to  January  1,  1938  stabilization  of  salary  levels  will  also  be 
accelerated  appreciably  by  their  arriving  with  increasing  rapid- 
ity at  the  maxima  of  their  steps  and  grades  through  the  working 
of  the  promotional  system,  with  its  promotional  examinations 
and  resulting  promotional  increases  in  remuneration. 

For  those  individuals  who  have  entered  the  library  service 
sinc€  January  1,  1938  there  is  no  question  of  stabilization  of 
salary  levels.  For  them  the  old  system  of  automatic  step  rate 
increases  in  pay  is  not  in  use.  They  are  to  move  ahead  to  in- 
creased remuneration  only  on  a  promotional  basis,  through  the 
meeting  of  Qualifying  Examinations  and  Promotional  Examin- 
ations, and  upon  subsequent  recommendation  following  exec- 
utive evaluation.  When  this  promotional  system  is  fully  in  effect 
there  are  not  Hkely  to  be  in  any  one  year  more  than  1 00  or  so 
individuals  eligible  for  promotional  increases  in  pay.  From  the 
1938  examinations  there  were  130  individuals  so  ehgible;  from 
the  1939  examinations,  93  individuals;  from  the  examinations 


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in  subsequent  years,  probably  rather  fewer.  The  resulting  pro- 
motional increases  are  likely  to  average  from  $100  to  $150  a 
year.  There  is  reason  to  believe  that  the  average  is  likely  to  be 
nearer  the  lower  figure  than  the  higher.  On  this  basis  the  annual 
cost  for  such  promotional  increases  will  range  from  somewhere 
in  the  neighborhood  of  $10,000  up  to  a  possible  maximum  of 
$1 5,000.  This  maximum  figure  is  the  equivalent  of  the  difference 
between  the  beginning  salary  ($1040.00)  and  the  present  aver- 
age salary  ($1706.58)  for  twenty  individual  full-time  workers 
in  the  Library  Department.  Since  there  is  annually  a  turnover 
in  the  personnel  of  the  Library  which  is  substantially  greater 
than  this,  it  seems  clear  that  there  will  exist  no  necessity  of  addi- 
tional appropriation  for  the  stabilization  of  salary  levels  for  the 
individuals  who  have  entered  the  library  service  since  January 
I.  1938. 

The  question  of  stabilization  of  salary  levels  exists  therefore 
only  for  those  individuals  who  entered  the  library  service  prior 
to  January  1 ,  1 938  and  who  are  moving  by  automatic  annual 
step  rate  increases  to  the  maximum  remuneration  of  their  posi- 
tions. For  them  to  reach  their  maxima  an  additional  seven  years 
will  be  needed,  with  an  additional  annual  cost  which  will  eventu- 
ally come  to  a  total  amount  of  approximately  $175,500. 

SUMMARY  OF  THE  SALARY   SITUATION    IN  THE  LIBRARY 

Of  the  total  increase  of  $262,228.93  in  the  annual  personnel 
expenditure  of  the  Library  over  the  period  from  1 930  to  1 939 
inclusive,  the  sum  of  $219,323.88  per  year  represents  the  gross 
amount  of  the  salary  increases  as  granted  year  by  year. 

These  salary  increases  have  raised  the  average  of  all  salaries 
in  the  Library  from  $1434.45  in  1929  to  $1530.15  in  1937 
and  to  $1  706.58  at  the  end  of  1939. 

This  average  of  all  salaries  for  the  Library  Department  was 
in  1929  by  far  the  lowest  for  all  City  of  Boston  departments. 
It  was  still  the  lowest  in  1937.  It  was  apparently  no  higher  than 
next  to  the  lowest  at  the  end  of  1939. 

At  the  end  of  1939  one  half  (49%)  of  the  entire  group  of 
library  workers  was  still  after  several  years  of  service  being  paid 


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under  $30.00  per  week.  This  is  the  figure  which  the  American 
Library  Association  recommends  as  only  the  beginning  rate 
for  hbrary  school  graduates,  even  when  without  actual  library 
experience. 

As  compared  with  the  mechanical  and  similar  workers  em- 
ployed by  the  Library  the  group  of  library  workers  was  at  the 
end  of  1939  in  a  continuingly  unfavorable  position.  Forty-nine 
per  cent  (49%)  of  the  bibliothecal  workers  were  still  paid  under 
$30.00  per  week,  as  compared  with  37%  of  the  mechanical 
workers;  69%  of  the  bibliothecal  workers  were  paid  under 
$35.00,  as  compared  with  63%  of  the  mechanical  workers; 
84%  of  the  bibliothecal  workers  were  paid  under  $40.00,  as 
compared  with  67%  of  the  mechanical  workers. 

The  wage  ranges  for  the  mechanical  workers  are  already  at 
an  adequate  level.  To  stabilize  at  an  equally  adequate  level 
the  salary  ranges  for  the  library  workers  who  were  in  the  library 
service  prior  to  January  1 ,  1 938,  annual  step  rate  increases  in 
pay  of  $2.00  per  week  will  be  necessary  in  diminishing  numbers 
year  by  year  over  a  period  of  seven  more  years.  The  cost  of 
such  annual  step  rate  increases  over  the  seven  year  period  will 
total  approximately  $175,500. 

in. 

INCREASE  IN  PERSONNEL  COST  ARISING  OUT 
OF  INCREASED  OR  REARRANGED  ACTIVITIES 

DISTRIBUTION   OF   PERSONNEL 

The  personnel  of  the  library  service  is  divided  into  two 
groups : 

(i)      Full-Time  Workers  in  the  Regular  Service 
(2)      Parl-Time   Workers   in    the   Extra   Service 

The  full-time  workers  in  the  Regular  Service  are  employed 
on  either  a  weekly  or  an  annual  salary  basis.  They  numbered  580 
as  of  December  31,1 939  and  were  distributed  as  follows : 

General   Adminislralive    Offices          .                   .  .  .  .  13 

Circulation  Division  (chiefly  the  Branch  Libraries)  .  .  .  257 

Reference  Division  (chiefly  the  Central  Library)  .  .  .  183 

Division   of   Business   Operations        .         .         .  .  •  .  127 

580 


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The  part-time  workers  in  the  Extra  Service  are  employed  by 
the  hour  at  rates  of  pay  varying  with  the  tasks  performed.  In 
terms  of  the  equivalent  of  full-time  personnel  they  numbered  1 07 
as  of  December  31,  1 939  and  were  distributed  as  follows : 

Extra  Assistants  in   the  Central  Library       .         .          .         .  31 

Sunday  and  Evening  Service  in  the  Central  Library  .         .  16 

Extra  Assistants  in  the   Branch  Libraries      ....  53 

Cleaners  by  the  Hour  in  the  Branch  Libraries     ...  7 

107 

The  total  number  of  workers  in  both  the  Regular  Service  and 
the  Extra  Service  numbered  687  as  of  December  31,1 939  and 
were  distributed  as  follows: 

Full-Time  Workers  in  the  Regular  Service  .  580  .         84% 

Part-Time  Workers  in  the  Extra   Service  .         .  107  .  16% 

687  100% 

The  total  cost  for  all  workers  in  both  the  Regular  Service 
and  the  Extra  Service  was  $1,032,696.19  in  1939,  which  was 
distributed  as  follows: 

Full-Time  Workers  in  the  Regular  Service     $945,123.21  .         92% 

Part-Time  Workers  in   the   Extra   Service  87,572.98  .  8% 


$1,032,696.19        .       100% 

From  these  figures  it  is  to  be  noted  that  the  salaries  and  wages 
of  the  full-time  workers  in  the  Regular  Service  account  for  92% 
of  the  total  expenditure  for  personnel.  In  number  these  full-time 
workers  in  the  Regular  Service  constitute,  however,  84%  of 
the  total  personnel  of  the  Library. 

DISTINCTION  BETWEEN  REGULAR  SERVICE  AN  EXTRA  SERVICE 

The  full-time  workers  in  the  Regular  Service  are  a  definitely 
known  quantity  at  all  times.  Their  regular  work  is  by  the  week 
for  six  days  each  week. 

The  part-time  workers  in  the  Extra  Service  vary  constantly 
in  number,  chiefly  on  a  seasonal  basis.  They  are  divided  for  the 
most  part  into  two  groups: 

( 1  )      extra  workers  (chiefly  boys  and  girls  in  school  and  college) 
in  addition  to  the  Library's  regular  full-time  workers; 


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(2)  regular  full-time  workers  employed  in  addition  to  their  regu- 
lar weekly  working  period  to  cover  certain  activities  on  Sun- 
days and  evenings  on  an  extra  basis  with  extra  remuneration. 

Extra  work  by  regular  full-time  workers  was  abandoned  in  the 
branch  libraries  a  number  of  years  ago,  except  for  Sunday  work ; 
but  in  the  central  library  it  persisted  up  to  1933  to  a  highly 
undesirable  extent  for  covering  the  Library  on  both  evenings 
and  Sundays.  In  the  years  from  1 933  to  1 938  there  was  finally 
taken  the  long  overdue  step  to  establish  gradually  a  shift  or 
platoon  system  for  all  workers  in  the  central  library  except  the 
buildings  force.  At  the  present  time  regular  full-time  workers 
are  no  longer  employed  on  an  extra  basis  with  extra  remuneration 
except  for  the  following: 

( 1 )  Sunday  Service  in  the  Central  Library  —  for  both  the 
library  and  the  buildings   force; 

(2)  Evening  Service  in  the  Central  Library  —  for  the  buildings 
force  only  (with  a  half  dozen  exceptions  from  the  library 
force  not  yet  entirely  on  the  shift  system). 

COST  AND  NUMBER  OF  TOTAL  PERSONNEL.   1930-1939 

The  total  cost  of  personnel  has  increased  from  1 930  to  1 939 
inclusive  as  follows: 

%  of  Change 
Tolal  Expenditures  from  1929 

1929      .        .        .        $770.367.26 

1939      .        .        .        1,032.696.19        .        .        .        +33.9% 

The  total  number  of  personnel  has  increased  from  1930  to 
1939  inclusive  as  follows: 

%  of  Change 
Tolal   Personnel  from  1929 

1929      ...        .  602        

1939      ....  687        ..        .        +14.1% 

For  detailed  figures  year  by  year  see  Appendix  D  on  pages 
90-91. 

It  is  to  be  noted  that  while  the  total  expenditure  for  salaries 
and  wages  for  all  personnel  was  increasing  by  34%  over  the 
ten  year  period  the  total  number  of  all  personnel  was  increased 
by  only  14%. 


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COST  AND  NUMBER  OF  FULL-TIME  PERSONNEL,  1930-1939 

The  total  expenditure  for  salaries  and  wages  for  full-time 
personnel  has  increased  from  1 930  to  1 939  as  follows : 

%  of  Change 
Total   Expenditures  from  1929 

1929      .        .        .        $663,747.98 

1939      .        .        .  945,123.21         .        .        .        +42.5% 

The  total  number  of  full-time  personnel  as  of  December  3 1  st 

in  each  year  has  increased  from    1930   to    1939   inclusive  as 

follows : 

Total  Full-Time  %  of  Change 

Personnel  from  1929 

1929      ....  475        

1939      ....  580        ..        .        +22.1% 

For  detailed  figures  year  by  year  see  Appendix  D  on  pages 
91-96. 

It  is  to  be  noted  that  while  the  total  expenditure  for  full-time 
personnel  was  increasing  by  43%  over  the  ten  year  period  the 
total  number  of  full-time  personnel  was  increased  by  only  22%. 

COST  AND  NUMBER  OF  EXTRA  SERVICE  PERSONNEL.   1930-1939 

The  total  expenditure  for  salaries  and  wages  for  Extra  Ser- 
vice has  decreased  from  1 930  to  1 939  as  follows : 

%  of  Change 
Total  Expenditures  from  1929 

1929      .        .        .        $104,032.28        ..... 
1939     .        .        .  85  661.98        .        .        .        —17.6% 

The  total  number  of  Extra  Service  personnel  reduced  to  the 
equivalent  of  full-time  personnel  as  of  December  31st  in  each 
year  has  decreased  from  1930  to  1939  inclusive  as  follows: 

Total  Extra  Service  Personnel 

in  Terms  of  Equivalent  %  of  Change 

of  Fuil-Time  Personnel  from  1929 

1929      ....  127        ....        . 

1939      ....  107        ..        .        —15.7% 

For  detailed  figures  year  by  year  see  Appendix  D  on  page 
91. 

It  is  to  be  noted  that  the  decrease  of  1 6%  in  the  total  of  Extra 
Service  personnel  was  paralleled  by  a  decrease  of  17%  in  the 
total  expenditure  for  Extra  Service. 


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SUMMARY  OF  CHANGES  IN  NUMBER  OF  PERSONNEL,  1930-1939 

The  net  increase  in  all  personnel  during  the  period  from  1 930 
to  1939  inclusive  was  85,  as  follows: 

Increase   in    full-time  personnel -f-105 

Deirease    in    extra   service   personnel    ....  ■ —  20 

The  increase  in  full-time  personnel  was  distributed  through 
the  period  as  follows: 

From   1930  to   1931    inclusive +60 

From    1932   to    1937   inclusive +57 

The  decrease  in  full-time  personnel  occurred  as  follows: 

From    1938   to   1939  inclusive —12 

DISTRIBUTION  OF  THE  INCREASE  IN  FULL-TIME  PERSONNEL, 

1930-1939 

The  increase  (+8)  in  full-time  personnel  in  the  Division  of 
Business  Operations  arose  chiefly  out  of: 

( 1 )  the  establishment  of  the  Executive  Staff  (Comptroller's 
Office; 

(2)  the  fining  of  a  number  of  vacancies  not  included  in  the  count 
of  full-time  personnel  on  January  1 ,  1 930,  but  filled  sub- 
sequent thereto. 

The  increase  (+47)  in  full-time  personnel  in  the  Circulation 
Division  arose  chiefly  out  of : 

(  1  )  the  establishment  of  the  Executive  Staff  (the  Chief  Librarian 
of  the  Circulation  Division  and  the  two  Supervisors)  ; 

(2)  the  filling  of  a  number  of  vacancies  not  included  in  the 
count  of  full-time  personnel  on  January  1 ,  1 930,  but  filled 
subsequent  thereto; 

(3)  the  removal  of  6  branch  libraries  into  new  buildings  or  other 
new   quarters ; 

(4)  adjustments  for  increase  in  work  or  other  reasons; 

(5)  the  establishment  of  the  Book  Selection  Department; 

(6)  the  development  of  the  School  Department. 

The  opening  of  two  new  branch  libraries  (Kirstein  and  Phillips 
Brooks)  was  offset  by  the  closing  of  two  branch  libraries  (Rox- 
bury  Crossing  and  Tyler  Street). 


[65] 

The  increase  (+51)  in  full-time  personnel  in  the  Reference 
Division  arose  chiefly  out  of: 

(1 )  the  establishment  of  the  Executive  Staff  (the  Chief  Librarian 
of  the  Reference  Division,  the  two  Supervisors,  and  the 
WPA  Sponsor's  Representative)  ; 

(2)  the  establishment  of  the  Business  Branch; 

(3)  the  establishment  of  the  Book  Selection  Department; 

(4)  the  abolition  of  extra  work  evenings  in  the  Central  Library 
through  the  establishment  of  the  shift  system. 

Of  all  of  the  above-mentioned  developments  those  of  truly 
surpassing  importance  were: 

( 1 )  the  establishment  of  the  Business  Branch ; 

(2)  the  provision  of  improved  and  adequate  quarters  in  new 
buildings  or  otherwise  for  6  branch  libraries; 

(3)  the  establishment  of  executive  staffs  adequate  to  the  eco- 
nomical operation  of  the  three  main  divisions  of  the  Library's 
activities ; 

(4)  the  abolition  of  the  necessity  for  a  great  many  members  of  the 
staff  of  the  Central  Library  to  work  additional  time  evenings 
in  order  to  make  a  living  wage,  this  having  been  accomplished 
through  improved  basic  salaries  and  the  establishment  of  the 
shift  or  platoon  system. 

To  gain  an  adequate  understanding  of  the  effect  of  these 
various  developments  upon  the  number  of  personnel,  it  is  neces- 
sary to  examine  in  more  or  less  detail  the  changes  in  net  personnel 
which  have  occurred  during  the  last  ten  years  in  each  of  the 
four  divisions  of  the  Library: 

( 1  )  the  Director's  Office ; 

(2)  the  Division  of  Business  Operations; 

(3)  the  Circulation  Division; 

(4)  the  Reference  Division. 

DECREASE  IN  FULL-TIME  PERSONNEL  OF  THE  DIRECTOR'S  OFFICE 

During  the  ten  year  period  from  1 930  to  1 939  inclusive  the 
full-time  personnel  of  the  Director*s  Office  was  decreased  by 
one  ( 1 )  individual. 


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INCREASE  IN  FULL-TIME  PERSONNEL 
OF  THE  DIVISION  OF  BUSINESS  OPERATIONS 

During  the  ten  year  period  from  1 930  to  1 939  inclusive  the 
full-time  personnel  of  the  Division  of  Business  Operations  had  a 
net  increase  of  8  individuals. 

This  increase  arose  chiefly  out  of  ( 1 )  the  establishment  of  the 
Executive  Staff  (the  Comptroller's  Office)  and  (2)  the  filling 
of  a  number  of  vacancies  not  included  in  the  count  of  full-time 
personnel  on  January  1,  1930,  but  filled  subsequent  thereto. 

It  is  interesting  to  note  that  simply  the  filling  of  these  vacancies 
just  mentioned  accounted  for  an  addition  of  7  w^orkers.  Inasmuch 
as  the  net  increase  in  full-time  personnel  for  the  Division  of 
Business  Operations  is  set  forth  above  as  having  been  only  8, 
it  is  evident  that  the  establishment  of  the  Executive  Staff  men- 
tioned above  must  have  been  accomplished  with  offsetting  de- 
creases in  personnel  elsewhere  in  the  Division,  as  was  in  fact 
the  case. 

INCREASE  IN  FULL-TIME  PERSONNEL 
OF  THE  CIRCULATION  DIVISION 

During  the  ten  year  period  from  1930  to  1939  inclusive  the 
full-time  personnel  of  the  Circulation  Division  had  a  net  increase 
of  47  individuals. 

Here  it  is  interesting  to  note  that  24  out  of  the  total  increase 
of  47  were  attributable  to  the  increased  activities  and  the  in- 
creased coverage  arising  out  of  the  removal  of  6  branch  Hbraries 
into  larger  new  buildings  or  other  new  quarters. 

Ten  ( 1 0)  more  of  the  additional  workers  were  accounted 
for  through  the  requirements  of  increasing  work  throughout  the 
branch  library  system  in  general.  During  the  ten  year  period 
following  1929  there  occurred  a  marked  increase  in  the  use  of 
public  libraries  everywhere.  In  1 939  the  Boston  Public  Library 
lent  a  7%  larger  number  of  volumes  than  it  did  in  1929.  At  the 
height  of  the  depression  period  in  1 932  it  was  lending  as  many 
as  42%  more  volumes  than  in  1929.  Approximately  90%  of 
this  increase  in  circulation  occurred  in  the  branch  libraries. 


[67] 

Seven  (7)  more  of  the  additional  workers  were  accounted 
for  by  the  filling  of  vacancies  existing  on  January  1 ,  1 930  but 
not  included  In  the  count  of  full-time  personnel  made  at  that 
lime. 

These  three  groups  just  mentioned  account  for  41  out  of  the 
total  increase  of  47  in  the  Circulation  Division.  The  remaining 
increase  of  6  workers  was  attributable  to  ( 1 )  the  establishment 
of  the  Executive  Staff,  (2)  the  establishment  of  the  Book  Selec- 
tion Department,  and  (3)  the  development  of  the  School  De- 
partment. Obviously  the  accomplishment  of  these  developments 
required  offsetting  decreases  elsewhere  in  the  personnel  of  the 
Division. 

INCREASE  IN  FULL-TIME  PERSONNEL 
OF  mE  REFERENCE  DIVISION 

During  the  ten  year  period  from  1 930  to  1 939  inclusive  the 
full-time  personnel  of  the  Reference  Division  had  a  net  increase 
of  51  individuals. 

Here  the  most  extensive  undertaking  during  the  period  was 
the  long  overdue  step,  taken  finally  from  1 933  to  1 938,  to  estab- 
lish a  shift  or  platoon  system  for  the  library  workers  in  the  Cen- 
tral Library.  The  net  addition  to  the  staff  for  this  purpose 
accounted  for  33  out  of  the  total  increase  of  5 1 ,  The  carrying 
of  this  undertaking  to  completion  was  one  of  the  most  important 
single  accomplishments  in  the  Library  over  a  long  period.  Its 
importance  lay  in  that  ( 1 )  there  was  thereby  finally  abolished 
the  necessity  for  a  great  many  members  of  the  staff  of  the  Cen- 
tral Library  to  work  additional  time  evenings  for  extra  compen- 
sation in  order  to  make  a  living  wage,  and  (2)  there  followed 
therefrom  an  improved  library  service  to  the  citizens  of  Boston. 

The  estabhshment  of  the  Business  Branch  in  1930  accounted 
for  1 2  more  of  the  additional  workers. 

In  these  two  directions  alone  45  of  the  total  increase  of  51 
for  the  Reference  Division  are  accounted  for.  The  remaining 
increase  of  6  workers  was  attributable  to  ( 1  )  the  establishment 
of  the  Executive  Staff,  and  (2)  the  establishment  of  the  Book 
Selection  Department.  Here  as  in  the  other  divisions  the  accomp- 


[68] 

lishment  of  these  developments  was  accompanied  by  offsetting 
decreases  elsewhere  in  the  personnel  of  the  Reference  Division. 

HAS  THE  EXECUTIVE  FORCE  BEEN  UNDULY  EXPANDED? 

In  the  sections  immediately  preceding  mention  has  been  made 
of  the  establishment  of  executive  staffs  for  the  three  main  divisions 
of  the  Library.  The  purpose  in  developing  these  was  to  provide 
executive  staffs  adequate  to  the  economical  operation  of  the 
Library's  activities.  This  appears  to  have  been  doubted  in  cer- 
tain quarters.  The  charge  has  been  made  that  under  the  present 
administration  of  the  Library  there  has  occurred  an  unparalleled 
expansion  of  the  executive  force.  No  definition  of  "the  executive 
force"  is  given,  nor  is  the  charge  accompanied  by  supporting 
details. 

Since  1 93 1 ,  following  the  advent  of  a  new  administration 
early  in  1932,  the  Library  has  been  undergoing  a  reorganization. 
In  the  course  of  this  there  has  occurred  a  number  of  changes  in 
nomenclature  of  positions  and  in  the  allocation  of  duties  among 
positions.  It  is  therefore  desirable  to  define  "the  executive  force." 
A  fair  definition  for  purposes  of  comparison  between  1 93 1  and 
1939  would  seem  to  be  to  consider  "the  executive  force"  as 
including  all  of  the  officers  of  the  Library  at  the  end  of  1931 
and  at  the  end  of  1 939.  Such  a  definition  would  include  depart- 
ment heads  and  branch  librarians,  plus  all  other  officers. 

As  to  whether  or  not  there  has  occurred  an  unparalleled  ex- 
pansion of  the  executive  force  from  1931  to  1939  inclusive, 
the  following  statements  of  fact  are  pertinent. 

On  December  31,  1 93 1  the  executive  force  was  made  up  of 
72  individuals,  holding  76  different  positions.  On  December  31, 
1939  the  executive  force  was  made  up  of  72  individuals,  hold- 
ing 75  different  positions. 

The  only  out-and-out  new  positions  which  have  been  created 
since  1 93 1 ,  and  for  which  no  counterparts  of  any  sort  existed 
prior  to  1932,  are  the  following: 

Chief  Librarian  of  the  Circulation  Division 
Chief  of  Book  Selection  in  the  Circulation  Division 
Chief  of  Book  Selection  in  the  Reference  Division 
Chief  of  School  Department 


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These  are  included  in  the  75  positions  mentioned  above  as 
existing  on  December  31,1 939. 

As  of  December  31,  1 93 1  the  annual  salary  expenditure  for 
the  executive  force  totaled  $169,117,  or  19.82%  of  the  total 
annual  expenditure  by  the  Library  for  personnel.  As  of  Decem- 
ber 31,1 939  the  annual  salary  expenditure  for  the  executive 
force  totaled  $203,495,  or  19.70%  of  the  total  expenditure 
by  the  Library  for  personnel. 

From  December  31,  1 93 1  to  December  31,1 939  the  annual 
salary  expenditure  for  the  executive  force  increased  by  $34,378, 
or  20.33%.  For  the  same  period  the  total  annual  expenditure 
by  the  Library  for  personnel  increased  by  $179,709.02,  or 
21.07%. 

HAS  THERE  BEEN  AN  OVER-STAFFING  OF  THE  LIBRARY? 

There  exists  in  some  minds  a  v/onder  as  to  w^hether  there  has 
not  been  an  over-staffing  of  the  Library  in  general,  and  parti- 
cularly so  in  the  Central  Library.  This  latter  possibility  is  ex- 
pressed in  the  observation  that  the  Branch  Libraries  seem  to  be 
more  economically  operated  than  is  the  Central  Library. 

The  effecting  of  an  adequate  comparison  in  this  respect  is 
difficult  except  upon  the  basis  of  thorough  and  authoritative 
study.  The  work  of  a  branch  library  is  carried  on  with  a  rela- 
tively limited  number  of  titles  —  from  12,000  to  15,000  on  the 
average.  Increased  turnover  of  this  limited  stock  can  result  in 
an  increased  volum.e  in  use  for  which  there  may  be  necessary 
only  a  duplication  of  copies  of  these  titles  and  without  increase 
necessarily  in  their  numbers.  The  central  library,  on  the  other 
hand,  has  to  maintain  a  book  collection  totaling  over  a  million 
volumes.  Demand  there  is  diversified.  It  is  distributed  among 
mcmy  titles,  not  concentrated  on  a  relatively  limited  number  as 
in  a  branch  library.  The  cost  of  maintenance  of  so  much  larger 
a  collection  of  books  increases  in  what  is  essentially  a  sort  of 
geometric  rather  than  a  simple  arithmetic  progression.  The  larger 
a  large  library  of  scholarly  research  collections  becomes  the 
greater  by  far  its  cost  of  maintenance  becomes,  lo  effect  the 
selection,  then  the  purchase,  and  then  the  cataloging  of  the  out- 


[70] 

of-the-way  book  for  a  scholarly  collection  is  obviously  more 
expensive  than  to  do  the  same  for  the  current  or  standard  book 
intended  for  a  popular  branch  library  collection.  Also,  to  find 
the  proper  place  for  a  single  new  volume  in  a  collection  of  a 
million  and  more  other  volumes,  in  terms  of  the  relationship  of 
the  subject  matter  of  the  new  volume  to  that  of  the  numerous 
other  related  volumes,  is  naturally  more  costly  as  a  process  than 
to  place  a  single  new  volume  in  a  small  collection  of  only  1 5,000 
volumes.  So  likewise  is  the  cost  of  distribution  in  the  large  central 
library  naturally  greater  than  in  a  branch  library.  The  very 
bigness  of  the  central  library  as  a  physical  entity  plays  its  part 
here  just  as  it  does  in  the  cost  of  maintenance.  It  is  of  the  nature 
of  a  large  scholarly  reference  library  that  increasing  costs  follow 
from  increasing  volume  of  use  rather  than  decreasing  costs  be- 
cause oi  increasing  volume  of  use. 

It  is  undoubtedly  primarily  in  connection  with  the  distribution 
of  books  that  the  query  more  often  arises  as  to  whether  the 
Library  may  perhaps  be  over-staffed.  The  distribution  and  use 
of  books  is  carried  on  directly  before  the  eyes  of  the  public, 
thus  differing  from  the  preliminary  preparation  of  books  for 
use,  which  is  done  behind  the  scenes  or  in  units  closed  to  the 
public.  In  a  unit  rendering  direct  service  to  the  public  on  the 
other  hand,  the  staff  on  duty  is  at  all  times  in  evidence,  and 
generally  concentrated  at  one  or  more  points.  The  size  of  the 
staff  necessary  for  duty  at  any  one  time  has  to  be  determined  in 
terms  of  adequate  coverage,  not  only  to  care  for  the  ordinary 
volume  of  work  but  also  to  permit  meeting  as  well  as  possible 
the  peak  demands  when  they  come.  The  incidence  of  the  latter 
is  highly  uncertain.  Obviously,  in  order  to  meet  them,  there  has 
to  exist  at  all  times  a  margin  in  staff  coverage. 

The  layman  may  unthinkingly  assert  that  a  unit  appears  to 
be  over-staffed  in  noting  that  there  are  more  staff  members  on 
duty  than  there  are  members  of  the  public  to  be  served  at  the 
particular  moment.  He  may  be  overlooking,  however,  that  in 
addition  to  the  act  of  distributing  books  to  readers  or  borrowers 
there  is  an  appreciable  amount  of  additional  work  which  has  to 
be  carried  on  with  these  books  as  they  are  made  ready  for  dis- 


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tribution  lime  after  time.  He  may  be  overlooking  also  the  rush 
hour  or  hours  v.  hich  may  have  occurred  only  a  short  while  before 
or  which  are  still  to  come  later,  when  the  size  of  the  staff  on  duty 
would  appear  to  him  in  an  entirely  different  relationship  to  the 
number  of  customers.  In  a  large  store,  by  contrast,  he  observes 
a  similar  situation,  where  behind  the  counter  there  appear  to  be 
a  number  of  unoccupied  salespeople,  and  he  is  not  inclined  to 
assert  in  this  case  that  there  is  over-staffing.  He  knows  that  the 
store  cannot  make  a  profit  unless  it  has  an  adequate  number  of 
salespeople,  neither  too  few  nor  too  many,  and  that  it  is  not 
likely  to  have  more  than  are  actually  required.  The  store  is  only 
providing  what  it  has  found  to  be  necessary  for  rendering  the 
service  which  its  customers  require.  So  likewise  is  it  in  the  case 
of  the  Library.  What  appears  on  the  surface  to  be  over-staffing 
may  not  necessarily  be  so. 

That  the  Library  has  not  been  interested  in  making  expendi- 
tures for  more  personnel  than  it  has  believed  to  be  necessary 
for  honestly  rendering  the  service  which  its  customers  require  is 
to  be  seen  from  the  following  figures  showing  the  unexpended 
balances  year  by  year  in  its  appropriations  for  personnel  (see 
also  Appendix  B  on  page  81): 


Year 
1930 
1932 
1932 
1933 
1934 
1935 
1936 
1937 
1938 
1939 


Unexpended  Balance  in 
Appropriation  for  Personnel 

$2,469.59 

5,915.83 

4,319.90 
11.396.63 

2,744.49 

2,660.74 

9,248.39 

1 5,949.59 

7.163.15 


Surely  these  figures  are  substantial  enough  to  have  permitted 
adding  personnel  fairly  freely  in  most  years  if  it  had  been  de- 
sired to  do  just  that.  Instead  they  are  themselves  evidence  that 
there  has  been  an  honest  attempt  at  a  careful  administration  of 
the  funds  entrusted  to  the  Library. 

The  problem  in  the  Library  is  apparently  not  one  of  over- 
staffing  as  such.  It  appears  instead  to  be  one  of  finding  the  points 


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at  which  present  procedures  may  be  improved,  with  the  result 
that  a  smaller  personnel  may  be  required  for  carrying  them  on. 

SUMMARY  OF  THE  NUMBER  OF  PERSONNEL  IN  THE  LIBRARY 

The  gross  increase  in  the  number  of  full-time  workers  from 
1 930  to  1 939  inclusive  was  1  1  7.  Of  this  total  increase  of  1  1  7 
sixty  (60)  were  added  during  the  first  two  years  of  the  period, 
namely,  in  1 930  and  1 93 1 .  The  remaining  5  7  full-time  workers 
were  added  during  the  six  year  period  from  1932  to  1937  in- 
clusive. 

During  1938  and  1939  there  occurred  a  decrease  of  12  in 
the  number  of  full-time  workers.  From  1929  to  1939  inclusive 
there  occurred  also  a  decrease  of  20  in  the  number  of  part-time 
workers,  in  terms  of  their  equivalent  of  full-time  workers. 

The  net  increase  in  personnel  was  therefore  as  follows : 

Net   increase  in    full-time   workers        ....         -|-105 
Net  decrease  in  part-time  workers       .  .  .         .         —  20 

Net   increase        .  .  .         .         .         .  -[-85 

The  more  important  developments  causing  this  increase  were : 

(1)  the  establishment  of  the  Business  Branch; 

(2)  the  provision  of  improved  and  adequate  quarters  in  new 
buildings  or  otherv^ise  for  6  branch  libraries; 

(3)  the  establishment  of  executive  staffs  adequate  to  the  eco- 
nomical operation  of  the  three  main  divisions  of  the  Library's 
activities ; 

(4)  the  establishment  of  the  shift  or  platoon  system  for  the  li- 
brary workers  of  the  Central  Library,  with  a  consequent 
abolition  of  the  necessity  for  a  great  many  staff  members  to 
work  additional  time  evenings  for  extra  compensation  in  order 
to  make  a  living  wage. 

Such  developments  speak  for  themselves  as  to  their  desirability 
or  necessity.  They  have  not  been  accompanied  by  an  over- 
staffing  of  the  Library  or  by  an  unparalleled  expansion  of  the 
executive  force. 


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IV. 

CONCLUSIONS 

NUMBER  OF  PERSONNEL 

From  1930  to  1939  inclusive  there  occurred  a  net  increase 
of  85  in  the  total  personnel  of  the  Library.  The  period  of  in- 
crease extended  from  1930  to  the  end  of  1937.  This  increase 
was  for  entirely  desirable  ends.  From  1938  on  there  set  in  a 
steadily  continuing  decrease.  This  decrease  may  be  and  can  be 
continued  to  a  still  further  point  if  the  financial  situation  of  the 
City  requires  such  action.  It  can  be  carried  to  any  point  what- 
ever, provided  that  there  is  a  vvillingness  on  the  part  of  the  public 
and  all  concerned  to  pay  the  price  for  it.  The  price  will  be  a 
curtailment  or  even  abandonment  soon  or  late  of  present  library 
activities  at  one  or  more  points. 

IMPROVEMENT  IN  SALARIES 

From  1930  to  1939  inclusive  there  was  achieved  substantial 
improvement  in  the  salary  situation  in  the  Library.  Even  with 
this  improvement  the  personnel  of  the  Library  is  in  all  too  many 
instances  not  yet  paid  adequately.  To  pay  it  adequately  will  re- 
quire an  eventual  additional  annual  expenditure  of  approximately 
$175,500  above  the  expenditure  for  personnel  on  the  pattern 
and  at  the  rates  in  effect  at  the  end  of  i  939.  There  appear  to  be 
several  alternatives  of  action: 

(1)  Allcmalive  no.  1  • —  increase  in  expenditure  for  salaries  by 
whatever  amount  proves  Anally  necessary  (approximately 
$1  75,500)  for  salary  increases,  both  step  rate  increases  and 
promotional  increases  —  this  luie  of  action  will  leave  all  li- 
brary activities  in  the  present  pattern,  without  curtailment  or 
abandonment; 

(2)  Ahernalivc  no.  2  —  stabilization  of  expenditure  for  salaries 
at  the  amount  ($1,065,000)  as  necessary  for  1940  follow- 
ing the  1 939  increases  in  pay,  and  giving  no  further  salary 
increases  except  promotional  increases  —  this  line  of  action 
will  be  possible  without  change  in  the  present  pattern  of 
library  activities; 


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(3)  Allcrnativc  no.  3  —  stabilization  of  expenditure  for  salaries 
at  the  amount  ($1,065,000)  as  necessary  for  1940  follow- 
ing the  1939  increases  in  pay,  and  giving  further  salary 
increases  on  both  the  step  rate  basis  and  the  promotional 
basis  —  this  line  of  action  will  require  a  reduction  in  the 
present  pattern  of  library  activities,  either  through  curtailment 
or  abandonment  at  one  or  more  points; 

(4)  Alternative  no.  4  —  reduction  in  expenditure  for  salaries,  and 
giving  no  further  salary  increases  except  promotional  increases 
—  this  line  of  action  also  will  require  a  reduction  in  the 
present  pattern  of  library  activities,  either  through  curtail- 
ment or  abandonment  at  one  or  more  points. 

V. 

RECOMMENDATIONS 

1.  It  is  recommended  that  careful  consideration  be  given 
to  the  possibility  of  carrying  out  an  authoritative  survey  —  pre- 
ferably by  an  outside  agency  or  group  —  of  the  various  ac- 
tivities of  the  Library,  w^ith  the  purpose  of  determining  the  points 
at  which  present  procedures  may  be  improved,  so  that  they  may 
be  carried  on  by  a  smaller  personnel.  Such  a  survey  would  con- 
cern itself  with  the  question  of  whether  or  not  there  is  in  the  Li- 
brary an  overstaffing  in  general  and  also  in  the  executive  force. 

2.  It  is  recommended  that  continuing  action  be  taken  for 
the  improvement  of  the  salary  level  of  the  library  workers,  par- 
ticularly for  the  middle  group;  that  the  salary  level  of  the  li- 
brary workers  be  made  at  least  commensurate  with  that  of  the 
mechanical  workers  in  the  library  service  and  that  of  workers 
of  comparable  standing  elsewhere  in  the  City  of  Boston  service ; 
that  this  improvement  in  salary  level  be  accomplished  by  taking 
action  in  accordance  with  some  one  of  the  alternative  procedures 
listed  above.  These  alternatives  of  action  are  recommended  in 
the  following  order  of  desirability : 

(1)  Alternative  no.  3  as  listed  above  —  stabilization  of  expendi- 
ture for  salaries  at  the  amount  ($1,065,000)  as  necesnary 
for  1940  following  the  1939  increases  in  pay,  and  giving 
further  increases  on  both  the  step  rate  basis  and  the  promo- 
tional basis  —  this  line  of  action  requiring  a  reduction  in  the 


1 73  J. 

present  pattern   of  library    activities,   either   through   curtail- 
ment or  abandonment  at  one  or  more  points; 

(2)  Alternative  no.  4  as  listed  above  —  reduction  in  expenditure 
for  salaries,  and  giving  no  further  salary  increases  except 
promotional  increases  —  this  line  of  action  also  requiring  a 
reduction  in  the  present  pattern  of  library  activities,  either 
through  curtailment  or  abandonment  at  one  or  more  ponints; 

(3)  Alternative  no.  2  as  listed  above  —  stabilization  of  expendi- 
ture for  salaries  at  the  amount  ($1,065,000)  as  necessary 
for  1940  foUowfing  the  1939  increases  in  pay,  and  giving  no 
further  salary  increases  except  promotional  increases  —  this 
line  of  action  being  possible  without  change  in  the  present 
pattern  of  library  activities. 

The  first  hvo  of  these  recommended  alternative  procedures 
will  necessitate  a  reduction  in  the  present  pattern  of  hbrary  ac- 
tivities. The  third  will  not. 

The  last  two  of  the  recommended  alternative  procedures  pro- 
vide for  the  giving  of  only  promotional  increases  in  pay.  For 
these  in  any  one  year  the  over-all  appropriation  for  the  personnel 
service  account  in  the  budget  will  be  sufficient  in  amount  without 
the  necessity  of  appropriating  an  extra  amount  for  the  purpose. 

3.  It  is  recommended  that  if  only  limited  action  can  be 
taken  in  the  matter  of  increases  in  pay  preference  be  given  to 
granting  promotional  increases  on  as  full  a  basis  as  possible  rather 
than  step  rate  increases  on  only  a  limited  basis. 

The  granting  of  promotional  increases  only  will  be  more  easily 
possible  and  more  easily  justifiable  than  the  giving  of  step  rate 
increases  if  only  limited  action  can  be  taken  in  the  way  of  in- 
creases in  pay.  Promotional  increases  can  be  given  within  the 
amount  of  the  annual  appropriation  for  personnel  in  any  one 
year;  by  contrast  step  rate  increases  will  by  their  very  extent 
require  an  additional  appropriation  in  each  following  year  above 
and  beyond  the  amount  of  the  personnel  expenditure  for  the 
year  in  which  they  are  granted.  Promotional  increases  will  cost 
in  any  one  year  from  $10,000  to  $15,000,  depending  upon  the 
degree  of  success  of  members  of  the  library  staff  in  meeting  pro- 
motional examinations  and  other  requirements;  by  contrast  step 
rate  increases  will  cost  $38,450  in  1940.  $36,100  in  1941, 
$33,000  in  1 942,  and  so  on  in  diminishing  amounts  year  by  year 


761 


through  1947  to  a  total  additional  annual  expenditure  of  ap- 
proximately $175,500.  Promotional  increases  are  to  be  eventu- 
ally the  only  increases  in  pay  to  be  given  in  the  Library;  step 
rate  increases  will  no  longer  be  given  after  those  individuals  who 
were  in  the  library  semce  prior  to  January  1 ,  1 938  have  eventu- 
ally reached  the  maximum  remuneration  of  their  positions.  Pro- 
motional increases  are  possible  to  all  members  of  the  library  staff 
regardless  of  the  date  of  entrance  into  the  library  service;  by 
contrast  step  rate  increases  are  not  possible  under  the  new  ar- 
rangem.ents  for  the  classification  of  personnel  to  those  members 
of  the  library  staff  who  have  entered  the  service  of  the  Library 
since  January  1 ,  1 938.  Promotional  increases  are  granted  in 
terms  of  individual  accomplishment  on  a  promotional  basis,  by 
voluntary  election  of  the  individual;  by  contrast  step  rate  in- 
creases are  given  annually  on  an  automatic  basis. 

4.  It  is  recommended  that,  if  in  addition  to  promotional  in- 
creases step  rate  increases  are  granted  in  continuing  fashion  up 
to  the  additional  total  cost  of  $1  75,500  over  the  necessary  seven 
year  period,  and  if  this  is  to  be  done  without  any  increase  beyond 
the  total  amount  of  the  personnel  appropriation  ($1,065,000) 
necessary  for  1 940  Tollowing  the  increases  of  1 939,  the  curtail- 
ment of  library  activities  which  will  be  necessary  should  be  ac- 
complished in  accordance  with  the  following  program  of  reduc- 
tion in  the  number  of  personnel : 


Amount  of  reduction 

Reduction  in  the 

Year 

in  personnel  expenditure 

number  of  personnel 

1st    year    (1940)      . 

.      $38,450 

22 

2ncl  year   (1941)      . 

36,100 

21 

3rd  year    (1942)      . 

33.000 

19 

4lh  year   (1943)      . 

27  850 

16 

5th  year    (1944)      . 

21  750 

12 

6th  year    (1945)      . 

.'       14.300 

8 

7th  year    (1946)      . 

3,900 

2 

8th  year    (1947)      . 

100 

0 

$175,500 


100 


Such  a  reduction  in  personnel  would  be  achieved  through  rigid 
adherence  to  the  policy  of  leaving  vacancies  unfilled  as  they 
occur.  It  is  not  desirable  to  accomplish  it  by  the  discharge  of 
workers. 


[77J 

In  all  directions  it  will  have  to  be  clearly  understood  that  the 
carrying  through  of  any  extensive  program  for  the  reduction  of 
personnel  will  result  soon  or  late  in  a  curtailment  and  abandon- 
ment of  library  service.  Branch  libraries  will  have  to  be  closed. 
Service  to  the  pubhc  schools  will  have  to  be  given  up.  Numerous 
activities  will  have  to  be  abandoned  in  the  central  library  as  well 
as  in  the  branch  libraries. 

All  concerned  —  the  library  staff,  the  city  administration,  the 
citizens  of  Boston  —  must  appreciate  fully  that  the  number  and 
cost  of  personnel  in  the  Library  can  at  any  time,  as  necessary  or 
desirable,  be  reduced  to  any  point  whatever,  provided  that  there 
is  a  xvillingness  on  the  pari  of  all  to  pay  the  price  for  such  re- 
duction through  curtailed  service. 


CONCLUSION 

Inasmuch  as  this  report  has  been  given  over  to  a  survey  of 
the  cost  and  number  of  personnel  in  the  Library,  there  has  had 
to  be  placed  in  the  following  pages  of  Appendix  the  usual  pre- 
sentation concerning  the  significant  happenings  in  the  Library 
during  1 939.  There  in  summarized  form  will  be  found  statistical 
and  other  information  of  value  and  interest. 

It  is  hoped  that  the  preoccupation  here  with  salary  costs  and 
the  like  will  be  left  after  due  consideration  in  the  place  which 
it  should  properly  hold  in  the  minds  and  interest  of  all  concerned. 
The  Library  does  not  exist  primarily  for  giving  employment  or 
for  expendmg  funds  to  provide  employment.  No  one  believes  of 
course  that  it  does.  The  widespread  belief  is  instead  that  it  is 
an  educational  institution,  a  cultural  institution,  a  social  insti- 
tution of  ranking  importance  in  the  community,  and  that  it  does 
highly  valuable  work  in  these  directions.  The  results  of  this  work 
may  be  intangible  in  many  instances.  Certainly  they  are  in  gen- 
eral not  easily  susceptible  of  measurement  in  dollars  and  cents. 
They  are  none  the  less  real  in  their  value  and  influence,  however. 

The  Library  carried  on  its  usual  wide  variety  of  activities 
throughout  1939.  Many  of  these  had  results  which  can  be  and 


176J 

are  set  forth  in  tangible  form  in  the  following  pages  of  Appendix. 
Ihose  which  had  results  which  cannot  be  set  down  in  black  and 
white  will  be  remembered  and  cherished  at  their  real  value  by 
the  many  who  profited  from  them. 

To  the  members  of  the  library  staff  who  have  carried  the 
daily  burden  of  these  many  activities  I  express  warm  appreciation 
of  ever  friendly  cooperation.  On  their  behalf,  as  well  as  on  my 
own,  I  extend  grateful  thanks  for  the  constant  interest,  aid,  and 
support  so  generously  extended  by  the  Trustees  of  the  Library, 

Respectfully  submitted, 

Milton  E.  Lord 

Director^  and  Librarian 


[79] 


APPENDIX    A 


SUMMARY  OF  EXPENDITURES  OF  THE  LIBRARY.  1930  -  1939 


Total  Expenditures,  1930  -  1939 


1930 
1931 
1932 
1933 
1934 
1935 
1936 
1937 
1938 
1939 


FROM  ANNUAL        FUOM  SPECIAL 

CITY  CITY 

APPROPRIATIONS    APPROPRIAIIONS 


!.  132,520.06 
1.239,257.45 
1.147.579.89 
1.000.431.87 
1.065.367.44 
1.I39.1 14.88 
1,116.657.14 
1.204,994.47 
1.231,278.52 
1.231,198.08 


$237,962.1 1 

309,794.65 

126,345.78 

1,027.43 

41.049.17 

36.295.49 

74,434.97 

73,204.16 

66,243.1 1 

39,997.19 


FROM 

INCOME  OF 

TRUST  FUNDS 

$22,796.21 
20.839.73 
22.801.04 
26,633.94 
19.083.82 
24,496.50 
58.826.03 
51.161.81 
86.338.96 

119.899.86 


FROM 
GIFTS  FOR 

IMMEDIATE  U£ 


6.83 

206.68 
73.97 


$1,393,278.38 
1. 569.89 1. 83 
1,296.726.71 
1,028.093.24 
1.125.500.43 
1.199,906.87 
1,249,924.97 
1,329.567.12 
1 .383,860,59 
1.391.169.10 


Distribution  of  ExPENoiTUKf.s  From  Annual  City  Appropriations.   1930-1939 


SALARIES 

ALL  OTHER 

YEAR 

AND  WAGES 

books 

accounts 

total 

1930 

$809,530.41 

$159,999.97 

$162,989.68 

$1,132,520.06 

1931 

852.987.17 

190,636.12 

195,634.16 

1,239.257.45 

1932 

.  853.680.10 

1 59,970.58 

133.929.21 

1,147,579.89 

1933 

788.603.37 

87.323.50 

124,505.00 

1,000,431.87 

1934 

821.974.51 

98.291.63 

145.101.30 

1,065,367.44 

1935 

912.339.26 

99.233.95 

127,541.67 

1,139.114.88 

1936 

930,788.04 

54.999.98 

130,869.12 

1.116,657.14 

1937 

975,751.61 

81,522.49 

147,720.37 

1 ,204.994.47 

1938 

1,023.225.41 

73,874.93 

134.178.18 

1,231,278.52 

1939 

1.032.696.19 

54,999.97 

143.501.92 

1.231.198.08 

[80] 

Distribution  of  Expenditures  From  Special  City  Appropriations.   1930-1939 


1930 
1931 
1932 
1933 
1934 
1935 
1936 
1937 
1938 
1939 


CENTRAL  LIBRARY 

FOUNDATIONS, 

FIRtPROOFING         BRANCH  LIBRARIES 
&  IMPROVEMENTS         NEW  BUILDINGS 


$206  391 .46 

254.871.40 

13.125.06 


4,867.40 

7,997.34 

11,131.75 

12,251.72 


$31,570.65 

54,923.25 

113,220.72 

1 ,027.43 

6.80 

5,705.30 

1,597.40 


RF.LIEF  PROJECTS 
(WPA,  ETC.) 


$41,042.37 
25,722.79 
64.840.23 
62.072.41 
53,991.39 
39,997.19 


$237,962.11 

309,794.65 

126,345.78 

1.027.43 

41,049.17 

36.295.49 

74.434.97 

73,204.16 

66.243.1 1 

39,997.19 


Distribution  of  Expenditures  From  Income  of  Trust  Funds,  1930-1939 


books  AND  other 

YEAR 

LIBRARY  MATERIALS 

SALARIES 

OTHER 

TOTAL 

1930 

$22,466.21 

$      180.00 

$1  50.00 

$22,796.21 

1931 

19.259.55 

1,480.18 

100.00 

20,839.73 

1932 

20,045.62 

2,755.42 

22,801.04 

1933 

23.873.19 

2,760.75 



26,633.94 

1934 

16.996.57 

2,087.25 

19,083.82 

1935 

22.264.83 

1 ,602.67 

629.00 

24,496.50 

1936 

56,909.96 

1.274.07 

642.00 

58,826.03 

1937 

49.641.81 

1,128.00 

392.00 

51,161.81 

1938 

82.756.96 

3,126.00 

456.00 

86,338.96 

1939 

116,257.43 

3.257.33 

385.10 

119,899.86 

Di-'iTRlBUTION    OF    ExHFNDlTURES    FrOM    GiFTS    FOR    IMMEDIATE    UsE.    1930-1939 


YEAR 

1930 
1931 
1932 
1933 
1934 
1935 
1936 
1937 
1938 
1939 


BOOKS  AND  OTHER 
LIBRARY  MATERIALS 


$      6.83 

206.68 
73.97 


[81] 

APPENDIX    B 


APPROPRIATIONS  y\ND  EXPENDITURES  FOR  PERSONNEL 

1930  -  1939 

Total  Appropriations  and  Expknditukes  ior  all  Personnel,  1930-1939 


YEAR 
1930 

1931 
1932 
1933 
1934 
1935 
1936 
1937 
1938 
1939 


amount 

AMOUNT 

UNEXPENDED 

APPROPRIATEO 

EXPENDED 

BALANCE 

$812,000.00 

$809,530.41 

$2,469.59 

858.903.00 

852,987.17 

5,915.83 

858,000.00 

853,680.10 

4,319.90 

800,000.00 

788,603.37 

11,396.63 

824,719.00 

821.974.51 

2.744.49 

915,000.00 

912,339.26 

2.660.74 

921,000.00 

930,788.04-* 

985.000.00 

975.751.61 

9,248.39 

1,039,175.00 

1.023.225.41 

1 5,949.59 

1,039,859.34 

i. 032,696. 19 

7,163.15 

*  To  take  care  of  the  commitments  above  the  amount  appropriated 
for  1936.  the  sum  of  $9,788.04  was  transferred  from  unexpended 
balances  in  other  accounts  of  the  Library. 


Chances  Year  by  Year  in  Total  Expenditures  for  All  Personnel,  1930-1939 


total  expenditures 

%0F 

%0F 

FOR  salaries  &  wages 

CHANCE  FF.OM 

CHANGE 

YEAR 

for  all  personnel 

preceding  YEAR 

FROM  1929 

1929 

$770,367.26 

1930 

809,530.41 

+5.1% 

+5.1% 

1931 

852,987.17 

+5.4% 

+10.7% 

1932 

853.680.10 

-fO.1% 

+  10.8% 

1933 

768.603.37 

-7.7% 

+2.4% 

1934 

821.974.51 

+4.2% 

+6.7% 

1935 

912.339.26 

+  11.0% 

+  18.3% 

1936 

930,788.04 

+2.0% 

-1-20.8% 

1937 

975,751.61 

+4.8% 

4-26.6% 

1938 

1,023,225.41 

-1-4.8% 

H-32.7% 

1939 

1,032.696.19 

+0.9% 

-f33.9% 

[82] 

Changes  Year  By  Year  in  Total  Expenditures  for  Regular  Serxhce 
(FuLL-TiME  Personnel),  1930-1939 


total  expenditures 

%OF 

%0F 

FOR  salaries  &  WAGES 

CHANGE  FROM 

CHANCE 

year 

FOR  REGULAR  SERVICE 

PRECEDING  YEAR 

FROM  1929 

1929 

$663,747.98 

1930 

694.183.74 

+4.6% 

+4.6% 

1931 

734,150.50 

+5.8% 

+10.6% 

1932 

746,221.52 

+1.6% 

+12.4% 

1933 

683,618.01 

-6.4% 

+3.0% 

1934 

682.797.16 

-0.1% 

+2.9% 

1935 

799.271.34 

+17.1% 

+20.4% 

1936 

833.763.88 

+4.3% 

+25.8% 

1937 

875.957.34 

+5.1% 

+32.1% 

1938 

932.579.59 

+6.5% 

+40.7% 

1939 

945.123.21 

+  1.3% 

-|42.5% 

Changes  Year  By  Year  in  Total  Expenditures  for  Extra  Service 
(Part-Time  Personnel.  Etc.).  1930-1939 


total  expenditures 

%0F 

%OF 

for  salaries  &  WAGES 

CHANGE  FROM 

CHANGE 

year 

FOR  EXTRA  SERVICE 

PRECEDING  YEAR 

FROM  1929 

1929 

$104,032.28 

1930 

112,214.67 

+7.87o 

+7.8% 

1931 

1 1 5,888.67 

+3.3% 

+  11.3% 

1932 

105.448.58 

-9.0% 

+1.4% 

1933 

102,982.11 

-2.3% 

-1.0% 

1934 

111.792.41 

+8.6% 

+7.4% 

1935 

96330.61 

-13.8% 

-7.4% 

1936 

92.411.73 

-4.1% 

-11.1% 

1937 

97.706.13 

+5.7% 

-6.0% 

1938 

88.305.46 

-9.6% 

-15.1% 

1939 

85,661.98 

-3.0% 

-17.8% 

[83] 

ANALYSIS  AND  DISTRIBUTION  OF  EXPENDITURES  FOR 
PERSONNEL,  1939 

summary  by  divisions 

Director's  Office 

Regular   Service  $  26,940.82 

Extra  Service 

Parl-time   Service  $      493.65  493.65 


Total  Expenditures  for  Director's  Office  $      27.434.47 

Circulation  Division 

Regular    Service  $403,833.21 

Extra   Service 

Part-time    Service  $33,346.91 

Cleaning  by  the  Hour  6,371.40 

Sunday   Service  530.90  40.249.21 


Total    Expenditures    for   Circulation    Division  444,082.42 

RtixRENCE  Division 

Regular    Service  $287,888.22 

Extra  Service 

Part-time    Service  $18,482.73 

Evening    Service  3,127.43 

Sunday    Service  12,415.06  34,025.22 


Total  Expenditures  for  Reference  Division  321,913.44 

Division  of  Business  Operations 

Regular   Service  $226,460.96 

Extra  Service 

Part-time    Service  $         

Evening    Service  6,024.25 

Sunday    Service  4,869.65  10,893.90 


Total  Expenditures  for  Division  of  Business  Operations  237,354.86 

Mi.scellaneous  Service 

Story  Telling  1,800.00 

Steriopticon    Operation  111.00 


Total  Expenditures  for  Miscellaneous  Service  1,911.00 


Total  Expenditure  for  all  Personnel  $1,032,696.19 


[84] 
EXPENDITURES  FOR  PERSONNEL  IN  DIRECTOR'S  OFFICE,  1939 


REGULAR 

PART-TIME 

UNIT 

SERVICE 

SERVICE 

TOTAL 

Director's  Office 

$26,940.82 

$493.65 

$27,434.47 

EXPENDITURES  FOR  PERSONNEL  IN  CIRCULATION  DIVISION.  1939 


Unit 

Executive   Staff 

Book  Selection  Department 

Young  People's  Room 

School  Department 

Central  Office  —  Branch  Libraries 

Branch  Libraries 
Total  Expenditure  for 

Circulation  Division 
Branch  Libraries 

Allston 

Andrew  Square 
Boylston 
Brighton 
Charlestown 
City  Point 
Codrnan  Square 
Dorchester 
East  Boston 
Faneuil 

Fellowes  Athenaeum 
Hyde  Park 
Jamaica  Plain 
Jeffries   Point 
Kirstein 
Lower  Mills 
Mattapan 
Memorial 
Mount   Bowdoin 
Mount  Pleasant 
Neponset 
North  End 
Orient  Heights 
Parker   Hill 
Phillips  Brooks 
Roslindale 
South  Boston 
South  End 
Upharns  Corner 
West   End 
West  Roxbury 
lotal  Expenditure   for 
Branch  Libraries 


REGULAR 

PART-TIME    CLEANING  BY 

SUNDAY 

SERVICE 

SERVICE 

THE  HOUR 

SERVICE              TOTAL 

$22,895.25 

$ 

$ 

$ $22,895.25 

3.511.25 

3.511.25 

7.513.38 

960.30 



530.90          9.004.58 

1 1 ,739.04 

1.871.99 

13,611.03 

32,335.45 

2,912.43 

35.247.88 

325,838.84 

27.602.19 

6371.40 

359,812.43 

$403,833.21 

$33,346.91 

$6371.40 

$530.90    $444,082.42 

$12,559.70 

$729.00 

$474.80 

$13,763.50 

7.582.79 

1.731.23 

712.40 

10.026.42 

11,060.52 

1.097.05 

12.157.57 

10,952.70 

621.83 

11.574.53 

14,049.30 

837.30 

14,886.60 

6.54537 

1.866.00 

8.411.37 

12.454.33 

957.83 

13.412.16 

10.171.28 

1,036.49 

11.207.77 

16.286.64 

1.05 1. 32 

688.80 

18,026.76 

10,205.72 

797.10 

1 1 .002.82 

9.512.37 

639.45 

196.80 

10,348.62 

10,932.05 

663.00 

11,595.05 

9.186.67 

917.70 

610.00 

10,714.37 

8.187.43 

730.33 

126.40 

9,044.16 

5.541.00 

384.68 

5,925.68 

6.389.69 

542.00 

6,931.69 

14.859.22 

1,147.68 

16,006.90 

1 7,080.20 

1,584.84 

1 1 7.60 

18,782.64 

9,561.89 

634.92 

479.20 

10,676.01 

6,422.72 

762.60 

7.185.32 

4,749.68 

952.65 

527.20 

6,229.53 

1 5.290.04 

655.95 

624.00 

16,569.99 

5,993.60 

514.65 

91 5.20 

7,423.45 

12.378.04 

394.95 

12,772.99 

4,729.01 

451.81 

732.60 

5.913.42 

11,075.25 

647.55 

166.40 

11.889.20 

10,228.37 

863.19 



11.091.56 

9,847.20 

758.25 

10.605.45 

14,322.04 

1 .667.49 

15.989.53 

14,908.83 

1,392.75 



16.301.60 

12,775.17 

570.60 

13.345.77 

$325,838.84 

$27,602.19 

$6371.40 

$359,812.43 

[85] 
EXPENDITURES  FOR  PERSONNEL  IN   REFERENCE  DIVISION.   1939 


REGULAR 

PART-TIME 

EVENING 

SUNDAY 

Unit 

SERVICE 

SERVICE 

SERVICE 

SERVICE 

TOTAL 

Executive  Staff 

$31,822.51 

$276.00 

$32,098.51 

Bates  Hall  Centre  Desk 

6,674.70 

$1,732.95 

821.05 

9.228.70 

Bates  Hall 

Reference   Department 

12,767.89 

1,335.35 

14,103.24 

Book  Selection  Department 

4.004.37 

4.004.37 

Business  Branch 

18,679.54 

263.03 

18.942.57 

Cataloging   and 

Classification   Department 

51,991.41 



51,991.41 

Fine  Arts  Department 

14,364.93 

2,287.37 



1,231.65 

17,883.95 

Issue  Department 

60,082.37 

6,302.10 

4,626.36 

71.OiO.83 

Music   Department 

7,152.32 

1 ,257.00 

361.20 

8,770.52 

Open  Shelf  Department 

13,698.82 

1,766.10 

818.80 

16,283.72 

Periodical   and 

Newspaper  Department 

13,667.20 

1,717.84 

979.10 

16,364.14 

Rare   Book  Department 

11,632.16 

777.64 

601.65 

13,011.45 

Registration   Department 

13,497.80 

356.00 

13.853.80 

Science   and 

Technology  Department 

1 5.984.55 

1,066.12 

402.70 

17.453.37 

Statistical  Department 

7,443.33 

869.18 

433.20 

8.745.71 

Teachers   Department 

4,424.32 

443.40 

172.00 

5.039.72 

"Unliquidated"  Evening  Service 

2,987.30 

2.987.30 

1939  Book  Fair 

140.13 

140.13 

Total  Expenditure  for 
Reference  Division 

$287,888.22 

$18,482.73 

$3,127.43 

$12,415.06 

$321,913.44 

[86] 

EXPENDITURES  FOR  PERSONNEL  IN  DIVISION  OF  BUSINESS 

OPERATIONS.  1939 

regular  evening  sunday 

Unit                                                    service  service  service  total 

Executive  Staff                                 $14,287.98        $14,287.98 

Auditing  Department                                8.018.69         8,018.69 

Binding  Department                          59,931.13  $  134.45        60,065.58 

Book  Purchasing  Department               28,053.68         28.053.68 

Buildings  Department                         79.008.87  5.889.80  $4,869.65  89.768.32 

Cleaning                                                15.381.50        15.381.50 

Printing  Department                               13.039.16         13,039.16 

Shipping  Department                                5.179.45         5.179.45 

Stock  Purchasing  Department               3,560.50         3.560.50 

Total  Expenditure 

for  Division  of  — 

Business  Operations                      $226,460.96  $6,024.25  $4,869.65  $237,354.86 


RECAPITULATION  OF  EXPENDITURES  FOR  ALL  PERSONNEL,  1939 


Regular  Service 

Full-time  Members  of  the 

Staff 

$945,123.21 

Extra  Service 

Part-time  Service 
Evening  Service 
Sunday  Service 
Cleaning  by  the  Hour 

all  Personnel 

$52,323.29 
9.151.68 
17.815.61 
6,371.40 

85,661,98 

Miscellaneous 

1,911.00 

Total  Expenditure  for 

$1,032,696.19 

(87] 
APPENDIX    C 

APPROPRIATIONS  AND  EXPENDITURES  FOR  BOOKS,  1930  -  1939 

City  Appropriations  for  the  Purchase  of  Books  and  Other  Library  Materials 

1919-20 $50,000 

1920-21 60.000 

1921-22 100,000 

1922-23 100.000 

1923-24 90.000 

1924-25 100,000 

1925*            100,000* 

1926              125,000 

1927              125,000 

1928              125,000 

1929              140,000 

1930              160,000 

1931              175.000 

1932              160,000 

1933              75,000 

1934              100,000 

1935              100.000 

1936              55.000 

1937              75.000 

1938              73,875 

1939              55.000 

*  February    i   -  December  31,    1925  only. 
Total  Expenditures  for  Books  and  Other  Library  Materials,  1930-1939 


from 

from  income 

Yr^AR 

CITY  FUNDS 

OF  TRUST  FUNDS 

TOTAL 

1930 

$159,999.97 

$22,466.21 

$182,466.18 

1931 

190,636.12 

19,259.55 

209.895.67 

1932 

1 59,970.58 

20,045.62 

180.016.20 

1933 

87,323.50 

23,873.19 

111,196.69 

1934 

98,291.63 

16,996.57 

1 1 5.288.20 

1935 

99.233.95 

22,264.83 

121.498.78 

1936 

54,999.98 

56,909.96 

111,909.94 

1937 

81,522.49 

49,641.81 

131.164.30 

1938 

73,874.93 

82,756.96 

156.631.89 

1939 

54.999.97 

116.257.43 

171,257.40 

188J 
Expenditures  for  Books  and  Other  Library  Materials  by  Divisions,  1935-1939 


YEAR 

1935 

From   City    Funds 
From   Trust    Funds 

CIRCULATION 
DIVISION 

$72,440.78 
1,335.89 

REFERENCE 
DIVISION 

$26,793.17 
20,928.94 

ENTIRE 
LIBRARY 
SYSTEM 

$  99,233.95 
22,264.83 

Total 
1936 

From  City  Funds 
From   Trust    Funds 

$73,776.67 

$48,399.98 
3,983.70 

$47,722.1 1 

$  6.600.00 
52,926.26 

$121,498.78 

$  54.999.98 
56,909.96 

Total 
1937 

From  City  Funds 
From   Trust    Funds 

$52,383.68 

$61,141.87 
2,482.09 

$59,526.26 

$20,380.62 
47,159.72 

$111,909.94 

$  81 ,522.49 
49,641.81 

Total 
1938 

From  City  Funds 
From  Trust   Funds 

$63,623.96 

$56,631.10 
2,482.71 

$67,540.34 

$17,243.83 
80,274.25 

$131,164.30 

$  73,874.93 
82,756.96 

Total 
1939 

From  City  Funds 
From  Trust  Funds 

$59,113.81 

$42,667.54 
1 ,898.52 

$97,518.08 

$  12,332.43 
114,358.91 

$156,631.89 

$  54.999.97 
116,257.43 

Total 

$44,566.06 

$126,691.34 

$171,257.40 

Percentages  of  Annual  Expenditures  for  Books  and  Other  Library 
Materials  in  Relation  to  Total  Annual  EIxpenditures  from  City  Funds 

1930  -  1939 


1930 
1931 
1932 
1933 
1934 
1935 
1936 
1937 
1938 
1939 


total  expenditures 

total 

FOR  books  and  other 

PERCENTAGES 

expenditures 

library  materials 

OF  EXPENDITURES 

from  city  funds 

from  city  funds 

FOR  books 

$1,132,520.06 

$159,999.97 

14.12% 

1 .239,257.45 

190,636.12 

15.38% 

1,147,579.89 

1 59,970.58 

13.94% 

1,000,431.87 

87,323.50 

8.73% 

1 .065,367.44 

98.291.63 

9.23% 

1,139.114.88 

99.233.95 

8.11% 

1.116.657.14 

54.999.98 

4.93% 

1 .204.994.47 

81,522.49 

6.77% 

1,231,278.52 

73,874.93 

6.00% 

1,231,198.08 

54,999.97 

4.47% 

18<M 


Percentages  of  Annual  Expenditurfs  roi?  Books  and  Other  Library 

Materials  in  Relation  to    Total  Annual  Expenditures 

1930  -  1939 


year 

1930 
1931 
1932 
1933 
1934 
1935 
1936 
1937 
1938 
1939 


TOTAL  EXPENDITURES 
FROM  CITY  FUNDS 
&  TRUST  FUNDS 

$1,155,316.27 
1,260,097.18 
1,170,380.93 
1.027.065.81 
1,084,451.26 
1,163,611.38 
1.175.483.17 
1,256,156.28 
1,317,617.48 
1,351,097.94 


TOTAL  EXPENDITURES 

FOR  BOOKS  AND  OTHER 

LIBRARY  MATERIALS 

PERCENTAGES 

FROM  CITY  FUNDS 

OF  EXPENDITURES 

&  TRUST  FUNDS 

FOR  BOOKS 

$182,466.18 

15.79% 

209,895.67 

16.65% 

180,016.20 

15.38% 

111,196.69 

10.82% 

1 1 5,288.20 

10.63% 

121.498.78 

10.44% 

111,909.94 

9.44% 

131,164.30 

10.44% 

156,631.89 

11.89% 

171,257.40 

12.67% 

Percentages  of  Annu.\l  Expenditures  for  Salaries  and  Books  and  Other 

Library    Materials    in    Relation    to    Each    Other 

1930  -  1939 


total  expenditure; 

FOR  salaries 

TOTAL  EXPENDITURES 

&  wages 

FOR  BOOKS 

YEAR 

FROM  CITY  FUNDS 

% 

FROM  CITY  FUNDS 

% 

TOTAL 

% 

1930 

$809,530.41 

84% 

$159,999.97 

16% 

$969,530.38 

100% 

1931 

852,987.17 

827o 

190,636.12 

18% 

1,043,623.29 

100% 

1932 

853,680.10 

84% 

1 59,970.58 

16% 

1,013,650.68 

100% 

1933 

788,603.37 

90% 

87,323.50 

10% 

875,926.87 

100% 

1934 

821,974.51 

89% 

98,291.63 

11% 

920,266.14 

100% 

1935 

912,339.26 

90% 

99,233.95 

10% 

1,011,573.21 

100% 

1936 

930,788.04 

94% 

54,999.98 

6% 

985,788.02 

100% 

1937 

975,751.61 

92% 

81.522.49 

8% 

1.057.274.10 

100% 

1938 

1.023.225.41 

93% 

73,874.93 

7% 

1,097,100.34 

lOO'/o 

1939 

1,032,696.19 

rOTAL  EXPENDITURE' 

95% 

54,999.97 

5% 

1,087,696.16 

100% 

FOR  SALARIES 

TOTAL  EXPENDITURE;- 

&  WAGES 

FOR  BOOKS 

FROM  CITY  FUNDS 

FROM  CITY  FUNDS 

YEAR 

&  TRUST  FUnOS 

7o 

&  TRUST  FUNDS 

% 

lOTAL 

% 

1930 

$809,710.41 

82% 

$182,466.18 

18% 

$992,176.59 

10070 

1931 

854,467.35 

80% 

209,895.67 

20% 

1,064,363.02 

100% 

1932 

856,435.52 

83% 

180,016.20 

17% 

1,036,451.72 

100% 

1933 

791,364.12 

88Sb 

111,196.69 

12% 

902,560.81 

100% 

1934 

824,061.76 

88% 

115,288.20 

12% 

939,349.96 

10070 

1935 

913,941.93 

88% 

121.498.78 

12% 

1,035,440.71 

100% 

1936 

932,062.11 

89% 

1 1 1 ,909.94 

11% 

1 ,043,972.05 

100% 

1937 

976,879.61 

88% 

131,164.30 

12% 

1,108,043.91 

100% 

1938 

1,026,351.41 

87% 

156,631.89 

13% 

1,182,983.30 

100% 

1939 

1,035,953.52 

86';  fc 

171,257.40 

\r/o 

1,207,210.92 

lOOVo 

I90J 

f^ERCENTAGES    Ol     AMOUNTS    REQUESTED    FROM    ClTY    FOR    SALARIES    AND    FOR    BoOKS 

AND  Other  Library  Materials  in   Relation  to  Each  Other 
1930-1939 


requested 

requested 

for  books 

for  salaries 

AND  OTHER 

year 

&  WAGES 

7o 

LIBRARY  MATERIALS 

% 

TOTAL 

% 

1930 

$812,000.00 

84% 

$150,000.00 

16% 

$%2,000.00 

100% 

1931 

883.903.00 

82% 

200,000.00 

18% 

1,083,903.00 

100% 

1932 

866,124.00 

81% 

200,000.00 

19% 

1.066.124.00 

100% 

1933 

886,000.00 

84% 

163,000.00 

16% 

1.049,000.00 

l007o 

1934 

830,569.56 

85% 

1 50,000.00 

15% 

980,569.56 

100% 

1935 

937.187.75 

86% 

1 50,000.00 

14%, 

1,087,187.75 

100% 

1936 

940.039.28 

86% 

150.000.00 

14% 

1,090,039.29 

100% 

1937 

985.000.00 

87% 

1 50.000.00 

13% 

1,135,000.00 

100%, 

1938 

1,055,000.00 

887o 

150,000.00 

12% 

1.205,000.00 

100% 

1939 

1,070,388.58 

88% 

1 50.000.00 

12% 

1,220,388.58 

100% 

APPENDIX    D 


PERSONNEL 


Cost  and  Number  of  Total  Personnel.  1930-1939 


total  expenditures 
for  salaries  & 
wages  for  all 
year  personnel 

1929  $770,367.26 

1930  809.530.41 

1931  852.987.17 

1932  853.680.10 
1933*  788,603.37 
1934*  821.974.51 

1935  912339.26 

1936  930.788.04 

1937  975,751.61 

1938  1,023.225.41 

1939  -.032.696.19 


TOTAL  PERSONNEL 

AS  OF 

%  OF  CHANGE     DECEMBER  3 1  ST       %  OF  CHANGE 

FROM  1929  IN  EACH  YEAR  FROM  1929 


+5.1% 
+  I0.7%o 
+  10.8% 
+2A% 
+6.7%> 
+  18.3% 
+20.8% 
+26.6%o 
+32.7% 
+33.9% 


602 
644 
657 
665 
695 
679 
687 
699 
705 
697 
687 


+7.0% 
+9.1% 
+  10.5% 
+  15.5% 
+  12.8% 
+14.1% 
+  16.1% 
+  17.1% 
+  15.7% 
+14.1% 


*  Salary  reductions  were  in  effect  from  April  21.   1933  to  December  31.  1934. 


91 


Cost  and  Number  of  Rr.cui,AK  Service,  1930-1939 


TOTAL  NUMBER  OF 

TOTAL  EXPENDITURES 

REGULAR  SERVICE 

FOR  SALARIES  & 

AS  OF 

WAGES  FOR  REGULAR 

'/t  OF  CHANGE 

DECEMBER  3  1st 

%  OF  CHANGE 

YEAR 

SERVICE 

FROM  1929 

IN  EACH  YEAR 

FROM  1929 

1929 

$663,747.98 

475 

1930 

694.183.74 

-H.6% 

512 

+7.8% 

1931 

734,150.50 

+10.6% 

535 

+12.6% 

1932 

746.221.52 

-i-12.4% 

537 

+I3.0%> 

1933* 

683.618.01 

+3.0% 

550 

+  15.8% 

1934* 

682.797.16 

+2.9% 

563 

+  18.5%, 

1935 

799.271.34 

+20.4% 

571 

+20.2% 

1936      . 

833,763.88 

-h25.8% 

578 

+21.7%, 

1937 

875,957.34 

+32.1% 

592 

+24.6%o 

1938 

932.579.59 

+40.7% 

590 

+24.2% 

1939 

945,123.21 

+42.5% 

580 

+22.1% 

Salary  reductions  were  in  effect  from  April  21,   1933  to  December  31,  1934. 


Cost  and  Number  of  Extra  Service  (Part  Time  Personnel,  etc.)  1930  1939 

TOTAL  extra  SERVICE 

personnel  in  terms 
of  equivalent  of 


TOTAL  EXPENDITURES 

FULL-TIME  PERSONNEL 

FOR  SALARIES  & 

AS  OF 

WAGES  FOR  EXTRA 

'Jo  OF  CHANGE 

DECEMBER  3  1st 

%  OF  CHAN< 

YEAR 

SERMCE 

FROM  1929 

IN  EACH  YEAR 

FROM  1929 

1929 

$104,032.28 

127 

1930 

112.214.67 

+7.8% 

132 

+3.9% 

1931 

115,888.67 

+  11.3% 

122 

-3.9% 

1932 

105,448.58 

+  1.4% 

128 

[0.8% 

1933* 

102.982.11 

-1.0% 

145 

+  14.1% 

1934* 

111.792.41 

+7.4% 

116 

-fl.6% 

1935 

96,330.61 

-7.4% 

116 

-8.6% 

1936 

92.411.73 

-11.1% 

121 

-4.7% 

1937 

97.706.13 

-6.0% 

113 

-11.07o 

1938 

88.305.46 

-15.1%. 

107 

-15.7% 

1939 

85,661 .98 

-17.6% 

107 

-15.7% 

*  Salary  reductions  were  in  effect  from  April  21,   1933  to  December  31.  1934. 


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Distribution  of  Fui.l-Timf.  Personnel  by  Categories,  December  31,  1939 

library  workers 

General    Officers    ............  10 

Chiefs   of   Departments   ...........  13 

Asisistants  to   the   Director        ..........  2 

Assistants-in-Charge         ...........  10 

Branch    Librarians           ...........  31 

Children's    Librarians      ...........  20 

Reference    Assistant         ...........  1 

First   Assistants        ............  25 

Second  Assistants    ............  25 

Catalogers        .............  5 

Assistants 260 

Probationary  Assistants              ..........  50 

Unclassified    Assistants    ...........  7 

Total 459 


Mechanical  and  Other  Workers 

Auditor 1 

Bookkeeper      ...........  1 

Clerk 1 

Clerk  &  Typists     ..........  2 


Shipper  ...........  1 

Shipper's  Assistants  .........         2 


Custodian    of    Stock        .........  1 

Assistant  ...........  1 


Chief    of    Binding    Department        .......  I 

Finishers  ...........         4 

Forwarders     .  .  .  .  .  .  .         .         .  .  .12 

.'Apprentice       ...........  1 

Working   Forewoman    of    Bookbinders    ......  I 

Bookbinders  .  .         .  .         .  .         .         .         .         .13 

Apprentice       ...........  I 

Clerk 1  34 


Chief    of    Printing    Department        .......  I 

Linotype   Operators  .........  ' 

Pressman,    Cylinder         .........  I 

Pressman,    Job        ..........  I 


[98] 

Superintendent  of    Buildings   ........  t 

Engineers         ...........  3 

Steamfitter       ...........  t 

Working  Foreman   of   Carpenters   .......  1 

Carpenters        ...........  2 

Working  Foreman  of  Painters          .......  I 

Painters            ...........  2 

Electricians     ...........  2 

Electrician's    Helper        .........  t 

Mason 1 

Working   Foiemen   of  Janitors          .......  2 

Janitors             ...........  14 

Janitor-Laborers       ..........  5 

Laborer             ...........  1 

Macbinist's    Helper           .........  I 

Bookcleaner   and    Laborer        ........  1 

Watchmen        ...........  2 

Elevator  Attendants          .........  3 

Housekeeper             ..........  1 

Cleaners  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .21 

Telephone    Operator         .........  1 

Stenographer             ..........  1 

Bookcarrier               ..........  1 

Coalroom    Attendant 1                    70 

Total 120 

Temporary    Oiler    ..........  I                        t 

121 

Recapitulation  of   Full-Time   Personnel,  December  31,   1939 

Library     workers     ...........  459 

Mechanical    and   other   workers        .......  121 

Total 580 


[99] 

SALARY   SCHEDULES 
Salary  Schedule  for  the  Graded  Library  Service 

(The  rates  listed  below  are  being  used  as  a  guiding  framework 
to  be  approached  when  and  as  financial  conditions  permit.  They 
are  only  partially  in  effect  at  the  present  time.) 


The  Technical  Library  Service  (Grades  B  &  C) 


PROBATIONARY    SERVICE    (CRADE    C) 

Probationary  Assistant,   Beginning 
Probationary  Assistant,    1st   Step 
Probationary   Assistant,  2nd   Step 
Probationary  Assistant,  3rd   Step 
Probationary  Assistant,   4t!i  Step 
Probationary  Assistant,   5th   Step 

PERMANENT    SERVICE    (GRADE    E) 


Assistant,  Beginning 
Assistant,  1  st  Step 
Assistant,  2nd  Step 
Assistant,   3rd   Step 


Second   Assistant     . 
Children's    Assistant 
Reference   Assistant 
Cataloger 
Classifier 
Assistant,  4th    Step 


First   Assistant 
Children's    Librarian 
Reference   Librarian 
Cataloger   and   Classifier 
Assistant,   5th   Step 


$20.00 
21.00 
22.00 
23.00 
24.00 
25.00 


25.00 
29.00 
33.00 
37.00 

41.00 
41.00 
41.00 
41.00 
41.00 
41.00 


45.00 
45.00 
45.00 
45.00 
45.00 


The  Profession-sll  Library  Service  (Grade  A) 

CHIEFS    OF    DEP.ARTMENTS    AND    BRANCH    LIBRARIANS 

Chiefs    of    Departments $2610-^3130 

Branch   Librarians 2610-3130 

OTHER    OFFICERS 

Rale   of   remuneration   to  be   determined    for  each   case   individually. 


Salary  Schedule  for  Mechamcau  and  Other  Workers 

The  rales  of  remuneration  for  mechanical  workers  are  determined  in  accordance 
with  the  schedule  in  force  for  such  workers  in  the  City  of  Boston  service  in  general. 

The  rates  of  remuneration  for  clerical  workers  range  from  $1000  per  year  ($20.00 
per  week)  to  $1600  per  year  ($30.0  per  week)  in  accordance  with  the  schedule  in 
force  for  such  workers  in  the  City  of  Bo.ston  service  in  general. 


100] 


SALARY  RANGES 


-  BY  PERCENTAGES  OF  PERSONNEL 
IN  EACH  RANGE 


Library  Workers 


%  OF  TOTAL  NO. 

%  OF  TOTAL  NO. 

%  OF  TOTAL  NO. 

%  OF  TOTAL  NO 

SALARY  RANGE 

AS  OF 

AS  OF 

AS  OF 

AS  OF 

DECEMBER  31, 

DECEMBER  31, 

JUNE  4, 

DECEMBER  31, 

1929 

1936 

1937 

1939 

$10.00-14.99 

16.2% 

5.2% 

0.0% 

0.0% 

15.00-19.99 

11.6% 

26.0% 

2.9% 

1.5% 

20.00-24.99 

21.2% 

23.5% 

44.6% 

24.8% 

25.00-29.99 

243% 

23.7% 

19.6% 

23.1% 

30.00-34.99 

9.9% 

5.2% 

15.5% 

19.4% 

35.00-39.99 

6.1% 

6.1% 

4.5% 

15.1% 

40.00  -  44.99 

5.5% 

6.8% 

9.0% 

5.5% 

45.00-49.99 

1.9% 

0.6% 

0.6% 

63% 

50.00-54.99 

0.8% 

0.0% 

0.0% 

0.9% 

55.00-59.99 

0.8% 

0.9% 

0.8% 

0.2% 

60.00-64.99 

0.3% 

0.0% 

0.0% 

0.7% 

65.00-69.99 

0.3% 

0.4% 

0.4% 

0.2% 

70.00  and  Over 

0.8% 

1.6% 

1.5% 

2.2% 

Under  $15.00 

162% 

5.2% 

0.0% 

0.0% 

Under     20.00 

27.8% 

31.2% 

2.9% 

1.5% 

Under     25.00 

49.0% 

54.7% 

47.6% 

263% 

Under    30.00 

73.3% 

78.4% 

673% 

49.4% 

Under    35.00 

83.2% 

83.6% 

82.8% 

68.8% 

Under     40.00 

89.3% 

89.7% 

87.4% 

83.9% 

Under     45.00 

94.8% 

96.5% 

%.4% 

89.4% 

Under     50.00 

96.7% 

97.1% 

97.0% 

95.7% 

Under     55.00 

97.5% 

97.1% 

97.0% 

96.6% 

Under     60.00 

983% 

98.0% 

97.8% 

96.8% 

Under     65.00 

98.6% 

98.4% 

97.8% 

97.5% 

Under     70.00 

98.9% 

98.5% 

98.4% 

97.7% 

[101] 

SALARY  RANGES  —  BY  PERCENTAGES  OF   PERSONNEL 
IN  EACH  RANGE 

Mechanical  and  QrHF.R  "Workers 


%  OF  TOTAL  NO. 

%  OF  TOTAL  NO. 

%  OF  TOTAL  NO. 

%  OF  TOTAL  NO 

SALARY  RANGE 

AS  OF 

AS  OF 

AS  OF 

AS  OF 

DECEMBER  31, 

DECEMBER  31, 

JUNE  4, 

DECEMBER  31, 

1929 

1936 

1937 

1939 

$10.00-14.99 

0.8% 

1.6% 

0.0% 

0.0% 

15.00-19.99 

24.2% 

15.3% 

16.5% 

19.3% 

20.00-24.99 

11.5% 

15.3% 

16.5% 

14.6% 

25.00-29.99 

4.1% 

5.6% 

5.6% 

3.4% 

30.00-34.99 

14.0% 

20.9% 

20.9% 

26.0% 

35.00-39.99 

7.5% 

2.4% 

2.4% 

3.4% 

40.00-44.99 

25.0% 

25.0% 

25.0% 

21.0% 

45.00-49.99 

9.1% 

8.8% 

8.8% 

8.6% 

50.00-54.99 

0.8% 

0.9% 

0.9% 

2.5% 

55.00-59.99 

0.0% 

0.9% 

0.9% 

0.8% 

60.00-64.99 

0.0% 

0.9% 

0.9% 

0.0% 

65.00  -  69.99 

0.8% 

0.9%, 

0.9% 

0.0% 

70.00  and  Over 

1.7% 

1.6% 

1.6% 

0.8% 

Under  $15.00 

0.8% 

1.6% 

0.0% 

0.0% 

Under     20.00 

25.0% 

16.9% 

16.5% 

19.3% 

Under     25.00 

36.5% 

32.2% 

32.3% 

33.9% 

Under    30.00 

40.6% 

37.9% 

37.9% 

37.3% 

Under     35.00 

54.6% 

58.8% 

58.8% 

63.3% 

Under     40.00 

62.1% 

61.2% 

61.2% 

66.7% 

Under     45.00 

87.1% 

86.2% 

86.2% 

87.7% 

Under     50.00 

96.2% 

95.17^^ 

95.1% 

953% 

Under     55.00 

97.0% 

95.9% 

95.9% 

97.8% 

Under     60.00 

97.0% 

96.7% 

95.7% 

98.6% 

Under     65.00 

97.0% 

97.4% 

97.4% 

98.6% 

Under     70.00 

97.8% 

98.2% 

98.2% 

98.6% 

[102] 
SALARY  RANGES  —  BY  NUMBER  OF  PERSONNEL  IN  EACH  RANGE 

Library  Workers 


NUMBER  AS  OF 

NUMBER  AS  OF 

NUMBER  AS  OF  NUMBER  AS  OJ 

DECEMBER  3  1 , 

U!  CEMBER  3  1  , 

JUNE  4, 

DECEMBER  31 

SALARY  RANGE 

1929 

1936 

1937 

1939 

$10.00 

^14.99 

59 

23 

0 

0 

15.00 

-19.99 

42 

115 

13 

7 

20.00- 

-  24.99 

77 

104 

198 

114 

25.00- 

-29.99 

88 

105 

87 

106 

30.00- 

-34.99 

36 

23 

69 

89 

35.00 

-39.99 

22 

27 

20 

69 

40.00 

-44.99 

20 

30 

40 

25 

45.00 

-49.99 

7 

3 

3 

29 

50.00 

-54.99 

3 

0 

0 

4 

55.00 

-  59.99 

3 

4 

4 

1 

60.00- 

-64.99 

I 

0 

0 

3 

65.00 

-69.99 

1 

2 

2 

1 

70.00 

and  Over 

3 

7 

7 

10 

Under 

$15.00 

59 

23 

0 

0  ' 

Under 

20.00 

101 

138 

13 

7 

Under 

25.00 

178 

242 

211 

121 

Under 

30.00 

266 

347 

298 

227 

Under 

35.00 

302 

370 

367 

316 

Under 

40.00 

324 

397 

387 

385 

Under 

45.00 

344 

427 

427 

410 

Under 

50.00 

351 

430 

430 

439 

Under 

55.00 

354 

430 

430 

443 

Under 

60.00 

357 

434 

434 

444 

Under 

65.00 

358 

434 

434 

447 

Under 

70.00 

359 

436 

436 

448 

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SALARY  RANGES  —  BY  NUMBER  OF  PERSONNEL  IN  EACH  RANGE 

Mechanical  and  Other  Workers 


NUMBER  AS  OF 

NUMBER  AS  OF 

NUMBER  AS  OI 

NUMBER  A.S  OF 

DECEMBER  31, 

DECEMBER  31, 

JUNE  4, 

DECEMBER  31. 

SALARY  RANGE 

1929 

1936 

1937 

1939 

$10.00-14.99 

1 

2 

0 

0 

15.00-19.99 

29 

19 

20 

23 

20.00-24.99 

14 

19 

20 

17 

25.00-29.99 

5 

7 

7 

4 

30.00-34.99 

17 

26 

26 

31 

35.00-39.99 

9 

3 

3 

4 

40.00-44.99 

30 

31 

31 

26 

45.00  -  49.99 

11 

11 

11 

9 

50.00-54.99 

1 

3 

55.00  -  59.99 

0 

1 

60.00-64.99 

0 

0 

65.00-69.99 

1 

0 

70.00  and  Over 

2 

2 

2 

1 

Under  $15.00 

1 

2 

0 

0 

Under     20.00 

30 

21 

20 

23 

Under    25.00 

44 

40 

40 

40 

Under     30.00 

49 

47 

47 

44 

Under    35.00 

66 

73 

73 

75 

Under     40.00 

73 

76 

76 

79 

Under     45.00 

105 

107 

107 

105 

Under     50.00 

116 

118 

118 

114 

Under     55.00 

117 

119 

119 

117 

Under     60.00 

117 

120 

120 

118 

Under     65.00 

117 

121 

121 

118 

Under     70.00 

118 

122 

122 

118 

1U4] 


COST  OF  SALARY  INCREASES,  1930-1939 


YEAR 
1930 

1931 
1932 
1933 
1934 
1935 
1936 
1937 
1938 
1939 


Total 


AMOUNT 

$12,269.86 
14,094.34 
5,626.78 
309.84 
29,880.01 
15,891.29 
11,918.89 
47,137.52 
51,067.44 
31,127.91 

$219,323.88 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  COST  OF  SALARY  INCREASES,  1930-1939 


1930 
Increases  for   1930  effective  at  various  dales        .... 

1931 

Overlay  from  increases  effective  in  1930  at  various  dates  for 
which  provision  had  to  be  made  in  1931  for  payment  over  a 
full    12  months  period   ........ 

Increases  for    1931    effective  at  various  dates       .... 


Total 


1932 


Overlay  from  increases  effective  in  1931  at  various  dates  for 
which  provision  had  to  be  made  in  1932  for  payment  over 
a    full    12   months   period        ....... 

Increases    for    1932      ......... 


Total 


$12,269.86 


$  8,713.34 
5381.00 

$14,094.34 


$  5.626.78 
None 

$  5.626.78 


1933 

Overlay   from  increases  effective  in    1932    . 
Increase    for    1933   effective    at   various   dates 


Total 


None 
$     309.84 

$     309.84 


1934 
Overlay  from   increases   effective  in    1933    . 
Increases  for   1934  effective   at  various  dates 


$     501 .79 
29378.22 


Total 


$29,880.01 


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1935 

Overlay  from  increases  effective  in  1934  at  various  dates  for 
which  provision  had  to  be  made  in  1935  for  payment  over 
a    ful!    12    months   period $   1,583.02 

Increases  for    1935  effective   at   various   dates        .....  14,308.27 

Total  $15,891.29 

1936 

Overlay  from  incrca.scs  effective  in  1935  at  various  dates  for 
which  provision  had  lo  be  made  in  1936  for  payment  over 
a    full    12   months    period $  9.554.17 

Increases  in   1936  effective  October  30 -December  31,   1936       .         .  2,364.72 

Total  $11,918.89 

1937 
Overlay   from  increases  effective   in    1936  only   for  October  30- 
December  31,   1936  but  for  which  provision  had  to  be  made 

in    1937  for  payment  over  a  full   12  months  period       .  .         .  $10,181.08 

Increases  in    1937  effective  June  4,   1937  -  December  31,   1937   .  .  36,956.44 

Tolal  $47,137.52 

1938 
Overlay    from    increases    effective    in    1937    only    for    June    4- 
December  31,   1937  but  for  which  provision  had  to  be  made 

in  1938  for  payment  over  a  full   12  months  period  .  .  $26,948.68 

Increases  in   1938  effective  June  3 -December  31,   1938       .         .  .  24,118.76 

Total  $51,067.44 

1939 
Overlay    from    increases    effective    in    1938    only    for    June    3— 
December  31,   1938  but  for  which  provision  had  to  be  made 

in   1939  for  payment  over  a   full    12  months  period       .  .  .  $17,171.48 

Increases  in   1939  effective  September  27  -  December  31,    1939   .  .  13,956.43 

Tolal  $31,127.91 

1940 

Overlay  from  increases  effective  in  1939  at  various  dates  for 
which  provision  had  to  be  made  in  1940  for  payment  over 
a    full    12   months   period $44,793.41 


06J 


AVERAGE  SALARIES  IN  CITY  OF  BOSTON  DEPARTMENTS 


Compiled  from  Data  contained  in 
Officials  and  Employees  of  the  Cil}}  of  Boston  —  June   I,  1937 

Transit  Deparlment   .........      $3,761.26 


Law   Department 
Finance  Commission 
School    Buildings    Department 
Treasury  Department 
Election    Department 
Building    Department 
School    Department    . 

Street  Laying-Out  Department 
Auditing   Deparlment 
Weights  and   Measures   Departi 
Boston    Traffic    Commission 
Park  Department,  Cemetery  D 
Assessing    Department 
City   Clerk   Department 


2,962.53 

2,840.10 
2.729.90 
2,604.76 
2,597.62 
2,592.21 
2,537.60 

2360.68 
2,313.94 
2,240.00 
2,124.70 
2,063.38 
2.020.17 
2.009.53 

1 ,925.65 
1 ,728.68 
1.718.60 
1 ,690.43 
1,530.15 


Soldiers*    Relief    Department 

Collecting    Deparlment 

Supply   Department   . 

Park  Department  (excluding  manual  workers  paid  by  the  day) 

Library  Department  . 

The  above  departments  are   for  the  most  part  ihe  "white  collar"  departments. 
In  case  of  the  remaining  departments  as  noted  below,  the  compilation  of  figures  for 
the  average  salaries  was  not  attempted  for  one  reason  or  another. 

Health  Department,  Hospital  Department,  Institutions  Department 
In  these  departments   figures  comparable  with   those   in   other  city  deparlmenls   arc 
not  easily  obtainable,  since    (1)   many  of  the  medical   men  are  employed   only   on    a 
part  time  basis,  and    (2)   many   of   the  other  workers  are   given   food  or  quarters    (or 
both)  in  addition  to  cash  salaries. 

Fire  Department,  Police  Department 
The  basic   salaries   for  firemen   and  policemen   are   known   to  be   $2100   per  year. 
To  obtain  an  actual  average  figure  for  all  employees  of  the  departments  was  too  exten- 
sive an  undertaking  to  be  worth  while,  considering  the  several  thousand  employees  in. 
each   department. 

Public  Works  Department 
1  his  department  employees  so  many  laborers,  mostly  on  a  per  diem  basis,  that  its 
figures  are  not  easily  comparable  with  those  of  other  city  departments. 

Public  Welfare  Department 
This  department  seems  not  to  be  organized  on   a  permanent  basis.   Its  figures  are 
therefore  not  entirely  pertinent  for  comparative  purposes. 


[I()7J 

TRAINING  COURSES.   1933-1939 
1933-34     1 934-35     1935-36     1936-37     1937-38     1938-39 


Number  of    full  courses 

given 
Number     of     one-term 

courses  given 
Number  of  individuals 

taking  courses 
Total      enrollment      in 

all    courses 
Number  of  individuals 

receiving        passing 

grades 
Number  of  individuals 

failing  courses 
Number   of   individuals 

withdrawing       from 

courses 
Number  of  incompleted 

courses 
Percentage    of    courses 

passed 


12 

12 

13 

13 

n 

9 

9 

11 

2 

2 

5 

5 

261 

192 

194 

151 

173 

142 

268 

260 

207 

166 

197 

163 

202 

217 

154 

133 

169 

139 

15 

II 

8 

7 

10 

10 

43 

24 

42 

24 

14 

11 

8 

8 

2 

2 

4 

3 

7% 

83% 

74% 

80% 

79% 

77% 

ENTRANCE   EXAMINATIONS,    1939 


INDIVIDUALS 
WHO  PASSED 


INDIVIDUALS 
WHO  FAILED 


Ungraded  Service 
General    paper 

Graded  Service 
General   paper 

French  paper 
German   paper 
Italian    paper 
Spanish    paper 


131  (37.67c;)    217  (62.4%) 


TOTAL 

348  (100%) 


229  (65.8%)    119  (34.2'/;.)    348  (100%) 


116  (42.3%) 

45  (65.2'/;.) 

13  (46.4%) 

II  (50%) 


158  (37.7%) 
24  (34.8%) 
15  (53.6%) 
II  (50%) 


QUALIFYING  EXAMINATIONS.  1939 


examination 

General    Book   Selection    (Q) 

Cataloging  and  Classification   (Q) 

General    Reference   ^ork    (Q) 

Boston  Public  Library  — 
Central  Library    (Q) 

Boston  Public  Library  — 
Branch  Libraries   (Q) 


individuals 

WHO  passed 

15  (68%) 
II  (73%) 
18  (82 Vr) 

15  (60%) 

10  (63%) 


individuals 
WHO  fau,ed 

7  (32%) 

4  (27%) 

4  (18%) 

10  (40%) 

6  (37%) 


274  (100%) 
69  OOO'/o) 
28  (100%) 
22  (1007c) 


TOTAL 
22    (1007c;) 

15  (1007c) 

22  (1007o) 
25  (1007o) 

16  (I007o) 


11 08] 
PROMOTIONAL   EXAMINATIONS,    1939 


EXAMINATION 

Adv2uiced  Languages — French   (II) 
Advanced  Languages — German   (II) 
Advanced   Languages — Italian    (II) 
Advanced  Languages — Spanish    (II) 
Boslon   as  a  Community    (IV) 
Boston   Public  Library — History    (III) 
Business —  General  Field  (III) 
Cataloging   (IV  or  V) 
Children's  Literature    (IV) 
Children's   Work    (V) 
Classification    (IV  or  V) 
Documents— General  Field    (III) 
Education — General    Field    (III) 
Extension   Work    (V) 
Fine  Arts — General  Field  (III) 
Foreign    Government    Documents    (V) 
History   oF   the   Book    (III) 
Library    Records    (IV) 
Library  Administration    (V) 
Literature — General   Field    (III) 
Music— General    Field    (III) 
National   and  Trade  Bibliography    (III) 
Newspapers — Special    Field    (IV) 
Periodicals    and   Newspapers — 

General    Field    (III) 
Periodcials — Special    Field    (V) 
Philosophy,  Psychology,  Religion — 

General   Field    (III) 
Public  Library  as  an  Institution    (I) 
Science  and  Technology — 

General    Field    (III) 
Social  Sciences  and  History — 

General   Field    (III) 
Special    Fields — Subject    Knowledge    (IV) 
Special  Fields^- 

Bibliographical    Knowledge    (V) 
United  States  Government  Documents  (IV) 
Work  with  Schools   (V) 


1   (100%) 

2  (I007o) 

8  (57%) 

4  (80%) 

2  (100%) 

38  (61%) 

5  (83%) 

0  (0%) 

0  (0%) 

6  (43%) 

1   (20%) 

0  (0%) 

24  (39%) 
1   (17%) 

INDIVIDUALS 

INDIVIDUALS 

WHO  PASSED 

WHO  FAILED 

TOTAL 

24  (73%) 

9  (27%) 

33  (100%) 

6  (67%) 

3  (33%) 

9  (100%) 

I   (33%) 

2  (67%) 

3  (100%) 

2  (50%) 

2  (50%) 
0  (0%) 

4  (100%) 

2  (100%) 

2  (1007o) 

0  (0%) 

1   (100%) 

1    (100%) 

3  (60%) 

2  (40%) 

5  (100%) 

4  (80%) 

1   (20%) 

5  (100%) 

0  (0%) 

1   (100%) 

1   (100%) 

1   (50%) 

1   (50%) 

2  (100%) 

1    (100%) 

2  (100%) 

14  (100%) 

5  (100%) 

2  (100%) 

62  (1007o) 

6  (1007o) 

2  (67%)         1   (33%)  3  (100%) 


ov 


APPOINTMENTS  TO  TITULAR  POSITIONS.   1939 


William  A.  Roblyer 

Elizabeth  B.  Brockunier 
Gregory  J.  Edson 
Lucicn  E.  Taylor 


Chief    of    Cataloging    and    Classification    Department,    in 

the   Reference   Division 
Assistant  to  the   Director 
Assistant  to  the   Director 
Chief  of  Cataloging  and  Classificalion  Dcparimcnt, 

Emcriliis 


RETIREMENTS  FROM    i  HE  LIBRARY,    1939 


Marion  H.  Shumway,   Assistant 
Mary  T.   M.   Boyle,   Compositor 

Lucien   E.    Taylor,    Chief    of    Cataloging    and    Classi- 
fication  Department 
Garret   P.   Lacey,    Engineer 
Elffie  C.  Merrill,  First  Assistant 
Ellen   J.   Offutt,   Second  Assistant 
Margaret  M.  Cusick,  Cleaner 


After  44  years  of  service 

After  36  years  of  service 

After  35  years  of  service 

After  34  years  of  service 

After  33  years  of  service 

After   1 5  years  of  service 
After  9  years  of  service 


[110] 

APPENDIX    E 


BOOK  STOCK 

Total  Number  of  Volumes  in  the  Library  as  of  December  31,  1939 
Reference  Division 

Central  Library 1,138,682 


Business  Branch 


Total    for   Reference   Division 
Circulation  Division 

Young  People's  Room,  Centra!  Library 
School   Department       .... 
Branch    Issue    Department    . 

Branch  Libraries 


Square 


Allston 

Andrew 

Boylston 

Brighton 

Charlestown 

City     Point     . 

Codman   Square 

Dorchester 

East   Boston   . 

Faneuil 

Fellowes    Athenaeum 

Hyde    Park    . 

Jamaica    Plain 

Jeffries  Point  . 

Kirstein 

Lower    Mills 

Mattapan 

Memorial 

Mt.    Bowdoin 

Mt.    Pleasant 

Neponset 

North    End    . 

Orient    Heights 

Parker  Hill   . 

Phillips    Brooks 

Roslindale 

South    Boston 

South    End     . 

Uphams    Corner 

West    End     . 

West     Roxbury 


Total  for  Branch  Libraries 
Total    for   Circulation    Division 
Total  for  Entire  Library  System 


13,791 

11.490 

12,102 

19,108 

15,898 

10,366 

15.468 

14,986 

16,703 

14.506 

41,744 

29,913 

15,277 

8,282 

7.979 

8.846 

16.529 

14,965 

11,543 

7,671 

6,645 

10.903 

9,565 

13,932 

5,555 

14,996 

10,307 

14,745 

17,504 

21,341 

18,891 

451,551 


24,686 
1,163,368        1,163,368 

9.914 
44,977 
34,919 


451.551 
541.361 


541.361 
1,704,729 


Ill] 


The  total  number  of  volumes  in  the  Library  at  the  end  of  each 
year  since  its  formation  is  shown  in  the  following  statement: 


1852-53 

1853-54 

1854-55 

1855-56 

1856-57 

1857-58 

1858-59 

1859-60 

1860-61 

1861-62 

1862-63 

1863-64 

1864-65 

1865-66 

1866-67 

1867-68 

1868-69 

1869-70 

1870-71 

1871-72 

1872-73 

1873-74 

1874-75 

1875-76 

1876-77 

1877-78 

1878-79 

1879-80 

1880-81 

1881-82 

1882-«3 

1883-84 

1884^5 

1885 

1886 

1887 

1888 

1889 

1890 

1891 

1892 

1893 

1894 

1895 


9.688 

1896-97 

16.221 

1897-98 

22.617 

1898-99 

28,080 

1899  1900 

34.896 

1900-01 

70.851 

1901-02 

78,043 

1902  03 

85.031 

1903-04 

97.386 

1904-05 

105.034 

1905-06 

110.563 

1906-07 

116.934 

1907-08 

123.016 

1908*09 

130.678 

1909-10 

136.080 

1910-11 

144,092 

1911-12 

1 52.796 

1912-13 

160.573 

1913-14 

179.250 

1914-15 

192.958 

1915-16 

209.456 

1916-17 

260.550 

1917-18 

276.918 

1918-19 

297,873 

1919-20 

321.010 

1920-2! 

345.734 

1921-22 

360.963 

1922-23 

377.225 

1923-24 

390.982 

1924-25 

404.221 

1925 

422.116 

1926 

438.594 

1927 

453.947 

1928 

460.993 

1929 

479.421 

1930 

492.956 

1931 

505.872 

1932 

520.508 

1933 

536.027 

1934 

556.283 

1935 

576.237 

1936 

597.152 

1937 

610,375 

1938 

628,297 

1939 

663.763 

698.888 

716.050 

746.383 

781.377 

812.264 

835.904 

848,884 

871.050 

878.933 

903,349 

922,348 

941 ,024 

961 .522 

987.268 

1,006.717 

1.049,011 

1.067,103 

1,098,702 

1.121,747 

1,139,682 

1.157,326 

1.173.695 

1.197.498 

1,224.510 

1,258.211 

1 .284,094 

1,308,041 

1,333,264 

1,363,515 

1.388,439 

1.418,489 

1 .442.802 

1 .475,743 

1.526,951 

1,572,802 

1,631,422 

1.654,017 

1.673.609 

1 .682,848 

1,693,335 

1,700.681 

1 .693,688 

1 ,704,729 


[112] 
ACCESSIONS,    1939 

The  following  statistics  include  materials  received  in  1939; 
they  do  not  include  materials  received  in  earlier  years,  but  pro- 
cessed only  in  1 939. 

Classification  of  Accf.ssions,   1939 


NO.  OF 

SOURCE 

VOLUMES 

By 

purchase    . 

53.478 

By  gift  . 

. 

4,283 

By 

exchange    . 

47 

By 

binding  of 

newspapers 

66 

By 

binding   of 

serials 

4.471 

Total  62.345 


Distribution  of  Expenditures  for  the  Purchase  of  Books 
AND  Other  Library  Materials,   1939 

Circulation   Division 

From   City   Appropriation  $42,667.54 

From  Trust  Fu.nds  Income  1,898.52       $44,566.06 


Reference   Division 

From  City  Appropriation  $12,332.43 

From  Trust  Funds  Income  114,358.91        126.691.34 


$171,257.40 


DisiRiBuriON  OF  Books  Acquihi  d  by   Purchask 

Circulation  Division 

From   City   Appropriation  29,484 

From  Trust  Funds  Income  1.405  30.889 


Reference   Division 

From  City  Appropriation  2,265 

From  Trust  Funds  Income  20,324  22.589 

53.478 


[113] 
Decrease  in  Book  Stock  of  the  Circulation  Division,  I935-I939 

TOTAL 
EXCESS  OF  NUMBER  OF 

NUMBER  OF  NUMBER  Of  VOLUMES  DISCARDED   VOLUMES  CIrCU. 

VOLUMES  DISCARDED    VOLUMES  ADDED   OVER  VOLUMES  ADDCD    LATION  DIVISION 


1935 

58,858 

55,567 

3.291 

603,892 

1936 

44,531 

36,502 

8.029 

595,863 

1937 

56,100* 

44.495 

11.605* 

584.258 

1938 

70,077** 

42,475 

27.602** 

556.656 

1939 

57,966 

42,671 

15,295 

541.361 

*  An  inventory  loss  of  4,069  in  collection  of  Young  People's  Room  included 
tn   discards. 
**  An  inventory  loss  of  10,477  in  Branch  Issue  Department  collection  included 
in  discards. 


[114] 
NOTABLE   PURCHASES,    1939 

Americana  —  Printed  Books.  Etc. 

Allardt.  Hugo 

Novi  Belgil  Novaeque  Angliae  ...    [1656.]    Map. 
Bishop,  George 

New  England  Judged.  London,   1661. 
Chancy,  Charles 

The  Retraction  of  Mr.  Charles  Chancy.  London,   1641. 
Drage,  Theodore 

Account  of  a  Voyage  for  Discovery  of  a  North-West  Passage.  2 

vols.  London,  1  748. 
Esquemeling,  John 

Bucaniers  of  America.  2  vols.  London,   1684—5. 
Le  Federaliste.  2  vols.  Paris,   1  792. 
Glogoviensis,  Johannes 

Introductorium  Compendiosum.  Cracow,   1506. 
Harbison,  Massy 

A  Narrative  of  the  Sufferings  of  Massy  Harbison.  Pittsburgh,  1  828. 
Leonard,  Daniel 

The  Present  Political  State  of  the  Province  of  Massachusetts  Bay. 

New  York,  1775. 
Linschoten,  J.  H.  van 

Voyages  into  ye  Easte  &  West  Indies.  London,  1 598. 
O'Callaghan,  Rev.  Jeremiah 

Atheism  of  Brownson's  Review,  etc.  Burlington,  Vermont,    1852. 
Piracies.  Small  Broadside.  March  4,   1  783. 
Short  narrative  of  the  horrid  massacre  in  Boston.  London,  W.  Bing- 

ley.   1770. 
Sotzmann,  Daniel  Friedrich 

Massachusetts.  Map.   Hamburg,  c.    1 798. 
Stamler,  J. 

Dyalogus  de  diversarum  gencium  sectis  et  mundi  religionibus.  Augs- 
burg,  1508.  Illustrated  by  Hans  Burgkmair. 
Statutes   of  the  State  of  Vermont.    Bennington,   Vermont,    Anthony 

Haswell,  1791. 

Americana  —  Manuscript  Books 

Penhaliow,  Samuel 

Autograph  manuscript.   "History  of  the  Wars  of   New  England 
with  the  Eastern  Indians."   1  726. 


[115] 

Americana  —  Manuscript  Books  (continued) 

Frevost,  Lieut.  Augustine 

Autograph  manuscript  journal,  1  764—8 ;  and  letters  and  documents, 
1750-1842. 

Americana  —  Manuscripts 

Adams,  John 

D.  S.    March  10,   1767. 
Amory,  John 

A.  L.  S.  Zy.pp.  Providence,   1  778. 
Barton,  Confederate  General  Seth  M. 

Autograph  endorsement,    1  863. 
Blodgett,   William 

Revolutionary  correspondence. 
Boston   Document,  signed  by   Patch,   Ellis,   Cotting,  and   others.    Ip. 

1  799. 
Boston  Town  Meeting 

Manuscript  minutes.   1  768. 
Buchanan,  James 

A.  L.  S.  3pp.  June  1 9,  1  834. 

A.  Ms.  Address  on  the  Cumberland  Road  Bill. 
Butler,  General  Benjamin  h. 

Rough  draft  A.  L.  2pp.  April  26,  1 862. 
Chauncey,  Isaac 

A.  L.  S.  [y^pp.  July  17,  1812. 
Cherokee  Indians.  D.  S.  2pp.  December  5,   1904. 
Civil  War 

A.    L.   S.  by   Civil  War   Generals,   Anderson,   Sheridan,  Sickles, 

I  homas,  Weitzel,  Wise,  and  Wool. 
Clay,  Henry 

8  A.  L.  S.  to  Epes  Sargent. 
Confederate  War  Telegram.  May  9,   1  864. 
Custer,  George  A. 

A.  L.  S.  2pp.  March  1 6,  1 866. 
Davis,  Jefferson 

A.  L.  S.  5!/2PP.  1876. 
Deane,  Silas 

A.  L.  S.   Ip.  Paris.  August  12.   1777. 
Debs,  Eugene  V. 

L.  S.  2pp.  Terre  Haute,  November  17,  1924. 
Emancipation  document 
Ericsson.  John 

A.  L.  S.  2pp.  February   11.    1847. 


[116] 

Americana  —  Manuscripts  (continued) 

Faneull  Hall  Document.  May,   1  779. 
Florida  Grant 

Manuscript  signed.   1687. 
Fremont,  General  John  C. 

2  A.  L.  S.  September  20,  1850  and  March  12.  1888. 
Gates,  Horatio 

D.  S.  Revolutionary  pay  roll. 
Greene,  Gen.  Nathaniel 

A.  L.  S.  3pp.  March  8,  1781. 
Hancock,  John 

L.  S.  Ip.  Boston,  1788. 
Hewett,  S.  P. 

A.  L.  S.  to  his  mother.  1 860-62.  48pp. 
Hooker,  Gen.  Joseph 

L.  S.  November  7,  1861. 
Jackson,  Andrew 

A.  L.  S.  to  Senator  White.  4pp.  March  I  6.   1  826. 
Johnston,  Lieut.  Peyton 

A.  L.  S.  Ip.  April  7,  1865. 
Kearney,  Gen.   Philip 

A.  L.  S.  Ip.  March  5,  1862. 
Knox,  Gen.  Henry 

A.  L.  S.  5pp.  July  12,  1801. 
McClellan,  Gen.  George  B. 

A.  D.  S.  3pp.  July  4,  1862. 
Madison,  Dolly 

A.  L.  S.  1  p.  January  10,  1844. 
Massachusetts  Bay  document  on  making  bullion  current.  March   1  7, 

1  702. 
Mexico 

Nine  manuscript  documents  signed  by  the  first  Viceroys  of  Mexico. 
1 6th  century. 
Morse,  Samuel  F.  B. 

A.  L.  S.  3pp.  February  23,  1846. 
Motley,  J.  L, 

A.  L.  S.  Nice.  1857. 
North,  William 

A.  L.  S.  31/2PP.  January  24,  1812. 
Pinckney,  C.  C. 

A.  L.  S.  Ip.  January  12,  1776. 
Porter,  David 

4  A.  L.  S.  1826-1835. 


[117] 

Americana  —  Manuscripts  (continued) 

Pownall,    1  homas 

A.  L.  S.  September  7.  1  757.  31/2pp. 
Privateering  documents 
Pynchon,  John  and  son 

A.  D.  S.  1 664-69.  2pp. 
Randolph,  John 

A.  L.  S.  2pp.  Georgetown,  March  31,    1816. 
Rosecrans,  Gen.  W.  S. 

2  A.  L.  S.,  1840  and  1863. 
Schurz,  Carl 

A.  L.  S.  3pp.  June  6.  1861. 
Scott,  Gen.  Winfield 

2  A.  L.  S.,  1840  and  1864. 
Sewall,  Samuel 

A.  L.  S.  Ip.  1692. 
Sherman,  Gen.  William  T. 

5  A.  L.  S. 
Shirley,  William 

D.  S.  May  7,  1745.  Ip. 
Slavery 

Document  .  .  .  signed  Moses  Cantine.  January  I,   1796. 
Strong,  Caleb 

A.  L.  S.  1  p.  and  portrait.  1  793. 
Thomas,  General  George  H. 

A.  L.  S.   1  p.  Boston,  February  21,   1851. 
1  homas,  Isaiah 

A.  L.  S.  to  Hon.  Dwight  Thomas.  January  30,   1 800. 
Tyler,  John 

A.  L.  S.  3pp.  May  30,  1 846. 
Upham,  Samuel  C. 

California  manuscripts  and  A.  L.  S.   1  848—5  1 . 
Warren,  James 

A.  L.  S.   3pp.  March  3.   1  789.  With  other  material  of  Colonial 

history. 
Wayne,  General  Anthony 

L.  S.  3pp.  hebruary  I,  1782. 
Whaling  Log 

Collection  of  ship's  papers  relating  to  the  voyages  of  the  whaling 

ship  "Cadmus,"    1831—41. 
Witchcraft  documents.   Salem,    Massachusetts,    1692. 
Williams,  Charles 

Journal  of  a  voyage  to  San  Francisco,  I  849.  With  5  A.  L.  S. 
Young,  Brigham 

L.  S.  2pp.  Salt  Lake  City.  January  9,   1865. 


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Barker.  B. 

Mornilva.  Boston,   1846. 
Cable,  George  W. 

Old  Creole  Days.  New  York,   1879.  First  Edition. 
Carey,  David 

Life  in  Paris.  2  vols.  New  Orleans,  1837.  First  Edition. 
Gather.  Willa 

My  Antonia.  Boston.  1918.  First  Edition. 
Dickinson,  Emily 

Further  Poems.  Little.  Brown.  1929.  First  Edition. 

Letters.  2  vols.  Roberts  Bros.,  1894.  First  Edition. 

Poems  for  Youth.  Little,  Brown.  1934. 

The  Single  Hound.  Little,  Brown.   1914.  First  Edition. 
Duganne,  Augustine  J.  H. 

Knights  of  the  Seal.  Philadelphia.   1848.  First  Edition. 
Handiboe.  Edward  J. 

Will  Crittenden.  Cincinnati,  n.d. 
Heam,  Lafcadio 

Some  Chinese  Ghosts.   Boston.   1 887.  First  Edition. 
Howells,  William  Dean 

The  Son  of  Royal  Langbrith.   New  York,    1904.   First  Edition. 

A.  L.  S.  to  Mr.  Munro  [laid  in].  Kittery  Point.  1903. 
Jones,  J.  (Harry  Hazel) 

Big  Dick.  Boston.  1 849. 
Larcom,  Lucy 

A  New  England  Girlhood.  Boston,  1890.  First  Edition. 
Mann.  George  Flagg 

The  Geranium  Leaf.  Boston.  1  840.  First  Edition. 
Ramon:  the  Rover  of  Cuba.  Boston,   1829. 
The  Soldier's  Orphan.  New  York,  1812. 
Whitefield,  George 

Three  Letters.  Philadelphia.  B.  Franklin.    1740. 

American  Literature  —  Manuscript  Books 

Bradford.  Gamaliel 

Manuscript  of  "Darwin,"  October   11.    1926. 

American  Literature  —  Manuscripts 

Aldrich,  Thomas  Bailey 

A.  Ms.  "Monody  On  the  Death  of  Wendell  Phillips."  August  27, 
1898. 


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Allston,  Washington 

A.  L.S.June  L  1819. 
Arthur,    1  imothy  S. 

A.  L.  S.  December  28,   1865. 
Bancroft,  George 

50  letters,  chiefly  to  publishers. 
Barlow,  Joel 

A.  L.  S.  I  p.  July  2,  n.y. 

A.  L.  S.  Paris,  March  17,  1802. 
Bierce,  Ambrose 

A.  L.  S.   Ip.  Washington,  September  9,   1906. 
Bryant,  William  Cullen 

A.  L.  S.  to  Dr.  G.  W.  Porter.  Cummington,  September  13,  1875. 
Bryce,  James 

A.  L.  S.  3pp.  May  1,  1907. 
Burroughs,  John 

A.  Ms.   14pp.  N.p.,  n.d. 
Cable,  G.  W. 

A.  Ms.  N.p.,  n.d. 
Clemens,  Samuel  L. 

21  A.  L.  S.  1870-1910. 

Autograph  postscript  on  a  letter  by  his  wife.  February  22-3,  1886. 

Printed  D.  S.   Ip.  December  18,   1889. 
Colman,  Benjamin  and  others 

A.  D.  S.  Addressee  unknown.  Boston,  April  22,  1  730. 
Cooper,  James  Fenimore 

A.  L.  S.  Ip.  May  9,  1840. 
Curtis,  George  William 

A.  L.  S.,  April  25.  1862. 

Collection  of  40  pieces  relating  to  Curtis. 
Dana,   Richard  H, 

3  A.  L.  S.  6pp. 
Dana,  Richard  H.,  Jr. 

5  A.  L.  S.  to  G.  W.  Curtis.  30pp. 
Dc  La  Mare,   Walter 

A.  L.  S.  2pp.  March  26,  1915. 
Emerson,  Ralph  Waldo 

A.  L.  S,  Concord,  Mass.,  1855. 

A.  L.  S.  1865.  2  photographs. 
Everett,  Edward 

A.  L.  S.  2i^pp.  April  23,  1838.  A.  L.  S.  October  18,  1851. 
Fields,  James   i  homas 

A.  L.  S.  July  15,  1862. 


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French,  Jonathan 

A.  L.  S.  to  Dr.  Jedldiah  Morse.  Andover,  1  799. 
Gaine,  Hugh 

A.  L.  S.  to  Peter  v.  Schaack.  December  27,  1  787. 
George,  Henry 

A.  L.  S.  4pp.  May  27,  n.y. 
Godwin,  Parke 

7  A.  L.  S.  to  G.  W.  Curtis. 
Goodrich,  S.  G. 

A.  L.  S.  New  York,  1857. 
Harte,  Bret 

6  A.  L.  S.  1880-1901. 
Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell 

28  A.  L.  S.  1 862-. 

Autograph  manuscript   of   introduction  to   "The   Autocrat  of  the 

Breakfast  Table."  N.d. 
Howells,  William  D. 

4  A.  L.  S.  to  G.  W.  Curtis.  Autograph  ms.  signed,  7pp.  A.  L.  S. 

to  Swinton,  Venice,  October  22,  1  863. 
James,  Henry 

A.  L.  S.  2pp.  1891. 
Key,  Francis  Scott 

A.  L.  S.  4pp.  November  7.  1833. 
La r com,  Lucy 

72  A.  L.  S.  325pp.  Boston,  1879-92. 
London,  Jack 

A.  L.  S.  4pp.  August  23,  1906.  A.  L.  S.  and  manuscript.  Decem- 
ber 22.  1907. 
Longfellow,  Henry  W. 

A.  L.  S.  to  G.  W.  Curtis.  June  14,  1859. 

Collection  of  letters  and  manuscripts.  25  pieces. 
Lowell,  Amy 

10  typewritten  L.  S.,  1915-19. 
Lowell,  James  Russell 

8  A.  L.  S.  and  a  manuscript  poem.  1  850—1 887. 
A.  L.  S.  September  4,  1  880. 

Manuscript  material   by  Hannah  F.  Gould,  C.   P.   Cranch,   Robert 

Farquhar,  etc. 
Miller,  Joaquin 

A.  L.  S.  3pp.  January  8,  1 894. 
O'Connor,  W.  D. 

A.  L.  S.  3pp.  January  6,  1 866. 
Page,  Walter  Hines 

A.  L.  S.  Cambridge,  Mass.,  February  17,  1896. 


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American  Literature  —  Manuscripts  (continued) 

Parker,    Theodore 

A.  L.  S.  West  Roxbury.  1  848. 
Parton,  James 

10  A.  L.  S.  1866-1877. 
Payne,  John  Howard 

A.  L.  S.  Signed  "JH.P."  4pp.  June  21,   1822. 
Pierce,  fcLduard  L. 

20  Letters  to  G.  W.  Curtis. 
Riley,  James  Whitcomb 

A.  L.  S.  to  A.  S.  Hardy.  October  12.  1894. 
Robinson,  Ldwin  Arlington 

A.  L.  S.  to  William  Stanley  Braithwaite.  February  17,   1916. 
Roosevelt,    I  heodore 

A.  L.  S.  to  Pres.  Benjamin  Harrison.  4pp.   1  889. 
Sargent,  Epes 

Correspondence,    consisting   of    200    letters    from   literary    contem- 
poraries, c.    1850. 
Sargent,  Winthrop 

4  A.  L.  S.  2  D.  S.  Mississippi,  1  797-9. 
1  abb,  John  Bannister 

A.  L.  S.  Addressee  unknown.  February   1  6,   1 900. 
Taylor,  Bayard 

12  A.  L.  S.  toG.  W.  Curtis. 
Ticknor,  George 

2  A.  L.  S.  January,   1861,  and  March,   1862.  8pp. 
Warner,  Charles  Dudley 

6  letters  to  G.  W.  Curtis. 
Whipi^Ie,  L.  P. 

6  A.  L.  S.  to  G.  W.  Curtis. 
Whitman,    Walt 

Manuscript  poem   "A  Clear   Midnight,"   and    15   other  pieces   re- 
lating to  Whitman  and  "Leaves  of  Grass."  c.   1899. 
Whittier,  John  Greenleaf 

A.  L.  S.  4pp.  Centre  Harbor,  N.  H.,   1861. 

A.  Ms.  of  "Hours  of  Labor."  c.  March,   1861. 

English  Literature  —  Printed  Books,  Etc. 

Arnold,  Matthew 

Empedocles  on  Etna.  London,    1852.  First  Edition. 

The  Strayed  Reveller.  London,   1849.  First  Edition. 
Bacon,  brancis 

Sylva  Sylvarum.   London,    1627.  First  Edition. 


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English  Literature  —  Printed  Books,  Etc.  (continued) 

Barrie,  Sir  James 

Auld  Licht  Idylls.  London,   1888.  First  Edition. 

The  Little  White  Bird.  London,   1902.  First  Edition. 

Margaret  Ogilvy.  London,   1 896.  First  Edition. 

My  Lady  Nicotine.  London,   1890.  First  Edition. 
Barton,  Bernard 

A  New  Year's  Eve.  London,  1  838.  First  Edition, 

Poetic  Vigils.  London,  1824.  First  Edition. 
Beaumont,  Dr.   Joseph 

Psyche.  London,   1648.  First  Edition. 
Beerbohm,  Max 

Zuleika  Dobson.  London,   191  I.  First  Edition. 
Blair,  Hugh 

Observations  upon  a  Pamphlet.  Edinburgh,  1  735. 
The  Booke  of  Common  Praier.  London,   1559. 
Borrow,  George 

Lavengro.  3  vols.  1  85 1 .  First  Edition. 

Tales  of  the  Wild  and  Wonderful.  London,   1825.  First  Edition. 
Bulwer-Lytton,  Edward 

The  Last  Days  of  Pompeii.  3  vols.  London,   1  834.  First  Edition. 
Bunyan,  John 

The  Barren  Fig-Tree.   1688.  First  Edition. 

The  Water  of  Life.  1  688.  First  Edition. 
Burns,  Robert 

The  Inventory.  Glasgow,   [1796]. 

Letters  addressed  to  Clarinda.  Glasgow,   1802.  First  Edition. 
Butler,  Samuel 

Evolution  Old  and  New.  London,   1  879.  First  Edition. 

The  Way  of  All  Flesh.  London,  1903. 
Byron,  Lord 

Works,   1  820.  First  Edition. 

Broadside.  April  26.  1821. 

English  Bards  and  Scotch  Reviewers,    181  1,  and  The  Vampyre, 

1819.  2  vols. 

Lara,  a   Fale.  Jacqueline,  a  Tale.  London,   1814.  First  Edition. 

Poems  on  Various  Occasions.  Newark,  1 807. 
Carroll,  Lewis 

Ihrough  the  Looking  Glass.  First  Edition. 
Caxton,  William 

Chronicles  of  England  and  Description  of  England.  Westminster?, 

Wynkyn  de  Worde,  1502. 
Coleridge,  Samuel  Taylor 

Aids  to  Reflection.  London,   1825.  First  Edition. 

The  V/atchman,  No.  1 ,  March  1-May  1  3,  1  796.  Bristol.  Original 

issues. 


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English  Literature  —  Printi.d  Books,  E.tc.  (continued) 

Congreve,  William 

The  Old  Batchelour.  London,  1693.  First  Edition. 
Conrad,  Joseph 

1  he  Mirrour  of  the  Sea.  London,   1 906.  First  Edition. 
Cowper,  William 

Poems.  2  vols.    1  792—3.   First  Edition. 
Daniel,  Samuel 

Civile  Wares.  London,   1 609. 
Darwin,  Charles 

On  the  Origin  of  Species.  London,   1859.  First  Edition. 
Defoe,   Daniel 

A  Critical  Essaj^  concerning  Marriage.  London,  1  724.  First  Edition. 

Dissectio  Mentis  Humanae:  Or  a  Satiric  Essay  on  Modern  Critics. 

London,  1730. 
De  Quincey,  Thomas 

Confessions  of  an  English  Opium-Eatcr.  London,  1 822.  First  Edi- 
tion. 
Dickens,  Charles 

A  Christmas  Carol.  London,   i  843.  h  irst  Edition. 

Master  Humphrey's  Clock.  88  parts.  London,   1840-1.  First  Edi- 
tion. 

Oliver  Twist.  London,   1917.  First  Edition. 
Douglas,  Norman 

South  Wind.  London,    1917.  Mvst  Edition. 
Elyot,  Sir  Thomas 

The  Bankette  of  Sapience.  London,   1545. 
FaithfuU,  Emily 

Poems.  London,    1 863.   P  irst  Edition. 
Farquhar,  George 

Fhe  Constant  Couple.  London,   1700.  Pirst  Edition. 
Fielding,  Henry 

Adventures  of  Joseph  Andrews.   London,    1832.   Illus.  by   Cruik- 

shank. 

Don  Quixote  in  England.  London,   I  734.  First  Edition. 

The  Fathers.  London,   1778.  hirst  Edition. 

1  he  History  of  lorn  Jones,  a  Foundling.  6  vols.  London,    1749. 

hirst  Edition,  first  issue. 

The  History  of  Tom  Jones.  London,   1  749.  Second  Edition. 

Joseph  Andrews.  London,   I  742.  First  Edition. 

Fasquin.   London,    1 736.   First  Edition, 
hlccker,  James  EIroy 

The  Golden  Journey  to  Samarkand.  London,   1913.  hirst  Edition. 
Galsworthy,  John 

Fhe  Forsyte  Saga.  London,  1922.  hirst  Edition. 


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English  Literature  —  Printed  Books,  Etc.  (continued) 

Gay,  John 

Trivia.  London,  1716.    First  Edition. 
Germ,  The.  Nos.   1-4.  London,  January  to  April,   1850. 
Gill,  Alexander 

The  new  Starr  of  the  North.  London,  1632,  First  Edition. 
Goldsmith,  Oliver 

Poems   and   Plays.    Dublin,    1  777.   First  collected  edition,   second 

issue. 

Poems  for  Young  Ladies.  London,   1  767.  First  Edition. 

Selected  Poems.  London,  1775. 
Gosse,  Edmund  William 

Pather  and  Son.  London,  1907.  First  Edition. 
Grahame,  Kenneth 

The  Wind  in  the  Willows.  London,  1908.  First  Edition. 
Hudson,  W.  H. 

Works.  24  vols.  1923. 

Green  Mansions.  London,   1904.  First  Edition. 

The  Purple  Land  that  England  Lost.  2  vols.  London,   1885.  First 

Edition. 
Hume,  David 

Essays  Moral  and  Political.  Edinburgh,  1741-2.  2  vols.  First  Edi- 
tion. 

Four  Dissertations.  London,  1757.  First  Edition. 
Humphrey,  Lawrence 

The  Nobles.  London,   1563.  First  Edition. 
Hunt,  James  Henry  Leigh 

Men,  Women,  and  Books.  2  vols.   1847.  First  Edition. 

The  Poetical  Works.  London,   1832. 
Johnson,  Samuel 

Irene.  London,   1  749.  First  Edition. 

Journey  to  the  Western  Islands.  London,  1775.  First  Edition. 

1  he  Prince  of  Abissinia.  2  vols.  London,  1759.  First  Edition. 
Jonson,  Ben 

Q.    Horatius   Flaccus,   His  Art   of    Poetry.   London,    1640.    First 

Edition. 
Joyce,  James 

Ulysses.  Paris,  1922.  First  Issue. 
Keats,  John 

Endymion.  London,   1818.  First  Edition. 

Lamia.  London,   1  820.  First  Edition. 
Kingsley,  Charles 

Alton  Locke.  London,   1850.  First  Edition. 

The  Water  Babies.  London,   1  863.  First  Edition. 
Kipling,  Kudyard 

American  Notes.  And  the  Bottle  Imp  by  Robert  Louis  Stevenson. 


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English  Literature  —  Printed  Books,  Etc.  (continued) 

New  York,    [1891].   First  Edition. 

The  Light  that  Failed.  London,  189L  First  English  Edition. 

Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills.  Calcutta,   1  888.  First  Edition. 

Soldiers  Three.  Allahabad,   1  888.  First  Edition. 
Lamb,  Charles 

Essays  of  Elia,   1823—33.  2  vols.  Wordsworth's  copy  of  the  fust 

edition. 

Essays  of  Elia.  Philadeli)hia,  1  828.  First  American  Edition. 

Essays  of  Elia.  London,  I  883.  Ainger  Edition. 

Mrs.   Leicester's   School.    London,    1809.    Dorothy    Wordsworth's 

copy  with  her  inscription  and  Wordsworth's  initials.  First  Edition. 

1  he  Pawnbroker's  Daughter.  London,   1830.  First  Edition. 

A  Tale  of   Rosamund  Gray  and  Old   Blind   Margaret.   London, 

1  798.  First  Edition. 
Lamb,  John 

Poetical  Pieces  on  Several  Occasions.  London,    [c.   1  765—70] . 

First  Edition. 
Landor,  Walter  S. 

The  Poems  of  Walter  Savage  Landor.  London,  1  795.  First  Edition. 

Poetry  by  the  Author  of  Gebir.  London,   1  802.  First  Edition. 
Lang,  Andrew 

Essays  in  Little,  with  autograph  letter.  London,  1  89  1 .  First  Edition. 
LawTence,  D.  H. 

The  Prussian  Officer.  London,  1914.  First  Edition. 
Locke,  John 

1  wo  Treatises  of  Government.  London,   1  764.  First  Edition. 
la)rd,  Henry 

A  Display  of  two  forraigne  sects.  London,  1  630.  First  l-dition. 
Lucas,  E.  V. 

Bernard  Barton  and  his  Friends.  London,   1893.  First  Edition. 
Macaulay,  Thomas  Babington 

Fhe  History  of  England.  London,   1849—60.  First  Edition. 
Mackenzie,  Henry 

The  Man  of  Feeling.  London,   1771.  First  Edition. 
Malthus,  Rev.  T.  R. 

Essay  on  the  Principle  of  Population.  London,  1  798.  First  Edition. 

Essay  on  the  Principle  of  Population.  London,  1803.  Second  Edi- 
tion. 

An  inquny  into  the  Nature  and  Progress  of  Rent.  London,   1815. 

hirst  Edition. 
Manby.  G.  W. 

An  Essay  on  the  Preservation  of  Ship-wrecked  Persons.   London, 

1812.  First  Edition. 
Mathews,  Sir  T. 

Collection  of  Letters.    London,    1  660.    First  Edition. 


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English  Literature  —  Printud  Books,  Etc.  (continued) 

May,  J.  Lewis 

Charles  Lamb.  London,    1934.  First  Edition. 
Mill,  John  Stuart 

Autobiography.  London,   1873.  First  Edition. 
Mirror  for  Magistrates.  London,   157L 
Moore,  George 

Memoirs.  London,  1906.  First  Edition. 
Morris,  William 

The   Fables  Turned.  London,   1887.  First  Edition. 
Nedham,  Marchamont 

The  political  tracts.  London,   (1650)-!  659.  First  Edition. 
Pope,  Alexander 

First  Epistle  of  the  First  Book  of  Horace  Imitated.  London,  1  737. 

First  Edition. 

Universal  Prayer.  London,   1  738.  First  Edition. 
Proctor,  Bryan  Waller 

Charles  Lamb,  a  Memoir.   1866.  First  Edition.   With  19  lines  of 

a  letter  from  Lamb  to  Mrs.  Westwood ;  two  A.  L.   S.   from  the 

author  to  Thomas  Westwood,   whom   Lamb   befriended;   and   the 

latter's  bookplate. 
Quarles,    Francis 

1  he  Loyall  Convert.  Oxford,   1643.  First  Edition. 
Radclifle,  Ann 

The  Mysteries  of  Udolpho.  London,  1  794.  First  Edition. 
Rossi,  Mario  M.  and  Joseph  M.  Hone 

Swift,  or  the  Egotist.  New  York,  1934.  First  Edition. 
Sallust 

The   Two  Most   Worthy  and   Notable   Histories.   Thomas    Hey- 

wood,  trans.  London,   1 608—9. 
Sassoon,  Siegfried 

War  Poems.  London,   1919.  First  Edition. 
Scott,  Walter 

The  Monastery.  Edinburgh.   1820.  First  Edition. 

St.  Ronan's  Well.  Edinburgh,  1  824.  First  Edition. 

Woodstock.   1826.  First  Edition. 
Shaw,  George  Bernard 

Plays  Pleasant  and  Unpleasant.  2  vols.  London,  1898.  First  Edi- 
tion. 

Widowers'  Houses.  London,  1893.  First  Edition. 
Shelley,  Percy  Bysshe 

The  Cenci.  London,   1819.  First  Edition. 

Queen  Mab,  London,  1813.  First  Edition. 
Ihe  Revolt  of  Islam.  London,  1818.  First  Edition. 

Rosalind  and  Helen.  London,   1819.  First  Edition. 

Zastrozzi.  London,   1810.  First  Edition. 


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Sillar,  David 

Poems.  Kilmarnock,  1  789.  First  Edition. 
Soane,  George 

The  Innkeeper's  Daughter.  Prompter's  copy.  London,   1817.  First 

Edition. 
Spenser,  Edmund 

The  Faerie  Queene.  London.   1596.  First  Edition. 
Sprat,  T.  and  Waller,  E. 

Three  Poems.  London,  1682.  First  Edition. 
Stevenson,  Robert  Louis 

The  Black  Arrow.  New  York,  1  888,  First  Edition. 

A  Child's  Garden  of  Verses.  London,  1885.  First  Edition. 

Familiar  Studies  of  Men  and  Books.  London,  1  882.  First  Edition. 

A  Footnote  to  History.  London,   1  892.  First  Edition. 

An  Inland  Voyage.  London,   1878.  First  Edition. 

Poems.  Minneapolis,  1917. 

Virginibus  Puerisque.    1881.  First  Edition, 
Stoker,  Bram 

Dracula.  London,  1897,  First  Edition,  A,  L.  S.  inserted. 
Swift,  Jonathan 

Works.  4  vols.  Dublin,  1735. 

First  Ode  to  the  Second  Book  of  Horace  Paraphrased.  London, 

1714.  First  Edition. 

Gulliver's  Travels.  London,    1  726.  hirst  Edition. 

1  he  Journal  to  Stella.  London,  1901. 

A  Modest  Enquiry.  London,   1714.  First  Edition. 

A  Tale  of  a  Bottomless  Fub.  London,  1  723.  First  Edition. 
Synge,  John  Millington 

The  Shadow  of  the  Glen  and  Riders  to  the  Sea.  London,   1905. 

First  Edition. 
Talfourd.  T.  N. 

Letters  of  Charles  Lamb.  London,  1837.  2  vols.  First  Edition. 
Tusser,    1  homas 

Fiue  hundreth  pointes  of  good  husbandrie.  London,   1  599. 
Tye,  Christopher 

The  Acts  of  the  Apostles.  London,  1553.  First  Edition. 
Wells,  H.  G. 

The  Flistory  of  Mr.  Polly.  London,  1910.  First  Edition. 
Wells,  H.  G. 

The  Island  of  Dr.  Moreau.  London,   1  896.  First  Edition. 

Mr.  Britling  Sees  it  Through.  London,  1916.  b  irst  Edition. 

The   1  ime  Machine.  London,  1895.  First  Edition, 

When  the  Sleeper  Wakes.  New  York,   1899.  First  Edition. 


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English  Literature  —  Printed  Books,  Etc.  (continued) 

White,  John 

The  Troubles  of  Jerusalems   Restauration.    London,    1 646.    First 

Edition. 
Yeats,  W.  B. 

In  the  Seven  Woods.  Dundrum,  1 903.  First  Edition. 

English  Literature  —  Manuscript  Books 

Buchanan,  Robert 

Literary  notebook,  1868-1875,  with  1  p.  letter  of  Mary  Buchanan. 
Collins,  Wilkie 

A.  Ms.  "The  Haunted  Hotel." 
Conrad,  Joseph 

Typescript.  "The  Secret  Agent."   170pp. 

Typescript.  "The  Torrens.  A  Personal    1  ribute." 
Coppard,  A.  E. 

A.  Ms.  "Dumbledon  Donkey."  8pp. 
Cruikshank,  George 

A.  Ms.  "This  is  the  House  that  Jack  Built."  48pp. 
De  Quincey,    1  homas 

A.  Ms.  Notes  on  French  Drama  and  Literature. 
Morris,  William 

A.  Ms.  "Independent  Ireland." 

Manuscript.  "The  Pilgrims  of  Hope." 

Manuscript.  "Useful  Work  versus  Useless  Toil." 
Shaw,  George  Bernard 

Article  on  "St.  Joan."  typescript. 
Swinburne,  Algernon  Charles 

A.  Ms.  "Victor  Hugo:  Toute  la  Lyre." 

English  Literature  —  Manuscripts 

Arnold,  Matthew 

3  A.  L.  S.  April  25-May  11,  1857. 
Barham,  Richard  H. 

A.  L.  S.  4pp.  September  8,  1 830. 

Autograph  poem,  initialled.  January,   1831. 
Barrie,  Sir  James 

2  A.  L.  S.  May  21,  1897  and  June  26,  [1897]. 

27  A.  L.  S.  to  the  Duchess  of  Sutherland.  1906-1936. 

42  A.  L.  S.  to  Rosaline  Masson.  1902-1936. 
Beerbohm,  Max 

A.  L.  S.  2pp..  3  A.  L.  S.  June  1  5-28,  1909. 
Bennett,  Arnold 

"American  Literature,"  manuscript.   1928. 


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English  Literature  —  Manuscripts  (continued) 

"Einstein,"  manuscript.   1927. 

"Private  Libraries,"  manuscript.   1930. 

"T.  S.  Eliot,"  manuscript,  N.d. 

"Rare  Books,"  manuscript.   1929. 
Binyon,  Laurence 

A.  L.  S.  Ip.  August  24,  1909.  A.  L.  S.  1  ;/pp.  Dec  20,  n.y. 
Borrow,  George 

"Songs  relating  to  Marsk  Stig  and  his  Family."  23pp.    1829,  re- 
vised 1854. 

A.  Mss.  "The  Songs  of  Ranild,"  "Child  Stig  and  Child  Findal." 
Browning,  Elizabeth  B. 

A.  L.  S.,  and  portions  of  3  others.   1  7pp. 
Burke,  Edmund 

A.  L.  S.  2pp.  December  6,   1  790. 
Burney,  Fanny 

A.  L.  S.,  October  14,  1813.  2pp.  2  A.  L.  December  31,  1799 

and  May  5,  1816. 
Carlyle,   Thomas 

A.  L.  S.,  December  19,  1854. 
Cobden,  R. 

A.  L.  S.  4pp.  1862. 
Coleridge,  Samuel  Taylor 

A.  L.  S.  to  James  Gillman,  November  9,   1832. 
Conrad,  Joseph 

A.  L.  S.  4pp.  June  13,    1914.  Bound  with  "The  Lesson  of  the 

Collision,"  a  printed  article. 

A.  L.  S.  "J.  Conrad."  4pp.  May,  1924. 

3  A.  L.  S.  1918  and  1924. 
Cruikshank,  George 

A.  L.  S.  4pp.  April  28.  1845. 

Leaf  displaying  two  sketches.  N.p.,  n.d. 

Pencil  and  pen-and-ink  sketches. 

Signature. 
De  Quincey,    1  homas 

A.  L.  S.  2pp.  October   I  8,  n.y. 
Doughty,  Charles 

A.  L.  S.  N.d. 
Doyle,  Sir  Arthur  Conan 

A.   L.   S.    I  p.,  A.  Ms.    I  p.    Typewritten  appreciation,   corrections, 

10pp. 
Lliot,  George 

A.  L.  S.  to  Chapman,  1853. 
iitzgerald,  Edward 

A.  L.  S.  August.  1 880. 

8  A.  L.  S.  "E.  F.  G."  and  one  A.  L.  31pp.  1862-81.  Bound. 


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English  Literature  —  Manuscripts  (continued) 

Galsworthy,  John 

A.  L.  S.  1927.  L.  S.  Ip.  1915. 
Gaskell,  Mrs.  E.  C. 

2  A.  L.  S.  6pp. 
Gibbon,  Edward 

A.  L.  S.  3pp.  July  25,  1  793. 
Gladstone,  William  E. 

A.  L.  S.  7pp.  1860. 
Hamerton,  Philip  G. 

2  A.L.  S.  1876  and  1886;  A.  Ms.,  1876,  and  6  other  letters. 
Hardy,  Thomas 

2  A.  L.  S.  1872  and  1891.  4  typewritten  letters.  1925. 
Hastings,  Warren 

A.  L.  S.  2pp. 
Herschel,  Sir  J.  F.  W. 

3  A.  L.  S.  1821-1848. 
Hogg,  James 

A.  L.  S.  3pp.  April  1,  1813. 
Hudson.  W.  H. 

3  A.  L.  S. 
Lawrence,  D.  H. 

3  A.  L.  S.,  1923. 
Martineau,  H. 

A.  L.  S.  4pp. 
Meredith,  George 

2  A.  L.  S.  May  1  9.  1  884  and  September  1  2,  1  887. 
Moore,  George 

8  A.  L.  S.  1  L.  S.  1885-1923. 
More,  Hannah 

A.  L.  S.  4pp. 
Kossetti.  D.  G. 

6  letters;  A.  L.  S.  of  W.  M.  Kossetti;  manuscript  list  of  Rossetti 

residences. 
Ruskin,  John 

22  A.  L.  S.  to  Wm.  H.  Hooper,  c.  1 883-86. 
Russell.  George.  "A.  E." 

A.  L.  S.  1  K2PP.  N.p.,  n.d. 

A.  Ms.  of  poem  "Loneliness,"  Ip. 
Scott,  Sir  Waller 

4  A.  L.  S.  1812  and  1828. 
Shaw,  George  Bernard 

2  A.  L.  S.  October  21,   1887  and  July  1  I,  1911. 
Southey.  Robert 

A.  L.  S.  3pp.  May  20.  I  799. 


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English  Literature  —  Manuscripts  (continued) 

Stanhope,  Lady  Hester 
A.  L.  S.  7pp.  1815. 
Stevenson,  Robert  Louis 

2  A.  L.  S. 
Tennyson,  Lord 

3  A.  L.  S.  April  15.   1870.  December  27.   1871.  n.d.  A.  L.  S. 
1  866.  Autograph  postscript  to  a  letter  written  by  his  wife. 

Tillotson,  John 

A.  L.  S.  2pp.  1691. 
Wells,  H.  G. 

A.  L.  S.  1  p. 
Wilde,  Oscar 

A.  L.  S.  4pp.  1888;  A.  L.  S.  4pp.  Worthing,  n.d. 

Spanish  Literature  —  Printed  Books 

Al  Rey  Nuestro  Senor  .  .  .  c.  1652, 

Chronica  del   muy   esclarecide   Principe  y  Rey  don   Alfonso  el  On- 

zeno  .  .  ,  Valladolid:  Sebastian  Martinez.  1551. 
Mexia,  Pedro 

Historia  imperial  y  Cesarea.  Seville,  1545. 

French  Literature  —  Printed  Books 

Cyrano  de  Bergerac 

Les  oeuvres  diverses.  2  vols.   1  66 1 . 
Daudet,  Alphonse 

Lettres  de  mon  moulin.  Paris,  n.d. 
l-^eletier,  Jacques 

L'Art  Poetique.  Lyons,  Jean  de  Tournes,   1555. 

French  Literature  —  Manuscripts 

Beranger,  Pierre  Jean  de 

A.  L.  S.  Ip.  September  19.  1850. 
Dumas.  Alexandre 

A.  L.  S.  Ip.  N.p.,  n.d. 
Lamartine,  Alphonse 

A.  L.  S.  2pp.  November  10,   I860. 


[132] 
French  Literature  —  Manuscripts  (continued) 

Rolland,  Remain 

A.  Ms.  2pp. 
Stael,  Mme.  de 

A.  L.  S.  Ip.  October  26,  1815. 
Sue,  Eugene 

A.  L.  S.  2pp.  N.p.,  n.d. 
Zola,  Emile 

A.  L.  S.  2pp.  1 883. 

German  Literature  —  Printed  Books 

Goethe,  Johann  Wolfgang  von 

Farbenlehre.  Tubingen,  1810.  3  vols.  First  Edition. 

Faust,  Hundertjahrausgabe.  Berlin.   1932. 

Die  Leiden  des  jungen  Werthers.   I  774.  First  Edition. 

Propylaen.  Tiibmgen,    1  798-1 800.  First  Edition. 

Versuch  die  Metamorphose  der  Pflanzen  zu  erklaren.  Gotlia,  1  790. 

First  Edition. 

Die  Wahlverwandtschaften.  Tiibingen,  1 809.  First  Edition. 

Winkelmann  und  sein  Jahrhundert.  Tubingen,  1805.  First  Edition. 
Heine,  Heinrich 

Atta  Troll.  Hamburg,   1847.  First  Edition. 

Deutschland.  Hamburg,  1844.  First  Edition. 

Neue  Gedichte.  Hamburg,   1844.  First  Edition. 

Die  Nordsee.  Hilversum,  1928.  Heuvel  Press. 

Die  romantische  Schule.  Hamburg,  1 836.  First  Edition. 

Romanzero.  Hamburg,  1851.  First  Edition. 
Hoelderlin,  Johann  Christian 

Gedichte.  Stuttgart,  1 826.  First  Edition. 
Kant,  Immanuel 

Critik  der  reinen  Vernunft.  Riga,  1  781.  hirst  Edition. 

Critik  der  Urtheilskraft.  Berlin,  1  790.  First  Edition. 

Metaphysische  Anfangsgriinde  der  Naturwissenschaft.  Riga,  1  786. 

First  Edition. 
Kleist,  Heinrich  von 

Das  Kathchen  von  Heilbronn.  Berlin,  181-.  First  Edition. 
Lessing,  Gotthold  Ephraim 

Fabeln.  Berlin,  I  775.  First  Edition. 

Laokoon.  Berlin,  1  766.  First  Edition. 
Luther.  Martin 

Das   Tauft  Buchlin.  Wittenberg,   1523.  First  Edition. 


[133] 
German  Literature  —  Printed  Books  (continued) 

[Robinson  Crusoe.  Imitations] 

Der  Medicinische  Robinson.  Leipzig,  1  732. 

Nieder-Sachsischer  Robinson.  P  rankfurt,   1  724. 

Der  Brandenburgisclie  Robinson.   1  744, 
Ryff.  W. 

Reformierte  Deutsche  Apoteck.  Strassburg,   1573. 
Schwarzenberg,  Joliann  von 

Beschwerung  der  alten  Teufelischen  Schlangen  mit  dem  Gotlichen 

wort.  Nuremberg,  1  525.  First  Edition. 

Mathematics  &  Science  —  Printed  Books 

Blundeville,  Thomas 

His  Exercises.  London,  1613. 
Evelyn,  John 

Navigation  and  Commerce.  London,   1674.  First  Edition. 
H alley,   Edmund 

A  Synopsis  of  the  Astronomy.  London,  1  705. 
Leurechon,  Jean 

Recreations  Mathematiques.  Rouen,   1 629. 
Marius,  Simon 

Mundus  Jovialis.  Nuremberg.    1614. 
Marriotte,    Edme 

The  Motion  of  Water,  1718. 
Ozanam,  Jacques 

Recreations  Mathematical.  1  708. 
Pascal,  Blaise 

Traitez  de  I'equilibre  des  Liqueurs  et  de  la  Pesanteur  de  la  Masse 

de  I'Air.  Paris,  1  663.  First  Edition. 
Sacro  Busto,  Johannes  de 

Sphaera  mundi.  Venice,  1485. 
Seller,  J. 

Practical  Navigation.   London,   1 739. 
Stoeffler,  Johann 

Elucidatio  astrolabii.  Oppenheim,  J  Kobel,   1512—13. 
Taylor,  John 

Thesaurarium  Mathematicae.  London,  1  707. 
Wilkins,  J. 

Mathematical  Magick.  London,  1  680. 


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Mathematics  &  Science  —  Manuscripts 

Manuscripts  and  correspondence  of  Alexander  G.  Bell,  Thomas  Edi- 
son, Clarence  John  Blake,  etc. 

Medieval  Manuscripts 

Albumasar 

Liber  de  meditationibus.   1 4th  century  manuscript. 
Andreae,  Johannes 

Commentaria  ad  S.  Hieronymum.   1  5th  century  French  manuscript. 
Aquinas,  Thomas 

De  fallaciis.    1 4th  century  manuscript.   Bound  with  Aristotle.   Or- 

ganon. 
Aristotle 

Organon.   14th  century  manuscript.  Bound  with  Thomas  Aquinas, 

De  fallaciis. 
Ars  Moriendi.  1  5th  century  manuscript. 
Canones  tabularum  (Johannes  de  Saxonia  and  Joannes  de  Lineriis). 

1 4th  century  manuscript. 
Caxton,  William 

Volume  containing   nine   fifteenth-century  manuscripts,    supposedly 

from  the  library  of  William  Caxton  and  inscribed  by  him. 
Franciscan  Breviary.  Illuminated  manuscript,  about   1  340. 
Horae  B.  V.  M.  Rennes,  c.  1 400. 
Horae  B.  V.  M.  ad  usum  Dolensem.  Northern  France,  early    1 5th 

century. 
Horae  B.  V.  M.  Manuscript.  Flanders,   1  5th  century. 
Horae   B.  V.  M.  ad  usum  Romanum.  Manuscript.  Flanders,  c.  1  500. 
St.  Jerome 

Epistolae.  1  5th  century  Italian  manuscript. 
Vita  S.  Augustini.   1  5th  century  German  manuscript. 


Incunabula 

Abstemius 

Fabulae.  Venice,  1 499. 
Albertus  de  Saxonia 

De  proportionibus.  Venice,    1 494. 
Angelus 

Astrolabiuiii.  Venice,  1  494. 


[1351 

Incunabula  (continued) 

Annius 

Auctores  vetustissimi.  Venice,   1 498. 
Anselm  of  Canterbur.v 

Cur  deus  homo.  Strassburg,  not  after  1474, 
Appianus  Alexandrinus 

Historia  Romana.  Reggio  d'Emilia,  1494;  and  Scandiano,  1495. 
Bessarion,  Johannes 

Adversus  Platonis  calumniatorem.   Rome,   before    1469. 
Breviarum  Romanum.  Venice,   1477. 
Cassinensis,  Samuel 

Liber  isagogicus.  Milan,   1494. 
Cavaica 

Fructi  della  lingua.  Florence,  1493. 
Corvinus 

Cosmographia  dans  manuductionem.  Basel,  c.    1493. 
Crescentius,  P.  de 

De  Agricultura.  Venice,  1495. 
Cyprian,  St. 

De  duodecim  abusivis  saeculi.  Cologne,  1470. 
Eschenbach,  Wolfram  von 

Tyturel.  Strassburg,  1477. 
[Gospel  of  Nicodemus.]  Historia  sive  evangelium.  Cologne,  c.  1499- 

1500. 
Herbarius  Patavie.  Passau,  1485. 
Hieronymus  de  Vallibus 

Jesuida.  Ingolstadt,  ca.    1497. 
Horae.  Paris,    1500. 
Horatius 

Opera.  Strassburg,    1498. 
Isidorus  Hispalensis   (St.  Isidore) 

Liber  Soliloquiorum.  Albi,  c.   1478. 
St.  Jerome 

Vita  e  Epistole.  Ferrara,   1497. 
Lirer,   f  homan 

Chronica  von  alien  Konigen  und  Kaisern.  Ulm,   1  486. 
Macrobius 

In  Somnium  Scipionis.  Venice,   1  500. 
Methodius 

Revelations.  Basel,   1300. 
Negligentiae  et  dcfectus  in  missa.  Erfurt,   1  494. 
Magni,  Jacobus 

Sophologium.  Strassburg,  c.   1470. 

Sophologium.  Lyons,  J.  de  Vingle,   1495. 
Molitoris 

De  Lamiis.  M.  Flach,  1  500. 


[136] 

Incunabula  (continued) 

Matleolo  da  Perugia 

De  memoria.  M.  Schott,  1498. 
Otto  von  Passau 

Die  Vierundzwanzig  Alten.  Augsburg,  Anton  Sorg,   1480. 
Papal  Dispensation 

Augsburg,  Ratdolt,    1487. 
Precordiale  sacerdotum  devote  celebrare  cupientium.  Basel,  Johannes 

von  Amerbach,  June  1  6,  1 489. 
Ptolemaeus 

Liber  quadripartiti.  Venice,   1493, 
Raymundus 

Epislola  Luciferi.  Paris,  ca.   1498, 
Regiomontanus 

Dialogus   inter  Viennensem  et   Cracoviensem.   Nuremberg,   Regio- 
montanus, c.  1475, 
Richenthal,  Ulrich  von 

Concilium  zu  G)nstanz.  Augsburg,  Anton  Sorg,  1483. 
Rodericus  Zamorensis  (Sanchez  de  Arevalo) 

Speculum  vitae  humanae.  Toulouse,  J.  Parix,  ca.  1 480. 

Speculum  vitae  humanae.  Besancon,  P,  Metlinger,  1 488. 
Rolevinck,  Werner 

Fasciculus  temporum.  Cologne,   1474, 
Septem  Sapientes,  Cologne,  c,    1472, 

Speculum  humanae  salvationis,  Augsburg,  Gunther  Zainer,   1473. 
Suidas 

Lexicon.  Milan,   1499, 
Turrecremata 

Expositio  brevis,  Mainz,  Schoeffer,   1 476. 
Vegius 

Philalethes.  Nuremberg,  Regiomontanus,    1474. 
Von  Wyle,  Niclas 

Translationen.  Esslingen,  Conrad  Fyner,  1478. 

Illustrated  Books 

Anleitung   zum    Richtiger   und    Geschmackvollen    blumen-Zeichnung. 

Nuremberg  and  Leipzig,   1 802. 
Bewick,  Thomas 

A  General  History  of  Birds  and  Quadrupeds.  Philadelphia,  1 824. 
de  la  Bretonne,  Restif 

La  Paysane  Pervertie.  La  Haie,  1  784. 

La  Prevention  Nationale,  La  Haie,   1  784, 


[137] 

iLLUSTRAIFiD  BoOKS  (continued) 

Colonna,  Francisco 

Hypnerotomachie  ou  Discours  du  songe  de  Poliphilc.  Paris,  1  546. 
Corbeiile  de  Fleurs.  Paris,  1  807. 

Les  Exposicions  des  Epislres  et  Euangiles.  Paris,  for  Verard,  1519. 
Hours,  French.  Paris,  Simon  Voslre,   1508. 
Horae  Beatae  Mariae  Virginis.  London,  1514. 
Hortulus  Anime.  Lyons,   1513. 

Icones  historarum  veteris  testamenti.  Lyons,  1547.  Hans  Holbein,  illus. 
Imbert,  Barthelemy 

Le  Jugernent  de  Paris.  Amsterdam,  1772. 
Philo  Judaeus 

Les  Oeuvres  do  Philon  Juif.  Paris,  1575, 
Junius,  H. 

Emblemata.  Antwerp,  1565. 
Justiniano,  Leonardo 

Laude  devotissime.  Venice,  1517. 
Lamb,  Charles 

Essays  of  Elia.  London,  1900.  2  vols.   (Brock  illustrations.) 
Liliputian  Dancing  School,   [c.   1780.] 
McCringer,  Joel 

A  Compendious  Treatise  on  Modern  Education.  London,   1802. 
Malory,  Sir  Thomas 

Le  Morte  Darthur.  London,  1  893-94. 
Mirabilia  Romae,  1536. 
Royen,  J.  F. 

De  illustratie  van  het  boek.  Amsterdam,  1930. 
Sambucus 

Emblemata.  Anvers,    1564. 
Schopper,  Hartman 

Panoplia  omnium  illiberalium  mechanicarum.  Frankfurt,   1568. 
Steinmeyer,  V. 

Newe  kiinstliche,  wohlgerissene,  unnd  in  Holtz  geschnittene  Figuren. 

Frankfurt    am   Main,    1619-20.    (Weiditz,    Burgkmair,    Schaiif- 

felein,  etc.,  illus.) 
Tooley,  R.  V. 

Some  English  books  with  coloured  plates.  London,  1935. 
Verini,  Gian  Batlista 

Luminario.  Toscolano,  c.   1526. 
Worringer,  Wilhelm 

Die  Altdeutsche  Buchillustration.  Munich,    1919. 
Young,  Edward 

The  Complaint,  and  the  Consolation ;  or,  Night  Thoughts.  London, 

1797.  Blake  engravings. 


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Finp:ly  Printed  Books 


Chadourne,  L. 

Terre  de  Chanaan.  Paris,  1925.  Illus.  by  Pierre  Falke. 
Coppard,  A.  E. 

Adam  and  Eve  and  Pinch  Me.  Cockerel  Press,  1 92 1 , 
Darmstaedter  Pessach-Haggadah.  2  vols.  Leipzig,  1927. 
Desportes,  Ph. 

Les  LX  Pseaumes  de  David.  Maastricht,   1926. 
St.  Francis 

Laudes  Creatorum.  Doves  Press,  1910. 
Frith,  Wm.  Powell 

John  Leech,  His  Life  and  Work.  4  vols.  London,   1 89 1 .  Inlaid, 

extra-illus. 
Giraudoux,  Jean 

Promenade  avec  Gabrielle.  Paris,    1919—24.   Illus.  by  J.  E.  La- 

boureur. 

Siegfried  et  le  Limousin.  Paris,  1928.  Etchings  by  Edy  Legrand. 
Gourmont,  Remy  de 

Couleurs,  contes.  Paris,  1 929.  Illustrations  by  J.  E.  Laboureur. 
Haberly,  Loyd 

Antiquary.  Long  Crendon,  Bucks,   1933. 

Boy  and  Bird.  Long  Crendon,  Bucks,  1932. 

The  Crowning  Year  and  other  Poems.  Corfe  Mullen,  Dorset,  1937. 

Poems.  Seven  Acres  Press.  1930. 
Hall,  Carroll  D. 

Bierce  and  the  Poe  Hoax.  Windsor  Press.  N.d. 
Johnson,  Cecil  and  James 

A  Printer's  Garland.  Windsor  Press,  N.d. 
Laboureur,  J.  E. 

Peau  d'Ane.  Paris?   1936. 
Lamb,  Charles 

Dream-Children.  New  York,  1923.  Bruce  Rogers, 

New  Year's  Eve.  New  York,  1923.  Bruce  Rogers. 

Rosamund  Gray.  London,  1928.  Golden  Cockerel  Press. 
Maeterlinck,  Maurice 

L'Oiseau  Bleu.  Paris,   1 909. 

L'Oiseau  Bleu,  with  set  of  illustrations.  Paris,    [1931]. 
Psalter,  Der.  Munchen,   1929.  Bremer  Press. 
Radiguet,  Raymond 

Le  Diable  au  Corps.  Paris,  1  926.  Illus.  by  Maurice  Vlaminck. 
Rameau,  P. 

Le  Maitre  a  Danser.  Paris,  1725. 
Roy  en,  J.  F.  van,  en  P.  N.  v.  Eyck 

Over  Boekkunst  en  de  Zilverdister,  1916. 


[139] 
Finely  Printed  Books  (continued) 

Spinoza 

Tractatus  politicus.   Hilversum,   1928.   I  Icuvcl  Press. 
Sterne,  Laurence 

Works.  7  vols.  Shakespeare  Head  Press, 
Valery,  Paul 

Le  Jeune  Parque.  Paris,   1925.  lUus.  by  Daragnes. 
Villon,  Francois 

Oeuvres.  Kunera  Press,   1926. 

Oeuvres.  Maastricht,   1 929.  Halcyon  Press. 


Fine  Bindings 

Collins,  William 

Poetical  Works.  London,  1797.  Gosden  binding. 
Saunders,  James 

The  Compleat  Fisherman.  London,   1  724.  Gosden  binding 


Music  —  Printed  Books 

Dowland,  John 

The  first  book  of  Songes  .  .  .  second  book.   1597—1600.  London. 
Eccles,  John 

A  collection  of  songs.  London,   1710. 
Giovanelli,  Pietro 

Thesauri  Musici.  5  vols.  Venice,   1568. 
Lavves,  Henry 

Ayres  and  dialogues.  London,   1653—55—58. 
Playford,  John 

The  whole  book  of  Psalms.   1  699. 
Purcell,  Henry 

A  musical  entertainment.  London,   1  684. 
Ravenscroft,  Thomas 

Harmonia  perfecta.    1  730. 
Simpson,  Christopher 

The  Division  viol.  London,    1  667. 
Tritonius 

Melopiac.  Augsburg,   1507. 


1140] 

Music  —  Manuscripts 

Musical  manuscripts 

37  letters  by  composers  (Wagner,  Liszt,  Meyerbeer,  Gounod, 
Saint-Saens,  etc);  6  autographed  photographs;  Mendelssohn's 
Quartet  No.   1  1    (presentation  copy). 


Miscellaneous  —  Printed  Books 

Alexander  VI,  Pope 

Defense  of  Bull  of  Sixtus  IV   (against  Sebastian  Branl).  Oppen- 

heim.  J.  Kobel,  1503. 
Amman 

Terentius,  Mureto  emendatus.  Frankfurt  am  Main,    1574. 
Brunetto  Latini 

Retorica.  Rome,   1546. 
Carter,  John 

Binding   Variants   in   English   Publishing,    1820-1900.    London, 

1932. 
Grammaire  Turque.  Constantinople,  1  730. 
Juvenal  &  Persius 

Satires,  trans,  by  Dryden.  London,  1  693. 
Koops,  Mat. 

Historical  Account  of  the  Substances  ...  to  the  Invention  of  Paper. 

London.  1800. 
des  Masures,  Louis 

L'Eneide  de  Virgile.  Lyons,  Jean  de  Tournes,  1560. 
McCoy,  James  C. 

Jesuit  Relations.  Paris,  1937. 
Maggi 

Delia  Fortificatione.   1584. 
Mairet 

Notice  sur  la  lithographic,  ou  L'art  d'imprimer  sur  pierre.  Dijon, 

1818. 
Millar,  Eric  George 

The  Library  of  Chester  A.  Beatty.  4  vols.  London,  1927-30. 
Monge,  Gaspard 

Description  de  l'art  de  fabriquer  les  canons.   1  793. 
Plato 

Omnia  Opera.  Venice,  1513.  Aldus. 
Plautus 

Comedies.  London,   1  694. 


[141] 
Miscellaneous  —  Printed  Books  (coniinued) 

Plutarch 

Morals.  London,  1603. 
Report  from  the  Committee  of  Secrecy,  appointed  by  the   House  of 

Commons  to  examine  the  late  negotiations  of  Peace  and  Commerce 

with  France.  Lx>ndon,  1715. 
Seder  Haggadah  she!  pesach.  Amsterdam,   1712, 
Tunstall,  Cuthbert 

In  laudem  matrimonii.  Basel,  1519. 
Turner,  William 
'    Herbal.  Cologne,  1568. 
Uberti,  Fazio  degli 

Ditta  Mundi.  Venice,    1501. 
Valturius 

De  ReMilitari.   1532. 
Yiddish  theatre  collection. 
Collection  of  early  children's  books. 
Collection  of  Russian  children's  books.  Modern. 

Miscellaneous  —  Manuscripts 

Abbey,  Edwin  A. 
2  A.  L.  S. 

Dramatic  Group 

Copy  of  Cauldock  testimonial,  signatures  of  Joseph  Jefferson,  De- 
Wolf  Hopper,  etc.  Presentation  copy  of  "Great  Acting  in  English" 
from  Julia  Marlowe  to  W.  J.  Rolfe.  Letters  of  Julia  Marlowe  and 
Joseph  Jefferson,  etc.   [12  pieces.] 

Metternich,  Prince  Clemens  Von 
L.  S.,  Ip.  August  1,  1807. 

Pitcairn  Island 

Ms.  Account  of  Capt.  Arthur,   1  822. 

Turgeniev,  Ivan 

A.  L.  S.,  5pp.  1875. 

Whistler,  James  McNeill 

A.  L.  S.  August  21,  [1890].  2pp.  A.  L.  S.  Ip.  [1890]. 


1142] 
A  SELECTION  OF  INIERES  TING  GIF  IS  OF  BOOKS  IN  1939 

Bentley,  Harry  C. 

Twenty-five  works  on  bookkeeping,  for  the  Harry  C.  Bentley  Collec- 
tion. 

Bradley,  Mrs.  J.  D.  Cameron 

A  collection  of  1620  volumes  and  158  pamphlets,  principally  German 
and  English  classics,  many  of  which  are  first  and  other  rare  editions. 

Byrd,  Admiral  Richard  E. 

Twenty-six  photographs  of  the  second  Antarctic  Expedition  of  Ad- 
miral Richard  E.  Byrd. 

Columbia   Broadcasting  System 

Crisis:  September,  1938.  A  complete  and  verbatim  transcript  of  what 
America  heard  over  the  Columbia  Broadcasting  System  during  the  20 
days  of  the  Czechoslovakian  crisis.  Prepared  by  the  Columbia  Broad- 
casting System,  November,  1938.  In  10  volumes. 

Crisis:  a  report  from  the  Columbia  Broadcasting  System.  New  York, 
Columbia  Broadcasting  System,  (1938). 

Serious  music  on  the  Columbia  Broadcasting  System.  A  survey  of 
series,  soloists  and  special  performances  from  1927  through  1938. 
Columbia  Broadcasting  System,  Inc.,  New  York. 

Crestin,  Louis 

A  collection  of  48  volumes  and  23  pamphlets,  principally  in  French 
and  German,  on  philosophy,  psychology,  religion,  mathematics  and  the 
social  sciences. 

Cummin,  Dr.  John  W. 

A  collection  of  40  items,  including  1  5  pieces  of  music,  several  volumes 
of  college  songs,  operettas  produced  by  the  Hasty  Pudding  Club  of 
Harvard  College,  poetry  and  miscellaneous  non-fiction. 

Facsimile  Text  Society 

Defoe's  Review.  Reproduced  from  the  original  editions,  with  an  intro- 
duction and  bibliographical  notes  by  Arthur  Wellesley  Secord.  Fac- 
simile Books  1—22.  Publi.-hed  by  the  Columbia  University  Press  for 
the  Facsimile  Text  Society,  New  York,    1938. 

Pleischner,  Otto,  Estate  of 

A  collection  of  35  books  and  24  pam[)hlets  from  the  library  of  Otto 
Fleischner,  over  1 50  manuscript  letters  and  notes  concerning  Ben- 
jamin Franklin,  many  of  which  were  written  to  Mr.  Fleischner  by 
George  Simpson  Eddy,  and  other  manuscript  material  concerning  Eu- 
gene Field,  Maude  Howe  Elliott,  Julia  Ward  Hov.e,  and  others. 

Foster  Hall  Collection 

Eleven  books,  pamphlets  and  typescripts  relating  to  the  Foster  1  lall 
Collection;  and  2  copies  of  a  wood-cut  portrait  by  Howard  Simon 
of  Stephen  Collins  Foster. 

Gaines,  Dr.  Samuel  R. 

A  total  of  49  volumes,  including  music  and  current  fiction  and  non- 
fiction,  given  at  intervals  throughout  the  year. 


[143] 

Goodwill  Fund,  Inc. 

A  total  of  89  volumes  and  72  pamphlets,  for  the  Business  Branch  and 
the  Central  Library. 

Hall,  John  L. 

A  collection  of  1  1  volumes,  many  beautifully  bound,  relating  to  the 
art  and  literature  of  France  and  Portugal. 

London,  Library  of  the  Corporation  of  the  City  of 

The  Great  Chronicle  of  London.  Edited  by  A.  H.  Thomas  and  I.  D. 
Thornley.  London,  printed  by  George  W.  Jones,  at  the  Sign  of  the 
Dolphin,  London  and  Aylesbury,   1938. 

New  York  Public  Library 

A  microfilm  copy  of  Freedom's  Journal,  March,  1827— March,  1829. 

Perry,  Margaret 

A  collection  of  25  letters  from  John  Addington  Symonds  to  Thomas 
S.  Perry,  written  during  the  years  1883—1889. 

Phelan.  Walter  J. 

A  collection  of  1  48  lantern  slides,  6  prints  and  1  negative,  and  a  note- 
book of  lecture  notes  illustrating  the  story  of  revolutionary  Boston  and 
CharlestowTi. 

Phillips,  A.  V. 

The  Saxons  in  England.  A  history  of  the  English  Commonwealth  till 
the  period  of  the  Norman  Conquest.  By  John  Mitchell  Kemble.  Lon- 
don, Quaritch,   1876.  In  2  volumes. 

Falaise  Roll,  recording  prominent  companions  of  William,  Duke  of 
Normandy  at  the  conquest  of  England.  By  M.  Jackson  Crispin  and 
Leonce  Macary.  Butler  and  Tanner,  Ltd.,  Frome  and  London,  1938. 

L'art  de  verifier  les  dates  des  faits  historiques,  des  chartes,  des  chro- 
niques,  et  autres  anciens  monumens,  depuis  la  naissance  de  Notre- 
Seigneur  .  .  .  par  un  Religieux  Benedictin  de  la  Congregation  de  S. 
Maur.  Paris,  Alexandre  Jombert  jeune,  1  783.  In  8  volumes. 

Ripley,  Lloyd  C. 

lypographical  antiquities,  or  The  history  of  printing  in  England,  Scot- 
land and  Ireland,  containing  memoirs  of  our  ancient  printers  and  a 
register  of  the  books  printed  by  them.  By  the  Reverend  Thomas  Frog- 
nail  Dibdin.  London,  Savage   (1809).   In  4  volumes. 

Smith,  Harold  V. 

Enjine!  Enjine!  A  story  of  fire  protection,  by  Kenneth  Holcomb  Dun- 
shee.  Published  by  Harold  Vincent  Smith  for  the  Home  Insurance 
Company,  New  York,   1  939. 

Sons  of  Union  Veterans,  Camp  89 

Grand   Army  of   the   Republic,    Dt-paitnienl   of    Massachusetts.    Per- 
.sonal  war  sketches  of  the  members  of  Francis  Washburne  Post  No  92, 
of  Brighton.    (Philadelphia,   1890.) 
Framed  rharti-r  oi  the  Francis  Washburne  Post  92,  G.  A.  R. 


[144] 
APPENDIX     F 

USE  OF  BOOKS 
Comparative  Circulation    Statistics,   1935-1939 


1935 

1936 

1937 

1938 

1939 

Central  Library 

737,396 

757.363 

748,211 

376.837 

383.180 

Bu!siness    Branch 

17.921 

17.822 

18309 

18.603 

18.454 

Young  People's  Room, 

Central    Library 

56.042* 

50.943* 

School  Department 

9.018* 

23338* 

Branch   Issue  Department 

48,392* 

48,207* 

Deposit  Circulation 

(estimated) 

374.194* 

333.700* 

Branch  Libraries: 

Allston 

182.203 

172.835 

160,973 

155.666 

142.082 

Andrew  Square 

130,777 

127.827 

128.590 

119.587 

124.545 

Boylston 

137,179 

138.532 

124.069 

124,118 

126.518 

Brighton 

130,741 

121.152 

113.169 

109.720 

107,516 

Charlestown 

117.525 

116,034 

110.377 

102,532 

106.739 

City    Point 

140.006 

129.289 

124.505 

119.279 

116.185 

Codman    Square 

168.412 

164.553 

157.174 

142.898 

138.521 

Dorchester 

135,821 

137.759 

130.130 

124.554 

107.954 

East   Boston 

161,227 

150.340 

130,570 

125,585 

123.723 

Faneuil 

138,561 

133.787 

120,908 

108.817 

117.945 

Fellowes  Athenaeum 

89,857 

91.436 

84,090 

67.402 

67362 

Hyde  Parle 

141.763 

129,807 

126.043 

117,678 

116.446 

Jamaica   Plain 

119.760 

116,604 

118.819 

109,793 

107.667 

Jeffries  Point 

76,500 

73,593 

71.440 

68,626 

64.566 

Kirstein 

64.045 

56,536 

46.204 

48.097 

48.771 

Lower    Mills 

70.928 

64,371 

60,635 

57,098 

58.892 

Mallapan 

196.311 

188,382 

177.013 

174.567 

171.156 

Memorial 

211.971 

192,100 

173.279 

168,243 

163.684 

Mt.  Bowdoin 

143.823 

137,889 

128.668 

119,133 

119.190 

Mt.   Pleasant 

89.924 

84.102 

80.752 

77,635 

78.759 

Neponset 

64.409 

60.1 1 7 

59.535 

58215 

56,012 

North  End 

123.174 

125.656 

121,927 

103,079 

100.195 

Orient    Heights 

81.189 

68.932 

60.255 

55.529 

53.469 

Parker   Hill 

112.165 

108.933 

102.314 

97.016 

92.149 

Phillips    Brooks 

45.839 

44,859 

40.387 

39.168 

39371 

Roslindale 

154,640 

151.971 

146,992 

132.852 

121.158 

Roxbury    Crossing 

72.839 

71,037 

44,576 

16.205** 

South    Boston 

128.979 

124.228 

117.16! 

99.734 

94.694 

South   End 

1 53,478 

1 50.728 

138.298 

124314 

121.998 

Tyler  Street 

47.979 

51.364 

53301 

25.397** 

Upham's  Corner 

199,564 

188.437 

175,918 

169.078 

159,616 

West   End 

201373 

200.444 

181,642 

165,631 

1 54.786 

West   Roxbuiy 

161.864 

157,918 

155.144 

143.712 

139.484 

4.949.701      4.806.737     4.531378     4354.044     4.198.975 


Prior  to  1938  included  under  Central  Library 
Branch  Library  closed  July    I.   1938 


145] 


GiMNs  AND  Losses  in   Circulation,    1930-1939 


NO.  OF  BOOKS 

INCREASE  OR 

LENT  TO 

DECREASE  OVER 

YEAR 

BORROWERS 

PRECEDING  YEAR 

1929 

3.930,068 

1930 

4,133.459 

+203,391 

1931 

4.702,932 

+569.473 

1932 

5.567,681 

+864.749 

1933 

5.548,283 

-19398 

1934 

5,194,351 

-353,932 

1935 

4,949.701 

-244.650 

1936 

4,806,737 

-142,964 

1937 

4,531.378 

-275359 

1938 

4,354.044 

-177,334 

1939 

4.198.975 

-155.069 

PERCENTAGE  OF  INCREASE  PERCENTAGE 
OR  DECREASE       OF  INCREASE 
OVER  PRECEDING  YEAR    OVER  1929 


+5% 

+12% 

+16% 

-03% 

-7% 

-5% 

-3% 

-6% 

-4% 

-4% 


+5% 
+17% 
+42% 
+41% 
+32% 
+26% 
+227o 
+15% 
+11% 

+7% 


Distribution  of  Total  Circulation  in  1939 


FROM  DEPOSITS  IN 
SCHOOLS,  INSTI 1  UTIONS 
HOMf.  USE         &  ENGIN'I:  HOUSES*         TOTALS 


Central   Library   (Reference  Division) 

Direct  lending  to  borrowers  356,704 

Central  Library  volumes  circulated  through 

Branch  Issue  Dept.  &  Branch  Libraries  26,476 


Business  Branch 

18,454 

Young  People's  Room,  Central  Library 

50,943 

School   Department 

23338 

Branch   Issue  Department 

48,207 

Branch  Libraries: 

Allsfon 

142,082 

Andrew  Square 

124,545 

Boylston 

126,518 

Brighton 

107.516 

Charlestown 

106.739 

City  Point 

116.185 

Codman    Square 

138.521 

Dorchester 

107,954 

East    Boston 

123,723 

Fancuil 

1 1 7.945 

Fellowes  Athenaeum 

67.362 

Hyde  Park 

116.446 

Jamaica  Plain 

107.667 

Jeffries  Point 

64,566 

Kirstein 

48,771 

Lower  Mills 

58.892 

268,291 
22,494 


245 


356,704 

26.476 
18,454 
50,943 
291,629 
70,701 

142,082 

124,545 

126,518 

108348 

112,273 

116.185 

140.986 

109.020 

124.218 

119.835 

74.907 

116.446 

107,912 

64.566 

48.771 

58,882 


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Maltapan 
Memorial 
Mt.    Bowdoin 
Mt.  Pleasant 
Neponsef 
North   End 
Orient    Heights 
Parker    Hill 
Phillips  Brooks 
Roslindale 
South  Boston 
South   End 
Upham's    Corner 
West   End 
West    Roxbury 


*  Estimated 


171.156 

225 

171,381 

163,684 

242 

163.926 

119,190 

95 

119,285 

78.759 
56,012 

78.759 
56,012 

100,195 

33 

100228 

53,469 

53,469 

92.149 



92,149 

39,371 

55 

39.426 

121.158 

3,225 

124383 

94,694 

94.694 

121,998 

1.523 

123.521 

159,616 

634 

160.250 

154,786 

12,567 

167353 

139,484 

4,244 

143,728 

3.865,275 


333,700 


4.198,975 


Summary  of  Circulation  by  Division  in  1939 

books  lent  for  home  use 

Reference   Division: 

Central  Library    (including  Central  Library  books 

issued  through  the   Branch   Libraries)        .          .  .         383,180 

Business   Branch .  18,454 

Circulation   Division  : 

Young   People's    Room,   Central    Library        .          .         .  50,943 

School    Department         .......  23,338 

Branch    Issue    Department 48.207 

Branch   Libraries 3341,153 


401,634 


3.463.641 
3.865.275 


Total  Circulahon  in  1939 


Books  Lent   for  Home   Use 
Reference   Division 
Circulation    Division 

Deposits   of  books    (estimated) 


401.634 

3,463.641 

333,700 


4.198.975 


47" 


Inter-Library    Loans,    1939 


Under  the  inter-library  loan  system  with  other  libraries  the 
following  lending  of  books  for  the  purpose  of  serious  research 
is  shown: 


Volumes   lent   to   other  libraiies  in   Massachusetts 
Volumes  lent  to  libraries  outside  of  Massachusetts 


2.114 
501 

2.615 


Classification  of  Circulation,  1939 

In  the  Circulation   Division  the  classified  direct  circulation 
shows  the  following  percentages: 

PERCENTAGE 


Fiction    for    adults 
Non-fiction   for  adults 
Juvenile   fiction 
Juvenile    non-fiction 


45.3% 
16.6% 
253% 
12.8% 

100.0% 


In  the  Reference  Division   the  classified  direct  circulation 
shows  the  following  percentages: 


Fiction 
Non-fiction 


percentage 

40.1% 
59.9% 


100.0% 


Missing  Books  from  the  Branch  Libraries,  1935-1939 


year 

1935 
1936 
1937 
1938 
1939 


%0F 

%0F 

total 

DECREASE  FROM 

DECREASE 

NUMBER 

PRECEDING  YEAR 

FROM  1935 

12,769 

11.012 

8,786 

6,931 

5.299 

-14% 
-20^, 

-21% 
-24% 

-14% 

-31% 
-45% 
-59% 

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Books  Unrecoverable  from  Borrowers  from  Branch  Libraries,  1930-1939 


YEAR 

1930 
1931 
1932 
1933 
1934 
1935 
1936 
1937 
1938 
1939 


NUMBER  OF 

%0F 

%0F 

VOLUMES 

CHANGE  FROM 

CHANCE 

UNRECOVERABLE 

PRECEDING  YEAR 

FROM  1930 

2383 

2,598 

+9% 

+9% 

2,179 

-16% 

-8% 

2.191 

+0.6% 

-8% 

2,262 

+3% 

-5% 

1.399 

-38% 

-41% 

953 

-32% 

-60% 

979 

+1.7% 

-59% 

742 

-24% 

-69% 

642 

-13% 

-73% 

Books  Unrecoverable  from  Borrowers  from  Branch  Libraries,  1930-1939 


YEAR 
1930 

1931 
1932 
1933 
1934 
1935 
1936 
1937 
1938 
1939 


%0F 

TOTAL  NUMBER 

TOTAL  number 

VOLUMES  BORROWED 

OF  VOLUMES 

OF  VOLUMES 

WHICH  WERE 

UNRECOVERABLE 

BORROWED 

UNRECOVERABLE 

2.383 

3.218,102 

0.074% 

2,598 

3.775,021 

0.069% 

2.179 

4.602,790 

0.047% 

2,191 

4,589,393 

0.048% 

2,262 

4,291,443 

0.053% 

1,399 

4.078.044 

0.034% 

953 

3.919.024 

0.024% 

979 

3,659.056 

0.027% 

742 

3,470,958 

0.021% 

642 

3.341.153 

0.019% 

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APPENDIX    G 

THE  CATALOGS 


VOLS.  AND 

PARTS 

TITLES 

Reference   Division 

Cataloged 

Central    Library 

18.165 

14.410 

Business   Branch 

2.154 

Serials  added 

Central   Library 

4.296 

24.615 

14,410 

Circulation  Division 

Cataloged 

Young  People's  Room,  Central  Library 

1.155 

School  Department 

2,857 

Branch   Issue   Department 

1,560 

Branch   Libraries 

30.319 

Miscellaneous 

26 

35,917 

The  number  of  volumes  shelved  and  thus  made  available  for 
public  use  is: 

Reference  Division 

Central   Library    (including   continuations)  25,661 

Business   Branch  2,154 

Books  reported  lost  or  missing  in  previous  years  but 

now  found,  etc.  1.334  29.149 


Circulation   Division 

Young  People's  Room.  Central  Library 

School  Department  Y  42  137 

Branch   Issue  Department  ) 

Branch  Libraries 

Books  reported  lost  or  missing  in  previous  years  but 

now  found,  etc.  534  42,671 

71.820 


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The  number  of  volumes  removed  from  collections  during  the 
year  (books  reported  lost  or  missing,  condemned  copies  not  yet 
replaced,  etc.)  : 

Reference  Division 

Central  Library  2,727 

Business   Branch  86  2,813 


Circulation  Division 

Young  People's  Room,  Central  Library 

School   Department  \.  57,%6 

Branch  Issue  Department 

Branch  Libraries 


60,779 


APPENDIX    H 

PRINTING  AND   BINDING 

The  Printing  Department 

Requisitions   received    and    filled  285 
Card   Catalog    (Central    Library) : 

Titles  8.200 

Cards  finished  (exclusive  of  "extras")  147,600 
Card  Catalog  (Branch  Libraries) : 

Titles  944 

Cards  finished   (exclusive  of  "extras")  94,400 

Signs  1,906 

Blank  forms   (numbered  series)  4,938,280 

Forms,  circulars  and  sundries  (outside  the  numbered  series)  45,025 

Catalogs,   pamphlets,    bibliographical  programs  140,731 

The  Binding  Department 

Number  of  volumes  bound    in   vrsrious   styles  61,094 

Magazines    stitched  71 

Volumes   repaired  977 

Volumes  guarded  733 

Maps  mounted  164 

Photographs  and  engravings  mounted  4308 

Library  publications  folded,  stilchc'cl   and  trimmed  157,325 


II3IJ 
APPENDIX     I 

LECTURES.  CONCERTS,  EXHIBITIONS 
LECTURES 


DATE 

Jan.      5 
Jan.      8 


Jan.    12 

Jan.  15 
Jan.    16 

Jan.    19 

Jan.  22 
Jan.  23 
Jan.    26 


Feb.     2 
Feb.      5 

Feb.      9 


General  Lecture  Series  in  the  Central  Library 

TITLE  lecturer 

Breaking  the  Barriers   of  Darkness  Mr.  Malcolm  Watkins 

Shakespeare  as  a  Dramatic  Crafts-  Professor  M.   R.   Copithorne, 

man  Dept.  of  English  and  History, 

(Boston  Drama  League  Course)  M.  I.  T. 

The  Activities  of  the   Metropolitan  Hon.    Eugene    C.     Hultman, 

District  Commission  Commissioner,       Metroi)olitan 

(Field  and  Forest  Club  Course)  District  Commission 


The  Builders  of  Boston 


Miss  Abigail  Covell  Lazelle 


The  Beauty  Spots  of  Austria,  Ba-       Mr.  John  J.  Ward 
varia  and  Budapest 

Glimpses     of     Kentucky     Colonels,       Mr.  H.  Harding  Hale 
Trails,  and  Coffee  Trees 


Poetic  Readings  by  the  Author 

Aerial   Photographic  Mapping 

Dances   and   Dance   Music  through 
the  Centuries 


Jan.    29       Acting  and  the  Moscow  Theater 


New  England  Beautiful 

Modernism  in  Drama 

(Boston   Drama  League    Course) 


Mr.  George  Pearson 
Lt.-Col.  James  W.  Bagley 
Dr.  Hans  Nathan 


Mrs.  Carlene  Murphy  Samoi- 
loff 

Dr.  Wallace  Nutting 

Professor  Marston  Balch, 
Dept.  of  English,  Tufts  Col- 
lege 


Beautiful    and    Historic    Places    in       Mr.     Laurence    B.     Fletcher, 
Massachusetts  Secretary,  Trustees  of  Public 

Reservations 


Feb.    1 2        The  International    Problem 


Mr.  Frank  H.  Sprague 


1152] 


DATE  TITLE 

Feb.   16       Home    of    General     Custer.     The 
Black  Hills  and  Bad  Lands. 

Feb.  23       The  Architecture  of  Gothic  America 


The    United    States    and   the    Far 
Eastern  Maelstrom 

Irish      Mediaeval      Craftsmanship, 
Manuscript  and  Metal 

The  Good  Plays  of  Boston's  Spring 
and  Fall  Theatrical  Season 
(Boston  Drama  League   Course) 

The  Fiscal  Policy  of  the  New  Deal 


Tramping  the  Ridgepole  of  the 
White  Mountains 

Horticultural  Trends 

A  Program  of  Imitations  of   Bird 

Songs 

(Brookline  Bird  Club  Course) 

Trout  and  Salmon  Fishing  in  North- 
ern Idaho 
(Field  and  Forest  Club  Course) 

The  Unusual  History  and  Develop- 
ment of  the  Great  New  England 
Fisheries 

California  Estates  of  National  Ce- 
lebrities 

The  British  Isles 

Friendship  Through  the  Eyes  of  the 
Poet 

Through  the  Back  Door  of  the  Cir- 
cus. 


Feb. 

26 

Mar. 

2 

Mar. 

5 

Mar. 

6 

Mar. 

9 

Mar. 

12 

Mar. 

13 

Mar.  16 
Mar.  19 

Mar.  20 

Mar.  23 
Mar.  26 

Mar.  30 


LECTURER 

Mrs.  C.  W.  P.  Leiter 

Professor  Warren  S.  Tryon, 
Dept.  of  History  and  Govern- 
ment, Simmons  College 

Professor  G.  Nye  Steiger 
Miss  Ellen  F.  O'Connor 
Mr.  Frank  Chouteau  Brown 


Harvard  University  Debating 
Council  vs.  Boston  College 

Mr.  Gardner  E.  Campbell 

Professor  Arnold  M.  Davis 
Mr.  Charles  Crawford  Gorst 

Mr.  R.  A.  Kirkpatrick 

Mr.  Edward  H.  Cooley 

Mr.  Charles  Gibbs  Adams 

Mr.  A.  D.  Nicholas 
Mrs.  Emily  Vance 

Mr.  George  Brinton  Beal 


m 


DATE  TITLE 

Apr.     2       An    Hour    of    Poetry,    Prose    and 
Drama 

Apr.     5        Two   synchronized     colored   motion 
picture  films  of  the  West 

Apr.     6       Byways  and  Waterways  of  the  At- 
lantic Coast 

Apr.     9       Bonnets 

Apr.   I  3       Daily  Life  in  a  Medici  Palace 

Apr.  20       The  Charm  and  Romance  of  Early 
New  England  Houses 

Apr.  23       Friendly  Folk  Along  the  Trails 

Apr.  27       Three  One- Act  Plays 
Lonesome-Like 
The  Purple  Door  Knob 
The  Portrait 


Miss  Dorothy  Sawyer  Bates 

Mr.  John  H.  Kenney  and 
Mr.  William  S.  Yale 

Mr.  Vernon  L.  Small 

Mrs.  Eleanor  Coray  Forman 
Miss  Gertrude  R.  B.  Richards 
Mrs.  Emily  Henry  Bush 

Mr.  Thornton  W.  Burgess 

The  Theater  Workshop 
Players 


Apr. 

30 

Mushrooms,     Their     Culture     and 

Uses 

Dr.  William  H.  Davis 

Oct. 

5 

Unusual    Incidents   and   Characters 
of  Boston  Harbor,  1004[?]-1939 

Mr.  Edward  Rowe  Snow 

Oct. 

8 

Value  of  a  Vocation 

Mrs.  Mary  Winn  Bullock 

Oct. 

15 

Robert  Browning:  The  Mystery  of 
"Paracelsus" 

Dr.  E.  Melville  Quimby 

Oct. 

19 

Amazing  America 

Lt.  Robert  E.  McMillan 

Oct. 

22 

Mexico 

Mrs.  Alice  Howland  Ma- 
comber 

Oct. 

23 

Art  as  the  Handmaid  of  History 

Miss  Gertrude  R.  B.  Rich 
ards 

Oct. 

26 

The     Economic      Background     of 
Shay's  Rebellion 

Mr.   Fred  Miller 

Oct. 

29 

New  England  Gems 

Professor  Charles  Palache 

Oct. 

30 

The  Far  East  Situation 

Harvard  University  Debating 

Council    vs.    McGill    Univer- 
sity 


[154] 


DATE 

Nov.    2 
Nov.    5 


Nov.    9 

Nov.  23 
Nov.  26 
Dec.     3 

Dec.     4 

Dec.  7 
Dec.  10 
Dec.  14 


Dec 

17 

Dec. 

21 

Dec. 

28 

Dec. 

31 

TITLE 

Goodyear's  Discovery  in  Wobuin 

The   Develop  of  Stage  Decoration 

over  300  years 

(Boston  Drama  League   Course) 

One  Hundred  Masterpieces  in  Ten 

National  Park  Galleries 

(Field  and  Forest  Club  Course) 

Exploring  America  from  Mountain 
Peak  to  Valley  Floor 

Two  American  Heroines:  Clara 
Barton  and  Mary  Murray 

Shakespeare  and  Sophocles;  the 
Elizabethan  and  the  Greek 

A  Nature-Lover  Goes  Auto-Camp- 
ing Across  the  American  Continent 
(Brookline  Bird  Club  Course) 

Vanishing  Americans 

Monologues 

Hunting  Big  Game  in  Tanganyika, 
British  East  Africa;  and  the  Pyg- 
mies of  Belgian  Congo 
(Field  and  Forest  Club  Course) 

Dickens'  Christmas  Carol 

"The  Star  Gleams",  a  pantomime 
portrayal  of  the  Nativity 

Painters  of  Germany 

Romance  of  Old  Whaling  Days 


LECTURER 

Mr.  William  D.  Goddard 
Mr.  Frank  Chouteau  Brown 


Mr.   Charles  W.   Casson 

Miss  Ruth  M.  E.  Hennig 
Mme.  Aino  Saari 


Professor  M.  R.  Copithorne, 
Dept.  of  English  and  History, 
M.  L  T. 

Mr.  L.  Raymond  Talbot 


Mr.  Fred  W.  Glasier 
Miss  Olive  Evelyn 
Mr.  La  Herbert  Morse 


Mr.  Edward  F.  Payne 
Back  Bay  Community  Chorus 

Miss  Patricia  Marshall  Tate 
Mrs.  Margaret  Louise  Wood 


155] 


CONCERTS  IN   Tl  IF.  CEN1  RAL  LIBRARY 


DATE  TITLE 

Jan.      8  Concert 

Jan.     1  5  Program  of  Chamber  Music 

Jan.    22  Concert 

Jan.    29  Costume  Program 


Feb.     5        Song  Recital 

Feb.   12        Lecture-Recital  on  Jewish  Music 

Feb.   19        Song  Recital 

Program  of  Songs  and  Arias 
Feb.  26       Violin  Recital 

Mar.     5        Lecture-Recital:     Thomas     Moore, 
the  Bard  of  Erin 

Mar.  1  2  Song  Recital 

Mar.  19  Concert  b}-  L'Africaine  Singers 

Mar.  26  Concert  of  Chamber  Music 

Apr.     2  Song  Recital 

Apr.     9  Vocal  and  Pianoforte  Recital 


ARTISTS 

Massachusetts  State  Federa- 
tion of  Women's  Clubs  Cho- 
ral Society;  George  Sawyer 
Dunham,  conductor 

Paul  Hastings  Allen,  com- 
poser and  pianist 

Lincoln  Symphony  Orchestra, 
Edward  Siegel,  conductor 

Frances  Perry,  mezzo- 
soprano 
Helen   Doane,   reader  and 

accompanist 

Sibyl  Webb,  soprano 

Professor  S.  G.  Braslavsky 

Marion    Fisher    Robertson, 

mezzo-soprano 

Elaine   Elkerton,   contralto 

Alexander  Romanesque, 

Roumanian  violinist 

Benedict    FitzGerald 
Thomas  A.  Quinn,  tenor 

Camille  Girouard,  baritone 

Henry  Gideon,  director 

Einar  Hansen,  violinist 

Reynold  J.   Robillard, 

Evelyn  M.  Duncanson, 

soprano 
Helen  Canterbury,  pianist 


[156] 


DATE 

Apr.   16 


Apr.  23 
Ai.r.  30 

Oct.     2 

Oct.     8 

Oct.  15 
Oct.  22 
Nov.  5 
Nov.  26 


Dec.  10 
Dec.   17 


Jan.  10 
through 
Feb.     3 


Concert 

Recital 
Song  Recital 
Concert 


Lecture-Recital:    The    Songs    and 
Dances  of  Hawaii 

Concert 


The  Albert  Faucon  Violin  Recital 
Concert 
Song  Recital 
Duet  Recital 


Dec.     3       Song  Recital 


Song  Recital 

A  Christmas  Program 


Music  Department  of  the  Bur- 
roughs Newsboys  Foundation, 
Stanley  F.  Clement,  conductor 

Elsie  Foss,  Norwegian  concert 
pianist 

Marjorie  Alexandra  Cook, 

contralto 

Boston  Alumnae  Chapter, 
Mu  Phi  Epsilon  Sorority 
(Music  Honor  Society) 

Mrs.  Mary  Frances  Barnes 


Mary  Fitzsimmons,  soprano 
Edmund  L.  Myhaver,  pianist 

Albert  Faucon,  violinist 

The  Rose  Trio 

Sarah  Thorn  Couch,  soprano 

Ruth  Canavan,  soprano 
William  Rice,  tenor 

Katharine  Cunningham  Gray, 
soprano 

Clotilde  Sale,  soprano 

Carolyn  King  Hunt,  pianiste 


LOWELL  LECTURES  IN  THE  CENTRAL  LIBRARY 
Under  the  Auspices  of  the  Lowell  Institute 


TITLE   OF    series 

The  Evolution  of  the  Military  Art 
(A  series  of  eight  lectures) 


Colonel  Oliver  L.  Spaulding, 
A.M.,  LL.D.,  United  States 
Field  Artillery,  Army  War 
College 


Feb.  6 
through 
Feb.  23 

Feb.  7 
through 
Feb.  24 

Feb.  28 
through 
Mar.  1  7 


Mar.  2  I 
through 
Apr.      7 

Apr.     3 

through 

Apr.  24 

Oct.  24 

throueh 

Nov.  lO 

Nov.  21 
through 
Dec.   15 


I1^>7J 


Physical  Problems  of  a  Biologist 
(A  series  of  six  lectures) 

The    Beginnings   of   Representative 
Government  in  England 
(A  series  of  six  lectures) 

The     Conflict     Betv^een     Personal 
Liberty  and  the  Efficient  Adminis- 
tration of  Criminal  Justice 
(A  series  of  six  lectures) 

Restless    Rocks    in    Our    Changing 

World 

(A  series  of  six  illustrated  lectures) 

Greek  Politics 

(A  series  of  seven  lectures) 


Naval  History  and  Modern  Naval 

Prospects 

(A  series  of  six  lectures) 

The  Rise  of  the  Slavic  Peoples 
(A  series  of  eight  lectures) 


LECTURER 


Jeffries  Wyman,  Jr.,  Ph.D., 
Associate  Professor  of  Zoolo- 
gy, Harvard  University 

George  Lee  Haskins,  A.B., 
Junior  Fellow  of  Harvard 
University 

Sam  Bass  Warner,  S.  J.  D., 
Professor  of  Penal  Legisla- 
tion and  Administration,  Law 
School  of  Harvard  University 

David  T.  Griggs,  Junior  Fel- 
low of  Harvard  University 

Frank  Ezra  Adcock,  M.A., 
D.Litt.,  F.B.A.,  Professor  of 
Ancient  History  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Cambridge,  England 

George  Fielding  Eliot,  For- 
merly Major,  Military  Intel- 
ligence Reserve,  U.  S.  Army 

Samuel  Hazzard  Cross, 
Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Slavic 
Languages  and  Literatures, 
Harvard  University 


BOSTON  RUSKIN  CLUB  LECTURES  IN  THE  CENTRAL  LIBRARY 
Jan.      9       Michael  Angelo  and  His  Sonnets         Miss  Virginia  Wainwright 


Jan.    23       Europe  Has  Everything 


Courtesy  of  the  Cunard- White 
Star  Line 


Feb.   1  3        John  Ruskin's  Birthday  Observance      Mrs.  Agnes  Knox  Black 

Feb.  27        Around  the  Gypsy  Camp  Fires  Madame  Aino  Saari 

Mar.  1 3       The  Greek  Drama  Mr.  Joseph  C.  Whipple 

Mar.  27       Magic  Adventures  in  the  Caribbean      Courtesy  of  the  Cunard-Whitc 

Star  Line 


Ai)r  .10       A  Spring  Festival  of  Music 


Madame  Luisa  Tosi 


1381 


Apr.  24  The  Art  of  Living 

Oct.      9  Rabindranath  Tagore 

Oct.    23  Notable  Airs  from  the  Operas 

Nov.  27  Hafiz  the  Persian 

Dec.  1  1  Pictures  of  Notable  Madonnas 


Miss  Anna  Dunlap 
Gayatri  Devi 
Madame  Luisa  Tosi 
Miss  Virginia  Wainwright 
Madame  Luisa  Tosi 


EXHIBITIONS  IN  THE  CENTRAL  LIBRARY 
Exhibition  Room 


DATE 

January       1  5  —  February  1  I 

February    1  2  —  February  1 8 

February    1  9  —  February  25 

March         1 2  -  March  25 


March 

26- 

-  April 

15 

April 

16- 

-  April 

29 

April 

30- 

-  June 

3 

June 

4- 

-July 

1 

July 

2- 

-  August 

5 

August 

6^ 

-  September 

2 

September  3  -  September  30 
October  1  —  November  4 
November  5  -  November  1  1 
November  1  2  —  November  1  8 
November  1 9  —  December  2 
December     3  -  January      30 


TITLE 

Japanese  Prints,  New  and  Old 
Lincolniana 
Washingtoniana  , 

Philatelic  exhibition  of  postmarks  and  pictures 

concerning  the  Navy  and  Merchant  Marine 

Reproductions  of  Modern  American   Paintings 

Animal  Posters 

Travel  Posters 

Periodicals  Our  Ancestors  Read 

New  Cities  for  Old  (City  Planning) 

Vacationing  in  New  England — Yesterday  and 
Today 

America  Goes  to  College 

Boston  Harbor 

The  Making  of  a  Motion  Picture 

Catholic  Book  Week 

The  Making  of  a  Motion  Picture 

Bicycle  Exhibit 


[159] 

Trf.asure  Room 

date  title 

January  Joseph  Blumenthal:  The  Spiral   Press.    (Loan  exhibition) 

February  Rare  editions  of  Shakespeare's  King  Henry  IV  and  King  Henry  V 

March  Gilbert  and  Sullivan  Operas.    (Loan  exhibition) 

April  Chronicles  of  Spain,   from  the  Ticknor  Collection 

May  Chronicles  of  Spain,  from  the  Ticknor  Collection 

June  Fifty  Best  Books.    (American  Society  of  Graphic  Arts  loan  ex- 

hibition) 

July  "New  Science  from  Old  Books":  recent  acquisitions 

August  "New  Science  from  Old  Books":  recent  acquisitions 

September         "New  Science  from  Old  Books":  recent  acquisitions 

October  Book  of  Common  Prayer:    I  50th  Anniversary  of  the  American 

Prayer  Book 

November  Books  and  miscellaneous  pieces  designed  by  Helen  Gentry.   (Loan 

exhibition)  Catholic  Book  Week. 

December  Fifty  Best  Text  Books.   (Loan  exhibition) 


[160] 
APPENDIX    J 

TRUST  FUNDS 
Receipts  and  Expenditures  from  Trust  Funds  Income,  1930-1939 


BALANCE 

TOTAL  AMOUNT 

UNEXPENDED 

AVAILABLE 

FROM 

RECEIPTS 

FOR  USE 

EXPENDED 

BALANCE 

YEAR 

PRECEDING  YEAR 

DURING  YEAR 

DURING  YEAR 

DURING  YEAR 

UNEXPENDED 

1930 

$40,886.73 

$34,020.19 

$74,906.92 

$22,796.21 

$52,110.71 

1931 

52.110.71 

27,507.00 

79,617.71 

20,839.73 

58,777.98 

1932 

58.777.98 

27.713.68 

86.491.66 

22,801.04 

63,690.62 

1933 

63,690.62 

27,226.68 

90.917.30 

26,633.94 

64,283.36 

1934 

64,283.36 

27.006.01 

91.289.37 

19,083.82 

72,205.55 

1935 

72,205.55 

25.494.14 

97.699.69 

24,496.50 

73,203.19 

1936 

73,203.19 

25.730.57 

98,933.76 

58.826.03 

40,107.73 

1937 

40,107.73 

59.839.65 

99,947.38 

51,161.81 

48,785.57 

1938 

48.785.57 

296,214.26 

344,999.83 

86,338.96 

258.660.87 

1939 

258,660.87 

57.656.41 

316,31728 

119.899.86 

1%.4 17.42 

Receipts  and  ELxpenditures  from  Trust  Funds  Income,   1930-1939 


amount  unexpended 

from  previous 

, 

YEAR 

YEAR 

receipts 

expenditures 

1930 

$40,886.73 

$34,020.19 

$22,7%.21 

1931 

52.1 10.71 

27.507.00 

20,839.73 

1932 

58.777.98 

27.713.68 

22,801 .04 

1933 

63.690.62 

27.226.68 

26,633.94 

1934 

6433.36 

27,006.01 

19,083.82 

1935 

72.205.55 

25,494.14 

24,496.50 

1936 

73.203.19 

25,730.57 

58,826.03 

1937 

40,107.73 

59.839.65 

51.161.81 

1938 

48,785.57 

296,214.26 

86,338.% 

1939 

258,660.87 

57,656.41 

119.899.86 

Income  from  Trust  Funds,  1930-1939 


year 

1930 
1931 
1932 
1933 
1934 
1935 
1936 
1937 
1938 
1939 


without 

for  purchase 

WITH 

TOTAL 

restriction 

OF  UBRARY 

miscellaneous 

Income 

as  to  use 

materials 

RESTRICTIONS 

received 

$7,468.10 

$21,454.51 

$5,097.58 

$34,020.19 

6,147.28 

17,159.31 

4,200.41 

27,507.00 

6.148.64 

17,355.40 

4,209.64 

27.713.68 

6.060.57 

17.096.51 

4,069.60 

27.226.68 

6,034.35 

16,879.37 

4,092.29 

27.006.01 

5,950.53 

16,184.59 

3359.02 

25.494.14 

5,687.72 

16,370.97 

3.671.88 

25,730.57 

4,548.14 

51.767.20 

3.524.31 

59.839.65 

5.672.19 

286,912.72 

3,629.35 

296,214.26 

5,655.74 

48.341,89 

3.658.78 

57,656.41 

[161] 

INCOME  FROM  TRUST  FUNDS,  1939 

General  Summary 

Without  restriction  as  to  use  of  income  $5,655.74 

For  purchase  of   library  materials 

Library  materials  whch  may  or  may  not  be  books  $32,375.49 
Books  only  — •  without  restriction  as  to  kind  of  books  5,944.69 
Books  only  —  with  restriction  as  to  kind  of  books  10,021.71  $48,341.89 

With  miscellaneous  restrictions  as  to  use  of  income 

For  newspapers  only  1,559.18 

For  special  purposes,  not  purchases  of  library  materials  986.66 

For  branch  libraries  1,112.94            $3,658.78       $57,656.41 


INCOME  FROM  TRUST  FUNDS,  1939 

By  Individual  Funds 

Funds  Without  Restriction  as  to  Use  of  Income 

Bernard  $60.00 

Bradlee  35.00 

Center  1.302.16 

Ford  240.00 

Ford  Trust  (1935)  162.84 

Hemenway  200.00 

Hyde  144.64 

Kii^tein  150.00 

Lambert  38.06 

Moore  

North  60.00 

Phillips  1.050.00 

Skinner  1,523.04 

Stewart  140.00 

Treadwell  550.00                $5,655.74 


62 


Funds  Whose  Income  is  Available  for 
Purchase  of  Library  Materials 

For  the  Purchase  of  Library  Materials  Which  May  or  May  Not  Be  Books 

(By  terms   of   gift) 

Benton  $32,164.95 

Gardner  137.50 

Gest  73.04  $32,375.49 


For  the  Purchase  of  Books  Only — Without  Restriction  as  to  Kind  of  Books 


Ainsley 

Bigelow 

Billings 

Clement 

Cutter 

Kimball 


$5.62 

40.00 

3,441 .45 

80.00 

145.40 

423.60 


Knapp 

Sewall 

Underbill 

Wadlin 

Wales 

Wilson 


$370.00 
1 .062.50 

127.62 

212.50 

36.00 


$5,944.69 


For  the  Purchase  of  Books  Only — With  Restriction  as  to  Kind  of  Bookte 


Artz 

$    432.52 

O'Reilly 

$  44.20 

Bates 

2,000.00 

Pierce 

170.00 

Bowditch 

425.00 

Reed 

30.00 

Codman 

97.08 

Scholfield 

2,384.96 

Elizabeth 

1,000.00 

Slorrow 

750.00 

Franklin  Club 

42.50 

Ticknor 

162.12 

Green 

53.24 

Townsend 

160.00 

C.    Harris 

425.00 

Twentieth  Reg. 

212.50 

Hersey 

93.34 

J.  L.  Whitney-Bks. 

532.13 

A.  Lawrence 

275.00 

J.    L.    Whitney-Manus 

532.12 

Lewis 

200.00 

$10,021.71       $48,341.89 


Funds  With  Miscellaneous  Restrictions  as  to  Use  of  Income 


For  Newspapers  Only 
Todd 


$1,559.18 


For  Special  Purposes,  Not  for  Purchase  of  Library  Materials 

Boston   Book   Fair    1938   Fund  $ 

Central  Library   Building  3.00 

Sargent  107.16 

A.   L.    Whitney  176.50 

Whitney    Bibliographic  700.00 


Branch   Libraries 
T.   B.  1  larris 
E.  Lawrenie 
1  .oring 
Mead 
Morse 

Oakland   I  l.ill 
Pratt 

South   Boston 
Tufts 


$41.38 
2().(X) 
10.00 
95.60 
30.00 

455.62 

41.86 

4.26 

414.22 


$986.66 


$1,112.94        $3,658.78 


$57,656.41 


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LIST  OF  TRUST  FUNDS  AS  OF  DECEMBER  31.  1939 

The  figures  listed  are  for  the  book  values  of  investments  as  of  De- 
cember 31,  1939,  except  in  the  cases  of  the  Benton  Book  Fund  and  the 
Benton  Building  Fund,  in  which  the  figures  given  represent  the  book 
values  as  of  January  21 ,  1939,  the  anniversary)  date  of  those  funds. 

Ainsley  Fund  —  Bequest  of  Emily  L.  Ainsley,  under  Article  I  2  of 
her  will  for  the  purchase  of  books.  Received  in  1 938.  $1  64, 1  42.96 

Artz  Fund  —  Donation  from  Victoria  Thomas  Artz,  of  Chicago: 
the  income  of  this  sum  to  be  employed  in  the  purchase  of  valuable, 
rare  editions  of  the  writings,  either  in  verse  or  prose  of  American 
and  foreign  authors.  These  books  are  to  be  known  as  the  "Long- 
fellow Memorial  CoUeclion."  Received  in   1896.  $10,000.00 

Bates  Fund  —  Donation  made  by  JoSHUA  Bates,  of  London,  in  March, 
1853. 

"1  he  income  only  of  ihis  fund  is  lo  be  each  and  every  year  expended 
in  the  purchase  of  such  books  of  permanent  value  and  authority  as 
may  be  found  most  needful  and  most  useful."  $50,000.00 

Children's  Fund  —  Bequest  of  JosiAH  H.  Benton  of  $100,000,  to  be 
held  as  "1  he  Children's  Fund,"  and  the  income  applied  to  the  pur- 
chase of  books  for  the  use  of  the  young,  to  be  applied  for  those  pur- 
poses only  in  years  when  the  City  appropriates  for  the  maintenance 
of  the  Library  at  least  three  per  cent  of  the  amount  available  for 
department  expenses  from  taxes  and  income  in  said  City.  In  any  year 
when  the  City  does  not  thus  appropriate  at  least  three  per  cent  of  the 
amount  available  for  department  expenses  from  taxes  and  income  in 
said  City,  the  income  given  in  said  will  for  the  purchase  of  books 
for  the  young  shall  be  paid  to  the  Rector  of  Trinity  Church  in  the 
City  of  Boston  to  be  by  him  dispensed  in  relieving  the  necessities  of 
the  poor.  $100,000.00 

Benton  Building  Fund  —  Extract  from  the  will  of  JosiAH  H.  Benton  : 
''Twelfth:  All  the  rest  and  residue  of  my  property  and  estate  I  give 
and  devise  ...  to  the  TRUSTEES  OF  THE  Public  Library  of 
THE  City  of  Boston  ...  and  I  Direct  that  the  same  be  held 
and  used  in  the  manner  following  .  .  . 

".  .  .  Second:  — To  hold  the  other  one-half  of  said  residue  and 
remainder  as  an  accumulating  fund,  the  income  and  interest  to  be 
added  to  the  principal  and  reinvested  as  principal,  until  the  total 
amount  thereof  shall  be  two  million  dollars  ($2,000,000).  And 
then  I  Direct  such  total  sum  of  two  million  dollars  ($2,000,000) 
to  be  applied  to  the  enlargement  of  the  present  central  library  build- 
ing in  Boston,  or  to  the  construction  of  another  central  library  build- 
ing in  such  part  of  the  City  as  may  be  then  most  desirable  for  the 
accommodation  of  the  people  of  said  City;  such  new  building  to  be 


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constructed  under  the  advice  of  the  Librarian  of  the  Library  at  that 
time  in  such  manner  as  may  be  most  desirable  for  efficient  practical 
working  of  a  library  therein."        Received  in   1936. 

$1,733,103.77 
Benton  Book  Fund  —  Extract  from  the  will  of  JosiAH  H.  Benton: 

"Tn>elfth:  All  the  rest  and  residue  of  my  property  and  estate  I  give 
and  devise  ...  to  the  TRUSTEES  OF  THE  Public  Library  of 
THE  City  of  Boston  .  .  .  and  I  Direct  that  the  same  be  held 
and  used  in  the  manner  following  .  .  . 

''First:  —  One-half  of  the  net  income  of  such  residue  and  remainder 
to  be  applied  by  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  of  the  City  of 
Boston  for  the  purchase  of  books,  maps  and  other  library  material 
of  permanent  value  and  benefit  for  said  Library ;  meaning  and  in- 
tending hereby  that  such  income  shall  be  applied  for  books  desirable 
for  scholarly  research  and  use  .  .  . 

".  .  .  It  is  my  desire  that .  .  .  the  income  given  by  the  Twelfth  Clause 
of  my  will  for  the  purchase  of  books,  maps  and  other  library  material 
of  permanent  value  and  benefit,  shall  be  in  addition  to  the  sums 
appropriated  by  the  City  for  the  maintenance  of  the  Boston  Public 
Library,  and  that  the  same  shall  not  be  taken  into  account  in  any 
appropriation  by  the  City  for  that  purpose. 

"I,  therefore,  hereby  provide  that  .  .  .  such  income  as  is  given  by 
Twelfth  Clause  of  my  will  for  the  purchase  of  books  .  .  .  shall  be 
applied  for  those  purposes  only  in  years  when  the  City  appropriates 
for  the  maintenance  of  the  Boston  Public  Library  at  least  three  per 
cent  (3  per  cent)  of  the  amount  available  for  department  expenses 
from  taxes  and  income  in  said  City. 

"In  any  year  when  the  City  does  not  thus  appropriate  at  least  three 
per  cent  (3  per  cent)  of  the  amount  available  for  department  ex- 
penses from  taxes  and  income  in  said  City,  the  income  given  in  said 
will  for  the  purchase  of  books  shall  be  paid  to  the  Rector  of  Trinity 
Church  in  the  City  of  Boston  to  be  by  him  disbursed  in  relieving  the 
necessities  of  the  poor." 

By  an  Agreement  of  Compromise  entered  in  the  Probate  Court 
of  Suffolk  County  on  January  15,  1935,  the  Benton  Book 
Fund  was  established"  ...  as  a  permanent  fund,  the  income  and 
interest  thereon  to  be  applied  annually  by  the  Library  Trustees, 
without  regard  to  the  amounts  appropriated  by  the  City  of  Boston 
for  the  maintenance  of  the  Boston  Public  Library  in  any  year,  as 
follows: — (a)  Six-tenths  (6/10)  of  such  income  is  to  be  applied  an- 
nually by  the  Library  Trustees  for  the  purchase  of  books,  maps  and 
other  library  material  of  permanent  value  and  benefit  for  said  li- 
brary; meaning  and  intending  hereby  that  such  income  shall  be 
applied  for  books  desirable  for  scholarly  research  and  use;  (b)  The 


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remaining  four-tenths  (4/10)  of  such  income  is  to  be  paid  over  an- 
nually to  the  Rector  of  Trinity  Church  to  be  by  him  disbursed,  either 
directly,  or  in  his  discretion,  through  charitable  organizations  or 
agencies,  whether  incorporated  or  unincorporated,  in  relieving  the 
necessities  of  the  poor."  Received  in  1936.  $1,158,857.25 

Charles  H.   L.   N.   Bernard  Fund  —  Bequest  of  ChARLES  H.    L.    N. 

Bernard.  Received  in  1930.  $2,000.00 

Bigelow  Fund  —  Donation  made  by  the  HoN.  John  P.  BiGELOW  in 
August,   1850,  when  Mayor  of  the  City. 

The  income  from  this  fund  is  to  be  appropriated  for  the  purchase  of 
books  for  the  increase  of  the  library.  $1,000.00 

Robert  Charles  Billings  Fund  —  Bequest  of  Robert  Charles  Bil- 
lings. 

"The  sum.  to  constitute  a  permanent  fund  for  said  library,  to  be 
called  the  Robert  Charles  Billings  Fund,  the  income  only  to  be  used 
for  the  purpose  of  the  purchase  of  books  for  said  library."  Re- 
ceived in  1903.  $100,000.00 

Boston  Book  Fair  1 938  Fund  —  Received  from  the  Board  OF  Trade 
OF  Boston  Book  Merchants  as  representing  the  excess  of  re- 
ceipts over  expenditures  by  the  Board  in  connection  v/ith  the  Book 
Fair  held  at  the  Library  in  November  1 938.  The  income  to  be  used 
for  the  benefit  of  the  Library  Staff.  Received  in  1939.        $1  72.70 

Bowditch  Fund  —  Bequest  of  J.  Ingersoll  BowDITCH.  Received  in 
1890. 

The  whole  income  in  each  and  every  year  to  be  expended  in  the 
purchase  of  books  of  permanent  value  and  authority  in  mathematics 
and  astronomy.  $10,000.00 

Bradlee  Fund  —  Bequest  of  the  Rev.  Caleb  David  Bradlee  to  the 
Boston  Public  Library.    Received  in  1  897.  $1,000.00 

Joseph  H.  Center  Fund  —  Bequest  of  JosEPH  H.  Center,  the  income 
thereof  to  be  at  all  times  applied  to  the  purchase  of  books  and  other 
additions  to  the  library.  Received  in  1905.  $39,520.39 

Central  Library  Building  Fund  —  Donations  in  response  to  an  appeal  by 
the  Trustees  in  April.  1925,  setting  forth  the  needs  of  the  Library, 
from: 

Percy  Lee  Atherton $  25.00 

William  York  Peters 25.00 

John  T.  Spaulding 100.00 


$150.00 
Clement  Fund  —  Bequest  of  FRANK  ClemeNT,  of  Newton,  to  be  known 
as  the  "Frank  Clement  Fund,"  the  income  to  be  applied  to  the  pur- 
chase of  books.  Received  in  1915.  $2,000.00 


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Henry  Sargent  Codman  Memorial  Fund  —  This  is  a  contribution  from 
the  friends  of  Henry  Sargent  Codman,  to  be  used  to  perpetuate 
the  memory  of  Mr.  Codman  by  the  purchase  of  books  upon  land- 
scape gardening.  It  is  the  desire  of  the  subscribers  that  a  special 
book  plate  shall  be  inserted  in  each  of  the  volumes  purchased,  identi- 
fying it  as  part  of  their  memorial  collection.  Received  in  1  898. 

$2,854.41 

Cutter  Fund  —  Bequest  of  ABRAHAM  E.  CUTTER  of  four  thousand  dol- 
lars and  his  library  of  books,  the  income  of  the  fund  to  be  expended 
for  the  purchase  of  books,  and  for  binding.  Received  in  1 90 1 . 

$4,270.00 

Elizabeth  Fund  ■ —  Bequest  of  Saram  A.  MaTCHETT,  late  of  Brookline, 
who  died  October  6,  1910,  the  object  of  which  is  stated  in  the  fol- 
lowing extract  from  her  will: 

"I  give  and  bequeath  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  of  the 
City  of  Boston,  twenty-five  thousand  dollars,  to  be  called  the  Eliza- 
beth fund,  to  be  received,  held  and  securely  invested,  and  only  the 
net  income  therefrom  expended  every  year  in  the  purchase  of  such 
books  of  permanent  value  and  authority  as  may  be  most  useful  in 
said  Library."  $25,000.00 

Daniel  Sharp  Ford  Fund  —  Bequest  of  Daniel  Sharp  Ford  to  the 
Public  Library  of  the  City  of  Boston,  to  be  used  for  the  purchase 
of  books  for  the  young  until  otherwise  ordered  by  the  Board.  Re- 
ceived in  1900.  $6,000.00 

Daniel  Sharp  Ford  Trust  Fund  —  Bequest  of  Daniel  Smarp  Ford 
to  the  Public  Library  of  the  City  of  Boston,  to  be  used  for  general 
purposes.  Received  in  1935.  $5,017.65 

Franklin  Club  Fund  —  Donation  made  in  June,  1  863,  by  a  literary  asso- 
ciation of  young  men  in  Boston,  who,  at  the  dissolution  of  the  asso- 
ciation, authorized  its  trustees,  Thomas  Minns,  John  J.  French  and 
J.  Franklin  Reed,  to  dispose  of  the  funds  on  hand  in  such  manner 
as  to  them  should  seem  judicious.  They  elected  to  bestow  them  on 
the  Public  Library,  attaching  thereto  only  the  following  conditions: 
"In  trust,  that  the  income,  but  the  income  only,  shall,  year  by  year,  be 
expended  in  the  purchase  of  books  of  permanent  value,  for  the  use 
of  the  free  Public  Library  of  the  city,  and  as  far  as  practicable  of 
such  a  character  as  to  be  of  special  interest  to  young  men."  The  trus- 
tees expressed  a  preference  for  books  relative  to  government  and 
political  economy.  $  1 ,000.00 

Isabella  Stewart  Gardner  Fund  —  Bequest  of  ISABELLA  Stewart 
Gardner. 

"To  the  Trustees  of  the  Boston  Public  Library,  for  the  Brown 
Musical  Library,  for  a  memorial  to  B.  J.  Lang."  Received  in  1924. 

$5,000.00 


Morris  Gest  Fund  - —  Donation  made  by  MoRRIS  Gesi  in  December. 
1925,  the  gross  receipts  from  a  benefit  performance  for  the  Library 
of  "The  Miracle",  —  $2,652.50,  the  income  to  be  used  in  the  in- 
terest of  dramatic  art.  $2,652.50 

Green  Fund  —  Donations  of  Dr.  Samuel  A.  Green  of  $2,000,  the 
income  of  which  is  to  be  expended  for  the  purchase  of  books  relating 
to  American  history.  Received  in  1878  and  1884.  $2,000.00 

Charlotte  Harris  Fund  —  Bequest  of  Charlotte  Harris,  the  object 
of  which  is  stated  in  the  following  extract  from  her  will:  "I  give  to 
the  Charlestown  Public  Library  $  1  0,000,  to  be  invested  on  interest, 
which  interest  is  to  be  applied  to  the  purchase  of  books  published 
before  1850.  I  also  give  to  said  Public  Library  my  own  private  li- 
brary and  the  portrait  of  my  grandfather,  Richard  Devens."  Be- 
quests accepted  by  City  Council.  July  31,1  877.  $1  0,000.00 

Thomas  B.  Harris  Fund  —  Bequest  of  Thomas  B.  HarRIS,  of  Charles- 
town,  for  the  benefit  of  the  Charlestown  Public  Library.  Received 
in  1884.  $1,089.38 

Alfred  Hemenway  Fund  —  Bequest  of  ALFRED  HeMENWAY.  Received 
in  1928.  $5,000.00 

Heloise  E.  Hersey  Fund  —  Bequest  of  HeLOISE  E.  HerseY,  the  in- 
come to  be  expended  for  the  purchase  of  books,  preferably  those  of 
recent  issue  that  have  real  literary  value.  Received  in  1 936. 

$3,542.00 

Hyde  Fund  —  Bequest  of  FrAxNKLIN  P.  Hyde,  to  be  known  as  the 
"Franklin  P.  Hyde  Fund,"  the  income  to  be  applied  to  the  purchase 
of  books  and  other  library  material.  Received  in  1915.    $3,632.40 

David  P.  Kimball  F'und  —  Bequest  of  David  P.  KiMBALL. 

"I  give  to  the  Public  Library  of  the  City  of  Boston,  the  income  to 
be  used  for  the  purchase  of  books.  $10,000."  Received  in   1924. 

$10,012.90 

Louis  E.  Kirstein  Fund  —  Donations  of  $1 ,000  each  made  by  LouiS  L. 
KiRSTEiN,  "to  be  used  for  any  purpose  of  the  Library  that  the 
r  rustees  see  fit  to  put  it  to." 
October.    1925 $1,000.00 


October,    1926 
November,    1927 
October,    1928 
October,    1929 


1 ,000.00 
1,000.00 
1 ,000.00 
i  ,000.00 


$5,000.00 

Arthur  Mason  Knapp  Fund  —  Extract   from  the  will  of  KatherinE 

Knapp:  "To  the  1  rustees  of  the  Public  Library  of  the  City  of 

Boston,  the  sum  of  ten  thousand  dollars  ($10,000),  to  be  known 

as  the  Arthur  Mason  Knapp  Fund,  of  which  the  income  only  shall 


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be  used  for  the  purchase  of  books  for  said  hbrary.  And  I  hereby 
request  that  such  books  be  designated  with  an  appropriate  label  or 
inscription,  bearing  the  name  of  the  Fund,"  Received  in  1914. 

$10,000.00 

Helen  Lambert  Fund  —  Bequest  of  Helen  Lambert,  in  memory  of 
Frederic  and  Louise  Lambert.  The  income  of  this  fund  to  be  ex- 
pended for  the  purchase  of  books  and  other  library  material  until 
otherwise  ordered  by  the  Trustees.  Received  in  1931.     $1,403.57 

Abbott  Lawrence  Fund  —  Bequest  of  Abbott  Lawrence.  The  in- 
terest on  this  fund  to  be  exclusively  appropriated  for  the  purchase  of 
books  having  permanent  value.  Received  in  1860.        $10,000.00 

Edward  Lawrence  Fund  —  Bequest  of  EDWARD  LAWRENCE,  of  Charles- 
town.  The  following  clause  from  his  will  explains  its  purpose: 
'To  hold  and  apply  the  income  and  so  much  of  the  principal  as  they 
may  choose,  to  the  purchase  of  special  books  of  reference  to  be  kept 
and  used  only  at  the  Charlestown  branch  of  said  Public  Library." 
Received  in  1886.  $500.00 

Mrs.  John  A.  Lewis  Fund  —  Bequest  of  ELIZABETH  LewIS,  to  be 
knowTi  as  the  Mrs.  John  A.  Lewis  Fund:  "I  give  and  bequeath  to  the 
Boston  Public  Library  the  sum  of  $5,000  as  a  fund,  the  income  of 
which  is  to  be  used  for  the  purchase  of  such  old  and  rare  books  as 
shall  be  fitly  selected  to  augment  the  collection  known  as  the  John 
A.  Lewis  Library."  Received  in  1903.  $5,000.00 

Charles  Greely  Loring  Memorial  Fund  —  Donation  from  the  family  of 
Charles  Greely  Loring,  the  income  of  which  is  to  be  expended 
for  the  purchase  of  books  for  the  West  End  Branch.  Received  in 
1 896.  $500.00 

Charles  Mead  Fund  —  Bequest  of  Charles  Mead,  to  constitute  the 
Charles  Mead  Public  Library  Trust  Fund  for  the  promotion  of  the 
objects  of  the  Public  Library  in  such  manner  as  the  government  of 
said  library  shall  deem  best,  and  so  far  as  the  government  shall 
deem  consistent  with  the  objects  of  the  library  to  be  used  for  the 
benefit  of  the  South  Boston  Branch  Library.  Received  in  1 896, 

$2,500.00 

George  W.  Moore  Fund  —  Bequest  of  George  W.  MooRE,  for  general 
purposes.  Received  in   1 939,  $2 1  7,00 

Francis  A.  Morse  Library  Fund  —  Bequest  of  Francis  A.  MoRSE,  of 
West  Roxbury;  the  income  only  to  be  expended  annually  for  tlie 
purchase  of  books  for  the  West  Roxbury  Branch  Library  suitable 
for  children  of  school  age.  Received  in  1936.  $1,000.00 

Gardner  O,  North  Fund  —  Bequest  of  Gardner  O.  North.  Received 
in  1928.  $2,000,00 

The  Oakland  Hall  Trust  Fund  —  By  an  interlocutory  decree  of  the 
Probate  Court  for  the  County  of  Suffolk,  the  amount  of$l  1 ,781 ,44 


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was  received,  llic  same  being  one-half  of  the  nel  aniounl  leccived 
from  the  disposition  of  certain  property  held  by  the  1  rustces,  under 
an  indenture  between  Amor  HoUingsworth,  Sumner  A.  Burt  and 
Amor  L.  HoUingsworth,  all  of  Milton.  Mass.,  and  John  H.  Mc- 
Kendry,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  entered  into  the  sixth  day  of  August, 
1870.  The  above  amount  was  accepted  by  the  City,  January  2, 
1924,  and  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  voted  to  invest  the 
same  under  the  name  of  "The  Oakland  Hall  Trust  Fund,"  the 
income  to  be  applied  to  the  purchase  of  books  and  other  library 
material  for  the  Mattapan  Branch.  $1  1 ,781 .44 

John  Boyle  O'Reilly  Fund  —  Donation  received  from  the  PapyRUS 
Club  to  establish  a  fund  in  memory  of  John  Boyle  O'Reilly,  late 
member  of  said  club,  the  income  of  said  fund  to  be  devoted  to  the 
purchase  of  books  for  the  Boston  Public  Library.  Received  in  1  897. 

,.         .,        .  $1,000.00 

Phillips  Fund  —  Donation  made  by  Jonathan  Phillips,  in  April. 
1853. 

The  interest  of  this  fund  is  to  be  used  exclusively  for  the  purchase 
of  books  $10,000.00 

Also  a  bequest  by  Mr.  Phillips  in  his  will  dated  September  20, 
1  849.  The  interest  on  which  is  to  be  annually  devoted  to  the  main- 
tenance of  a  free  Public  Library.  $20,000.00 

Pierce  Fund  —  Donation  made  by  the  HoN.  Henry  L.  Pierce,  Mayor 
of  the  City,  November  29,  I  873,  and  accepted  by  the  City  Council. 
December  27,   1873.  $5,012.90 

Sarah  E.  Pratt  Fund  —  Bequest  from  Sarah  E.  PrATT,  under  the 
14th  clause  of  her  will,  for  the  benefit  of  the  Dorchester  Branch, 
$500.00.  Received  in  1922  and  1924.  $1,494.18 

Guilford  Reed  Fund  —  Bequest  of  Helen  Leah  Reed,  as  a  memorial 
to  Guilford  S.  Reed;  the  income  to  be  applied  to  the  purchase  of 
books  of  non-fiction.  $1,000.00 

John  Singer  Sargent  Fund  —  Balance  remaining  in  hands  of  surviving 
trustees  of  fund  originally  raised  to  install  in  the  Library  decorations 
by  John  Singer  Sargent;  the  income  to  be  used  for  the  care  and 
preservation  of  the  Sargent  decorations,  etc.  $3,858.24 

Scholfield  Fund  —  Bequest  of  ARTHUR  ScHOLFiELD,  who  died  in  New 
York,  January  1  7,  1  883.  The  interest  to  be  paid  to  certain  heirs 
during  their  lives,  and  then  to  be  used  for  the  purchase  of  books  of 
permanent  value.  1  he  last  heir,  Joseph  Scholfield,  died  November 
1  8,  1  889,  and  by  his  will  bequeathed  to  the  City  of  Boston  the  sum 
of  $1  1,766.67.  which  represents  the  income  of  said  fund  received 
by  him  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  to  which  was  added  $33.33 
accrued  interest  on  deposit  up  to  the  time  of  investment,  to  be  added 
to  the  fund  given  by  his  brother,  $61 ,800.00 


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Sewall  Fund  —  Extract  from  the  will  of  RiCHARD  Black  SewalL: 
*'Tenth: — I  bequeath  the  following  pecuniary  legacies  clear  of 
legacy  tax,  namely.  To  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  of  the 
City  of  Boston  $25,000  to  be  added  to  their  funds  and  the  income 
to  be  used  for  the  purchase  of  books."  Received  in  1918. 

$25,000.00 

Skinner  Fund  —  Extract  from  the  will  of  Francis  Skinner: 

"Eleventh.  —  All  my  books  and  library  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my 
son,  to  be  enjoyed  by  him  during  his  life  and  after  his  death  to  be 
distributed  as  he  shall  appoint  among  such  public  libraries,  as  he  shall 
judge  fit,  and  in  case  he  makes  no  such  appointment  then  to  the 
Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  of  the  City  of  Boston. 
"Sixteenth.  —  All  the  rest  and  residue  of  my  said  property  of  what- 
ever kind,  I  give  and  bequeath  to  Augustus  P.  Loring  and  J.  Lewis 
Stackpole  in  trust  to  pay  the  net  income  to  my  son  Francis  Skinner, 
Jr.,  during  his  life,  or  to  apply  the  same  to  his  maintenance  and  sup- 
port, or  the  maintenance  and  support  of  any  issue  of  his,  as  they  shall 
think  best  during  his  life ;  and  at  his  death  to  apply  the  income  to  the 
maintenance  and  support  of  his  issue  until  his  youngest  child  shall 
reach  the  age  of  2 1  years  and  then  to  distribute  said  property  among 
said  issue,  the  issue  of  a  deceased  child  to  take  the  share  a  parent 
would  have  if  living. 

"If  there  shall  be  no  issue  surviving  at  the  time  of  my  son's  death, 
then  to  turn  the  said  property  into  cash  and  to  divide  it  equally 
among  the  following  legatees:  The  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library 
of  the  City  of  Boston,  the  Museum  of  Fine  Arts  of  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, the  Massachusetts  General  Hospital,  the  Medical  School 
of  Harvard  University,  and  the  Free  Hospital  for  Women,  Brook- 
line,  Massachusetts."  Received  in  1 9 14.  $51 ,732. 1 4 

South  Boston  Branch  Library  Trust  Fund  —  Donation  of  a  citizen  of 
South  Boston,  the  income  of  which  is  to  be  expended  for  the  benefit 
of  the  South  Boston  Branch  Library.  Received  in  1  879. 

$100.00 

Mary  Elizabeth  Stewart  Fund  —  Bequest  of  Mary  ELIZABETH  STEW- 
ART of  $3,500  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Boston  Public  Library.  The 
Trustees  voted  under  date  of  June  29,  1923,  that  the  income  be 
applied  to  the  purchase  of  books  and  other  library  material. 

$3,500.00 

James  Jackson  Storrow  (Harvard  '57)  Fund  —  Gift  of  Helen  Stor- 
Row  and  Elizabeth  Randolph  Storrow  as  a  memorial  to 
James  Jackson  Storrow,  Senior;  income  to  be  used  for  the  purchase 
of  Italian  books.  $25,000.00 

Ticknor  Bequest  —  By  the  will  of  George  Ticknor,  of  Boston,  he 
gave  to  the  City  of  Boston,  on  the  death  of  his  wife,  all  his  books 


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and  manuscripts  in  the  Spanish  and  Portuguese  languages,  about 
four  thousand  volumes,  and  also  the  sum  of  four  thousand  dollars. 
After  the  receipt  of  said  sums  the  City  is  required  to  spend  not  less 
than  one  thousand  dollars  in  every  five  years  during  the  twenty-five 
years  next  succeeding  (i.e.,  the  income  of  four  thousand  dollars,  at 
the  rate  of  five  per  cent  per  annum)  in  the  purchase  of  books  in  the 
Spanish  and  Portuguese  languages  and  literature.  At  the  end  of 
twenty-five  years  the  income  of  said  sum  to  be  expended  annually  in 
the  purchase  of  books  of  permanent  value,  either  in  the  Spanish  or 
Portuguese  languages,  or  in  such  other  languages  as  may  be  deemed 
expedient  by  those  having  charge  of  the  library.  The  books  be- 
queathed or  purchased  are  always  to  be  freely  accessible  for  refer- 
ence or  study,  but  arc  not  to  be  loaned  for  use  outside  of  the  library 
building.  If  these  bequests  are  not  accepted  by  the  City,  and  the 
trusts  and  conditions  faithfully  executed,  the  books,  manuscripts  and 
money  are  to  be  given  to  the  President  and  Pellows  of  Harvard 
College.  In  order  that  the  City  might  receive  the  immediate  benefit 
of  this  contribution,  Anna  1  icknor,  widow  of  the  donor,  relinquished 
her  right  to  retain  during  her  life  the  books  and  manuscripts,  and 
placed  them  under  the  control  of  the  City,  the  City  Council  having 
previously  accepted  the  bequests  in  accordance  with  the  terms  and 
conditions  of  said  will,  and  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  re- 
ceived said  bequests  on  behalf  of  the  City,  and  made  suitable  ar- 
rangements for  the  care  and  custody  of  the  books  and  manuscripts. 
Received  in   1871.  $4,000.00 

William  C.  Todd  Newspaper  Fund  —  Donation  by  WlLLlAM  C.  TODD, 
of  Atkins,  N.  H.,  accepted  by  order  of  the  City  Council,  approved 
October  30,  1897,  the  income  to  be  at  least  two  thousand  dollars 
a  year,  to  be  expended  by  the  Library  Trustees  for  newspapers  of 
this  and  other  countries.  $50,026.44 

f  ownsend  Fund  —  Donation  from  William  Minot  and  William  Minot, 
Jr.,  executors  of  the  will  of  Mary  P.  TownseND,  at  whose  dis- 
posal she  left  a  certain  portion  of  her  estate  in  trust  for  such  chari- 
table and  public  institutions  as  they  might  think  meritorious.  Said 
executors  accordingly  selected  the  Public  Library  of  the  City  of 
Boston  as  one  of  such  institutions,  and  attached  the  following  con- 
ditions to  the  legacy:  "  I  he  income  only  shall,  in  each  and  every 
year,  be  expended  in  the  purchase  of  books  for  the  use  of  the  library ; 
each  of  which  books  shall  have  been  published  in  some  one  edition 
at  least  five  years  at  the  time  it  may  be  so  purchased."  Received  in 
1879.  $4,000.00 

Treadwell  Fund  —  By  the  will  of  the  late  Daniel  Treadwell,  of 
Cambridge,  late  Rumford  Professor  in  Harvard  College,  who  died 
February  27,  1872,  he  left  the  residue  of  his  estate,  after  payment 


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of  debts,  legacies,  etc.,  in  Ivust  lo  his  execulois,  lo  hold  during  ihc 
life  of  his  wife  for  her  benefit,  and  after  her  decease  to  divide  the 
residue  then  remaining  in  the  hands  of  the  Trustees,  as  therein  pro- 
vided, and  convey  one-fifth  part  thereof  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Public 
Library  of  the  City  of  Boston. 

By  order  of  the  City  Council,  approved  May  17,  1  872,  said  be- 
quest was  accepted  and  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  authorized 
to  receive  the  same  and  invest  it  in  the  City  of  Boston  Bonds,  income 
of  which  is  to  be  expended  by  said  Trustees  in  such  manner  as  they 
may  deem  for  the  best  interests  of  the  Library.  $13,987.69 

Tufts  Fimd  —  Bequest  of  Nathan  A.  TuFTS,  of  Charlestown,  to  be 
known  as  the  "Nathan  A.  Tufts  Fund,"  the  income  to  be  applied 
at  all  times  to  the  purchase  of  books  and  other  additions  to  the  library 
to  be  placed  in  the  Charlestown  Branch.  Received  in  1906. 

$10,131.77 

Twentieth  Regiment  Memorial  Fund  —  Donation  on  account  of  the 
Twentieth  Regiment  Memorial  Fund,  the  income  to  be  used 
for  the  purchase  of  books  of  a  military  and  patriotic  character,  to  be 
placed  in  the  alcove  appropriated  as  a  memorial  to  the  Twentieth 
Regiment.  Received  in  1897.  $5,000.00 

Francis  Jay  Underbill  Fund  —  Net  proceeds  under  the  Judicial  Settle- 
ment of  the  Account  of  Arthur  Lovell,  as  Executor  of  the  Last  Will 
and  Testament  of  Francis  Jay  Underbill,  late  of  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  the  income  to  be  expended  for  the  purchase  of  books. 
Received  in  1939.  $524.70 

Horace  G.  Wadlin  Fund  —  Bequest  of  Horace  G.  Wadlin,  of 
Reading,  former  Librarian,  of  $2,000  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Public 
Library  of  the  City  of  Boston  to  be  permanently  funded  and  the  in- 
come thereof  used  for  the  purchase  of  books.  Received  in  1  932. 

$2,000.00 
Also  a  bequest  by  Ella  F.  Wadlin;  to  be  added  to  the  Horace  G. 
Wadlin  Fund,  and  the  income  to  be  used  for  the  purchase  of  books. 
Received  in   1936.  $1,725.84 

Wales  Fund —  Extract  from  the  will  of  George  C.  Wales: 

"A^fter  the  foregoing  bequests  I  direct  that  the  sum  of  five  thousand 
dollars  be  paid  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  of  the  City  of 
Boston,  the  same  to  be  held,  managed  and  invested  by  them,  so  as 
to  produce  an  income,  and  the  said  income  to  be  apphed  to  the  pur- 
chase of  such  books  for  said  Librarv  as  they  may  deem  best."  Re- 
ceived in  1918.  "  $5,000.00 

Whitney  Funds  —  Bequests  of  JameS  LymAN  WhiTNEY,  who  died  Sep- 
tember 25,  1910. 

Alice  Lincoln  Whitney  Fund  — ■  The  twelfth  clause  of  his  will  di- 
rected that:  One-tenth  of  said  remaining  income  of  the  principal 


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fund,  I  direct  to  be  i)aid  to  ihc  1  ruslecs  of  llie  Public  Libiaiy  of  the 
City  of  Boston,  to  be  held  and  accumulated  by  said  Trustees  and 
permanently  invested  and  re-invested.  The  first  five  thousand  dollars 
of  income  so  accumulated,  including  the  income  thereon  arising 
during  the  period  of  accumulation,  I  request  to  be  funded  in  the 
name  of  my  sister,  Alice  Lincoln  Whitney,  and  the  income  of  said 
fund  after  its  accumulation  or  so  much  of  said  income  as  may  be  re- 
quired, to  be  paid  to  such  employees  of  the  said  Library,  who  are 
sick  and  in  need  of  help,  as  the  Trustees  may  in  their  discretion  deem 
most  worthy  (there  are  often  such  cases).  Any  amount  of  income 
from  said  accumulated  fund  not  needed  for  the  purpose  just  men- 
tioned shall  be  used  for  the  purchase  of  books  and  manuscripts. 

$5,000.00 

James  Lyman  Whitney  Fund  —  The  Alice  Lincoln  Whitney  Fund 
having  been  established,  all  amounts  of  income  of  the  principal  fund 
paid  to  said  Trustees,  after  the  accumulation  of  said  fund  of  five 
thousand  dollars  shall  be  held  as  the  James  Lyman  Whitney  Fund, 
and  invested  and  re-invested  and  the  income  used  in  equal  shares, 
one  share  for  the  purchase  of  rare  and  expensive  books,  and  one  share 
for  the  purchase  and  care  of  manuscripts;  one  half  at  least  of  the 
share  devoted  to  manuscripts  to  be  expended  for  their  cataloguing 
and  proper  care,  $31,293.38 

In  addition  to  the  above  Mr.  Whitney  created  a  trust,  directing  that 
of  the  net  income  seven  hundred  dollars  a  year  be  paid  to  the  Trus- 
tees of  the  Public  Library  of  the  City  of  Boston,  to  be  expended  on 
bibliographic  work  for  the  benefit  of  the  Library. 

Mehitable  C.  C.  Wilson  Fund  —  Bequest  of  Mehitable  C.  C.  Wil- 
son, the  income  to  be  expended  for  the  purchase  of  books.  Received 
in  1913.  $1,000.00 


GIFTS  FOR  THE  PURCHASE  OF  BOOKS 

Besides  the  preceding,  the  following  gifts  have  been  made  to  the  Public 
Library,  and  the  amounts  have  been  appropriated  for  the  purchase 
of  books,  according  to  the  intention  of  the  donors,  viz. : 
Samuel  Appleton,  late  of  Boston     .  .  .  $1,000.00 

H.   C.  Bentley 220.38 

J.   Ingersoll   Bowditch 6,800.00 

Nathaniel  I.  Bowditch 200.00 

James  Brown,  late  of  Cambridge      .  .  .  500.00 

Andrew  Carnegie  .....  980.75 

Dorchester  and  Milton  Circulating  Library,  for  the 

benefit  of  the  Dorchester  Branch  Library        .  335.13 


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Sally  Inman  Kast  Shepard 
James   Nightingale 
Patrick  F.  Sullivan  Bequest 


1 .000.00 
100.00 
339.61 

$11,475.87 


REC.'\PITULATION  OF  PUBLIC  LIBRARY  TRUST  FUNDS 


Ainsley    Fund 

Ariz    Fund     . 

Bates    Fund   . 

Benton    Book   Fund 

Benton  Building  Fund 

Charles  H.  L.  N.  Bernard  Fund 

Bigelow    Fund 

Robert  Charles  Billinos  Fund 

Boston   Book  Fair   1938   Fund 

Bowditch   Fund 

Bradlee   Fund 

Joseph  H.  Center  Fund 

Central  Library  Building   Fund 

Children's   Fund     . 

Clement    Fund 

Henry  Sargent  Codman  Memorial 

Cutter    Fund 

Elizabeth    Fund 

Daniel   Sharp    Ford  Fund 

Daniel  Sharp  Ford  Trust  Fund 

Franklin    Club    Fund 

Isabella  Stewart  Gardner  Fund 

Morris  Gest   Fund 

Green    Fund 

Charlotte  Harris  Fund  . 

Thomas  B.   Harris   Fund 

Alfred   Hemenway  Fund 

Heloise   E.  Hersey  Fund 

Hyde    Fund 

David   P.   Kimball   Fund       . 

Louis  E.   Kirstein   Fund 

Arthur  Mason  Knapp  Fund  . 

George  W.   Moore  Fund 

Francis  A.  Morse  Library  Pund 

Helen  Lambert  Fund     . 

Abbott   Lawrence    Fund 

Edward  Lawrence   Fund 

Mrs.  John  A.  Lewis  Fund    . 

Charles  Greely  Loring  Memorial  1 

Charles  Mead   Fund 

Gardner  O.   North  Fund 

The  Oakland  Hall  Trust  Fund 

John   Boyle  O'Reilly   Fund   . 


Fund 


$164,142.96 

10,000.00 

50,000.00 

1.158,857.25 

1.733,103.77 

2.000.00 

1,000  .no 

100,000.00 

172.70 

10.000.00 

1. 000.00 

39,520.39 

150.00 

100.000.00 

2,000.00 

2,854.41 

4,270.00 

25,000.00 

6,000.00 

5,017.65 

1 ,000.00 

5,000.00 

2,652.50 

2.000.00 

10,000.00 

1 ,089.38 

5,000.00 

3.542.00 

3,632.40 

10,012.90 

5,000.00 

10,000.00 

217.00 

1,000.00 

1,403.57 

10.000.00 

500.00 

5,000.00 

500.C0 

2,500.00 

2.000.00 

11.781.44 

1,000.00 


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Phillips   Fund 
Pierce    Fund 
Sarah    E.    Pratt   Fund    . 
Guilford  Reed   Fund 
John  Singer  Sargent   Fund 
Scholfield    Fund 
Sewall    Fund 
Skinner    Fund 
South  Boston   Branch  Library  Trust   F' 
Mary  Elizabeth  Stewart  Fund 
James  Jackson  Storrow  (Ilarvard  '57)  P 
Ticknor    Fund        .... 
William  C.  Todd  Newspaper  Fund 
Townsend    fund    . 
Treadwell    Fund    . 
Nathan   A.   Tufts  Fund 
Twentieth  Regiment   Memorial    Fund 
Francis  Jay  Underbill  Fund 
I  lorace  G.  Wadlin  Fund 
Wales    Fund 

Alice  Lincoln  Whitney  Fund 
James  Lyman  Whitney  Fund 
Mehitable  C.  C.  Wilson  Fund 

Total 


30.000.00 

5.012.90 

1.494.18 

1. 000.00 

3.858.24 

61.800.00 

25,000.00 

51.732.14 

100.00 

3,500.00 

25,000.00 

4  000.00 

50,026.44 

4.000.00 

13.987.69 

10.131.77 

5,000.00 

524.70 

3,725.84 

5.000.00 

5.000.00 

31.293.38 

1.000.00 

$3,852,107.60 


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APPENDIX    K 

OFFICERS  OF  THE  LIBRARY  AS  OF  DECEMBER  31,  1939 

Director's  Office 
Director,  and  Librarian:  Milton  E.  Lord 

Clerk  of  the  Trustees,  and 

Assistant  to  the  Director:  Elizabeth  B.  Brockunier 

Assistant  to  the  Director:  Gregory  J.  Edson 

Supervisor  of  Training:  Bertha  V.  Hartzell 

Editor  of  Publications:  Zoltan  Haraszti 

Reference  Division 

Chief  Librarian  of  the  Reference  Division:  Richard  G.  Hensley 

Assistant  Librarian,   Emeritus  Frank  C.   Blaisdell 

Assistant  Librarian,  Emeritus  Samuel  A.  Chevalier 

Book  Selection  Department :  Christine  Hayes,  Chief 

Cataloging  and  Classification  Department:  William  A.  Roblyer,  Chief 

Lucien  E.  Taylor,  Chief, 

Emeritus 
General  Reference  Departments:   Francis  H.  Hannigan,  Supervisor 

John  H.  Reardon,  Deputy  Supervisor 
Bates  Hall  Centre  Desk:  William  J.  Mulloney,  Assistant  in  Charge 
Bates  Hall  Reference  Department:  John  M.  Carroll,  Assistant,  In 

Charge 
Issue  Department:  Thomas  F.  Brennan,  Chief 
Open  Shelf  Department:  John  H.  Reardon,  Chief 
Periodical  and  Newspaper  Department :  Elizabeth  L,  Wright,  Chief 
Registration  Department:  A.  Frances  Rogers,  Chief 

Special  Reference  Departments:   Edward  H.   Redstone,  Supervisor 

Frank  N.  Jones,  Deputy  Supervisor 
Business  Branch:  Mary  W,  Dietrichson.  Business  Branch  Librarian 
Fine   Arts    Department:    Priscilla    S.    MacFadden,    Assistant,    In 

Charge 
History  Reference  Department:  Laura  R.  Gibbs,  Assistant 
Music  Department:  Richard  G.  Appel,  Assistant  in  Charge 
Science  and  Technology  Department:  Frank  N.  Jones,  Chief 
Statistical  Department:  Elizabeth  G.  Barry,  Assistant  in  Charge 
leachers  Department:  Anna  L.  Manning,  Assistant  in  Charge 

Rare  Books:  Zoltan  Haraszti,  Keeper  of  Rare  Books 

Rare  Book  I^eparlment:  Harriet  Swift,  Assistant  in  Charge 


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Circulation  Division 

Chief  Librarian  of  the  Circulation  Division:  Orlando  C.  Davis 

Children's  Work:  Alice  M.  Jordan,  Supervisor 

Branch  Libraries:  Edith  Guerrier,  Supervisor 
Branch  Librarians: 

Allston:  M.  Florence  Cufflin 

Andrew  Square:  Elizabeth  H.  McShane 

Boylston:  Margaret  A.  Calnan 

Brighton:  Katrina  M.  Sather 

Charlestown :  Katherine  S.  Rogan 

City  Point:  Helen  M.  O'Lcary 

Codman  Square:  Elizabeth  P.  Ross 

Dorchester:  Marion  C.  Kingman 

East  Boston:  Theodora  B.  Scoff 

Faneuil:  Gertrude  L.  Connell 

Fellowes  Athenaeum:  Mary  E.  Ames 

Hyde  Park:  Sara  A.  Lyon 

Jamaica  Plain:  Rebecca  E.  Willis 

Jeffries  Point:  Mary  U.  Nichols 

Kirstein:  Dorothy  F.  Nourse 

Lower  Mills:  Muriel  E.  Cann 

Mattapan:  Ada  A.  Andelman 

Memorial:  Margaret  I.  McGovern 

Mount  Bow^doin:  Catherine  P.   Loughnian 

Mount  Pleasant:  Margaret  H.  Reid 

Neponset:  Elizabeth  B.   Boudreau 

North  End:  Mary  F.  Curley 

Orient  Heights:  Catherine  E.  Flannery 

Parker  Hill:  Mary  M.  Sullivan 

Phillips  Brooks:  Edith  H.  Bailey 

Roslindale:  Annie  M.  Donovan 

South  Boston:  Mary  A.  C.  Kavin 

South  End:  Clara  L.  Maxwell 

Upham's  Corner:  Beatrice  C.  Maguire 

West  End:  Fanny  Goldstein 

West  Roxbury:  Geneva  Watson 

Book  Selection  Department:   Edna  G.  Peck,  Chief 

Cataloging  and  Classification  Department:  Ethel  Hazlewood,  Cataloger, 
In  Charge 

Branch  Bindery  Section:  Marion  McCarthy.  Assistant,  In  Charge 

Branch  Issue   Department:   Grace   C.   Loughlin,  Chief 

Alice  V.  Stevens,  Chief,  Etnerilns 


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School  Department:  Beatrice  M.  Flanagan,  Chief 

Young  People's  Room,  Central  Library:  Mary  C.  Toy,  Children's  Li- 
brarian 

Branch  Librarian,  Emeritus:  Katherine  F.  Albert 

Branch  Librarian,  Emeritus:  Carrie  L.  Morse 

Branch  Librarian,  Emeritus:  Katherine  F.  Muldoon 

Branch  Librarian,  Emeritus:  Margaret   A.   Sheridan 

Division  of  Business  Operations 

Comptroller:  James  W.  Kenney 

Buildings  Department:  William  F.  Quinn,  Superintendent 

Auditing  Department:  Helen  Schubarlh,  Auditor 

Book  Purchasing  Department:  William  C.  Maiers,  Chief 

Stock  Purchasing  Department:  Timothy  J.  Mackin,  Custodian 

Binding  Department:  James  P.  Mooers,  Chief 

Printing  Department:   William  B.  Gallagher,  Chief 

Francis  W.  Lee,  Chief,  Emeritus 
Shipping  Department:  Robert  F.  Dixon,  Shipper 


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BOSTON  PUBLIC  LIBRARY 

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