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BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
STATISTICAL REPORT
1947
BOSTON
PUBLISHED BY THE TRUSTEES
TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
FRANCIS B. MASTERSON. President
Term expires April 30, 1951
ROBERT H. LORD
Term expires April 30, 1952
ELLERY SEDGWICK FRANK W. BUXTON
Term expires April 30, 1948 Term expires April 30, 1950
ABRAHAM E. PINANSKI
Term expires April 30, 1949
MILTON E. LORD
Director, and Librarian
CONTENTS
I — Summary of Expenditures, 1930-1947
II — Appropriations and Expenditures for
Personnel, 1930-1947
III — Appropriations and Expenditures for
Books
IV — Personnel
V — Book Stock
VI — Use of Books .
VII — The Catalogs
VIII — Printing and Binding
IX — Lectures, Concerts, Exhibitions .
X — Trust Funds
XI — Officers of the Library,
as of December 3
Financial Statement :
947
9
14
37
44
49
50
51
60
76
79
SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES, 1930 - 1947
Total Expenditures, 1930 - 1947
YEAR
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
FROM ANNUAL
CITY
APPROPRIATIONS
$1,132,520.06
1,239,257.45
1,147,579.89
1,000,431.87
1,065,367.44
1,139,114.88
1,116,657.14
1 ,204,994.47
1,231,278.52
1,231,196.08
1.232,633.01
1,274,184.45
1,272,554.07
1,254,573.76
1,280,646.51
1,309,615.79
1.379,562.24
1 ,81 1 ,389.47
FROM SPECIAL
CITY
APPROPRIATIONS
$237,962.11
309,794.65
126,345.78
1 ,027.43
41,049.17
36,295.49
74,434.97
73,204.16
66,243.11
39,997.19
52,930.24
37,398.01
92,356.86
72,904.22
11,913.99
1,211.26
20,375.20
FROM FROM
INCOME OF GIFTS FOR
TRUST FUNDS IMMEDIATE USE
$22,796.21
20,839.73
22,801.04
26,633.94
19,083.82
24,496.50
58,826.03 $6.83
51,161.81 206.68
86,338.96
119,899.86 73.97
128,403.69 88.80
93,969.34 264.69
50,625.70 270.20
61,016.62 85.21
40,839.88 1 ,086.50
42,695.41 387.68
45,199.61 1,178.92
46,156.27 1,492.43
$1,393,278.38
1.569,891.83
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
1.414,055.74
1,405,816.49
1,415.806.83
1,388,579.81
1,334,466.88
1,352,698.88
1,427,152.03
1,885,723.32
Distribution of Expenditures From Annual City Appropriations, 1930-1947
SALARIES
BOOKS AND OTHER
ALL OTHER
YEAR
AND WAGES
LIBRARY MATERIALS
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
159,970.58
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
1,139,114.85
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
1940
1 ,045,735.40
57.499.94
129,397.67
1,232,633.01
1941
1 ,043,754.52
74,999.47
155,430.46
1,274,184.45
1942
1,062,220.17
88,000.00
122,333.90
1,272.554.07
1943
1,036,381.35
75,000.00
143,192.41
1,254.573.76
1944
1,058,671.96
80,000.00
141,974.55
1,280,646.51
1945
1,064,343.72
81,701.74
163,570.33
1,309,615.79
1946
1,108,102.75
90,899.98
180,559.51
1,379,562.24
1947
1 ,453,087.76
118,533.62
239,768.09
1,811,389.47
[2]
Distribution of Expenditures From Special City Appropriations, 1930 - 1947
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
central library
foundations
roof CONSTRUCTION
& IMPROVEMENTS
$206,391.46
254,871.40
13,125.06
4,867.40
7,997.34
11,131.75
12,251.72
BRANCH
LIBRARIES
NEW
BUILDINGS
$31,570.65
54,923.25
113,220.72
1,027.43
6.80
5,705.30
1,597.40
RELIEF CIVILIAN
PROJECTS DEFENSE
(WPA, ETC.) ACTIVITIES
14,743.24
58,606.53
52,488.25
6,138.99
117.44
3,584.68
$41,042.37
25,722.79
64,840.23
62,072.41
53,991 .39
39,997.19
38,187.00
37,398.01
23,415.38
9,637.51
$10,334.95
10,778.46
5,775.00
DEPARTMENTAL
EQUIPMENT
LOAN TOTAL
$237,962.11
309,794.65
126J45.78
1 ,027.43
41,049.17
36.295.49
74,434.97
73,204.16
66,243.11
39.997.19
52,930.24
37,398.01
92.356.86
72,904.22
11,913.99
1,093.82
16,790.52
1,211.26
20.375.20
Distribution of Expenditures From Income of Trust Funds, 1930 - 1947
BOOKS AND other
year
LIBRARY MATERIALS
SALARIES
OTHER
TOTAL
1930
$22,466.21
$180.00
$150.00
$22,796.21
1931
19.259.55
1.480.18
100.00
20,839.73
1932
20.045.62
23.873.19
16,996.57
22,264.83
2,755.42
? 760 75
?? 801 04
1933
26,633.94
19,083.82
24,496.50
1934
2.087.25
1 .602.67
1935
629.00
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
3,25733
385.10
119.899.86
1940
124,618.89
2,070.00
1,714.80
128.403.69
1941
92,182.66
1,500.00
286.68
93,96934
1942
48,447.64
1.500.00
678.06
50,625.70
1943
58.488.39
1.704.33
823.90
61.016.62
1944
39.735.05
625.00
479.83
40.839.88
1945
41.370.31
481.65
843.45
42.695.41
1946
43.140.12
189.45
1,870.04
45.199.61
1947
43,869.89
42.11
2,244.27
46.156.27
Distribution or Expenditures
From Gifts for
Immediate Use, 1930 - 1947
BOOKS AND OTHER
YEAR
LIBRARY MATERIALS
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
$6.83
206.68
73.97
88.80
264.69
270.20
85.21
1.086.50
387.68
1,178.92
1.492.43
[3]
II
APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES FOR
PERSONNEL, 1930- 1947
Total Appropriations and Expenditures for All Personnel, 1930 - 1947
amount
AMOUNT
UNEXPENDED
YEAR
APPROPRIATED
EXPENDED
BALANCE
1930
$812,000.00.
$809,530.41
$2,469.59
1931
858,903.00
852,987.17
5,915.83
1932
858,000.00
853,680.10
4.319.90
1933
800,000.00
788,603.37
11,396.63
1934
824,719.00
821,974.51
2.744.49
1935
915.000.00
912,339.26
2,660.74
1936
921,000.00
985,000.00
Q3n 78*^ 04*
1 yj\j
1937
975,751.61
9,248.39
1938
1,039,175.00
1,023,225.41
15,949.59
1939
1,039,859.34
1,032.696.19
7,163.15
1940
1,065,000.00
1 ,045,735.40
19,264.60**
1941
1,065,000.00
1 ,043,754.52
21,245.48***
1942
1,065,000.00
1,062,220.17
2,779.83
1943
1,065,000.00
1.036,381.35
28,618.65****
1944
1 ,065.000.00
1,058,671.96
6,328.04t
1945
, 1,065,000.00
1,064,343.72
656.28
1946
1,110,000.00
1,108,102.75
1, 897.251 T
1947
1,454,799.00
1 ,453,087.76
1,711. 241 tt
* To lake care of the commitmcnt3 above the amount appropriated for 1936, the
sum of $9,788.04 was transferred from unexpended balances in other accounts
of the Library.
■•* $18,775.53 transferred to other accounts of the Library.
*** $18,693.10 transferred to other accounts of the Library.
**** $16,055.83 transferred to other accounts of the Library, and $5,844.33 trans-
ferred to other City of Boston DeparSments at the request of the Budget Com-
missioner of the City of Boston.
t $5,587.13 transferred to oilier accounts of the Library.
tt $1,897.25 transferred to other accounts of the Library.
ttt $l,7n.24 transferred to other accounts of the library.
Changes Year By Year Lm Total Expenditures For All Personnel, 1930-1947
total EXPENDITURES
%0F
7oOF
FOR SALARIES & V/AGE3
CHANGE FROM
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
+0.1%
+ 10.8%
1933
788.603.37
-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%
+20.8%
1937
975,751.61
+4.8%
+26.6%
193a
1,023,225.41
+4.8%
+32.7%
1939
1,032,696.19
+0.9%
+33.9%
1940
1,045,735.40
+ 1.2%
+35.7%
1941
1,043,754.52
-0.2%
+35.4%
1942
1,062,220.17
+1.7%
+37.8%
1943
1,036.381.35
-2.4%
+34.5%
1944
1,058,671.96
+2.2%
+37.4%
1945
1,064,343.72
+0.5%
+38.2%
1946
1,108,102.75
+4.1%
+43.8%
1947
1.453,087.76
+23.7%
+88.6%
[4]
Changes Year By Year In Total Expenditures For Regular Service
(FuLL-TiME Personnel), 1930 - 1947
total expenditures
%OF
%0F
FOR SALARIES & WAGES
CHANGE FROM
CHANGE
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
-«.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%
1940
954.292.69
+ 1.1%
+43.8%
1941
941.707.31
-1.37o
+41.8%
1942
939,370.95
-0.2%
+41.5%
1943
918,763.36
-2.2%
+38.4%
1944
933.028.30
+ 1.6%
+40.6%
1945
940,227.10
+0.8%
+41.6%
1946
981.514.81
+4.4%
+47.87o
1947
1,250.831.07
+21.5%
+88.4%
Changes Year By Year In Total Expenditures For Extra Service
(Part-Time Personnel, Etc.), 1930 - 1947
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
%0F
%0F
FOR SALARIES & WAGES
CHANGE FROM
CHANGE
year
FOR EXTRA SERVICE
PRECEDING YEAR
FROM 1929
1929
$104,032.28
1930
112,214.67
+7.8%
+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
96.330.61
-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%
-17.6%
1940
89,517.71
+4.3%
-11.6%
1941
100,136.21
+ 11.8%
-3.7%
1942
120,983.22
+20.6%
+16.3%
1943
115.031.99
-4.9%
+ 10.6%
1944
122,061.66
+6.1%
+ 17.3%
1945
120.536.62
-1.1%
+ 15.8%
1946
122,983.94
+2.0%
+ 18.2%
1947
198,611.69
+38.0%
+91.0%
[3]
ANALYSIS AND DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENDITURES FOR
PERSONNEL. 1947
Summary by Divisions
Administrative Offices
Regular Service $66,354.60
Extra Service
Part-time Service $3,617.40
Sunday Service 1,122.48 4,739.88
Total Expenditures for Administrative Offices $71,094.48
Circulation Division
Regular Service $560,198.15
Extra Service
Part-time Service $81,958.73
Janitorial and Cleaning Service
by the Hour 12,484.11
Sunday Service 4,036.87 98,479.71
Total Expenditures for Circulation Division 658,677.86
Reference Division
Regular Service $339,811.12
Extra Service
Part-time Service $42,732.49
Janitorial and Cleaning Service
by the Hour 402.82
Sunday Service 24,404.15 67,539.46
Total Expenditures for Reference Division 407,350.58
Division of Business Operations
Regular Service $284,467.20
Extra Service
Part-time Service $628.48
Evening and Holiday Service 19,297.86
Sunday Service 7,926.30 27;852.64
Total Expenditures for
Division of Business Operations 312,319.84
Miscellaneous Services
Storytelling $3,500.00
Stereopticon Operator 145.00
Total Expenditures for Miscellaneous Services 3,645.00
TOTAL EXPENDITURES FOR ALL PERSONNEL $1,453,087.76
EXPENDITURES FOR PERSONNEL IN ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES,
1947
service
$32,249.47
16,280.68
regular
part-time
unit
service
service
Director's Office
$32,249.47
Personnel Office
16.190.16
$90.52
Information Office
10,570.10
3,276.05
Office of Records,
Files,
and Statistics
7,344.87
250.83
$1,122.48 14,968.63
7.595.70
Total Expenditures for
Administrative Offices $66,354.60 $3,617.40 $1,122.48 $71,094.48
16]
EXPENDITURES FOR PERSONNEL IN CIRCULATION DIVISION, 1947
Unit
Executive Staff
Book Selection Department
Cataloging and Classification Dept.
Branch Issue Department
Open Shelf Department
Registration Department
Young Peoples Room
School Issue Department
Branch Libraries
Total Expenditures for
Circulation Division
REGULAR
SERVICE
$30,241.47
5,631.66
14,605.15
23,345.18
16,171.48
17,922.30
10,957.80
13,592.58
427,630.53
JANITORIAL AND
CLEANING
PART-TIME .SERVICE
SERVICE BY THE HOUR
$127.08
467.44
1,883.10
5,823.52
229.31
1,515.48
4,204.95
67,707.85
12,484.1
SUNDAY
SERVICE
$1,544.95
1,131.79
1,360.13
TOTAL
SERVICE
$30,368.55
5,631.66
15,072.59
25 228.28
23,539.95
19.283.40
13,833.41
17,897.53
507,822.49
$560,198.15 $81,958.73 $12,484.11 $4,036.87 $658,677.86
Branch LItR^RIES
Allsfon
Brighton
Charlestown
City Point
Codman Square
Connolly
Doichester
East Boston
Faneuil
Fellowes Athenaeum
Hyde Park
Jamaica Plain
Jeffries Point
Lower Mills
Mattapan
Memorial
Mt. Bowdoin
Mt. Pleasant
Neponset
North End
Orient Heights
Parker Hill
Phillips Brooks
Roslindale
South Boston
South End
Uphams Corner
Washington Village
West End
West Roxbury
Total Expenditures for
Branch Libraries
$15,384.31
17,262.11
1 7,730.84
10,799.22
17,439.85
1 5,599.83
13,264.71
17,228.30
12,560.57
12,656.27
12,709.89
13,970.38
8,757.73
10,980.75
20,364.32
18,582.69
13,768.81
10,987.12
5.372.38
17,568.17
9.377.29
17.743.59
6.915.99
16.763.80
11,341.67
13,219.19
17,234.81
13,388.56
18,885.82
19,771.56
$1,980.22
1.828.51
2.307.71
2,710.06
4,663.93
2,503.85
2,550.16
2,052.68
1 ,950.09
2,211.33
2,371.79
3,201.96
1,710.11
758.13
1,773.00
2,684.94
1,693.20
1,442.07
1,266.91
2,060.79
1,155.35
1,319.26
1.529.47
1,733.18
2,548.21
1,869.75
5,282.87
2,991.38
3,753.77
1,803.17
$506.31
424.58
474.83
252.92
119.05
361 .28
1,083.92
16.83
93.78
150.84
1,047.38
1,351.08
389.16
1,578.92
565.36
1,626.74
317.06
343.36
,322.54
128.83
329.34
$17
19
20,
13
22
18
15
19
14
14
15
1
10,
11
22,
21,
16,
12
7,
20,
12,
19,
10,
18,
14,
15,
22,
17,
22
21.
,364.53
,596.93
,463.13
,509.28
,103.78
578.51
,814.87
,533.90
.629.71
.867.60
442.96
,256.26
484.67
,738.88
,231.10
,418.47
,509.39
,429.19
,990.37
,018.12
,111.56
,628.21
072.20
814.04
233.24
,088.94
517.68
702.48
768.42
904.07
$427,630.53 $67,707.85 $12,484.11
$507,822.49
[7]
EXPENDITURES FOR PERSONNEL IN REFERENCE DIVISION, 1947
REGULAR
Unit service
Executive Staff $19,258.12
Book Selection Department 6,117.69
Book Stack Service 73,553.99
Cataloging and Classification Dept. 56,347.57
Fine Arts Department 21,569.46
General Reference Department 24,968.34
History Department 8,303.90
Music Department 8,829.37
Periodical and Newspaper Dept. 20,859.30
Print Department 10,325.26
Rare Book Department 19,589.96
Science and Technology Dept. 18,568.16
Statistical Department 10,665.62
Teacher? Department 8,566.99
Business Branch 32,287.39
PART-TIME
SERVICE
JANITORIAL AND
CLEANING
SERVICE
BY THE HOUR
i.l6
1 5,809.69
3,860.91
3,553.20
3,284.03
115.26
2,437.47
3,425.93
1,511.94
2,260.85
2,753.52
1 ,725.28
930.30
1 ,055.95
$402.82
SUNDAY
SERVICE
$1,623.15
7,861 .55
2,907.67
3,478.04
665.23
831.12
2,758.09
273.36
1,274.13
907.60
938.91
885.30
TOTAL
SERVICE
$20,889.43
6,117.69
97,225.23
60,208.48
28,030.33
31,730.41
9,084.39
12,097.96
27,043.32
12,110.56
23,124.94
22,229.28
13,329.81
10,382.59
33,746.16
Total Expenditures for
Reference Division
$339,811.12 $42,732.49 $402.82 24,404.15 $407,350.58
[8]
EXPENDITURES FOR PERSONNEL IN DIVISION OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS, 1947
Unit
EVENING AND
REGULAR PART-TIME HOLIDAY SUNDAY TOTAL
SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE
Business Office
Accounting Department
Binding Department
Book Preparation Department
Book Purchasing Department
Buildings Department:
Mechanical Service
Cleaning Service
Printing Department
Shipping Department
Stock Purchasing Department
"Unliquidated" Evening Service
$7,523.26
14.254.16
64,653.11
15,416.54
40,853.91
92.762.98
22,021.23
16,760.54
7,140.58
3,080.89
Total Expenditures for Division
of Business Operations $284,467.20
$387.02
24.20
217.26
$1,118.68
1 1 ,227.81
5,890.47
12.62
87.00
961 .28
$20.00
5,936.67
1 ,969.63
$7,523.26
15,392.84
64,653.1 1
15,803.56
40,878.11
110,144.72
29,881 33
16,773.16
7,227.58
3,080.89
961 .28
$628.48 $19,297.86 $7,926.30 $312,319.84
EXPENDITURES FOR MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. 1947
Storytelling
Stereopticon Operator
Total Expenditures for
Miscellaneous Services
$3,500.00
145.00
$3,645.00
RECAPITULATION, 1947
Regular Service
Full-time Members of the Staff
$1,250,831.07
Extra Service
Part-time Service $128,937.10
Evening and Holiday Service 19,297.86
Sunday Service 37.489.80
Janitorial and Cleaning Service by the Hour 12,886.93
198.611.69
Miscellaneous Services
Storytelling
Stereopticon Operator
Total Expenditures for All Personnel
$3,500.00
145.00
3.645.00
$1,453,087.76
[9]
III
APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES
FOR BOOKS
City Appropriations for the Purchase of Books and Other Library Materials
1919 - 1947
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
1940
57,500
1941
1942
75.000
88.000
1943
75,000
1944
80,000
1945
85,000
1946
90,000
1947
125,000
February 1 - December 31, 1925 only.
Total Expenditures for Books and Other Library Materials, 1930 - 1947
FROM
FROM INCOME
YEAR
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
1940
57,499.94
124,618.89
182.118.83
I94I
74,999.47
92,182.66
167.182.13
1942
88,000.00
48,447.64
136,447.64
1943
75,000.00
58.488.39
133,488.39
1944
80,000.00
39,735.05
119,735.05
1945
81,701.74
41,370.31
123,072.05
1946
90.899.98
43,140.12
134,040.10
1947
118,533.62
43.869.89
162.403.51
[10]
Expenditures for Books and Other Library Materials by Divisions, 1936-1947
YEAR
1936
From City Funds
From Trust Funds
CIRCULATION
DIVISION
$48,399.98
3.983.70
REFERENCE
DIVISION
$6,600.00
52.926.26
ENTIRE
LIBRARY
SYSTEM
$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
1940
From City Funds
From Trust Funds
$44,566.06
$56,100.44
9.305.14
$126,691.34
$1,399.50
115.313.75
$116,713.25
$7.20
88,842.16
$171,257.40
$57,499.94
124.618.89
Total
1941
From City Funds
From Trust Funds
$65,405.58
$74,992.27
3,340.50
$182,118.83
$74,999.47
92,182.66
Total
1942
From City Funds
From Trust Funds
$78,332.77
$87,991.81
1.917.04
$88,849.36
$8.19
46,530.60
$167,182.13
$88,000.00
48.447.64
Total
1943
From City Funds
From Trust Funds
$89,908.85
$75,000.00
1.174.83
$46,538.79
$57,313.56
$136,447.64
$75,000.00
58.488.39
Total
1944
From City Funds
From Trust Funds
$76,174.83
$74,950.20
720.79
$57,313.56
$5,049.80
39.014.26
$133,488.39
$80,000.00
39,735.05
Total
1945
From City Funds
From Trust Funds
$75,670.99
.$78,211.92
1,553.76
$44,064.06
$3,489.82
39.816.55
$119,735.05
$81,701.74
41,370.31
Total
1946
From City Funds
From Trust Funds
$79,765.68
$85,146.82
1.250.41
$43,306.37
$5,753.16
41,889.71
$123,072.05
$90,899.98
43,140.12
Total
1947
From City Funds
From Trust Funds
$86,397.23
$111,541.08
828.59
$47,642.87
$6,992.54
43,041.30
$134,040.10
$118,533.62
43.869.89
Total
$112,369.67
$50,033.84
$162,403.51
[11]
Percentages of Annual Expenditures for Books and Other Library
Materials in Relation to Total Annual Expenditures from City Funds
1930 - 1947
YEAR
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
total
FOR BOOKS AND OTHER
PERCENTAGES
expenditures
UBRARY MATERIALS
OF EXPENDITURES
ROM 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%
1.232,633.01
57,499.94
4.66%
1,274,184.45
74,999.47
5.88%
1,272.554.07
88,000.00
6.91%
1.254,573.76
75.000.00
5.98%
1,280,646.51
80,000.00
6.25%
1,309,615.79
81.701.74
6.24%
1.379,562.24
90,899.98
6.59%
1,811,389.47
1 18,533.62
6.54%
Percentages of Annual EIxpenditures for Books and Other Library
Materials in Relation to Total Annual Expenditures
1930 - 1947
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
I94I
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
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
1.361.036.70
1.368,153.79
1.323.179.77
1,315.590.38
1,321.486.39
1,352.311.20
1.422,702.36
1.855,259.36
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%
182,118.83
13.38%
167,182.13
11.82%
136,447.64
10.03%
133,483.39
10.15%
119,735.05
9.06%
123,072.05
8.85%
134,040.10
9.42%
162,403.51
8.75%
[12]
Percentages of Annual Expenditures for Salaries and Books and Other
Library Materials in Relation to Each Other
1930 - 1947
total expenditures
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
82%
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
100%
1939
1,032,696.19
95%
54,999.97
5%
1,087,696.16
100%
1940
1,045,735.40
95%
57,499.94
5%
1,103.235.34
100%
1941
1,043,754.52
93%
74,999.47
7%
1,118,753.99
100%
1942
1,062,220.17
92%
88,000.00
8%
1.150,220.17
100%
1943
1,036,381.35
93%
75,000.00
7%
1,111,381.35
100%
1944
1,058,671.96
93%
80,000.00
7%
1,138,671.%
100%
1945
1,064,343.72
93%
81,701.74
7%
1,146,045.46
100%
1946
1,108,102.75
92%
90,899.98
8%
1,199,002.73
100%
1947
1,453,087.76
92%
118,533.62
B>%
1.571,621.38
100%>
Percentages of Annual Expenditures for Salaries and Books and Other
Library Materials in Relation to Each Other
1930 - 1947
TOTAL expenditures
FOR SALARIES
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
& WAGES
FOR BOOKS
FROM CITY FUNDS
FROM CITY FUNDS
year
& TRUST FUNDS
%
& TRUST FUNDS
%
TOTAL
%
1930
$809,710.41
82%
$182,466.18
18%
$992,176.59
100%
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
88%
111,196.69
12%
902,560.81
100%
1934
824,061 .76
88%
115.288.20
12%,
939.349.96
100%
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%
171,257.40
14%
1,207,210.92
100%
1940
1,047,805.40
657o
182,118.83
15%
1 ,229,924.23
100%
1941
1,045,254.52
86%
167,182.13
14%
1,212.436.65
100%
1942
1,063,720.17
89%
136,447.64
11%,
1,200,167.81
100%
1943
1 ,038,085.68
89%
133,488.39
11%
1,171,574.07
100%
1944
1,059,296.96
90%
119,735.05
10%
1,179,032.01
100%
1945
1,064,825.37
90%
123,072.05
10%
1,187,897.42
100%
1946
1.108.292.20
89%,
134,040.10
11%
1,242,332,30
100%
1947
1,453,129.87
90%
162,403.51
10%
1,615,533.38
100%
[13]
Percentages of Amounts Requested from City for Salaries and for Books
AND Other Library Materials in Relation to Each Other
1930 - 1947
REQUESTED
REQUESTED
FOR BOOKS
FOR SALARIES
AND OTHER
YEAR
& WAGES
%
LIBRARY MATERIALS
%
TOTAL
%
1930
$812,000.00
84%
$150,000.00
16%
$962,000.00
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
100%
1934
830,569.56
85%
1 50,000.00
15%
980.569.56
100%
1935
937,187.75
86%
150,000.00
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%
150,000.00
13%
1.135,000.00
100%
1938
1,055.000.00
88%
1 50,000.00
12%
1,205,000.00
100%
1939
1,070,388.58
88%
1 50,000.00
12%
1 ,220,388.58
100%
1940
1.096,830.57
88%
1 50,000.00
12%
1,246.830.57
100%
1941
1,065,000.00
88%
1 50,000.00
12%
1.215,000.00
100%
1942
1,101,145.95
88%
150,000.00
12%
1.251,145.95
100%
1943
1,065.000.00
88%
150,000.00
12%
1,215,000.00
100%
1944
1.065,000.00
88%
150,000.00
12%
1,215,000.00
100%
1945
1,065,000.00
88%
1 50,000.00
12%
1,215,000.00
100%
1946
1,110,000.00
88%
1 50,000.00
12%
1 ,260,000.00
100%
1947
1,642,076.53
92%
1 50,000.00
8%
1 ,792,076.53
100%
[14]
IV
PERSONNEL
Cost and Number of Total Personnel, 1930 - 1947
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 912,339.26
1936 930,788.04
1937 975.751.61
1938 1.023,225.41
1.939 1,032,696.19
1940 1,045,735.40
1941 1,043,754.52
1942 1.062,220.17
1943 1,036,381.35
1944 1,058,671.96
1945 1,064,343.72
1946 1,108,102.75
1947 1,453,087.76
TOTAL PERSONNEL
AS OF
% OF CHANCE DECEMBER 3 1 st % OF CHANQE
FROM 1929 IN EACH YEAR FROM 1929
+5.1%
+ 10.7%
+ 10.8%
+2.4%
+6.7%
+ 18.3%
+20.8%
+26.6%
+32.7%
+33.9%
+35.7%
+35.4%
+37.9%
+34.5%
+37.4%
+38.2%
+43.8%
+88.6%
602
644
657
665
695
679
687
699
705
697
687
632
656
607
641
630
620
624
664
+7.0%
+9.1%
+10.5%
+ 15.5%
+ 12.8%
+14.1%
+16.1%
+ 17.1%
+ 15.7%
+ 14.1%
+5.0%
+9.07o
+0.8%
-4-6.4%
+4.67o
+2.9%
+3.6%
+ 10.0%
* Salary reductions were in effect from April 21, 1933 to December 31, 1934.
Cost and Number of Regular Service, 1930 - 1947
total number of
total expenditures
REGULAR SERVICE
for salaries &
AS OF
wages for regular
% OF CHANGE
DECEMBER 31st
% OF CHANCE
YEAR
service
FROM 1929
IN EACH YEAR
FROM 1929
1929
$663,747.98
475
1930
694.183.74
-f4.6%
512
+7.8%
1931
734,150.50
^-I0.6%
535
+ I2.67o
1932
746,221.52
+ 12.4%
537
+ 13.0%
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
+25.8%
578
+21.7%
1937
875.957.34
+32.1%
592
+24.6%
1938
932,579.59
+40.7%
590
+24.2%
1939
945.123.21
+42.5%
580
+22.1%
1940
954.292.69
+43.7%
543
+ 14.3%,
1941
941.707.31
+41.8%
511
+7.5%
1942
939.370.95
+41.5%
501
+5.5%
1943
918,763.36
+38.4%
511
+7.5%
1944
933,028.30
+40.6%
514
+8.2%
1945
940,227.10
+41.6%
516
+8.6%
1946
981,514.81
+47.8%
510
+7.4%
1947
1,250,831.07
+88.4%
545
+ 14.7%
* Salary reductions were in effect from April 21, 1933 to December 31, 1934.
[15]
Cost and Number of Extra Service (Part-Time Personnel, etc.), 1930 - 1947
TOTAL extra SERVICE
PERSONNEL IN TERMS
OF EQUIVALENT OF
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
FULL-TIME PERSONNEL
FOR SALARIES &
AS OF
WAGES FOR EXTRA
% OF CHANGE
DECEMBER 31 Sl
% OF CHANC
YEAR
SERVICE
FROM 1929
IN EACH YEAR
FROM 192?
1929
$104,032.28
127
1930
112.214.67
-f7.8%
132
+3.9%
I93I
1 1 5.888.67
+ 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
-8.6%
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
-11.0%
1938
88,305.46
-15.1%
107
-15.7%
1939 .
85,661 .98
-17.6%
107
-15.7%
1940
89.517.71
-13.9%
89
-29.9%
1941
100,136.21
-3.7%
145
+ 14.1%
1942
120,983.22
+ 16.9%
106
-16.5%
1943
J 15,031.99
+ 10.6%
130
+2.3%
1944
122,061.66
+17.3%
116
+8.6%
1945
120,536.62
+ 15.8%
104
-18.1%
1946
122,983.94
+ 18.2%
114
-10.2%
1947
198,611.69
+90.9%
119
-6.3%
* Salary reductions were in effect from April 21, 1933 to December 31, 1934.
[16]
DISTRIBUTION OF FULL-TIME PERSONNEL
DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC.31
1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934
General Administrative Offices 14 13 13 15 13 11
Division of Business Operations 119 133 128 129 136 138
Circulation Division 210 234 249 250 249 254
Reference Division 132 132 145 143 152 160 ,
Total 475 512 535 537 550 563
DISTRIBUTION OF REGULAR SERVICE, 1929 -
DEC. 31 DEC.31 DEO. 31 DEC.31 DEC. 3 1 DEC.31
1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934
Executive Department 11 10 10 12 9 —
Editor's Department 11112 —
Training Class 2 2 2 2 2 —
Training Office — — — — — —
Director's Office — — — — — 11
Information Office — — — — — —
Personnel Office — — — — — —
Records, Files and Statistics Office — — — — — —
Total 14 13 13 15 13 II
DISTRIBUTION OF REGULAR SERVICE. 1929 -
DEC.31 DEC.31 DEC.31 DEC.31 DEC.31 DEC.31
1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934
Division of Business Operations,
Executive Staff — — — — 7 5
Business Office — — — — — —
Auditor's Department 5 5 5 5 5 —
Auditing Department — — — — — 5
Accounting Department — — — — — —
Ordering Department 13 16 16 16 — —
Book Purchasing Department — — — — 15 17
Book Preparation Department — — — — — —
Stock Purchasing Department — — — — 2 2
Shipping Department — — — — 3 3
Bindery Department 31 37 34 36 36 —
Binding Department — — — — — 35
Printing Department 6 6 6 6 5 6
Engineers Department 41 43 43 42 — —
Buildings Department — — — — 45 45
Cleaners 23 26 24 24 18 20
Total 119 133 128 129 136 138
[17]
BY DIVISIONS AND UNITS, 1929 - 1947
DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 I DEC. 3 1 DEC. 31 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 31 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 31 DEC. 3 I DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 1
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
11
10
12
11
13
13
11
18
23
22
22
22
23
134
135
135
134
127
121
117
112
113
112
112
122
130
259
258
259
258
257
254
245
234
233
237
233
225
235
167
175
186
187
183
155
138
137
142
143
149
141
157
571
578
592
590
580
543
511
501
511
514
516
510
545
1947 — GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES
DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 I DEC. 3 I DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 I DEC. 3 1 DEC. 31 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 1
1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947
— . — — 2 2 2 2 2 2 — —
12 11 13 7 6 9 10 6 8 7 7
— — — I 1266466
— — — 325 55566
— — — — — — . — — __ 3 3 3 4
11 10 12 11 13 13 11 18 23 22 22 22 23
1947 — DIVISION OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS
DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 I DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 I DEC. 3 1
1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947
5 5 5 5 5 4 4 5 — — — — —
5
5
5
5
5
5
6
5
7
0
1
7
0
6
7
17
17
17
19
17
16
16
14
16
15
18
18
7
20
7
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
3
2
2
2
3
3
34
34
34
33
34
32
30
30
31
26
27
26
27
6
6
5
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
6
5
44
46
48
45
39
36
36
33
33
38
37
34
39
18
17
16
16
16
17
15
14
12
13
10
17
16
134
135
135
134
127
121
117
112
113
112
112
122
130
[18]
DISTRIBUTION OF REGULAR SERVICE. 1929
DEC. 31
1929
DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31
1930 1931 1932 1933 1934
Circulation Division,
■ Executive Staff — — — — — 8
Branch Department 25 29 32 31 28 —
Central Office, Branch Libraries — — — — — 26
Book Preparation Department — — — — — —
Cataloging and Classification Dept. — — — — — —
Branch Issue Department — — — — — —
Book Selection Department — — — — — —
Registration Department — — — — — —
Open Shelf Department — — — — — —
Childrens Department 8 8 8 8 6 5
Young Peoples Room — — — — — —
School Issue Department — — — — — —
Allsfon
Andrew Square
Boylston
Brighton
Charlestown
City Point
Codman Square
Connolly
Dorchester
East Boston
Faneuil
Fellowes Athenaeum
Hyde Park
Jamaica Plain
Jeffries Point
Kirstein
Lower Mills
Maltapan
Memorial
Mount Bowdoin
Mount Pleasant
Neponset
North End
Orient Hiei^^hts
Parker Hill
Phillips Brooks
Roslindale
Roxbury Crossing
South Boston
South End
Tyler Street
Uphams Corner
Washington Village
West End
West Roxbury
4
4
6
6
1
8
4
6
6
6
5
5
4
5
4
5
6
5
7
7
7
8
7
6
8
8
9
9
9
9
2
4
4
5
4
4
7
7
7
8
8
8
6
8
9
6
7
7
11
11
10
10
11
II
3
3
4
4
6
7
7
7
6
6
6
6
7
10
9
9
7
7
6
6
6
6
6
5
3
3
3
5
5
5
3
3
3
4
3
3
5
4
4
4
4
5
6
7
9
9
9
9
13
13
10
12
12
7
7
7
5
6
6
3
3
3
3
3
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
8
10
10
10
10
10
3
3
3
4
4
4
3
2
7
7
8
8
3
3
3
3
5
6
7
6
6
7
4
?
3
4
3
4
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
' 8
7
7
7
7
4
4
3
3
4
4
10
9
9
9
10
9
9
9
11
12
10
9
6
7
8
8
7
8
Total
210
234
249 250 249
254
[19]
— CIRCULATION DIVISION
DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31
1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947
26 26 26 23 21 — — — — — — — —
— — — — — 6 5 5 5 53 * — —
— — — — — 4 4 4 4 6 7 6 6
— — — ■ — ■ — 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
— — 12222222222
— — — — — 10 8 7 8 8 7 8 8
— — — — — 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 7
5 5 5 3 — — — — -■ — — —
— — — — 5 5 5 5 5 44 44
— — — 7876675556
8888887877766
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 _
6 6 7 7 7 — — — — — — — —
7777776667777
9999999796787
4444444444445
8888867767768
— — — — — ■ 7 7 6 6 7 7 7 6
7787775566566
11 II 11 11 10 9 9 9 8 8 9 8 8
7776 7 77666666
6666777766655
7777776666655
665665 5 555658
5555655556444
4 3 4 4 4 Closed July 1, 1940
4444444444443
99 n 10 10 99879898
12 II 12 12 II 10 9 9 8 8 7 8 7
6666666456657
4444444444443
3333334333333
10 10 10 10 10 9 8 8 7 8 8 8 8
4444444444534
8888888787777
3323333333323
7777767777778
4 4 4 Closed July 1, 1938
8877776454555
7767655665555
4 4 4 Closed July 1, 1938
9 10 10 10 10 9 9 8 8 8 7 7 8
— 6 6 6 6 5 7
10 10 9 10 999989898
8888877667778
259 258 259 258 257 254 245 234 233 237 233 225 233
*■ Transferred to Division of Business Operations February 13, 1946
120]
DISTRIBUTION OF REGULAR SERVICE. 1929
DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31
1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934
Reference Division, Executive Staff — — — — 2 6
Book Selection Department — — — — 2 2
Book Selection Department,
Reference Division — — — — — —
Catalog Department 19 16 18 18 — — .
Shelf Department 15 17 17 16 — —
Cataloging & Classification Depl. — — — — 33 33
Registration Department 8 8 9 9 10 9
Issue Department 36 30 35 35 38 40
Book Stack Service — — — — — —
Information Department 5 5 6 6 6 6
Open Shelf Department — — — — — —
Bates Hall Reference. Periodicals 25 24 25 25 20 —
Genealogical Department — — — — 1 1
Bates Hall Reference Desk — — — — — 5
Bates Hall Centre Desk — — — — — 7
Main Reading Room — — — — — —
General Reference Department — — — — — —
Nevk^spaper Department — — — — — 2
Periodical Department — — — — — 5
Periodical and Newspaper Dept. — — — — — —
Special Libraries Department 19 19 20 20 — —
Fine Arts, Rare Book, and
Technology Departments — — — — 21 —
Technology, Fine Arts, and
Music Departments — — — — — 16
Fine Arts Department [8] [8] [8] [8] [8] [9]
Music Department [4] [4] [4] [4] [4] [3]
Science and Technology Department [4] [4] [4] [4] [3] [4]
Patent Department — — — — 3 3
Rare Book Department [3] [3] [4] [4] [6] 8
Print Department — — — — — —
Teachers Department — — — — 1 I
Statistical Department 5 5 5 5 5 5
History Department — — — — — —
Business Branch — 8 10 9 10 II
Total 132 132 145 143 152 160
[21J
1947 — REFERENCE DIVISION
DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 3 I DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 3 I DEC. 31 DEC. 3 i DEC. 3 I DEC. 31 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 31 DEC. 31
1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947
8 10 II II 11 7 4 4. 3 3 3 5 6
2 2 — — — ■ — — — . —
— — 22222222222
33 34 32 32 31 31 25 25 26 27 30 ~28 "^7
9 9 10 10 10 Transferred to Circulation Division
41 42 46 46 46 42 37 35 38 — —
— — — ■ — — — — — 38 39 34 44
9 9 9 9 9 Transferred to General Administrative Oifices
Transferred to Circulation Division
5 6 7 9 8 — — — — — — — —
7 6 7 4 4 — — — — — — — —
— — — — — 10 11 11 10 — — —
— — — — — — — — — 10 11 10 12
2 2 4 — — — — — — — —
5 5 6 — — — — — — — —
— — — 10 10 8 7 888888
17 —
[10] 10 10 10 10 10 9 7 9 9 9 8 9
[4] 455555544333
[3] 9 9 10 10 7 7 8 7 8 8 8 10
3 — — — — — — — —
6878-897888867
— — — — — — 1 2 3 3 5 4 4
2333333333333
5555444344444
— • — — — — 3 2 2 2 2 2 3 5
10 11 13 13 12 14 14 14 15 14 14 15 13
167 175 186 187 183 155 138 137 142 143 149 Ml 157
[22]
Distribution of Full-Time Personnel by Categories, December 31, 1947
LIBRARY WORK.ERS
General Officers
Assistants to the Director
Chiefs of Departments
Branch Librarians .
Curator
Assistants-in-Charge
First Assistants
Children's Librarians
Cataloger and Classifier
Administrative Assistants
Assistants, 5th Step .
Second Assistants .
Children's Assistants
Catalogers
Assistants, 4fh Step .
Assistants
Assistants (Sub-Profession
Probationary Assistants
Unclassified Assistants
Military Substitutes .
Total
1 Lib
rary Service
12
4
19
25
1
6
28 '
17
1
2
4
23
5
4
4
115
42
36
73
4
425*
Clerical and Mechanical Workers
Auditor
Bookkeeper
Bookkeeping Machine Operator
Clerk ....
Clerk-Typist
Key Punch Operator
Shipper
Shipper's Assistants .
Clerk-Messengers
Chief of Binding Department
Finishers
Forwarders
Apprentice Bookbinder
Working Forewoman of Sewers
Sewers
Chief of Printing Department
Linotype Operators .
Pressman, Cylinder .
Pressman, Job
1
4
10
1
I
10
I
2
1
1
27
* This figure does not include those members of the staff who were absent
on military leave on December 31, 1947 and for whom there were no
Military Substitutes.
[23]
Superintendent of Buildings
1
Engineers
2
Steamfitter
1
Working Foreman of Carpenters
1
Carpenters
2
Working .Foreman of Painters
1
Painters
2
Head Electrician
1
E.Iectricians
2
Electrician's Helper .
I
Mason
I
Senior Building Custodian .
1
Junior Building Custodians .
25
Machinist's Helper .
1
Nightwatchmen
2
Elevator Attendants .
2
Housekeeper
1
Stenographer
1
Cleaners
26
74
Total
118
Temporary Junior Building Custo
dians . . . . .2
2
-
120
Recapitulation of Full-Time Personnel, December 31, 1947
Library Workers
Clerical and Mechanical Workers .
Total
. 425
. 120
. 545*
This figure does not include those members of the staff who were absent
on military leave on December 31, 1947 and for whom. there were no
Military Substitutes.
[24]
PERSONNEL CLASSIFICATION AND SALARY SCHEDULES
as of January 1, 1947
Classification of Personnel
the sub-professional library service
The Non-Technical Library Service
Extra Assistant
Unclassified Assistant
Assistant
THE PROFESSIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE
The Technical Library Service
Probationary Assistant
Assistant
Second Assistant
Children's Assistant
Reference Assistant
Calaloger
Classifier
Executive Assistant
First Assistant
Children's Librarian
Reference Librarian
Cataloger and Classifier
Administrative Assistant
The Specialist Service
Curator
Readers Adviser
The Administrative Service
Chief of Department
Branch Librarian
Other Officers
SALARY SCHEDULES
The Sub-Professional Library Service
(To be put into effect insofar as appropriated funds permit.)
THE NON-TF.CHNICAL LIBRARY SERVICE
Extra Assistants (by ihe hour only)
High school students ..... 45 cents per hour
College students (based on length of Boston Public
Library employment while attendmg college)
1st year of such library employment 50 cents per hour
2nd year of such library employment 55 cents per hour
3rd and subsequent years of such
library employment 60 cents per hour
[25]
Unclassified Assistants (by the hour)
Rates to be determined individually in each case, as for example :
70 cents per hour
75 cents per hour
80 cents per hour
or at hourly rates dependent upon the qualifications of the individual,
and based on the weekly rates paid to Unclassified Assistants employed
by the week and to Assistants in the Sub-Professional Library Service
or to Probationary Assistants and Assistants in the Professional Library
Service.
Unclassified Assistants (by the week)
From a beginning rate of $1500 per year up to a maximum of $2000 per year,
by mdivldual steps of $50.00 each dependent upon meetmg the various steps
of the required Qualifying Examinations for the Sub-Professional Library
Service.
The Professional Library Service
(To be put into effect insofar as appropriated funds permit.)
The Technical Library Service
Probationary 'Assistant .... $185O-$2100
Assistant
Second Assistant
Children's Assistant
Reference Assistant
Cataloger
Classifier
Executive Assistant
Assistant, 4th Step
First Assistant
Children's Librarian
Reference Librarian
Cataloger and Classifier
Administrative Assistant
Assistant, 5th Step .
The Specialist Service
Curator
Readers Adviser
2100^ 2700
2900
2900
2900
2900
2900
2900
2900
3100
3100
3100
3100
3100
3100
$330O-$380O
3300-3800
The Administrative Service
Chief of Department
Branch Librarian ....
Other Officers
Rate of remuneration to be determined for each case individually.
$3300-$3800
3300 - 3800
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COST OF SALARY INCREASES, 1930 - 1947
YEAR
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
$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
44,793.41
54,943.11
30,595.85
10,632.70
39,028.57
30,861 .40
29,401 .47
247,982.70
DISTRIBUTION OF COST OF SALARY INCREASES. 1930 - 1947
1930
Increases for 1930 effective al various dates
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 .......
1933
Overlay from increases effective in 1932 .
Increases for 1933 effective at various dates
Total
$12,269.85
$ 8,713.34
5,381.00
$14,094.34
$ 5,626.78
None
$ 5,626.78
None
$ 309.84
Total
$ 309.64
[31]
1934
Overlay from increases effective in 1933 . . . . . $ 501.79
Increases for 1934 effective at various dates .... 29,378.22
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
Total $29,880.01
Overlay from increases effective in 1934 at various dates for
which provision had to be made in 1935 for payment over
a full 12 months period .......$ 1.583.02
Increases for 1935 effective at various dates .... 14.308.27
Total $15,891.29
Overlay from increases effective in 1935 at various dates for
which provision had to be made in 1936 for payment over
a full 12 months period .......$ 9,554.17
Increases in 1936 effective October 30-December 31. 1936 . . 2.364.72
Total $11,918.89
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
Total $47,137.52
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 from June 3-December 31, 1938 . 24,118.76
Total $51,067.44
Overlay from increases effective in 1938 only from June 3—
December 31,1 938 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
Total $31,127.91
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
Increases in 1940 ........ None
Total $44,793.41
Overlay from increases effective in 1940 for which provision
had to be made in 1941 for payment over a full 12 months
period ......... None
Increases in 1941 effective January 1, 1941 .... $54,943.1
Total $54.943.1 :
[32]
1942
Overlay from increases effective In 1941 for which provision
had to be made in 1942 for payment over a full 12 months
period ........
Increases in 1942 effective January 1, 1942 on a pro rata
basis (75%)
1943
Overlay from increases effective in 1942 for which provision
had to be made in 1943 for payment over a full 12 months
period ........
Increases in 1943 effective January 1, 1943, etc. .
1944
Overlay from increases effective in 1943 for which provision
had to be made in 1944 for payment over a full 12 months
period ........
Increases in 1944 effective January 1, 1944, etc. .
Total
1945
Overlay from increases effective In 1944 for which provision
had to be made in 1945 for payment over a full 12 months
period ........
Increases in 1945 effective January 1, 1945, etc. .
Total
1946
Overlay from Increases effective in 1945 for which provision
had to be made in 1946 for payment over a full 12 months
period ........
Increases in 1946 effective January 1, 1946, etc. .
1947
Overlay from Increases effective in 1946 for which provision
had to be made In 1947 for payment over a full 12 months
period ........
Basic increase of $400 per annum for ail city employees as of
January 1 , 1 947 . . .
Other increases in 1947 .......
None
$30,595.85
Total $30,595.85
None
$10,632.70
$10,632.70
None
$39,028.57
$39,028.57
None
$30,861 .40
Total $30,861 .40
None
$29,401.47
Total $29,401.47
None
$204,000.00
43,982.70
Total $247,982.70
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ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS, 1947
individuals individuals
examination who passed who failed
Sub-Professional Library
Service
General paper 278 (55%) 231 (45%)
Profeessional Library
Service
General paper 78 (67%) 38 (33%)
French paper 42 (64%) 24 (36%)
German paper 12 (60%) 8 (40%)
Italian paper 4 (677o) 2 (33%)
Spanish paper 9 (45%) 11 (55%)
TOTAL
509 (I007o)
116 (100%)
66 (100%)
20 (100%)
6 (100%)
20 (100%)
QUALIFYING EXAMINATIONS, 1947
The Professional Service
EXAMINATION
General Book Selection (Q)
Cataloging and Classification (Q)
General Reference Work (Q)
Boston Public Library —
Central Library (Q)
Boston Public Library —
Branch Libraries (Q)
INDIVIDUALS
WHO PASSED
6 ( 56%)
8 ( 89%,)
6 ( 60%)
19 ( 79%)
13 ( 817^)
INDIVIDUALS
AVHO FAILED
3 (44%,)
1 (ll7r)
4 (407o)
5 (21%)
3 (\97o)
9 (100%)
9 (100%,)
10 (1007o)
24 (I007o)
16 (I007o)
The Sub-Professional Library Service
EXAMINATION
Book Ordering (Q)
Book Preparation (Q)
Book Shelving (Q)
Elementary Cataloging (Q)
Elementary Classification (Q)
Filing (Q)
Registration Procedure (Q)
Reports and Statistics (Q)
Boston Public Library —
Central Library (Q)
Boston Public Library —
Branch Libraries (Q)
INDIVIDUALS
INDIVIDUALS
WHO PASSED
WHO FAILED
TOTAL
9 ( 56%)
7 (44%)
16 (1007o)
20 ( 837o)
4 (17%)
24 (1007o)
15 ( 88%)
2 (12%)
17 (1007c)
11 (1007o)
0
11 (1007^)
1 ( 50%)
1 (50%)
2 (1007o)
14 ( 67%)
7 (33%)
21 (I007r,)
17 ( 81%)
4 (19%)
21 (1007.')
9 ( 907o)
1 (10%)
10 (1007r)
15 ( 75%)
5 (25%)
20 (1007r)
10 ( 837o)
2 (17%)
12 (100%)
[35]
PROMOTIONAL EXAMINAl IONS, 1947
EXAMINATION
Advanced Languages — French (II)
Advanced Languages — • German (II)
Book as a Physical Artifact (III)
Boston Public Library — History (III)
Cataloging (IV)
Children's Literature (IV)
Children's Work (V)
Classification (V)
Documents — General Field (III)
Education — General Field (III)
Fine Arts — General Field (III)
Library Records (IV)
Literature — • General Field (III)
Maps — General Field (III)
National & Trade Bibliography (III)
Public Library as an Institution (I)
Social Sciences — General Field (III)
Social Sciences and History —
General Field (II)
Special Fields — Step IV
Special Fields — Step V
INDIVIDUALS INDIVIDUALS
WHO PASSED VlfHO FAILED
(100%)
( 59%)
( 33%)
(100%)
( 50%)
( 67%)
( 50%)
(100%)
I (100%)
0 ( 0%)
1 (I007o)
0 ( 0%)
5 ( 71%)
1 (100%)
I ( 50%)
8 ( 80%)
I (100%)
2 (100%) 0
5 ( 71%) 2
4 ( 80%) 1
0%)
41%)
67%)
0%)
50%)
33%)
50%)
0%)
0%)
100%)
0%)
100%)
29%)
0%)
50%)
20%)
0%)
(100%)
(100%)
(100%)
(100%)
(100%,)
(100%)
(100%)
(100%)
(100%)
(100%)
(100%)
I (100%)
7 (100%)
1 (100%)
2 (100%)
10 (100%)
1 (100%)
0%) 2 (100%)
297o) 7 (\007o)
20%) 5 (100%)
[36]
APPOINTMENTS TO TITULAR POSITIONS. 1947
Edith H. Bailey
M. Florence Cufflin
Branch Librarian, Emeritus
Branch Librarian, Emeritus
RETIREMENTS FROM THE LIBRARY, 1947
Harold J. Wesson
Martha G. Finn
Edith H. Bailey
Edna C. Langille
Mary W. Dietrichson
Marion M. Ellis
Alice E. Hanson
Margaret T. Coffey
Evelina M. Olivier
M. Florence Cufflin
After
9
years
of
service
After
10
years
of
service
After
16
years
of
service
After
18
years
of
service
After
19
years
of
service
After
21
years
of
service
After
24
years
of
service
After
26
years
of
service
After
26
years
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After
54
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[37]
V
BOOK STOCK
Total Number of Volumes in the Library as of December, 31, 1947
Reference Division
Central Library
Business Branch
Total for Reference Division
Circulation Division
Open Shelf Department
Young Peoples Room .
School Issue Department
Branch Issue Department
Branch Libraries
Allsfon
Brighton
Charlestown
City Point .
Codman Square
Connolly
Dorchester
East Boston
Faneuil
*FeIlowes Athenaeum
Hyde Park .
Jamaica Plain
Jeffries Point
Lower Mills
Mattapan
Memorial
Mt. Bowdoin
Mt. Pleasant
Neponset
North End .
Orient Heights
Parker Hill .
Phillips Brooks
Roslindale
South Boston
South End .
Uphams Corner
Washington Village
West End .
West Roxbury
Total for Branch Libraries
Total for Circulation Division
Total for Entire Library System
17,045
19,612
14,156
12,264
16,280
15,441
16,149
15,331
15,824
14,560
19,419
15,408
7,901
9,931
19,040
14,005
12.449
9,486
7,315
11,743
9,722
12,525
6,517
16,058
13.195
15,216
18,679
13.375
21,517
19.388
429,551
1.199,279
37,445
1,236,724 1.236,724
15,931
1 1 ,730
33,664
42,814
429,551
533,690
533,690
1,770,414
* In addition 24,689 volumes belonging to Fellowes Athenaeum Trustees,
and located in the Fellowes Athenaeum Branch Library, are available
to the public under the same rules governing books owned by the Boston
Public Library.
[38]
BOOK STOCK
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
1882-83
1883-84
1884-85
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896-97
1897-98
1898-99
1899-1900
9.688
16.221
22.617
28,080
34.896
70.851
78,043
85,031
97.386
105,034
110.563
116,934
123,016
130,678
136,080
144,092
152,796
160,573
179,250
192,958
209.456
260,550
276,918
297,873
321,010
345,734
360,963
377.225
390,982
404,221
422,116
438,594
453,947
460,993
479,421
492,956
505,872
520,508
536.027
556.283
576.237
597.152
610.375
628.297
663.763
698,888
716,050
746383
1900-01
781.377
1901-02
812,264
1902-03
835,904
1903-04
848,884
1904-05
871,050
1905-06
878,933
1906-07
903,349
1907-08
922.348
1908-09
941,024
1909-10
961.522
1910-11
987.268
1911-12
1.006,717
1912-13
1,049.011
1913-14
1.067,103
1914^15
1.098,702
1915-16
1.121.747
1916-17
1.139.682
1917-18
1.157,326
1918-19
1.173.695
1919-20
1.197.498
1920-21
1.224.510
1921-22
1.258,211
1922-23
1 .284.094
1923-24
1308,041
1924-25
1.333.264
1925
1.363.515
1926
1.388.439
1927
1.418.489
1928
1 .442.802
1929
1.475.743
1930
1.526.951
1931
1.572.802
1932
1.631.422
1933
1.654.017
1934
1.673.609
1935
1 .682.848
1936
1.693.335
1937
1.700.681
1938
1.693.688
1939
1,704,729
1940
1.714.923
1941
1.720,605
1942
1.734,516
1943
1 .732.395
1944
* 1.7 19,983
1945
1.733,000
1946
1.757,095
1947
1.770,414
* In 1944 the number of volumes belonging to Fellowes Athenaeum Trustees was
removed from the book stock count. These books (approximately 25,000) are
available to the public under the same rules governing books belonging to the
Boston Public Library.
[39]
ACCESSIONS, 1947
The following statistics include materials received in 1947;
they do not include materials received in earlier years, but pro-
cessed only in 1947.
Classification of Accessions, 1947
NO. of
SOURCE volumes
By purchase ..... 8,8(X)
By gift 4,460
By exchange .....
By binding of newspapers ... 68
By binding of serials .... 3,804
17.132
DiSTRIb'UTION OF EXPENDITURES FOR THE PURCHASE OF BoOKS
AND Other Library Materials, 1947
Reference Division
From City Appropriation $6,992.54
From Trust Funds Income 43,041.30 $50,033.84
Circulation Division
From City Appropriation $111,541.08
From Trust Funds Income 828.59 $112,369.67
$162,403.51
Distribution of Books Acquired by Purchase
Reference Division
From City Appropriation 104
From Trust Funds Income 4,915 5,019
Circulation Division
From City Appropriation 59,202
From Trust Funds Income 480 59,682
64.701
[40]
Increase or Decrease in Book Stock of the Circulation Division, 1942- 1947
NET INCREASE
TOTAL NUMBER OF
number of
NUMBER OF
OR DECREASE IN
VOLUMES CIRCU-
YEAR
volumes discarded
VOLUMES ADDED
NO. OF VOLUMES
LATION DIVISION
1942
58.112
62,610
+4,498
541.286
1943
65,632
51,718
-13,914
527,372
1944
71.222*
48,509
-22,713*
504,659
1945
45,058
51.222
+6,164
510,823
1946
40.713
57,434
+ 1.672
527,544
1947
44,247
50,393
+6.146
533,690 •
* Includes 25,293 volumes belonging to Fellowes Athenaeum Trustees, and located
in the Fellowes Athenaeum Branch Library, hereby removed from Boston Pub-
lic Library book stock figure but still available to its public under the same rules
governing books owned by the Boston Public Library.
[41]
NOTABLE PURCHASES. 1947
Books
Amphiareo da Ferrara, Frate Vespaslano
Opera. Venice 1555.
Antoninus
Confessionale. Breslau, cal475.
Ariosto
Orlando Furioso. Venice 1584.
Authentic Account of the Reduction of Louisbourg. London 1 758.
Benacci, Vittorio
Descrittione de gli Apparati Fatti in Bologna per . . . N. S. Papa
Clemente VIIL Bologna 1598.
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Genealogia. Venice 1497.
Borghini, Raffaello
II Riposo . . . Florence 1584.
Chauvet, Jacques
Les Institutions de I'Arithmetique. Paris 1578.
Cicero
De Officiis. Venice 1506.
Collins, John S.
Across the Plains in '64. Omaha 1904.
Cornazzano, Antonio
Vita de la Madona. Venice 1503.
Hertz, Henri
Vers un monde volage. Paris 1926.
History of the War with America, France, Spain and Holland. Aber-
deen 1 787.
Holberg, Nicolai
Klimii Iter Subterraneum Novam Telluris Theoriam. 1 74 1 .
Lactantius, Firmianus
Opera. Venice 1478.
Land, Edward W., translator
The Arabian Nights' Entertainment. London 1 838.
Ludolphus de Saxonia
Boek van den leven ons heeren Jesus Christi. Zwolle 1495.
Meyer, J.
Meyer's Auswanderungsatlas . . , der Westlichen Hemisohaere.
Mirbeau
Dingo; illustrated by Bonnard.
Pace, William B.
Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics. Great Salt Lake City 1 865
Palatino, Giovanbattista
Libro . . . nel qual s'insegna a Scriuere ogni sorte Lettera. Rome 1547.
Psalterium ex hebreo diligentissime ad verbum fere tralatus: fratre Felice.
Venice 1515.
Ramus, C. F.
Derborence. Grenoble 1 944.
[42]
Rouault, Georges
Cirque de I'Etoile Filante. Paris 1 936.
Sander, Max
Le livre a figures italiens.
Scaliger, Josephus
Epistola de . . . Gentis Scaligerae, et lul. Caes. Scaligeri Vita. Ley-
den 1594.
Sonnets det Eaux— Fortes. 1 869.
Suares, Andre
Passion; illustrated by Georges Rouault. Paris 1939.
Vinci, Leonardo da
Disegni. Milan 1784.
Vollard
Reincarnations du Pere Ubu; illustrated by Rouault.
Manuscripts
France, Anatole
Collection of manuscripts, clippings, etc.
Horae
Early North French, Fourteenth Century.
Ruskin, John
Original autographed manuscript and letters on Water Colours.
Seneca
Tragediae. Fifteenth-century Italian manuscript.
Prints
Goya, Francisco
Caprichos de Co^a, consisting of 80 etchings and aquatints;
Los Desastres de la Cuerra, consisting of 80 etchings and aquatints.
A SELECTION OF INTERESTING GIFTS OF BOOKS,
PRINTS, AND OTHER MATERIALS IN 1947
Books And Other Materials
Allen, Lillian S.
A collection of 141 miscellaneous volumes.
Brigham, Lucy M.
A collection of over 35,000 post cards, in filing cases and boxes,
and 37 Japanese prints.
Chang, Ta-ch'ien
Twelve reproductions of drawings copied by Ta-ch'ien Chang from
the fresco paintings on the walls of the Buddhist cave-temple of
Ch'ien Fu Tung.
Doolittle, Mrs. Eben S.
A collection of 67 volumes on finance, including bound volumes of
The Economisl covering the years 1928 to 1938.
Hartwell, Maud A.
A collection of 44 colored slides.
Heintzelman, Arthur W.
The waiercolor drawings of Thomas Rowlandson from the Albert
H. Wigg'm Collection in the Boston Public Library, with commen-
tary by Arthur W. Heintzelman.
[43]
Latimer, Mrs. Grace Gordon
A collection of I 6 letters and autographs of William Lloyd Garri-
son, John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Laura Bridgman, Helen Keller, C. A. Bartol, Edwin
Booth, Phillips Brooks.
Loomis, Dorothy L.
A collection of I 1 5 miscellaneous volumes.
Lord, Milton E.
A collection of approximately 540 newspapers and magazines, pub-
lished in France in the post-liberation period from January 2 to April
13, 1945.
New York State Library
Public papers of Herbert H. Lehman, 49th Governor of the State of
New York, fourth term, 1941 ; Public papers of Thomas E. DeWey,
51st Governor of the State of New York, 1944 and 1945.
Slonimsky, Nicolas
A collection of 93 pieces of music and publications relating to music
and musicians.
Tewksbury, Everett B.
A collection of 312 volumes and approximately 735 pieces of music,
and miscellaneous works.
U. S. Office of Price Administration
A collection of approximately 90 samples of OPA ration currency,
containing selected forms and stamps used in the OPA program.
Prints
Benson, Frank W.
A collection of prints of each of Frank W. Benson's plates as they
have been proved by trials, numbering approximately 357 prints; 7
cancelled plates of Frank W. Benson.
Cheffetz, Asa
Twenty wood-engravings by Asa Cheffetz.
Kamberg, Abraham
Four war reproductions by Jean-Louis Forain.
Merrill, Hiram C.
Eighty-eight proof prints of wood-engravings by Timothy Cole; 7
wood-engravings.
Thai, Sam
Six prints by Sam Thai.
Wiggin, Albert H.
Prints by:
Austin, Robert
Two prints.
Bone, Muirhead
Two prints.
Cameron, David Y.
Three prints
Griggs, Frederick L.
Twenty-two prints.
Legros, Alphonse
Twenty-three prints.
[44]
VI
USE OF BOOKS
COMPARATIVE CIRCULATION STATISTICS. 1943 - 1947
1943 1944 1945 1946 1947
Refe
Di
Central Library
Business Branch
119,321
8,466
116,380
8,06S
109,325
8,843
130,310
12,545
146,975
1 1 ,570
Total for Reference Division 127,787 124,448 118,168 142,855 158,545
circulation Division
Open Shelf Department
161,908
151,662
140.894
148.720
157.739
Young Peoples Room
37,983
37,719
37,126
37.826
36.988
School Issue Department
28,728
25,527
19,508
18.661
18,585
Branch Issue Department
42,523
47,773
49,216
60,696
61,179
Staff Library
725
871
988
1,524
2,461
Deposit Circulation
(estimated)
252,766
223,888
219.203
233.558
241.405
Branch Libraries
Allston
101,832
95,622
88,086
85,555 ■
85.990
Brighton
63,271
64,767
59,725
59,261
55.182
Charlesfown
74,241
72,769
74,795
80,932
72,413
City Point
67,844
61,871
55,165
60,175
64,158
Codman Square
115,310
112,100
114,519
116,619
114.371
Connolly
94,429
92,487
92,020
96,325
95,096
Dorchester
68,404
65,101
68,818
80,496
82,115
East Boston
79,190
80,872
82,291
78,523
75,409
Faneuil
55,766
52,267
46,429
49,561
45.291
Fellowes Athenaeum
44,303
44,717
38,023
38.492
34.273
Hyde Park
70,198
68,781
68,301
69,204
67,452
Jamaica Plain
73,073
73,050
71,999
78.868
76.919
Jeffries Point
33,179
30,425
30,158
23,606
24.193
Lower Mills
45,233
45,851
43,300
46,380
46,108
Mattapan
107,047
105,119
101,014
104,135
101.930
Memorial
105,276
96,980
87.927
85,385
81.781
Mt. Bowdoin
83,399
74,943
73,697
72,571
72,682
Mt. Pleasant
54,324
53,142
45,493
50,476
44,474
Neponset
39,303
41,%2
40,351
42,096
**28,355
North End
60,197
62,675
58,249
54,752
68,823
Orient Heights
35,791
36,943
40,600
40,771
38,505
Parker H,ll
71,038
69,067
69,731
70,413
67,512
Phillips Brooks
26,929
31,017
29,524
27,890
27,888
Roslindale
100,403
102,053
104,448
112,789
115,014
South Boston
54,534
49,012
48,572
51,505
54,257
South End
78,108
75,227
69,122
65,670
63,998
Uphams Corner
99,297
99.052
89,680
*7 1.207
100,645
Washington Village
93,074
87,708
80,%2
87,398
82,358
West End
1 1 7,008
105,519
102,091
100,630
101.477
West Roxbury
106,914
102,268
101,548
104,564
105,270
Total for Circulation
Division
2,743,548
2,640,807
2.543.573
2,607.234
2.612,296
Total for Entire Library
System 2,871,335 2,765,255 2,661,741 2.750,089 2.770.841
* Building closed from December 3, 1945 to April 15. 1946 on account
of fire damage.
** Building condemned February 3, 1947. Branch reopened in tem-
porary quarters March 31, 1947.
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Gains and Losses in Circulation, 1938 - 1947
PERCENTAGE OF
number OF
INCREASE OR
INCREASE OR
PERCENTAGE OF
BOOKS LENT
DECREASE FROM
DECREASE FROM
DECREASE
YEAR
TO BORROWERS
PRECEDING YEAR
PRECEDING YEAR
FROM 1937
1937
4,531,378
1938
4,354,044
-177,334
-4%
-4%
1939
4,198,975
-1 55,069
- 4%
-7%
1940
4,056,963
-142,012
-3%
-10%
1941
3,635,933
-421,030
-10%
-20%
1942
3,271,619
-364,314
-10%
-28%
1943
2,871,335
-400,284
-12%
-37%
1944
2,765,255
-106,080
- 4%
-39%
!945
2,661,741
-103,514
-4%
-41%
1946
2,750,089
+88,348
+3%
-39%
1947
2,770,841
+20,752
+0.8%
-39%
Distribution of Total Circulation in 1947
HOME USE
from DEPOSITS IN
SCHOOLS, INSTITUTIONS,
AND FIRE HOUSES* TOTALS
Refe
Di
Central Library
Direct lending lo borrowers 133,909
Central Library volumes circulated
through Branch Issue Department 13,066
Business Branch 11,570
Total for Reference Division 1 58,545
133,909
13,066
11,570
1 58.545
Circulation Division
Open Shelf Department
Young Peoples Room
School Issue Department
Branch Issue Department
Staff Library
Branch Libraries
Allston
Brighton
Charleslown
City Point
Codman Square
Connolly
Dorchester
East Boston
Faneuil
Fellowes Athenaeum
Hyde Park
Jamaica Plain
Jeffries Point \
Lower Mills
Mattapan
157,739
36,988
18,585
61,179
2,461
85.990
55,182
72,413
64,158
114,371
95,096
82,115
75,409
45,291
34,273
67.452
76,919
24,193
46,108
101,930
222,875
13,570
157,739
36.988
241.460
74,749
2,461
85.990
55,182
72.413
64,158
114,371
95.096
82.115
75.409
45.291
34,273
67.452
76.919
24.193
46.108
101.930
* Estimated
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Memorial
81.781
81,781
Mt. Bowdoin
72,682
72,682
Mt. Pleasant
44,474
44,474
**Neponset
28,355
28.355
North End
68,823
68.823
Orient Heights
38,505
38,505
Parker Hill
67,512
67,512
Phillips Brooks
27,888
27,888
Roslindale
115,014
115.014
South Boston
54,257
54,257
South End
63.998
63,998
Uphams Corner
100,645
173
100.818
Washington Village
82.358
'
82,358
West End
101,477
4,787
106,264
West Roxbury
105,270
105,270
Total for Circulation Division 2,370,891
Total for Entire Library 2,529.436
241,405
241,405
2,612.296
2.770.841
** Building condemned February 3, 1947; Branch reopened in temporary
quarters March 31, 1947.
Summary of Circulation by Divisions in 1947
BOOKS LENT FOR HOME USE
Reference Division
Central Library (including Central Library books
issued through Branch Libraries)
Business Branch , . . . .
Circulation Division
Open Shelf Department, Central Library .
Young Peoples Room. Central Library .
School Issue Department, through schools .
Branch Issue Department, through Branch Libraries
Staff Library. Central Library
Branch Libraries .....
Total Circulation in 1947
146.975
11.570
1 58.545
157.739
36.988
18,585
61.179
2,461
. 2.093.939
2.370.891
2.529,436
Books Lent for Home Use
Reference Division
Circulation Division
Deposits of Books (estimated)
158.545
2,370.891
241.405
2.770.84!
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Classification of Home Use Circulation in Percentages, 1947
circulation
reference
DIVISION
DIVISION
Fiction
for
adults
41 .7%
4.8%
Nonficfion
for adults
19.1%
95.2%
Juvenile
fiction
22.0%
Juvenile
nonfiction
17.2%
100.0% • 100.0%
Inter-Library Loans, 1947
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 libraries in Massachusetts 1,624
Volumes lent to libraries outside of Massachusetts 369
1.993
Registration
(Two-year period)
Number of registered borrowers, December 31, 1947:
Adult 104,179
Juvenile 58,546
162,725
Number of borrowers registered or reregistered during 1947:
Adult - 50,895
Juvenile 28,620
79,515
Missing Books from the Branch Libraries, 1943 - 1947
YEAR
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
PERCENTAGE OF
INCREASE OR
PERCENTAGE 01-
total
DECREASE OVER
DECREASE
NUMBER
PRECEDING YEAR
OVER 1942
4,369
3,616
-17%
-17%
3,490
-3%
-20%
3,334
- 4%
-24%
2,908
-13%
-33%
3,348
+ 15%
-23%
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Books Unrecoverable from Borrowers from Branch Libraries, 1938 - 1947
YEAR
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
PERCENTAGE
NUMBER of
PERCENTAGE OF
OF INCREASE
VOLUMES
INCREASE OR DECREASE
OR DECREASE
^IRECOVERABLE
OVER PRECEDING YEAR
OVER 1937
979
742
-24%
-24%
642
-137o
-34%
645
+0.5%
-34%
577
-11%
-A]%
713
+24%
-27%
1,066
+50%
+9%
797
-25%
-19%
1,119
+40%
+ 14%
954
-15%
-3%
874
-8%
-11%
Books Unrecoverable from Borrowers from Branch Libraries, 1938 - 1947
YEAR
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
total number
of volumes
unrecoverable
742
642
645
577
713
1.066
797
1,119
954
874
PERCENT OF
TOTAL NUMBER
VOLUMES BORROWED
OF VOLUMES
WHICH WERE
BORROWED
UNRECOVERABLE
3,470.958
0.021%
3.341,153
0.019%
3.22 I.I 98
0.02070
2.843,210
0.020%
2,537,391
0.028%
2,218,915
0.048%
2.153.367
0.037%
2.076,638
0.054%
2,106,249
0.045%
2,093,939
0.042 7o
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VII
THE CATALOGS
Reference Division
Cataloged
Csntral Library
Business Branch
Serials Added
Central Library
7,182
1,403
3,068
11,653
Circulation Division
Cataloged
Open Shelf Department
Young Peoples Room
School Issue Department
Branch Issue Department
Branch Libraries
Miscellaneous
2,666
1,248
3,507
3,276
39,338
14
50,049
Card Work
Reference Division
Library of Congress cards typed, sorted, etc.
Cards processed on duplicating machine
Cards typed
Circulation Division
Cards processed on duplicating machine
Cards typed
51,009
77,880
3,307
132,196
165,396
23,011
188.407
The number of volumes shelved and thus made available for
public use are :
Reference Division
Central Library (including continuations) 12,623
Business Branch 1,403
Books reported lost or missing in previous years but nowf
found, etc. 1.325 15,351
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Circulation Division
Open Shelf Department
Young Peoples Room
School Issue Department
Branch Issue Department
Branch Libraries
Books reported lost or missing in previous years but no\s'
found, etc.
49,956
437
50.393
65,744
The number of volumes removed from collections during the
year (books reported lost or missing, condemned copies not yet
replaced, etc.) are:
Reference Division
Central Library
Bi
Br
4,499
299 4,798
Circulation Division
■ Open Shelf Department
Young Peoples Room
School Issue Department
Branch Issue Department
Branch Libraries
44,247
49,045
VIII
PRINTING AND BINDING
The Printing Department
Requisitions received and filled 617
Cards (indicator, time, guide, etc.) 323,702
Wiggin Print Collection (exhibition cards) 6,936
Signs, posters, etc. 1 ,643
Forms (numbered series, including blank forms) 4,332,890
Forms, circulars, and sundries (outside the numbered scries) 121,041
Library publications, including book lists, programs, etc. 164,370
The Binding Department
Number of volumes bound in various styles 28,556
Volumes repaired 317
Volumes guarded 248
Maps mounted 29
Photographs and engravings mounted 1,109
Library publications folded, stitched, and trimmed 105,934
Portfolios, blocks, boxes, and desk pads made 2,426
Covers made (miscellaneous types) 812
Cutting and bundling 1,080
Miscellaneous work done 1 1 1
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IX
LECTURES. CONCERTS, EXHIBITIONS
IN THE CENTRAL LIBRARY
LECTURES
GENERAL LECTURE SERIES
Jan. 6 The Employee and the Labor Union.
Jan. 1 3 Portraiture Through the Ages. Il-
lustrated with slides.
Jan. 1 6 Historic Buildings of Greater Bos-
ton. Illustrated with slides.
Jan. 20 The Function of the Music Critic.
Jan. 26 A Great Literature Without a
Country. Illustrated with slides.
Feb. 9 Contemporary American Poets.
Feb. 1 3 Speech.
Feb. 20 Discovery at Walden. Illustrated
with slides.
Feb. 27 15,000 Miles in a Modern Covered
Wagon. Illustrated with Koda-
chrome slides.
LECTURER
E. A. Johnson, Secretary-
Treasurer, Building and Con-
struction Trades Council of
the Metropolitan District, A.
F. of L.
Dorothy Adlow, Art Critic,
the Christian Science Monitor.
Introduced by Arthur W.
Heintzelman, N. A., Keeper
of Prints, Boston Public Li-
brary.
Frank Chouteau Brown, Ar-
chitect, and Editor of Old
Time New England.
Warren Storey Smith, Music
Editor, the Boston Post.
Dr. A. A. Roback, Author
and Psychologist. Assisted by
Mrs. Mary Holmes, Dramatic
Interpreter.
William Stanley Braithwaite,
Litt. D., Author and Antho-
logist.
Dr. Delbert Moyer Staley,
Ph. D., LL. B., Litt. D.,
President and Founder of the
Staley College of the Spoken
Word.
Roland Wells Robbins, Poet
and Lecturer.
Stewart Anderson, M. A.,
Lecturer.
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DATE TITLE
Mar. 2 Art — Yesterday, Today, and To-
morrow. Lecture demonstration.
Mar. 6 Spring Specials in the World of
Books.
Mar. 9 Shadow and Rainbow in the Philip-
pines. Illustrated with colored motion
pictures.
Mar. 1 3 The Romance of Maps and Map
Makers. Illustrated with colored
slides.
Mar. 20 Harnessing the Colorado River. Il-
lustrated with colored slides.
Mar. 27 New England Weather and the
Weather Bureau. Illustrated with
slides.
Mar. 31 Open Garden Gates to a Flower
Paradise. Illustrated with colored
motion pictures.
Apr. 14 Modern Literature about Ancient
Saints.
Apr. 21 How to Read the Foreign News.
Apr. 24 The Art of Sculpture. Lecture dem-
onstration.
Oct. 6 Various Aspects of Fire Prevention.
Illustrated with motion pictures.
Nov. 9 Echoes from Jewish Literature.
Symposium.
LECTURER
Ella Munsterberg, Senior In-
structor of Art History, Mas-
sachusetts School of Art.
Edna G. Peck, Chief of the
Book Selection Department,
Circulation Division, Boston
Public Library.
Reverend Carl Heath Kopf,
Minister of Mount Vernon
Church.
Thomas Macoughtry Judson,
Curator of the Cicognara Col-
lection of Rare Atlases and
Maps in the Vatican.
R. A. Kirkpatrick, LL. D.,
D. Sc. (M. & M.), D. Ec,
Lecturer, Author, Educator.
Lyndon T. Rodgers, M.A.,
Meteorologist.
Dr. Marinus James, Poet and
Artist.
Monsignor John J. Wright,
Secretary to the Catholic
Archbishop of Boston.
James H. Powers, Foreign
Editor of the Boston Globe.
Bashka Paeff, Sculptor.
Russell S. Codman, Jr., Fire
Commissioner of the City of
Boston.
Rabbi Herman H. Rubeno-
vitz. Chairman ; Mrs. Rachel
Baker, Author; Harry Fein,
Poet and Author; Dr. A. A.
Roback, Psychologist and
Author.
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De
What Books Shall I Give for Christ-
Dec. 21
Dickens' Christmas Carol. Illustrated
with slides.
Elizabeth M. Gordon, Deputy
Supervisor, In Charge of
Work with Children, and
Edna G. Peck, Chief of the
Book Selection Department,
Circulation Division, Boston
Public Library.
Edward F. Payne, Author
and Cartoonist, President of
the Boston Branch of the
Dickens' Fellowship.
SPECIAL SUBJECT SERIES
Applied Science
(in cooperation with Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
DATE TrfLE LECTURER
Feb. 16 Radar. Illustrated with motion pic- Ivan A. Getting, Ph. D.,
tures, slides, and practical demon- Associate Professor of Electri-
stration. cal Engineering, M. I. T.
Mar. 16 The Electron Microscope in Sclen- Cecil E. Hall, M.A., Re-
tific Research. Illustrated with search Associate in Biology,
slides. M. I. T.
Apr. 1 3 Modern Methods of Weather Fore- James Murdock Austin, Sc.
casting. Illustrated with slides and D., Associate Professor of
demonstration. Meteorology, M. I. T.
Culture of France
Feb. 2 Concert-Lecture.
Ravel.
Debussy and Gilles Guilbert, Pianist.
Feb. 1 7 The Dream of French Cathedrals. Reverend J. David Town-
Illustrated with slides. send, Lecturer, Writer and
Traveler.
Feb. 23 The French Press.
Jean E. Lagrange, Assistant
North American Manager for
Agence France Presse. Intro-
duced by Monsieur Albert
Chambon, French Consul at
Boston.
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Gallery Talks
Etchings and Drypoints of James McBey.
The Wood Engravings of Hiram C. Merrill and His Con-
temporaries.
The Lithographs of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
The Etchings and Drypoints of Anders Zorn.
French Prints.
The Wood Engravings of Asa Cheffetz.
The Watercolor Drawings by Thom.as Rowlandson.
The Graphic Arts
The lectures in this series, with the exception of the lecture given on
November 1 7, were given by Arthur W. Heintzelman, N.A.
Keeper of Prints, Boston Public Library
January
6
February
3
March
3
April
14
October
6
November
3
December
8
January 27 The Making of an Etching. Illustrated with slides.
February I 0 The Making of a Drypoint. Illustrated with slides.
February 24 The Making of a Lithograph. Illustrated with slides.
March 1 0 The Making of a Woodcut and a Wood Engraving. Illus-
trated with slides.
March 24 The Making of a Line Engraving. Illustrated with slides.
April 7 The Making of a Stipple Engraving, Aquatint, and Mezzo-
tint. Illustrated with slides.
October 20 Children in the Graphic Arts. Illustrated with slides.
November 1 7 Notes on the Wood Cut. Illustrated with slides by Asa
Cheffetz, Wood Engraver.
December 1 5 The Watercolor Drawings of Thomas Rowlandson. Il-
lustrated with slides.
Great Britain Today
Apr. 1 0 Britain Today. Illustrated with
sound motion pictures.
LECTURER
Muriel Goodwin, Information
Officer in Charge of British
Information Services in New
England, located at British
Consulate General Office in
Boston.
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Apr. 1 7 British Colonies. Illustrated with
sound motion pictures.
Apr. 28 Britain's Visual Educational Pro-
gram. Illustrated with sound motion
pictures.
Bernard Ponsonby Sullivan,
M. B. E., British Consul
General in Boston
Thomas Hodge, Assistant Di-
rector of the Film Division,
British Information Services,
New York.
Mc
Ireland In Music And Books
The Music of Ireland. Illustrated
by vocal and recorded selections.
Mar, 30 New Books from Old Ireland.
John P. McGrail, LL. B.,
Supervisor, Massachusetts De-
partment of Education.
Reverend John E. Murphy,
S. J., Ph. D., Chairman of
the Department of Gaelic
Literature, Boston College
Graduate School.
Lincoln Era
TITLE
LECTURER
Jan. 23 "John Brown's Body" — A Folk Charles R. Morris, Instructor
Epic. Illustrated with recordings of in English, Milton Academy.
Poetic Interpretation of John
Brown's Body.
Jan. 30 Lincoln's Reading and Development Stacy B. Southworth, Head-
of His English Style.
Feb. 6 The Great Lincoln Collections and
What Became of Them.
master, Thayer Academy.
J. L. McCorison, Jr., D. D.,
S. T. D., Regional Director
of the National Conference of
Christians and Jews.
October 2 7
November I 6
Meet the Author
Alice Dixon Bond, Literary Editor of the Boston Herald
and the Boston Traveler. Illustrated with colored motion
pictures.
Dr. Tehyi Hsieh, M. A., LL. D.. Litt. D.. L. H. D.,
F. N. C, D. A. O., Author. Director of the Chinese Ser-
vice Bureau in Boston.
Roads to Understanding the World
DATE TITLE
Oct. 1 6 Peoples, Forces, Events in South-
eastern Europe.
LECTURER
Reuben H. Markham. Staff
Writer, the Christian Science
Monitor.
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TITLE
Oct. 23 India's New Freedom — What it
Means.
Oct. 30 Latin America Today. Illustrated
with colored motion pictures.
Nov. 6 France as We Found It.
Nov. 1 3 The Baltic States and Russia.
Nov. 20 Norway Today. Illustrated with
motion pictures.
Dec. 4 The Problem of the Chinese people.
Illustrated with slides.
Dec. 1 1 Britain Now. Illustrated with sound
motion pictures.
LECTURER
Eddy Asirvatham, Ph. D.,
Professor of Missions and
Christian International Re-
lations, Boston University.
Eduardo Azuola, Ph. D.,
Professor of Spanish and of
Latin American History, Bos-
ton College.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl De Suze.
Introduced by Monsieur de
Cabrol, French Vice-Consul at
Boston.
Oscar M. Poeld, Director of
the Board of the Baltic-A-
merican Society of New Eng-
land.
Ingolf V. Bockmann, Lec-
turer.
John King Fairbank, Ph. D.,
Associate Professor at Har-
vard University, and Mrs.
Fairbank.
Ruth Landa, British Radio
Producer and Writer. Intro-
duced by Muriel Goodwin,
Information Officer in Charge
of British Information Services
in New England, located at
British Consulate General Of-
fice in Boston.
So You Want To Write
Jan. 5 Short Story Writing.
Jan. 9 Feature and Magazine Writing.
Jan. 19 Do You Want to Write?
William E. Harris, Director,
Writers' Counsel Service.
James J. Canavan, Managing
Editor of Feature News Syn-
dicate.
Forum conducted by William
E. Harris and James J. Cana-
van with Professor Lawrence
Bailey, Staley College of the
Spoken Word, as Moderator.
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CONCERTS
Jan. 1 2 Forgotten Songs. Lecture-Concert.
Feb.
Mar. 23
Concert-Lecture.
Ravel.
Debussy and
Chinese Music. Illustrated with piano
selections.
Apr. 20 Concert.
Apr. 27 Concert.
Nov. 23 Concert.
Dec. 7 Christmas Concert.
Rulon Y. Robson, Tenor
Soloist and Teacher. Assisted
by Olga Gardner and Miriam
Meyer, Sopranos ; Donald
Sullivan, Tenor; Wilfred
Baetz, Bass; and George
Faulkner, Pianist.
Gilles Guilbert, Pianist.
Gladys Stening, World Trav-
eler and Authority on Ancient
String Instruments.
Rita Copel, Pianist. Intro-
duced by Leo Litwin, Pianist
and Teacher.
Choral Society of the Massa-
chusetts State Federation of
Women's Clubs; Alan Pain-
ten, Conductor; Laura Web-
ster Hull, Accompanist; Jean
Kontres, Soprano ; Caroline
Foster, Contralto ; Faith Car-
ter; Violinist; Hazel Hal-
lett. Pianist.
Ruth Olive, Soprano; Harold
T. Pierson, Bass-Baritone;
and Grace B. Davis, Ac-
companist.
Elna Sherman, Lecturer-Re-
citalist and Composer. As-
sisted by John Wicks.
LOWELL LECTURES IN THE CENTRAL LIBRARY
Under the Auspices of the Lowell Institute
Jan. 14 The Unsolved Problems of As-
through tronomy. (A course of eight lec-
Feb. 7 tures, Tuesdays and Fridays.)
Feb. 1 0 Choral Music of the Renaissance
through and the Baroque. (A course of
Mar. 6 eight lectures, Mondays and Thurs-
days.)
Harlow Shapley, Ph. D., Di-
rector of the Harvard College
Observatory, and associates.
G. Wallace Woodworth, A.
M., Professor of Music, Har-
vard University.
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Mar. 4 The Federalist, its Political Phi-
through losophy and its Place in American
Mar. 28 Constitutional History. (A course of
eight lectures, Tuesdays and Fri-
days.)
Mar. 1 0 Degeneration, Necrosis and Fibrosis
through of the Liver. (A course of eight
Apr. 7 lectures, Mondays and Thursdays.)
Oct. 1 7 Protoplasmic Ultrastructure and its
through Physiological Implications. (A
Nov. 1 4 course of eight lectures, Tuesdays
and Fridays.)
Nov. 1 3 City Planning in a Democratic So-
through ciety. (A course of eight lectures,
Dec. I 1 Mondays and Thursdays.)
Benjamin Fletcher Wright,
Ph. D., Professor of Govern-
ment at Harvard University.
Harold Percival Himsworth,
M. D. (London), F. R. C.
P., Professor of Medicine in
the University of London, Di-
rector of the Medical Unit,
University College Hospital.
Francis O. Schmitt, Ph. D.,
Profesosr of Biology in the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
Frederick Johnstone Adams,
B. Arch., Head of the Depart-
ment of City and Regional
Planning at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
EXHIBITS IN THE CENTRAL LIBRARY
CHAVANNES GALLERY SARGENT GALLERY
Jan. 1-12
Jan. 1 3 - Feb. 1
Feb. 2 -Feb. 28
Mar. I -Apr. 5
Apr. 6 - Apr. 30
May 1 -June 10
May 1 - May 31
Coats of Arms (carved
plaques and books on herald-
ry)
Typographic Designs (book
designs and layouts by Arthur
Williams of Little Brown &
Co.) — in cooperation with
Printing and Publishing Week
Cathedrals of France (plates
and books)
Wood Engravings in Book Il-
lustrations
Button Show — in cooperation
with the Massachusetts State
Button Society
Chinese Art (books, plates,
and art objects)
Boston Composers
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CHAVANNES GALLERY
June 1 1 — June 22
June 23 -July 6
July 7 -July 31
Aug. 1 - Aug. 3 1
Sept. 1 - Oct. 3
Oct. 4 -Dec. 13
Dec. 15 -Dec. 31
SARGENT GALLERY
Aug. 1 -Aug. 31
Modern South American Lit-
erature
John Paul Jones — Bicenten-
nial, July 6, 1947
"Rivers of America" hand-
bound book exhibit
Clipper Ships
Maps Showing Tours of U.
S. Orchestras
Boston Labor History
Freedom Documents — in co-
operation with the Freedom
Train
Russian Icons
Treasure Room
Jan.
I - Feb.
28
Mar.
1 -31
Apr.
1 -30
May
1-31
June
1 - Sept.
30
Oct.
1 - Nov.
30
Dec.
1 -31
History of printing.
The English novel.
Medieval manuscripts and early printed books.
Fifty best books of the year; Medieval manuscripts:
F-rench illustrators.
Medieval manuscripts; Latin America.
Rededication Week.
Cervantes; Fine bindings.
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X
TRUST FUNDS
Receipts and Expenditures from Trust Funds Income, 1930 - 1947
BALANCE
TOTAL AMOUNT
UNEXPENDED
AVAILABLE
FROM
RECEIPTS
FOR USE
EXPENDED
BALANCE
YEAR
PRECEDING YEAR
DURING YEAR
dupjng year
DURING YEAR
UNEXPENDED
1930
$40,886.73
$34,020.19
$74,906.92
$22,796.21
$52,n0.71
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
316.317.28
119,899.86
196,417.42
1940
196,417.42
50,889.53
247,306.95
128,403.69
118,903.26
1941
118.903.26
52,678.52
171,581.78
93.969.34
77,612.44
1942
77,612.44
54.112.16
131.724.60
50,625.70
81.098.90
1943
81.098.90
55.200.41
136,299.31
61,016.62
75.282.69
1944
75,282.69
52,698.82
127,981.51
40,839.88
87,141.63
1945
87,141.63
50.800.60
137,942.23
42,695.41
95.246.82
1946
95.246.82
50,826.82
146,073.64
45,199.61
100,874.03
1947
100.874.03
47,620.06
148,494.09
46,156.27
102,337.82
Receipts and Expenditures from Trust Funds Income, 1930 - fy47
AMOUNT unexpended
from previous
YEAR
YEAR
RECEIPTS
expenditures
1930
$40,886.73
$34,020.19
$22,796.21
1931
52,110.71
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
64.283.36
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
86,338.96
1939
258,660.87
57,656.41
119,899.86
1940
196,417.42
50,889.53
128.403.69
1941
118,903.26
52,678.52
93.969.34
1942
77.612.44
54.112.16
50,625.70
1943
81 .098.90
55.200.41
61.016.62
1944
75.282.69
52.698.82
40.839.88
1945
87,141.63
50,800.60
42,695.41
1946
95,246.82
50.826.82
45,199.61
1947
100,874.03
47,620.06
46,156.27
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Income from Trust Funds. 1930 - 1947
YEAR
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
WITHOUT
FOB PURCHASE
WITH
TOTAL
ESTRICTION
OF LIBRARY
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
6,03435
16.879.37
4.092.29
27.006.01
5.950.53
16.184.59
3,359.02
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
5,660.08
41.594.60
3.634.85
50.889.53
5,660.08
43,325.63
3,692.81
52.678.52
6,130.08
44,655.82
3,326.26
54,112.16
6,218.08
45,565.82
3.416.51
55,200.41
6,122.91
43,195.35
3.380.56
52,698.82
6,213.92
4 1, 2 16.46
3,370.22
50,800.60
5,806.88
41.240.89
3.779.05
50,826.82
5.928.48
37,833.86
3.857.72
47,620.06
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INCOME FROM TRUST FUNDS, 1947
General Summary
Without restriction as to use of income $5,928.48
For purchase of library materials
Library materials which may or may not be books $18,268.86
Books only — without restriction as to kind of books 9,872.34
Books only — with restriction as to kind of books 9,692.66 37,833.86
With miscellaneous restrictions as to use of income
.For special purposes, not purchase of library materials $1 ,290.34
For specified branch libraries 1,063.37
For newspapers only 1,504.01 3,857.72 $47,620.06
INCOME FROM TRUST FUNDS, 1947
By Individual Funds
Without Restriction as to Use of Income
Bernard $60.00
Bradley 35.00
Center 1 ,244.66
Ford 240.00
Ford Trust (1935) 162.84
Hemenway 200.00
Hyde 1 44.64
Kirstein 1 50.00
Lambert 38,06
Moore 4.34
North 60.00
Phillips 1,050.00
Sigilman 338.67
Skinner 1,525.52
Stewart 140.00
Treadwell 534.75 $5,928.48
Funds Whose Income is Available for Purchase of Libr.ary M.\terials
For the Purchase of Library Materials \\ hich May or May Not be Books
(By terms of ^ift)
Benton $17,994.12
Blanchard 62.70
Gardner 137.50
Gest 74.54 $18,268.86
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For the Purchase of Books Only — Without Restriction as to Kind of Books
Ainsley
$4,224.59
Knapp
$330.00
Bigelow
40.00
Sewall
1,062.50
BilHngs
3,244.51
Underhill
11.73
Clement
80.00
Wadlin
69.37
Cutter
145.40
Wales
212.50
Kimball
415.74
Wilson
36.00
9,872.34
For the Purchase of Books Only — With Restriction as to Kind of Books
Artz
Bates
Bowditch
Codman
Elizabeth
Franklin Club
Green
Hannigan
C. Harris
Hersey
A.. Lawrence
$445.52
Lewis
$200.00
2,000.00
O'Reilly
44.20
425.00
Pierce
222.62
75.74
Reed
30.00
1 ,000.00
Scholfield
2,220.89
42.50
Storrow
750.00
46.99
Ticknor
162.12
2.50
Townsend
160.00
425.00
Twentieth Regiment
212.50
- 94.59
J. L. Whitney — Books
589.99
247.50
J. L. Whitney — Manus
295.00
9,692.66 37,833.86
FuND.s With Miscell.^ncous Restrictions as to Use of Income
For Special Purposes, Not for Purchase of Library Materials
Boston Book Fair 1938 Fund $3.44
Central Library Building 3.00
Sargent 109.16
A. L. Whitney 179.7S
J. L. Whitney — Bibliographic 700.00
J. L. Whitney — Care and Cataloging of Manuscripts 294.99 $1,290.34
For Branch Libraries
Guerrier $10.11
T. B. Harris 36.46
Hinsman ' 5.67
, E. Lawrence 20.00
Loring I 1-25
Mead 36.85
Morse 30.00
Oakland 457.37
Pratt 34.94
South Boston 2.50
Tufts 408.22 1 ,063.37
For Newspapers only
Tcdd
1 ,504.01
3,857.72
$47,620.06
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LIST OF TRUST FUNDS AS OF DECEMBER 31. 1947
I he figures listed are for the book values of investments as of December
31, 1947.
Ainsley Fund — Bequest of Emily L. Ainsley, under Article 1 2 of
her will, for the purchase of books. Received in 1 938. $205,505.46
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 Collection." Received in 1896. $10,080.00
Bates Fund — Donation made by JoSHUA BATES, of London, in March,
1853.
"The income only of this fund is to 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
Benton Book Fund — Extract from the will of JosiAH H. Benton:
"Trvelfth: 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
the 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,
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without regard to the amounts appropriated by the City of Boston
for the maintenance of the Boston Pubhc 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
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. $1,109,519.59
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
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.
$2,232,387.06
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, 1 850, 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. $100,757.47
Blanchard Fund — Bequest of Kate E. BlANCHARD of five thousand
dollars, the income to be used for the purchase of scores, books of
music and books relating to music, or at the discretion of the
Trustees of the Library for the general purposes of the Library.
Received in 1 940. $4,989.00
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Boston Book Fair 1938 Fund — Received from Board of Trade
OF Boston Book Merchants as representing the excess of re-
ceipts over expenditures by the Board in connection with 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. $39,908.89
Central Library Building Fund — Donations in response to an appeal by
the Trustees in April, 1925, setting forth the needs of the Library.
$150.00
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
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
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 1898.
$2,574.09
Cutter Fund — Bequest of Abram 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
[671
Elizabeth Fund — Bequest of Sarah 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 1 900. $6,000.00
Daniel Sharp Ford Trust Fund — Bequest of Daniel Sharp 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 MoRRlS Gest 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
Edith Guerrier Fund — Donation made by associates of Edith Guer-
rier. Supervisor of Branch Libraries, Emeritus, to remain an
open fund to which further sums may be added, the income to be
used for the purchase of books of sound literary and ethical value
for adults to be placed in the branch libraries of the Boston Public
Library system. Received in 1940. $456.92
Also a bequest by Helen M. Bell; to be added to the Edith
Guerrier Fund. Received in 1944. $50.00
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Francis J. Hannigan Memorial Fund — Donation made by associates
of Francis J. Hannigan, former Supervisor of General Refer-
ence Departments, the income to be used for the purchase of books
of high standard and literary value for adults to be placed pref-
erably in the Reference Division. Received in 1941. $125.00
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, 1877. Under authority
of the Acts of 1900, Chapter 263, the Harris Collection was trans-
ferred to the Central Library Building, and the Trustees were
authorized to spend the interest of the Harris Fund, under the con-
ditions of the bequest, for books for this collection after its removal
to the Central Library, providing that a sum equal to the yearly
interest of the Harris Fund be spent each year by the Trustees for
new books for the Charlestown Branch Library. $10,000.00
Thomas B. Harris Fund — Bequest of Thomas B. HaRRIS, of Charles-
town. Income to be used for general purposes of the Charlestown
Branch Library unless otherwise ordered by the Trustees. Re-
ceived in 1884. $1,138.28
Alfred Hemenway Fund — Bequest of ALFRED HeMENWAY. Re-
ceived 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
Hinsman Fund — In memory of Mrs. LiZZlE W. HiNSMAN, the in-
come only to be used at the discretion of the Trustees for the pur-
chase of books for children, preferably those served by the Phillips
Brooks Branch Library. Received in 1945. $1,250.00
Hyde Fund — Bequest of FranKLIN P. HyDE. to be known as the
"Franklin P. Hyde Fund," the income to be applied to the pur-
chase of books and other library material. Received in 1915.
$3,632.40
David P. Kimball Fund — 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.
$10,092.90
Louis E. Kirstein Fund — Donations of $1,000 each made by LouiS E.
Kirstein, "to be used for any purpose of the Library that the
Trustees 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
1 .000.00
$5,000.00
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Arthur Mason Knapp Fund — Extract from the will of Katherine
Knapp: "To the Trustees 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
be used for the purchase of books for said library. 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
known 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
1896. $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.
$2,530.51
George W. Moore Fund — Bequest of George W. Moore, for gen-
eral purposes. Received in 1939. $217.00
Francis A. Morse Library Fund — Bequest of Francis A. MoRSE, of
West Roxbury ; the income only to be expended annually for the
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. Re-
ceived 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
was received, the same being one-half of the net amount received
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from the disposition of certain property held by the Trustees, under
an indenture between Amor Hollingsworth, Sumner A. Burt and
Amor L. Hollingsworth, 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, 1 873, and accepted by the City Council,
December 27, 1873. $5,012.90
Sarah E. Pratt Fund — Bequest from Sarah E. Pratt, under the
1 4th 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 nonfiction. $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 ScHOLFlELD, who died in New
York, January 17, 1883, the interest to be paid to certain heirs
during their lives, and then to be used for the purchase of books of
permanent value. The 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. $61,895.25
Sewall Fund — Extract from the will of RlCHARD 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
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Sigilman Fund — Bequest of Samuel Sigilman of one-third of his
residuary estate to the Boston Public Library. Payments received
1941-44. $18,788.31
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 1914. $51,732.14
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
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
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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 are 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 Fellows of Harvard
College. In order that the City might receive the immediate benefit
of this contribution, Anna Ticknor, 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 \\nll, 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 WiLLIAM 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. $50,1 16.41
Townsend 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: "The income only shall, in each and every
year, be expended in the purchase of books for the use of the Hbrary;
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
of debts, legacies, etc., in trust to his executors, to hold during the
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, 1872, 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 Fund — 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 Charlestov^Ti Branch. Received in 1 906.
$10.13L77
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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
xRegiment. 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 Underhill, late of Brook-
lyn, New York, the income to be expended for the purchase of
books. Received in 1 939. $524.70
Horace G. Wadlin Fund — Bequest of HoRACE G. WadliN, of
Reading, former Librarian, of $2,000 to the Trustees of the Pub-
lic Library of the City of Boston to be permanently funded and the
income 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. $1,756.35
Wales Fund — Extract from the will of George C. WaleS:
"After 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 applied to the pur-
chase of such books for said Library 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
fund, I direct to be paid to the Trustees of the Public Library 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.
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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. $42,274.25
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
RECAPITULATION OF PUBLIC LIBRARY TRUST FUNDS
Ainsley Fund $205,505.46
Ariz Fund 10,080.00
Bates Fund 50,000.00
Benlon Book Fund 1,109,519.59
Benton Building Fund 2,232,387.06
Charles H. L. N. Bernard Fund 2.000.00
Bigelow Fund 1.000.00
Robert Charles Billings Fund 100,757.47
Blanchard Fund 4,989.00
Boston Book Fair 1938 Fund 172.70
Bowditch Fund 10.000.00
Bradlee Fund 1.000.00
Joseph H. Center Fund 39.908.89
Central Library Building Fund ........ 1 50.00
Children's Fund 100,000.00
Clement Fund 2,000.00
Henry Sargent Codman Memorial Fund ...... 2,574.09
Cutter Fund 4.270.00
Elizabeth Fund 25.000.00
Daniel Sharp Ford Fund 6,000.00
Daniel Sharp Ford Trust Fund 5,017.65
Franklin Club Fund 1.000.00
Isabella Stewart Gardner Fund 5.000.00
Morris Gest Fund . . ' 2.652.50
Green Fund 2.000.00
Edith Guerrier Fund 506.92
Francis J. Hannigan Fund ......... 125.00
Charlotte Harris Fund 10.000.00
Thomas B. Harris Fund 1,138.28
Alfred Hemenway Fund 5.000.00
Heloise E. Hersey Fund 3.542.00
Lizzie Hinsman Fund .......... 1.250.00
Hyde Fund 3,632.40
David P. Kimball Fund 10,092.90
Louis E. Kirstein Fund 5,000.00
Arthur Mason Knapp Fund 10,000.00
Helen Lambert Fund 1.403.57
Abbott Lawrence Fund 10,000.00
Edward Lawrence Fund ......... 500.00
Mrs. John A. Lewis Fund 5,000.00
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Charles Greely Loring Memorial Fund
Charles Mead Fund
George W. Moore Fund
Francis A. Morse Library Fund
Gardner O. North Fund
The Oakland Hall Trust Fund
John Boyle O'Reilly Fund .
Phillips Fund
Pierce Fund
Sarah E. Pratt Fund .
Guilford Reed Fund .
John Singer Sargent Fund .
Scho! field Fund .
Sewall Fund
Sigilman Fund
Skinner Fund
South Boston Branch Library Trust Fund
Mary Elizabeth Stewart Fund
James Jackson Storrow (Harvard '57) Fund
Ticknor Fund
William C. Todd Newspaper Func
Townsend Fund .
Treadwell Fund .
Nathan A. Tufts Fund
Twentieth Regiment Memorial
Francis Jay Underbill Fund
Horace G. Wadiin Fund
Wales Fund
Alice Lincoln Whitney Fund
James Lyman Whitney Fund
Mehilable C. C. Wilson Fund
Total
500.00
2.530.51
217.00
1,000.00
2.000.00
11.781.44
1,000.00
30,000.00
5,012.90
1.494.18
1.000.00
3.858.24
61 ,895.25
25,000.00
18,788.31
51,732.14
100.00
3.500.00
25.000.00
4,000.00
50,116.41
4,000.00
13.987.69
10.! 3 1. 77
5.000.00
524.70
3,756.35
5.000.00
5.000.00
42.274.25
1. 000.00
$4,381,376.62
GIFTS FOR IMMEDIATE USE
Received During the Current Year
Albert H. Wiggin
(for Print Department)
Trustees under the Will of Helen O. Storrow
(for general purposes of the Library)
Pianoforte Teachers' Society of Boston
(for piano music and literature having to do with the piano)
The Friends of Polish Culture of Boston
(for books on Polish Art)
Nathan H. Friedman ......
(for West End Branch Library, for purchase and maintenance
of Jewish peridoicals and publications)
Hiram C. Merrill
(for Print Department)
Anonymous ..........
(for films for Library's audio-visual education program)
Jan Quen .....••••••
(for books for Jamaica Plain Branch Library)
Anonvmous Gift A ..•■•••• ■
Unexpended Balances
Remaining from Gifts Received in Current and Previous Years,
as of December 31, 1947
Anonymous Gift A ...•••••• •
Anonymous Gift B ...•••••• •
Nathan H. Friedman ........••
Frances S. H. Houston .......••
The Friends of Polish Culture of Boston ....••
Pianoforte Teachers' Society of Boston ....••
Jan Quen .....•••••••
J. Ashton Reid
Trustees Under the Will of Helen O. Storrow
$1,184.10
1,040.40
327.93
250.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
30.00
4.00
$4.00
100.00
207.13
5.00
61.10
327.93
30.00
30.74
5,607.52
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XI
OFFICERS OF THE LIBRARY
AS OF DECEMBER 31, 1947
General Administrative Offices
Director's Office
Director, and Librarian Milton E. Lord
Assistant to the Director
and Clerk of the Trustees
Assistant to the Director
Editor of Publications
Personnel Office
Supervisor of Personnel
Assistant to the Supervisor of Personnel
Records, Files, and Statistics Office
Assistant to the Director
Information Office
Assistant to the Director
Reference Division
Chief Librarian of the Reference
Division
Assistant to the Chief Librarian
of the Reference Division
Supervisor in the Reference Division
Deputy Supervisor in the Reference
Division
Deputy Supervisor in ihe Reference
Division
Keeper of Rare Books
Keeper of Prints
Chief of Book Selection Department
Chief of Book Stack Service
*Chief of Cataloging and Classification
Department
Chief of Fine Arts Department
Chief of General Reference Department
**Chief of History Department
Chief of Music Department
Chief of Periodical and Newspaper
Department
*On military leave — Mildred C. O'Conno
**Savah W. Flanncry, Assistant-ln-Charge
Elizabeth B. Brockunier
John J. Connolly
Zoltan Haraszti
Elizabeth L. Wright
Pearl B. Smart
Sarah M. Usher
Elizabeth B. Boudreau
Richard G. Hensley
Marjorie G. Bouquet
Edward H. Redstone
John M. Carroll
Bradford M. Hill
Zoltan Haraszti
Arthur W. Heintzelman
Christine Hayes
William J. Ennis
William A. Roblyer
Priscilla S. MacFadden
John M. Carroll
Vacant
Richard G. Appel
Bradford M. Hill
r, Assistant-in-Charge
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Chief of Science and Technology
Department
Chief of Statistical Department
Chief of Teachers Department
Business Branch Librarian
Curator of Americana
Loraine A. Sullivan
Elizabeth G. Barry
Anna L. Manning
Mary W. Dietrichson
Harriet Swift
Circulation Division
Chief Librarian of the Circulation
Division Orlando C. Davis
Assistant to the Chief Librarian of the
Circulation Division Ruth S. Cannell
Supervisor in the Circulation Division Ada A. Andelman
Deputy Supervisor, In Charge of Work
with Children Elizabeth M. Gordon
Deputy Supervisor, In Charge of Work
with Adults Muriel C. Javelin
Branch Librarians
*AlIston
Brighton
Charlestown
City Point
Codman Square
Connolly
Dorchester
East Boston
^"'^Faneuil
^""^^ Fell owes Athenaeum
Hyde Park
Jamaica Plain
Jeffries Point
Lower Mills
Mattapan
Memorial
v*¥V]yit Bowdoin
Mt. Pleasant
Neponset
North End
Orient Heights
Parker Hill
Phillips Brooks
Roslindale
South Boston
South End
Uphams Corner
*Sarah Richman, Assistant-in-Charge
''''■^Florence B. Darling, Assistant-in-Charge
■^^'^Gladys R. White, Assistant-in-Charge
*^**Frances C. Lepie, Assistant-in-Charge
Vacant
Katrina M. Sather
Mary K. Harris
Helen M. O'Leary
Elizabeth P. Ross
Margaret A. Calnan
Margaret A. Morgan
Dorothy 1-. Nourse
Vacant
Vacant
Sara A. Lyon
Rebecca E. Willis
Christiana P. Jordan
Annie Reis
Theodora B. Scoff
Margaret I. McGovern
Vacant
Margaret H. Reid
Ellen C. Peterson
Mary U. Nichols
Catherine E. Flannery
Mary M. Sullivan
Vacant
Marion R. Herzig
Mary A. Hackett
Marion C. Kingman
Beatrice C. Maguire
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Washington Village
West End
West Roxbury
Chief of Book Selection Department
Chief of Branch Issue Department
Chief of Cataloging and Classification
Department
Chief of Open Shelf Department
Chief of Registration Department
Chief of School Issue Department
Chief of Young Peoples Room
Elizabeth H. McShane
Fanny Goldstein
Pauline A. Walker
Edna G. Peck
Grace B. Loughlin
Ethel M. Hazlewood
Muriel C. Javelin
A. Frances Rogers
Beatrice M. Flanagan
Mary C. Toy
Division of Business Operations
Superintendent of Buildings
Auditor
Chief of Binding Department
Chief of Book Preparation Department
Chief of Book Purchasing Department
Chief of Printing Department
Chief of Shipping Department
Officers of the Library,
Comptroller, Emeritus
Supervison of Training, Emeritus
Supervisor of Branch Libraries, Emeritus
Supervisor of Work with Children,
Emeritus
Chief of Book Preparation Department,
Emeritus
Chief of Branch Issue Department,
Emeritus
Chief of Cataloging and Classification
Department, Emeritus
Chief of History Department,
Emeritus
Chief of Issue Department,
Emeritus
Chief of Main Reading Room,
Emeritus
Chief of Open Shelf Department,
Emeritus
William F. Quinn
Helen Schubarth
James P. Mooers
Mary M. McDonough
William C. Maiers, Jr.
William B. Gallagher
Robert F. Dixon
Emeritus
James W, Kenney
Bertha V. Hartzell
Edith Guerrier
Alice M. Jordan
Marion A. McCarthy
Alice V, Stevens
Lucien E. Taylor
Laura R. Gibbs
The
F. Br
Branch
Branch
Branch
Branch
Branch
Branch
Branch
Branch
Branch
Branch
Librarian,
Librarian,
Librarian,
Librarian,
Librarian,
Librarian,
Librarian,
Librarian,
Librarian,
Librarian,
Emeritus
Emeritus
Emeritus
Emeritus
Emeritus
Emeritus
Emeritus
Emeritus
Emeritus
Emeritus
William J. Mulloney
John H. Reardon
Katherine F. Albert
Mary E. Ames
Edith H. Bailey
M. Florence Cufflin
Annie M. Donovan
Clara L. Maxwell
Carrie L. Morse
Katharine F. Muldoon
Katherine S. Rogan
Geneva Watson
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
1947
Statement
OF
Expenditures and Receipts
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STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES
Expenditures for Personnel:
Permanent and Probationary employees fex-
clusive of Printing and Binding Department
employees) ......
Sundays and Evenings, extra and other service .
$1,169,404.80
202,256.69 $1,371,661.49
Expenditures for Service Other Than Personal:
Printing and binding .
,
$109.80
Advertising
536.00
Transportation of persons .
3,310.13
Express charges .
13,119.63
Light, heat, and power
47,558.52
Rent, taxes, and water
22,348.91
Bond and insurance premiums
512.50
Communication
5,362.58
Cleaning
3,273.87
Removal of waste
100.50
Medical ....
4.00
Expert ....
9,496.19
Stenographic and copying .
1,871.07
Fees ....
190.80
Photographic and blueprinting
379.89
General repairs .
51.718.70
Miscellaneous services
269.46 160.162.55
Expenditures for Equipment:
Machinery
.
$102.50
Electrical
5,678.79
Motorless vehicles
665.35
Furniture and furnishings .
1.767.53
Oifice ....
7,624.98
Books:
City appropriation
$105,192.70
Trust funds income
25,430.3
3
130,623.03
Manuscripts:
Trust funds income
8,726.13
Periodicals:
City appropriation
Trust funds income
Newspapers :
Cily appropriation
Trust funds income
Microfilms:
Trust funds income
Photostats:
Trust funds income
Posters, prints, and maps:
Trust funds income
Phonograph records:
Trust funds income
Miscellaneous:
Cily appropriation
Trust funds income
Tools and instruments
Miscellaneous equipment
Carried forrvard
$10,306.05
2,563.22
$1,755.16
1.426.89
$1,279.71
4,328.64
12,869.27
3.182.05
1,025.12
12.50
243.10
113.96
5.608.35
1.525.65
4.040.06 183.808.37
$1,715,632.41
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AND RECEIPTS, DECEMBER 31, 1947
Receipts from:
City Appropriation 1947 ....
Income from Trust Funds ....
James L. Wihtney Bibliographic Account .
Gift of Nathan H. Friedman .
Trustees Under the Will of Helen O. Storrow
Anonymous Gift A .
Anonymous Gift B .
Gifts of Friends of Polish Culture of Boston
Gift of Hiram C. Merrill ....
Gift of Pincioforte Teachers' Society of Boston
Gift of Jan Quen .....
Gift of Albert H. Wiggin ....
$1,817,549.94
46,920.06
700.00
100.00
1.040.40
4.00
100.00
250.00
100.00
327.93
30.00
1.184.10 $1,868,306.43
Carried forward
$1,868,306.43
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STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES
Drought forxuarJ .
Expenditures for Supplies:
Office ....
Fuel ....
Medical ....
Laundry, cleaning, toilet
Educational and recreational
Agricultural
Chemicals and disinfectants
Miscellaneous supplies
Expenditures for Materials:
Building ....
Electrical
Miscellaneous materials
Pensions .....
Workmen's Compensation
1946 Unliquidated Reserve
Departmental Equipment Non-Revenue
Special Appropriation: Central Library
Roof Construction
Special Items:
Trust Funds Income, salaries
Trust Funds Income, scholarships
Trust Funds Income, sick benefits
Trust Funds Income, ice .
Trust Funds Income, foreign books an
supplies ....
Building
d miscellaneous
Gift of Nathan H. Friedman .
Gift of Friends of Polish Culture of Boston
Gift of Mrs. Donald C. Starr .
Gift of Hiram C. Merrill .
Gift of Albert H .Wiggin for Immediate Use
Binding Department:
Salaries .......
Gas, light, and heat .....
Express .......
Repairs .......
Machinery equipment .....
Electrical equipment .....
Tools and instruments ....
Supplies .......
Stock .......
Workmen's compensation ....
$1,715,632.41
$15,692.66
11,363.97
27.84
3,090.60
35.50
130.26
312.14
2,692.51
33,345.48
$3,223.01
2,434.06
3.198.40
8,855.47
1 ,429.08
220.60
6,309.95
16.790.52
3,584.68
$42.11
400.00
500.25
23.90
1,320.12 2,286.38
$17.37
188.90
2.06
100.00
1,184.10
$64,653.1 1
64.08
83.79
256.36
1,012.00
475.00
105.32
265.70
6,080.74
71.00
Printing Department:
Salaries ....
Gas, light, and heat .
Photographic and blueprinting
Repairs ....
Supplies ....
Machinery materials .
Stock ....
Building materials
Workmen's compensation .
$16,773.16
7.14
155.62
10.50
131.98
25.90
4,718.52
65.97
820.43
1 ,492.43
73,067.10
Carried forivard
22,709.22
$1,885,723.32
[83]
AND RECEIPTS, DECEMBER 31, 1947
Brought forward . ' .
Balance Brought Forward from 1946:
1 rust Funds Income ....
James L. Whitney Bibliographic Account
Gift of Nathan H. Friedman .
Gift of Francis S. H. Houston .
Gift of J. Ashton Raid .
Gift of Mrs. Donald C. Starr .
Trustees Under the Will of Helen O. Storrow
Special Appropriation: Library Building
Roof Construction ....
Departmental Equipment Non- Revenue
1943 Unliquidated Reserve
1944 Unliquidated Reserve
1945 Unliquidated Reserve
1946 Unliquidated Reserve
$1,868,306.43
$96,544.63
4.329.40
124.50
•5.00
30.74
2.06
4.567.12
7.648.79
18,541.18
1,310.27
384.55
3.70
6,609.98
140,101.92
Carried forrvard
$2,008,408.35
[84]
STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES
Brought forward . . . .
Amounts Paid Into the City Treasury
Fines ....
Sale of publications .
Payments for lost books and damages
Commission on telephone stations
Commission on coin locks .
Sale of waste paper .
Miscellaneous receipts
Balance, December 31, 1947:
Trust Funds Income .....
James L. Whitney Bibliographic Account .
Gift of Nathan H. Friedman
Gift of Friends of Polish Culture of Boston
Gift of Frances S. H. Houston .
Gift of Pianoforte Teachers' Society of Boston
Gift of Jan Quen .....
Gift of J. Ashton Reid ....
Trustees Under the Will of Helen O. Storrow
Anonymous Gift A .
Anonymous Gift B .
$1,885,723.32
Balance Unexpended, December, 31, 1947:
Special Appropriation: Central Library Building
Roof Construction ....
Departmental Equipment Non-Revenue
1943 Unliquidated Reserve
1944 Unliquidated Reserve
1945 Unliquidated Reserve
1946 Unliquidated Reserve
General Appropriation:
Amount carried forward to 1948 $6,159.30
Amount to be returned to City Treasury 1.17
$26,494.50
279.78
1 ,400.25
662.05
868.96
598.55
625.14
30,929.23
ncoine on nan
hand
$97,308.42
5,029.40
207.13
61.10
5.00
327.93
30.00
30.74
5.607.52
4.00
100.00 108,711.24
$4,064.11
1,750.66
1,310.27
384.55
3.70
300.03
6,160.47
434.24 14,408.03
To Balance
$2,039,771.82
[85]
AND RECEIPTS. DECEMBER 31. 1947
Brought forrvard ....
Receipts from:
Fines ......
Sales of Publications
Payments for lost books and damages
Commission on telephone stations
Commission on coin locks .
Sale of waste paper ....
Miscellaneous receipts
$2,008,408.35
$26,888.88
290.43
1 ,408.33
662.05
868.96
598.55
646.27
31,363.47
To Balance
$2,039,771.82
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