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BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
STATISTICAL REPORT
1948
BOSTON
PUBLISHED BY THE TRUSTEES
TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
ROBERT H. LORD. President
Term expires April 30, 1952
FRANK W. BUXTON
Term expires April 30, 1950
FRANK J. DONAHUE FRANCIS B. MASTERSON
Term expires April 30, 1953 Term expires April 30, 1951
ABRAHAM E. PINANSKI
Term expires April 30, 1949
MILTON E. LORD
Director, and Librarian
CONTENTS
I, — Summary of Expenditures, 1930-1948
II — Appropriations and Expenditures for
Personnel, 1930-1948
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 31,1 948
Financial Statement ....
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15
35
43
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50
51
60
76
79
SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES, 1930 - 1948
Total Expenditures, 1930 - 1948
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
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
1,231.198.08
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
1,811,389.47
2,132,297.40
FROM SPECIAL
CITY
APPROPRIATIONS
$237.962.1 1
309.794.65
126.345.78
1 .027.43
41.049.17
36,295.49
74.434.97
73.204.16
66,243.11
39,997.19
52,930.24
37,398.01
92,356.86
72,904.22
11,913.99
1.211.26
20,375.20
7.815.88
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
56,808.38 30,821.98
TOTAL
$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 .334,486.88
1,352,698.88
1,427,152.03
1,879,413.37
2,227.743.64
Distribution of Expenditukes From Annual City Appropriations, 1930-1948
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
912,33926
99,233.95
127,541.67
1.139.114.88
1936
930,788.04
54,999.98
130,869.12
1.116,657.14
1937
975,751.61
81,522.49
147,720.37
1.204,994.47
1938
1,023,225.41
73,874.93
134,178.18
1.231,278.52
1939
1,032,696.19
54,999.97
143,501.92
1.231.198.08
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 ,309,61 5.79
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
1948
1,718,217.60
119,000.00
295,079.80
2.132.297.40
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Distribution of Expenditures From Income of Trust Funds, 1930 - 1948
books and other
YEAR
LIBRARY MATERIALS
SALARIES
1930
$22,466.21
$180.00
1931
19,259.55
1,480.18
1932
20,045.62
2,755.42
1933
23.873.19
2.760.75
1934
16,996.57
2.087.25
1935
22,264.83
1 ,602.67
1936
56,909.96
1.274.07
1937
49,641.81
1.128.00
1938
82,756.96
3,126.00
1939
116,257.43
3,257.33
1940
124,618.89
2.070.00
1941
92,182.66
1,500.00
1942
48,447.64
1.500.00
1943
58,488.39
1.704.33
1944
39,735.05
625.00
1945
41.370.31
481.65
1946
43.140.12
189.45
1947
43,869.89
42.11
1948
53,621.35
342,00
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
$150.00
$22,796.21
100.00
20,839.73
22,801 .04
26,633.94
19,083.82
629.00
24,496.50
642.00
58.826.03
392.00
51,161.81
456.00
86,338.96
385.10
119.899.86
1,714.80
128,403.69
286.68
93,969.34
678.06
50,625.70
823.90
61,016.62
479.83
40,839.88
843.45
42.695.41
1,870.04
45,199.61
2,244.27
46,156.27
2,845.03
56,808.38
siMEDiATE Use. 1930 - 1948
BOOKS AND OTHER
UBRARY MATERIALS
$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
30,821.98
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II
APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES FOR
PERSONNEL, 1930 - 1948
Total Appropriations and Expenditures for All Personnel, 1930 - 1948
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
1933
915.000.00
912,339.26
2.660.74
1936
921.000.00
985,000.00
930,788.04*
975,751.61
1 7J\J
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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
1.897.25tt
1947
1,454,799.00
1,453,087.76
1.711.24ttt
1948
1,720,905.84
1,718,217.60
2,688.24tttt
* To lake care of the commitments above the amount appropriated for 1936, the
sum of $9,788.04 was transferred from unexpended balances in other accounts
of the Library.
** $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 Departments at the request of the Budget Com-
missioner of the City of Boston.
t $5,587.13 transferred to other accounts of the Library.
tt $1,897.25 transferred to other accounts of the Library.
ttt $1,711.24 transferred to other accounts of the Library.
tttt $2,688.24 transferred to other accounts of the Library.
Changes Year By Year In Total Expenditures For All Personnel, 1930-1948
TOTAL expenditures % OF % OF
FOR salaries & WAGES 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 -7.77o +2.4%
1934 821,974.51 -1-4.2% +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%
1938 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,^53.087.76 +23.7% -'-88 6%
1948 1,718,217.60 +18.2% 4-123.07c
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(Fl-ll-Tme PneoNKn), 1930 - 1948
TOTAL EXPLXIHTVRES
%OF
^Of
FOR SALARIES & -SrAaT-S
CH.A.VGE FROM
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ixak
FOR RECLX^« SERV7CE
PRECEDISC •iXAR
nKMil929
1929
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1930
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1931
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1932
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1933
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-3.0*^
1934
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1935
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1936
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1937
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1938
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-13^
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1940
954292.69
^1.1<^
+43.8%
1941
941.70731
-13^
+41.8%
1942
939370.95
-02^c
+•13%
1943
918.76336
-22%
+38.4%
1944
933.02830
—1.6^
— 4a6%
1945
Q40227.10
^-^iA^
+41.6%
1946
961314.81
-t-4-4%
-r47.8'^
1947
1250.831.07
-r2I3%
+88.4%
1946
1.487337.16
^18.9^
-124.0 r
Ch-Vnges ^'ea.k By Ye^ui In Total ELxpentjitl-res For Extr.a Service
(Past-Time Personnxl, Etc.). 1930 - 1948
total E-VPENTXTL-RES
% OT
%or
F<» SALARIES & W.AGES
CH.JCVGE FROM
CHANGE
1-E.AR
FOR E.VTR.A SERVICE
PRECEWNG -JX-AR
FHOM1929
1929
$104,03228
1930
112214.67
— 7.8'-^
—7.8*^
1931
115.888.67
-33^^
-113%
1932
105.44838
-9.0^^
-1.4%
1933
102.982.11
-23%
-1.0'^
1934
111.792.41
— 8.6^c
—7.4%
1935
96330.61
-13.8^r
-7.4%
1936
92411.73
-4.1 'v
-11.1%
1937
97.706.13
-5.7^r
-^0*^
1938
88305.46
-9.6^c
-15.1%
1939
85^1.98
-3.0*^
-17.6^
1940
89,517.71
-43^
-11.6'^-
1941
100,13621
-11.8^
-3.7%
1942
120.98322
-20.6%
+163'^
1943
115.031.99
-4.9%
-10.6%
1944
122.061.66
-^I'v
-I73<-:^
1945
120.536.62
-1.1%
+15.8'^
1946
] 22.^53 04
^2.0<^
+182*^
1947
198.611.69
-38.0^r
+91.0%
1948
230.650.44
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ANALYSIS AND DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENDITURES FOR
PERSONNEL, 1948
Summary by Divisions
Administrative Offices
Regular Service
Extra Service
Part-time Service $4,181.30
Sunday Service 1,384.41
$78,554.97
5,365.71
Total Expenditures for Administrative Offices
Circulation Division
Regular Service
Extra Service
Part-time Service $92,926.29
Janitorial and Cleaning Service
bv the hour 11,107.24
Sunday Service 5,500.74
$672,464.21
109,534.27
$84,120.68
Total Expenditures for Circulation Division
Reference Divisio.n
Regular Service
Extra Service
Part-time Service $48,448.17
Janitorial and Cleaning Service
by the Hour 474.27
Sunday Service 29.836.07
$411,215.15
78,758.51
781.998.48
Total Expenditures for Reference Division
Division of Business Operations
Regular Service
Extra Service
Part-lime Service $350.74
Evening and Holiday Service 23,973.15
Sunday Service 8,893.06
$325,302.83
33,216.95
489,973 66
Total Expenditures for
Division of Business Operations
Miscellaneous Services
Storytelling
Stereopticon Operator
$3,485.00
120.00
358,519.78
Total Expenditures for Miscellaneous Services
J EL
3,605.00
TOTAL EXPENDITURES FOR ALL PERSON^
$1,718,217.60
EXPENDITURES FOR PERSONNEL IN ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES.
1948
REGULAR PART-TIME SUNDAY TOTAL
UNIT SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE
Director's Office $36,239.12 $36,239.12
Personnel Office 19,427.32 19,427.32
Information Office 13.907.81 $4,181.30 $1,384.41 19,473.52
Records. Files, and
Statistics Office 8,980.72 8,980.72
Total Expenditures for
Administrative Offices $78,554.97 $4,181.30 $1,384.41 $84,120.68
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EXPENDITURES FOR PERSONNEL IN CIRCULATION DIVISION, 1948
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
$34,584.02
7,104.12
1 7,899.90
27,121.81
19,887.21
21,772.70
12,671.19
17,693.75
513,729.51
PART-TIME
SERVICE
$326.22
JANITORIAL AND
CLEANING
SERVICE
BY THE HOUR
1,147.68
2,657.26
7,282.31
65.75
2,270.60
4,416.82
74,759.65
$11,107.24
SUNDAY
SERVICE
$2,388.97
1 ,379.78
1,731.99
$672,464.21 $92,926.29 $11,107.24 $5,500.74 $781,998.48
Branch Libraries
Allston
Brighton
Charlestov^n
City Point
Codman Square
Connolly
Dorchester
tiast Boston
Faneuil
Fellowes Athenaeum
Hyde Park
Jamaica Plain
Jeffries Point
Lower Mills
Maftapan
Memorial
Mt. Bowdoin
Mt". Pleasant
Neponse!
North End
Orient Heights
Parker Hilj
Phillips Brooks
Roshndale
South Boston
South End
Uphams Corner
Washington Village
V/est End
West Roxbury
Total Expenditures for
Branch Libraries
$19,077.54
18,730.44
20,555.85
13,328.28
22,152.13
19,141.27
15,547.13
20,981.08
1 5,576.05
14,330.01
16,342.83
1 7,990.38
10,909.55
12,578.24
23,229.61
21,999.40
17,663.70
10,543.74
8,357.61
21,611.61
12,102.60
19,656.18
8,088.46
21,174.98
12,951.79
1 5,902.98
20,073.09
17,455.75
23,412.48
22,264.74
$2,021.04
2,147.93
2,554.72
2,962.02
4,781 .95
3,149.57
2,407.25
2,241.14
1 ,642.66
2,387.64
1,683.30
3,426.45
2,033.69
957.53
2,327.54
2,798.85
1,754.50
1,693.14
2,677.15
2,863.54
1 ,205.48
1 ,299.07
1,463.51
2.289.44
2,974.85
2,074.40
5,947.30
2.841.94
4,084.55
2,067.50
$832.47
474.21
592.37
381.65
148.78
606.36
14.03
259.41
124.08
M ,325.78
465.88
1 ,700.84
693.68
1,770.44
387.73
312.06
494.55
517.92
$21,098.:
21,710.!
23,584.
16,290.:
26.934.
22,883.
17,954.:
23,603.1
17,367.
16,717,1
18,632.
21,416.1
12,957.:
13,535.
25.816.:
24.922.
19,418.:
12,236.i
12,360.
24,941.
1 5,008.<
21,653.
1 1 ,322.'
23.852.
16.238.'
17,977.
26,020.
20,297.'
27,991.
24,850.
$513,729.51 $74,759.65 $11,107.24
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EXPENDITURES FOR PERSONNEL. IN REFERENCE DIVISION, 1948
REGULAR
Unit service
Executive Staff $21,207.00
Book Selection Department 6,844.32
Book Stack Service 90,683.07
Cataloging and Classification Dept. 66,286.69
Fine Arts Department 25,894.57
General Reference Department 31,392.32
History Department 12,858.63
Music Department 10,633.01
Periodical and Newspaper Dept. 23,275.89
Print Department 12,374.71
Rare Book Department 24,471.60
Science and Technology Dept. 24,050.83
Statistical Department 14,144.81
Teachers Department 10,802.48
Business Branch 36,295.22
Total Expenditures for
Reference Division
PART-TIME
SERVICE
$371.59
JANITORIAL AND
CLEANING
SERVICE
BY THE HOUR
1 5,229.02
5,88Q.79
4,917.57
3,919.26
745.10
2,845.83
4,620.61
1,124.45
1,931.74
3,336.64
1 ,850.96
1 ,044.44
621.17
$474.27
SUNDAY
SERVICE
$1,799.17
9,630.01
3,218.76
4,248.71
819.74
994.29
3.606.70
242.55
1,634.03
1,403.17
1,140.35
1 ,098.59
TOTAL
SERVICE
$411,215.15 $48,448.17
$474.27 $29,836.07 $489,973.66
[9]
EXPENDITURES FOR PERSONNEL IN DIVISION OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS, 194f
REGULAR
Unit service
Bu.siness Office $8,358.67
Accounting Department 16,175.38
Binding Department 76,956.50
Book Preparation Department 18,185.82
Book Purchasing Department 47,437.05
Buildings Department:
Mechanical Service 101,870.13
Cleaning Service 27,200.40
Printing Department 17,993.29
Shipping Department 7,416.92
Stock Purchasing Department 3,708.67
"Unliauidated" Evening Service
Total Expenditures for Division
of Business Operations $325,302.83
EVENING AND
PART-TIME HOLIDAY
SERVICE SERVICE
$350.74
$1,977.65
13,447.08
7,325.68
23.38
1.199.36
SUNDAY
SERVICE
$91.68
6,145.01
2,656.37
TOTAL
SERVICE
$8,358.6;
18,244.7
76,956.51
18,536.51
47,437.0:
121,462.2:
37,182.4
17,993.2'
7,440.31
3,708.6
1, 199 .31
350.74 $23,973.15 $8,893.06 $358,519.7i
EXPENDITURES FOR MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. 1948
Storytelling
Stereopticon Operator
Total Expenditures for
Miscellaneous Services
$3,485.00
120.00
$3,605.00
RECAPITULATION. 1948
Regular Service
Full-time Members of the Staff
Extra Service
Part-time Service
Evening and Holiday Service
Sunday Service
Janitorial and Cleaning Service by the Hour
Miscellaneous Services
Storytelling
Stereopticon Operator
Total Expenditures for All Personnel
$145,906.50
30,263.33
45,614.28
5,291.33
$1,487,537.16
227,075.44
$3,485.00
120.00
3,605.00
$1,718,217.60
[10]
III
APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES
FOR BOOKS
CiTV Appropriations for the Purchase of Books and Other Library Materials
1919 - 1948
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*
i 00.000'
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
75,000
1942
88,000
1943
75,000
1944
80,000
1945
85,000
1946
90,000
1947
125,000
1948
125.000
* February 1 - December 31, 1925 only.
Total Expenditures for Books and Other Library Materials, 1930 - 1948
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
159.970.58
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
131.16430
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
1941
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
1948
119,000.00
53,621.35
172.621.35
[11]
Expenditures for Books and Other Library Materials by Divisions. 1938-1948
YEAR
1938
From City Funds
From Trust Funds
CIRCULATION
DIVISION
$56,631.10
2.482.71
REFERENCE
DIVISION
$17,243.83
80,274.25
ENTIRE
LIBRARY
SYSTEM
$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
$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
$116,713.25
$7.20
88,842.16
$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
1948
From City Funds
From Trust Funds
$112,369.67
$111,999.95
1,212.50
$50,033.84
$7,000.05
52,408.85
$162,403.51
$119,000.00
53,621.35
Total
$113,212.45
$59,408.90
$172,621.35
[12]
Percentages of Annual Expenditures for Books and Other Library
Materials in Relation to Total Annual Expenditures from City Funds
1930 - 1948
YEAR
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
total
FOR BOOKS AND OTHER
PERCENTAGES
EXPENDITURES
LIBRARY MATERIALS
OF EXPENDITURES
FROM CITY funds
FROM CITY FUNDS
FOR BOOKS
$1,132,520.06
$159,999.97
14.12%
1.239,257.45
190,636.12
15.38%
1,147,579.89
159.970.58
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
118,533.62
6.54%
2,132,297.40
119,000.00
5.58%
Percentages of Annual Expenditures for Books and Other Library
Materials in Relation to Total Annual Expenditures
1930 - 1948
year
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
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
1,424,761.85
1,857,545.74
2,189,105.78
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%
115,288.20
10.637o
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%
133,488.39
10.15%
119,735.05
9.06%
123,072.05
8.85%
134,040.10
9.417^
162,403.51
8.75%
172,621.35
7.88%
[13]
Percentages of Annual Expenditures for Salaries and Books and Other
Library Materials in Relation to Each Other
1930 - 1948
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%
1,138.671.96
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
8%
1,571.621.38
I007<^
1948
1.718.217.60
94%,
119,000.00
6%
1.837.217.60
100%
Percentages of Annual Expenditures for Salaries and Books and Other
Library Materials in Relation to Each Other
1930 - 1948
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%
1.182.98330
100%
1939
1,035.953.52
86%
171,257.40
14%
1,207,210.92
100%
1940
1 ,047,805.40
85%
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%
194^
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%
1948
1,718.559.60
91%
172,621.35
9%
1,891,180.95
100%
[14]
Percentages of Amounts Requested from City for Salaries and for Books
AND Other Library Materials in Relation to Each Other
1930 - 1948
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%
1 50,000.00
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%
1 50,000.00
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%
150,000.00
12%
1,260,000.00
100%
1947
1 ,642,076.53
92%
1 50,000.00
8%
1 ,792,076.53
100%
1948
1,720,905.84
92%
1 50,000.00
8%
1.870,905.84
100%
[15]
IV
PERSONNEL
Cost and Number of Total Personnel, 1930 - 1948
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
1939 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
1948 1,718,217.60
TOTAL PERSONNEL
AS OF
% OF CHANGE DECEMBER 3 1 st % OF CHANCE
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%
-f 88.6%
+ 123.0%
Salary reductions were in effect from April 21, 1933 to December 31, 1934.
602
644
+7.0%
657
+9.1%
665
+10.5%
695
+ 15.5%
679
+ 12.8%
687
+ 14.1%
699
+ 16.1%'
705
+ 17.1%
697
+ 15.7%
687
+14.1%
632
+5.0%
656
+9.0%
607
+0.8%
641
4-6.4%
630
+4.6%
620
+2.9%
624
+3.6%
664
+10.0%
671
+11.0%
Cost and Number of Regular Service, 1930 - 1948
TOTAL NUMBER OF
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
REGULAR SERVICE
FOR SALARIES &
AS OF
WAGES FOR REGULAR
% OF CHANGE
DECEMBER 31 St
% OF CHANGE
YEAR
SERVICE
FROM 1929
IN EACH YEAR
FROM 1929
1929
$663,747.98
475
1930
694,183.74
+4.6%
512
+7.8%
1931
734,150.50
+ 10.6%
535
+ 12.6%
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%
1948
1,487,537.16
+ 124.0%
579
+21.8%
Salary reductions were in effect from April 21, 1933 to December 31, 1934.
[16]
Cost and Number of Extra Service (Part-Time Personnel, etc.), 1930 - 1948
total expenditures
for salaries &
wages for extra
year service
1929 $104,032.28
1930 112,214.67
1931 115,888.67
1932 105,448.58
1933* 102.982.11
1934* 111,792.41
1935 96,330.61
1936 92,411.73
1937 97,706.13
1938 88,305.46
1939 85,661.98
1940 89,517.71
1941 100,136.21
1942 120,983.22
1943 115,031.99
1944 122.061.66
1945 120,536.62
1946 122,983.94
1947 198,611.69
1948 230,680.44
TOTAL EXTRA SERVICE
PERSONNEL IN TERMS
OF EQUIVALENT OF
FULL-TIME PERSONNEL
AS OF
% OF CHANCE DECEMBER 3 1 sf % OF CHANGE
FROM 1929 IN EACH YEAR FROM 1929
+7.8%
+ 11.3%
+ 1.4%
-1.0%
+7.4%
-7.4%
-11.1%
-6.0%
-15.1%
-17.6%
-13.9%
-3.7%
+ 16.9%
+ 10.6%
+ 17.3%
+ 15.8%
+ 18.2%
+90.9%
+ 121. 77c
127
132
122
128
145
116
116
121
113
107
107
89
145
106
130
116
104
114
119
92
+3.9%
-3.9%
+0.8%
+ 14.1%
-8.6%
-8.6%
-4.7%
-1 1 .0%
-15.7%
-15.7%
-29.9%
+14.1%
-16.5%
+2.3%
+8.6%
-18.1%
-10.27o
-6.3%
-27.5%
* Salary reductions were in effect from April 21, 1933 to December 31, 1934.
[17]
DISTRIBUTION OF FULL-TIME PERSONNEL BY DIVISIONS AND UNITS, I929-194J
DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 3 1
1929 1934 1939 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948
General Adminislralive Offices 14 11 13 22 22 22 23 26
DiviMon of Business Operations 119 138 127 112 112 122 130 133
Circulai.on Division 210 254 257 237 233 225 235 253
Reference Division ' 132 160 183 143 149 141 157 167
Total 475 563 580 514 516 510 545 579
DISTRIBUTION OF REGULAR SERVICE, 1929 - 1948
GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES
DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 3 I DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 3 1
1929 1934 1939 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948
Executive Department 1 1
Editor's Department 1
Training Class 2 ■ ■
Training Oifice 2 2
Director's Office 11 13 6 8 7 7 9
Information Office 6 4 6 6 6
Personnel Office 5 5 6 6 7
Records, Files, and, Statistics Office 3 3 3 4 4
Total 14 II 13 22 22 22 23 26
DISTRIBUTION OF REGULAR SERVICE, 1929 - 1948
DIVISION OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS
DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 3
1929 1934 1939 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948
Division of Business Operations,
Executive Staff 5 5 - —
Business Office 3 4 3 4 4
Auditor's Department 5
Auditing Department 5 5
Accounting Department 7 7 6 7 6
Ordering Department 13
Book Purchasing Department 17 17 15 18 18 20 19
Book Preparation Department 7 7 8
Stock Purchasing Department 2 2 2 2 2 2 J
Shipping Department 3 3 2 2 3 3 3
Bindery Department 31 — — ■
Binding Department 35 34 26 27 26 27 27
Printing Department 66665655
Engineers Department 41
Bufldings Department 45 39 38 37 34 39 44
Cleaners 23 20 16 13 10 17 16 16
Total 119 138 127 112 112 122 130 133
[18]
DISTRIBUTION OF REGULAR SERVICE,
CIRCULATION DIVISION
1929 - 1948
DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 3 1
1929 1934 1939 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948
Circulation Division, Executive Staff
Branch Department
Central Office, Branch Libraries
Book Preparation Department
Cataloging and Classification Dept.
Branch Issue Department
Book Selection Department
Registration Department
Open Shelf Department
Chiidiens Department
Young Peoples Room
School Issue Department
Allston
Andrev/ Scjuare
Boylston
Brighton
Charlestown
City Point
Codman Square
Connolly
Dorchester
East Bostoii
Faneuil
Fellowes Athenaeum
Hyde Park
Jam.cica Plain
Jeffries Point
Kirslein
Lower Mills
Mattapan
Memorial
Mount Bowdoin
Mount Pleasant
Neponset
North End
Orient Heights
Pai-ker Hill
Phillips Brooks
Roslindale
Roxbury Crossing
South Boston
South End
Tyler Street
Uphams Corner
^X'ashington Village
West End
West Roxbury
Total
z:)
26
21
5
6
3 *-
7
—
6
6
7
10
10
10
10
10
—
2
2
2
2
2
3
—
8
7
8
8
9
—
6
6
6
7
7
8
5
5
4
4
4
4
4
8
5
5
5
6
7
4
4
4
8
5
5
8
5
7
7
7
6
6
8
7
6
7
7
7
7
7
7
8
9
9
6
7
8
7
7
2
4
4
4
4
4
T
5
7
8
8
7
7
6
8
8
—
7
7
7
6
8
6
7
7
6
5
6
6
6
11
11
10
8
9
8
8
9
3
7
7
6
6
6
6
6
7
6
7
6
6
5
5
5
7
7
7
6
6
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
6
5
8
7
3
5
6
6
4
4
4
4
—
3
4
Close
;d July 1,
1940
3
4
4
4
4
4
3
4
5
9
10
9
8
9
8
9
9
12
n
8
7
8
7
8
7
6
6
6
6
5
7
7
3
4
4
4
4
4
3
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
8
10
10
8
8
8
8
9
3
4
4
4
5
3
4
4
3
8
8
7
7
7
7
7
3
3
3
3
2
3
3
5
7
7
7
7
7
8
9
4
4
Closed
July
1, 1938
8
8
7
4
5
5
5
4
8
7
6
5
5
5
5
6
4
4
Closed
July
1, 1938
10
9
10
8
7
7
8
8
6
6
5
7
7
9
9
9
9
8
9
8
9
6
8
8
7
7
7
8
9
210
254 257
237
133
lib
235 253
* Transferred to Division of Business Operations February 13, 1946
[19]
DISTRIBUTION OF REGULAR SERVICE. 1929-1948 — REFERENCE DIVISION
DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 31 DEC. 3 1 DEC. 31 DEC. 31
1929 1934 1939 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948
Reference Division, Executive Staff 6 11 3 3 5 6 5
Book Selection Department 2
Book Selection Department,
Reference Division 2 2 2 2 2 2
Catalog Department 19 •
Shelf Department 15 •
Cataloging and Classification Dept. 33 31 27 30 28 27 30
Registration Department 8 9 10 Transferred to Circulation Division
Issue Department 36 40 46 —
Book Stack Service 38 39 34 44 46
Information Department 5 6 9 Trans, to General Administrative Office
Open Shelf Department Transferred to Circulation Division
Bates Hall Reference, Periodicals 25 ■
Genealogical Department I
Bates Hall Reference Desk 5 8
Bates Hall Centre Desk 7 4
Main Reading Room
General Reference Department 10 11 10' 12 12
NeVrfspaper Department 2 •
Periodical Department 5
Pejiodical and Newspaper Department 10 8 8 8 8 8
Special Libraries Department 19
Fine Arts, Rare Book, and
Technology Departments
Technology, Fine Arts, and
Music Department 16 - — -
Fine Arts Department [8] [9] 10 9 9 8 9 10
Music Department [4] [3] 5 4 3 3 3 4
Science and Technology Department [4] [4] 10 8 8 8 10 8
Patent Department 3 •
Rare Book Department [3]8 8 8 8 6 7 8
Print Department - — - — - 3 5 4 4 4
Teachers Department 1 3 3 3 3 3 4
Statisiical Department 55444445
History Department 2 2 3 5 5
Business Branch 11 12 14 14 15 13 16
Total 132 160 183 143 149 141 157 167
[20]
Distribution of Full-Time Personnel by Categories, December 31, 1948
General Officers
Assistants to the Director
Chiefs of Departments
Branch Librarians
Curator
First Assistants
Children's Librarians
Cataloger and Classifier
Administrative Assistants
Assistants, 5th Step .
Second Assistants
Children's Assistants
Catalogers
Executive Assistant .
Assistants, 4th Step .
Assisanfs
Assistants (Sub-Professional
Probationary Assistants
Unclassified Assistants
Military Substitute .
Total
LIBRARY WORKERS
Library Service)
12
4
20
30
1
34
23
1
2
4
20
3
4
1
4
107
53
57
73
1
454
Clerical and Mechanical Workers
Auditor ....
Bookkeeper
Bookkeeping Machine Operator
Clerk ....
Clerk-Typist
Key Punch Operator .
Shipper ....
Shipper's Assistants
Clerk-Messenger
Chief of Binding Department
Finisners
Forwarders
Apprentice Bookbinder .
Working Forewoman of Sewers
Sewers ....
Apprentice Sewer
Chief of Printing Department
Linotype Operators
Pressman, Cylinder
Pressman, Job
1
4
10
27
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Superintendent of Buildings
Engineers
Steamfitter
Working Foreman of Carpenters
Carpenters
Working Foreman of .Painters
Painters
Head Electrician
Electricians
Electrician's Helper
Mason ....
Fire Prevention Inspector
Senior Building Custodian
Junior Building Custodians
Machinist's Helper
Nightwatchmen
Elevator Attendants
Housekeeper
Assistant Housekeeper .
Stenographer . . .
Cleaners . . .
Total
Temporary Painters
Temporary Junior Building Custodians
1
2
1
1
2
1
2
1
2
I
I
1
1
25
1
2
2
1
1
1
28
78
120
5
125
Recapitulation of Full-Time Personnel, December 31, 1948
Library Workers
Clerical and Mechanical Workers
454
125
Total
579
[22]
PERSONNEL CLASSIFICATION AND SALARY SCHEDULES
FOR THE BIBLIOTHECAL SERVICE
as of July L 1948
Personnel Classification
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
Cafaloger
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-technical LIBRARY SERVICE
Extra Assistants (by the hour only)
High school students ..... 55 cents per hour
College students (based on length of Boston Public
Library employment while attending college)
Isl year of such library employment 60 cents per hour
2nd year of such library employment 65 cents per hour
3rd and subsequent years of such
library employment 70 cents per hour
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Unclassified Assistants (by the hour)
Rates to be determined individually in each case, as for example:
30 cents per hour
90 cents per hour
$1 .00 per hour
or at hourly rates dependent upon the qualifications of the individual,
and based on the weekly rales 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 $1800 per year up to a maximum of $2300 per year,
by individual steps of $50 each dependent upon meeting the various steps of
the required Qualifying Examinations for the Sub-Professional Library Service;
or for specialist activities at a rate to be determined for each case individually.
The Professional Library Service
(To be put into effect insofar as appropriated funds permit.)
The Technical Library Service
Probationary Assistant (Steps 1 to 5)
Assistant (Steps 1-3)
Second Assistant (4th step)
Children's Assistant (4th step)
Reference Assistant (4fh step)
Cataloger (4th step)
Classifier (4lh step) .
Executive Assistant (4th step)
Assistant, 4th Step
First Assistant (5th step)
Children's Librarian (5th step)
Reference Librarian (5th step)
Cataloger and Classifier (5th step)
Administrative Assistant (5th step)
Assistant, 5th Step
The Specialist Service
Curator ....
Readers Adviser
$2150-$2400
2400- 3000
3200
3200
3200
3200
3200
3200
3200
3400
3400
3400
3400
3400
3400
$3600-$4100
3600- 4100
Specialist activities
Rate of remuneration to be determined for each case individually.
The Administrative Service
Chief of Department
Branch Librarian
$3600-$4100
3600- 4100
Other Officers
Rate of remuneration to be determined for each case individually.
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COST OF SALARY INCREASES, 1930 - 1948
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
AMOUNT
$12,269.86
14,094.34
5,626.78
309.84
29,880.01
15,891.29
11.918.89
47.137.52
51.067.44
31.127.91
44,793.41
54.943.1 1
30,595.85
10,632.70
39,028.57
30,861 .40
29,401 .47
247,982.70
193,295.81
DISTRIBUTION OF COST OF SALARY INCREASES, 1930 - 1948
1930
Increases fer 1930 effective at 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
$12,269.66
$ 8,713.34
5,381.00
$14,094.34
$ 5,626.78
None
$ 5,626.78
None
$ 309.84
Total
$ 309.84
[29]
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 dales 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, 1938 but for which provision had to be made
in 1939 for payment over a full 12 months period . . $17,171.48
Increases in 1939 effective September 27-December 31, 1939 . . 13,956.43
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 I. 1941 .... $54,943.11
Total $54,943.1 1
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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. .
Total
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 all city employees as of
January 1, 1947 ... . . . .
Other increases in 1947 .......
1948
Overlay from increases effective in 1947 for which provision
had to be made in 1948 for payment over a full 12 months
period ........
Increases in 1948 effective January 1, 1948, etc. .
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
$30.861 .40
None
$29,401 .47
Total $29.401 .47
None
$204,000.00
43,982.70
Total $247,982.70
None
$193,295.81
Total $193,295.81
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[32]
ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS, 1948
individuals individuals
examination who passed who failed
Sub-Professional Library
Service
General Paper 229 (63%) 136 (37%)
Professional Library
Service
General Paper 108 (72%) 41 (287o)
French Paper 46 (557o) 38 (45%>)
German Paper 15 (7\%) 6 (297o)
Italian Paper 7 (88%,) 1 (12%,)
Spanish Paper 12 (4^%) 13 (52%)
365 (100%,)
149 (1007c)
84 (100%)
21 (I007o)
8 (I007o)
25 (100%)
QUALIFYING EXAMINATIONS, 1948
The Professional Library Service
examination
General Book Selection (Q)
Cataloging and Classification (Q)
General Reference Work (Q)
Boston Public Library —
Central Libary (Q)
Boston Public Library —
Branch Libraries (Q)
individuals
individuals
who passed
WHO failed
total
10 (71%)
5 (71%)
6 (50%)
4 (29%)
2 (29%)
6 (50%)
14 (1007c)
7 (1007c)
12 (1007c)
27 (907^)
3 (10%)
30 (1007c)
.21 (95%)
I ( 5%)
22 (1007c)
The Sub-Professional Library Service
individuals individuals
examination who passed who failed total
Book Ordering (Q) 5 (247c) 16 (767c) 21 (1007c)
Book Preparation (Q) 24 (837c) 5 (177c) 29 (1007o)
Book Shelving (Q) 17 (687c) 8 (32%) 25 (I007o)
Elementary Classificahon (Q) 15 (94%) I ( 6%) 16 (1007o)
Filing (Q) 21 (68%) 10 (32%) 31 (1007c)
Registration Procedure (Q) 18 (647c) 10 (367r) 28 (1007c)
Reports and Statistics (Q) 18 (647c) 10 (367c) 28 (100%)
Boston Public Library — ■
Central Library (Q) 20 (61%) 13 (397) 33 (100%)
Boston Public Library —
Branch Libraries (Q) 13 (76%) 4 (247) 17 (1007c)
[33]
PROMOTIONAL EXAMINATIONS, 1948
EXAMINATION
Advanced Languages — French (II)
Advanced Languages — German (II)
Book as a Physical Artifact (III)
Cataloging (IV)
Children's Literature (IV)
Children's Work (V)
Classification (V)
Education — General Field (III)
Fine Arts — General Field (III)
Library Administration (V)
Library Records (IV)
Literature — General Field (III)
National and Trade Bibliography (III)
Public Library as an Institution (I)
Social Sciences and History —
General Field (II)
U. S. Government Documents (IV)
Special Field (IV)
Special Field (V)
INDIVIDUALS
INDIVIDUALS
WHO PASSED
WHO FAILED
TOTAL
9 ( 90%)
1
(10%)
10
(100%)
3 ( 75%)
1
(25%)
4
(100%)
( 0%)
2
(0%)
2
(100%)
1 ( 33 7o)
2
(67%)
3
(100%)
1 ( 33%)
2
(67%)
3
(100%)
2 ( 67%)
1
(33%)
3
(100%)
1 (100%)
(0%)
1
(100%)
1 ( 50%)
1
(50%)
2
(100%)
1 (100%.)
(0%)
1
(100%)
1 (100%)
(0%)
1
(100%)
2 (100%)
( 0%)
2
(100%)
2 ( 40%)
3
(60%)
5
(100%)
4 (100%)
(0%)
4
(100%)
4 ( 80%)
1
(20%)
5
(100%)
1 ( 33%)
2
(67%)
3
(100%)
2 (100%)
( 0%)
2
(\m%)
7 ( 88%)
1
(12%)
8
(100%)
6 ( 86%)
1
(14%)
7
(100%)
[34]
APPOINTMENTS TO TITULAR POSITIONS, 1948
Mildred C. O'Connor
Sarah W. Fiannery
Dorothy M. Lovell
Geraldine M. Altman
A. Virginia Haviland
Ruth M. Hayes
Frances C. Lepie
Chief of Cataloging and Classification Department,
Reference Division
Chief of History Department
Business Branch Librarian
Branch Librarian
Branch Librarian
Branch Librarian
Branch Librarian
Catherine P. Loughman
Branch Librarian
Irene H. Tuttle
Branch Librarian
Gladys R. White
Branch Librarian
Geraldine T. Beck
First Assistant
Helen A. Brennan
First Assistant
Anne F. Coleman
First Assistant
William J. Earley
First Assistant
Charles L. Higgins
First Assistant
Evelyn G. Green
First Assistant
Mary G. Langton
First Assistant
Joseph A. Lynch
First Assistant
Mary J. Obear
First Assistant
Elinor E. Day
Children's Librarian
Margaret M. Donovan
Children's Librarian
Martha C. Engler
Children's Librarian
Marjorie M. Gibbons
Children's Librarian
Marie R. Kennedy
Children's Librarian
Bette B. Freer
Children's Librarian
Ruth Riceman
Children's Librarian
Mary D. Farrell
Second Assistant
Effie C. Freeman
Second Assistant
Mary W. Waters
Cataloger
William J. Earley
Reference Assistant
Russell A. Scully
Executive Assistant
Patrick A. Kennedy
John W. J. Tuley
Senior Building Custodian
Fire Prevention Inspector
William J. Ennis
Mary W. Dietrichson
Margaret H. Reid
Mary M. Sullivan
Chief of Book Stack Service, Emeritus
Business Branch Librarian, Emeriius
Branch Librarian, Emeriius
Branch Librarian, Emeriius
RETIREMENTS FROM THE LIBRARY, 1948
Isabelle L. Tice
Catherine Reardon
Margaret H. Reid
Mary M. Sullivan
William J. Ennis
After 21 years of service
After 29 years of service
After 41 years of service
After 46 years of service
After 48 years of service
135]
V
BOOK STOCK
Total Number of Volumes in the Library as of December 31, 1948
Reference Division
Central Library
Business Branch
Total for Reference Division
Circulation Division
1,212,105
38,562
1 ,250,667 1 ,250,667
Open Shelf Department
.
19,495
Young Peoples Room
.
1 1 ,997
School Issue Department
.
37.207
Branch Issue Department
46,199
Branch Libraries
Allston
17,493
Brighton
20,284
Charlestown
15,128
City Point .
13,449
Codman Square
17,161
Connolly
16,177
Dorchester
17,071
East Boston
1 5,868
Faneuil
15,427
*Fellowes Athenaeum
12.967
Hyde Park
19,642
Jamaica Plain
15,771
Jeffries Point
8,168
Lower Mills
10,744
Mattapan
19,944
Memorial
13,738
Mt. Bowdoin
12,796
Mt. Pleasant
9.722
Neponset
8,297
North End
13.131
Orient Heights
10,349
Parker Hill
13.286
Phillips Brooks
6,977
Roslindale
16,849
South Boston
12.851
South End .
15.831
Uphams Corner
19.588
Washington Village
14,172
West End .
23,091
West Roxbury
20,269
Total for Branch Librar
as . . 446,241
on .
446,241
Total for Circulation Divisi
561,139
al for Entire Library Syste
m . . . .
.
561,139
1,811,806
* In addition 24,552 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.
[36]
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
1882-63 ,
1883-84 ,
1884-85 ,
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896-97 ,
1897-98
1898-99
1899-1900
1900^01 .
9.688
1901-02
16.221
1902-03
22.617
1903-04
28.080
1904-05
34.896
1905-06
70.851
1906^07
78,043
1907-08
85,031
1908-09
97.386
1909-10
105.034
1910-11
110.563
1911-12
116,934
1912-13
123,016
1913-14
130,678
1914-15
136,080
1915-16
144.092
1916-17
152.796
1917-18
160.573
1918-19
179,250
1919-20
192,958
1920-21
209.456
1921-22
260,550
1922-23
276,918
1923-24
297,873
1924-25
321.010
1925
345,734
1926
360.963
1927
377.225
1928
390,982
1929
404,221
1930
422,116
1931
438,594
1932
453.947
1933
460,993
1934
479.421
1935
492,956
1936
505,872
1937
520,508
1938
536.027
1939
556,283
1940
576,237
1941
597.152
1942
610.375
-1943
628,297
1944
663.763
1945
698.888
1946
716,050
1947
746.383
1948
781.377
812,264
835.904
848.884
871,050
878,933
903,349
922348
941 .024
961.522
987.268
1,006,717
1.049.011
1.067,103
1.098.702
1.121.747
1.139,682
1.157.326
1,173.695
1.197.498
1.224,510
1.258,211
1.284,094
1308,041
1.333.264
1,363.515
1.388,439
1.418.489
1.442,802
1.475,743
1.526,951
1.572,802
1,631,422
1.654.017
1.673.609
1.682,848
1.693335
1,700.681
1 .693.688
1 ,704,729
1.714,923
1,720,605
1.734.516
1 ,732,395
* 1,7 19,983
1 ,733,000
1,757,095
1,770,414
1,811,806
* 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.
[37]
ACCESSIONS, 1948
The following statistics include materials received in 1948;
they do not include materials received in earlier years, but pro-
cessed only in 1948.
Classification of Accessions, 1943
NO. OF
SOURCE
VOLUMES
By
purchase
72,258
By
gift
5,846
By
exchange
By
binding of
newspapers .
17
By
binding of
serials .
6,928
85,049
Distribution of Expenditures for the Purchase of Books
AND Other Library Materials, 1948
Reference Division
From City Appropriation $7,000.05
From Trust Funds Income 52,408.85 $59,408.90
Circulation Division
From City Appropriation $111,999.95
From Trust Funds Income 1.212.50 113,212.45
$172,621.35
Distribution of Books Acquired by Purchase
Reference Division
From City Appropriation $110
From Trust Funds Income 8,015 $8,125
Circulation Division
From City Appropriation 63,402
From Trust Funds Income 731 64,133
$72,258
[38]
Increase or Decrease in Book Stock of the Circulation Division, 1943-1948
NET INCREASE
TOTAL NUMBER OF
number of
NUMBER OF
OR DECREASE IN
VOLUMES CIRCU-
YEAR
VOLUMES DISCARDED
VOLUMES ADDED
NO. OF VOLUMES
LATION DIVISION
1943
65,632
51,718
-13,914
527372
1944
71.222*
48,509
-22,713*
504,659
1945
45,058
51,222
+6,164
510,823
1946
40,713
57,434
+16,721
527,544
1947
44,247
50,393
+6.146
533,690
1948
53,130
80,579
+27,449
561,139
* 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.
[39]
NOTABLE PURCHASES, 1948
Books
Allais, J. B.
L'Art d'Ecrire. Paris 1 680.
Rasoche, La
Revue de litterature at d'art. Bruxelles 1884—86.
Bestiary
Viellerley wunderbarlicher Thier des Erdstrichs. Frankfort 1 546.
Chelidonius Tigurinus
L'Histoire de Chelidonius Tigurinus sur I'lnstitution des Princes
Chrestiens. Paris 1559.
Coq Rouge, Le
Revue de litterature. Bruxelles 1895—97.
Doncker, Hendrik
De Zee-atlas ofte Water-Waereld. Amsterdam 1 660.
Dudley, Joseph
Two manuscripts. 1 709.
Homerus
Les dix premiere livres de I'lliade. Paris 1 545.
Le Fevre, Raoul
Le recueil des Histoires de Troye. Lyon 1 544.
Mauro, Marco
Annotationi . . . della Spera del Sacro Bosco. Firenze 1550.
Musee du livre. Bruxelles 1907—1933.
Naine jaune, Le. Paris 1815.
St. John, Collection of contemporary manuscripts relating to capture,
1709.
Seymour, Charles, Duke of Somerset
Collection of autograph letters and documents. 1703—1711.
Torquemada Juan de
Expositio in Psalterium. [Venice 1502].
Tory, Geoffroy
Horae B. V. M. Paris. Simon de Colines. 1 524-25.
Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus
De architectura. Venice 1495.
Prints
Calapai, Letterio
Twenty-five original wood-engravings inspired by Thomas Wolfe's
Look Homeward Angel, by Letterio Calapai, with text in calligraphy.
Griggs, Frederick L. M.
Tre Almomv etching, fifth state of six.
[40]
A SELECTION OF INTERESTING GIFTS OF BOOKS,
PRINTS, AND OTHER MATERIALS IN 1948
Books And Other Materials
Adiow, Honorable Elijah
Napoleon in Ilaly, 1796-1797, by Elijah AdIow; Policemen and
people, by Elijah Adlow.
Ambassade de France, New York
A collection of over 500 issues of various French periodicals to which
a three-months subscription was arranged through the Office of the
Conseiller Culturel, Ambassade de France, New York.
Ames, Sir Herbert
A collection of 286 volumes and pamphlets, mainly works on history,
English literature, and foreign countries.
Anonymous
A collection of 126 miscellaneous classics, including works by Balzac,
de Maupassant, de Musset, and Stevenson.
Association of American Railroads
A collection of 119 volumes and pamphlets on railroads, including
1 1 1 volumes of reports by various subcommittees on which Trans-
portation in America is based.
Bentley, Harry C.
Fifteen volumes and pamphlets to be added to the Bentley Collection
of works on Bookkeeping published before 1 900.
Bishop, Mollie R.
A collection of 226 lantern slides and 1 42 negatives, mainly colored
slides of scenes in Italy, Morocco, Russia, Jugoslavia, and Spain.
Bolton, Charles K.
Carbon copy of the typescript of The first Bostonians, by Charles K.
Bolton.
Crosby, Margaret
Ten albums of post cards of views of foreign countries; and 30 port-
folio of pictures, many of various paintings of the Annunciation and
other religious subjects, and a typewritten index of pictures of the An-
nunciation. From the Estate of Mrs. Cora H. Crosby.
Foster, Mrs. Lydia K.
A collection of 295 post cards of European scenes, and 3 additional
booklets of cards.
Friends of Polish Culture
A collection of 25 volumes and pieces of Polish music, and 8 manu-
script scores of Polish songs.
Frothingham, Randolph
A complete file of Fortune, volumes 1 to 38, February 1930 to 1948.
Hall, Mrs. Frederick G.
Two documentary films on The making of a dr^point, by Frederick
G. Hall.
Hazlett, Dr. Olive
A collection of 533 post cards, mainly scenes and people in native
costume, of Italy, the Dolomites, etc.
Howells, John Mead ^/, , ii n
Architectural heritage of the Piscataqua, by John Mead Howells;
Lost examples of colonial architecture, by John Mead Howells.
[41]
Jewish War Veterans of the United States. Department Massachusetts.
Jews in American Wars, by George Fredman and Louis A Falk. 40
copies.
Knight, T. S.
A collection of 1 04 publications of the Newcomen Society, Ameri-
can Branch.
McAvoy, W. J.
A collection of approximately 1 200 volumes, including many novels,
and books of general interest.
MacNaught, Mrs. Mary F.
The manuscript score and 2 photograph recordings of Village tale, by
Mary F. MacNaught, and programs of 2 concerts at which Village
tale was played.
Merriam, G. & C., Company
Noah's Ark, New England Yankees and the endless quest, by Robert
Keith Leavitt. 30 copies.
Ranson, Professor William R.
Our young folks: an illustrated magazine for boys and girls, volumes
I to 5. 1865-1869.
Scaife, Roger L.
Manuscript scores of 22 songs and 2 published pieces of music by
Lauriston L. Scaife.
Slonimsky, Nicolas
A collection of 1 36 volumes and pamphlets of or relating to music.
True, Mrs. Latham
Two sets of published music of Latham True.
United States Selective Service System
Statistics, periodic reports of physical examinations, volumes 1 to 22.
Issued by the Selective Service System.
Van Benthuysen, A. S.
Carbon copy of typescript of The Seaward and Seward families of
America, by Alvin Seaward Van Benthuysen.
West, Albert
A collection of 34 volumes, mainly history and literature, for the
East Boston Branch Library.
Wiggin, Albert H.
A collection of 5 books of Honore Daumier : Les Bens Bourgeois ; Les
Canotiers Parisiens (together with Les Etrangers a Paris, and Revue
Caricaturale, in one volume); Charges du Jour; Histoire Ancienne;
Locataires et Proprietaires (together with Croquis Musicaux, in one
volume).
A collection of 29 books of "Gavarni" (Hippolyte Guillaume Sul-
pice Chevalier) from the Malherbe and De Concourt Collections : Al-
bum des Gens du Monde; Album des Plus Jolies Caricatures; Les
Anglais Chez Eux ; Les Bohemes ; Le Boite aux Lettres ; Ce qui se fait
dans les Meilleurs Societes; Les Coulisses; D'Apres Nature (four
volumes); Les Debardeurs; Des Meres de Famille; Eloquence de la
Chair; Les Enfants Terribles; Expressions de Menage; Histoire de
Politiquer; Invalides du Sentiment; Les Lorettes; Les Lorettes
Vieilles; Le Manteau d'Arlequin; Les Maris me font toujours rire;
Musee Gavarni; Les Musiciens; Les Oeuvres Nouvelles Carnaval;
Les Parents Terribles; Le Parfait Creancier; Physionomies de Chan-
teurs; Politiques de Femme.
[42]
Wolff Fording & Company, Inc.
Fifty-nine volumes of The Sketch, Le Theatre, and The Theatre,
1895-1914.
Prints
Cheffetz, Asa
Fifteen wood-engraving by Asa Cheffetz.
Hall, Mrs. Frederick G.
A collection of 26 prints by Frederick G. Hall which comprises a
complete set of this artist's work.
Merrill, Hiram C.
Twelve wood— engravings by Asa Cheffetz
Nason, Thomas W.
Two wood-engravings by Thomas W. Nason.
Wiggin, Albert H.
Prints by:
Bone Muirhead
Four drawings and 4 hand-engraved artist's proof drypoints.
Daumier, Honore
The Albert and Robert Maroni Collection of Honore Daumier,
consisting of 4000 white paper prints and 57 proof prints.
Forain, Jean-Louis
Two lithographs and 5 original drawings.
"Gavarni", pseud. (Chevalier, Hippolyte Guillaume Sulpice)
The Albert and Robert Maroni CoUecion of Gavarni consist-
ing of 1 1 69 white paper prints and 1 02 proof prints.
37,719
37.126
37,826
36,988
37,195
25,527
19,508
18,661
18,585
16,883
47,773
49,216
60,696
61.179
58,176
871
988
1,524
2.461
2,928
[43]
VI
USE OF BOOKS
COMPARATIVE CIRCULATION STATISTICS, 1944-1948
1944 1945 1946 1947 1948
Reference Division
Central Library 116,380 109,325 130,310 146,975 148,598
Business Branch 8,068 8,843 12,545 11,570 10,015
Total for Reference Division 124,448 118,168 142,855 158,545 158,613
Circulation Division
Open Shelf Department 1 5 L662 140,894 148,720 157.739 167,631
Young Peoples Room
School Issue Department
Branch Issue Department
Staff Library
Deposit Circulation
(estimated) 223,888 219,203 233,558 241,405 248.816
Branch Libraries
Allston 95,622 88,086 85,555 85,990 90,490
Brighton 64,767 59,725 59,261 55,182 53,024
Charlestown 72,769 74,795 80,932 72,413 82,926
City Point 61,871 55.165 60,175 64,158 63,946
Codman Square 112,100 114,519 116,619 114,371 117.137
Connolly 92,487 92,020 96,325 95,096 98,292
Dorchester 65,101 68,818 80,4% 82.115 80,178
East Boston 80,872 82.291 78,523 75,409 72,436
Faneuil 52.267 46,429 49,561 45,291 43,114
Fellowes Athenaeum 44,717 38.023 38,492 34.273 32.650
Hyde Park 68,781 68,301 69.204 67,452 71,182
Jamaica Plain 73,050 71,999 78,868 76,919 83,652
Jeffries Point 30,425 30,158 23,606 24,193 26,894
Lower Mills 45,851 43,300 46,380 46,108 45,712
Mattapan 105,119 101.014 104,135 101,930 101,036
Memorial 96,980 87,927 85,385 81,781 79,504
Mt. Bowdoln 74,943 73,697 72,571 72,682 75,105
Mt. Pleasant 53,142 45,493 50,476 44,474 44,591
Neponset 41,962 40,351 42,096 **28,355 48,624
North End 62,675 58.249 54,752 68,823 67,717
Orient Heights 36.943 40,600 40,771 38,505 39.741
Parker Hill 69,067 69.731 70,413 67,512 70.336
Phillips Brooks 31,017 29,524 27,890 27,888 27.935
Roslindale 102.053 104,448 112,789 115,014 123,204
South Boston 49,012 48,572 51,505 54,257 48,369
South End 75,227 69,122 65,670 63,998 64,719
Uphams Corner 99,052 89,680 *71,207 100,645 103.014
Washington Village 87,708 80,962 87,398 82,358 75,908
West End 105,519 102,091 100,630 101,477 105,925
West Roxbury 102,268 101,548 104,564 105.270 110,918
Total for Circulation
Division 2,640,807 2,543,573 2,607,234 2,612.2% 2,679,908
Total for Entire Library
System 2,765,255 2,661,741 2,750,089 2,770.841 2.838,521
* Building closed from December 3, 1945 to April 15, 1946 on account
of fire damage.
** Building condemned February 3, 1947. Branch r?opened in tem-
porary quarters March 31, 1947.
[44]
Distribution of Total Circulation in 1948
FROM DEPOSITS IN
SCHOOLS, INSTITUTIONS,
AND FIRE HOUSES*
Reference Division
Central Library
Direct Lending to borrowers 135,395
Central Library volumes circulated
through Branch Issue Department 13,203
Business Branch 10,015
Total for Reference Division 158,613
135,395
13,203
10,015
158.613
Circulation Division
Open Shelf Department
167.631
167,631
Young Peoples Room
37.195
37,195
School Issue Department
16,883
224.059
240,942
Branch Issue Department
58,176
17.804
75,980
Staff Library
2,928
2.928
Branch Libraries
Allston
90,490
90,490
Brighton
53,024
53,024
Charlestown
82.926
82,926
City Point
63,946
63,946
Codman Square
117,137
117,137
Connolly
98,292
98.292
Dorchester
80.178
80,178
East Boston
72,436
72.436
Faneuil
43,114
43,114
Fellowes Athenaeum
32,650
32,650
Hyde Park
71,182
71,182
Jamaica Plain
83,652
83,652
Jeffries Point
26,894
26.894
Lower Mills
45,712
45.712
Mattapan
101,036
101.036
Memorial
79.504
79.504
Mt. Bowdoin
75,105 .
75.105
Mt. Pleasant
44,591
44.591
Neponset
48,624
48,624
North End
67,717
67,717
Orient Heights
39,741
39.741
Parker Hill
70,336
70336
Phillips Brooks
27.935
27.935
Roslindale
123.204
123.204
South Boston
48,369
48.369
South End
64,719
64,719
Uphams Corner
103,014
194
103.208
Washington Village
75,908
75,908
West End
105,925
6.759
112,684
West Roxbury
110.918
110,918
Total for Branch Libraries
2.148.279
6,953
2,155,232
:al for Circulation Division
2.431.092
248,816
2.679,908
al for Entire Library
2.589.705
248,816
2,838,521
* Estimated
[45]
Analysis of Direct Home Use Circulation, 1948
Refe
Di
Central Library
Direct lending to borrowers
Central Library volumes circulated
through Branch Issue Department
Business Branch
Total for Reference Division
ADULT
135,395
13,203
10,015
158,613
JUVENILE
135,395
13,203
10,015
158,613
Circulation Division
Open Shelf Department
167,631
167,631
Young Peoples Room
4,826
32,369
37,195
School Issue Department
16,883
16,883
Branch Issue Department
58,176
58,176
Staff Library
2,928
2,928
Branch Libraries
AUston
64,506
25,984
90,490
Brighton
32,088
20,936
53,024
Charlestown
46,910
36,016
82,926
City Point
35,678
28,268
63,946
Codman Square
, 70,370
46,767
117.137
Connolly
53,788
44,504
98,292
Dorchester
45,239
34,939
80,178
East Boston
32,125
40,311
72,436
Faneuil
24,099
19,015
43,114
Fellowes Athenaeum
16,016
16,634
32,650
Hyde Park
42.743
28,439
71,182
Jamaica Plain
55,132
28,520
83,652
Jeffries Point
8,321
18,573
26,894
Lower Mills
28,298
17,414
45,712
Mattapan
51,304
49,732
101,036
Memorial '
40,209
39,295
79,504
Mt. Bowdoin
39,829
35,276
75,105
Mt. Pleasant
23,673
20,918
44,591
Neponset
26,934
21,690
48,624
North End
22,476
45,241
67,717
Orient Heights
15,610
24,131
39,741
Parker Hill
36,058
34,278
70,336
Phillips Brooks
12,302
15,633
27,935
Roslindale
74,037
49,167
123,204
South Boston
25,604
22,765
48,369
South End
48,977
1 5,742
64,719
Uphams Corner
68,165
34,849
103,014
Washington Village
40,685
35,223
75,908
West End
73,089
32,836
105,925
West Roxbury
74,821
36,097
110,918
Total for Branch Libraries
1 ,229,086
919,193
2.148,279
al for Circulation Division
1 ,462,647
968,445
2,431,092
al for Entire Library
1,621,260
968,445
2,589,705
[46]
Summary of Circulation by Divisions in 1948
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 1948
148.598
10,015
158,613
167,631
37,195
16,883
58,176
2,928
. 2,148,279
2,431,092
2,589,705
Books Lent for Home Use
Reference Division
Circulation Division .
Deposits of books (estimated)
158,613
2,431,092
248,816
2.838,521
Gains and Losses in Circulation, 1939-1948
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 1938
1938
4,354,044
1939
4,198,975
-155,069
- 4%
- 4%
1940
4,056,963
-142,012
-3%
-7%
1941
3,635,933
-421,030
-10%
-167o
1942
3,271,619
-364,314
-10%
-257o
1943
2,871,335
-400,284
-127o
-34%
1944
2,765,255
-106,080
- 4%
-367o
1945
2,661,741
-103,514
-4%
-397o
1946
2,750,069
+88,348
+3%
-37%
1947
2,770,841
+20,752
4-0.8%
-36'7r
1948
2.838,521
+67,680
+2%
-35%
Classification of Home Use Circulation in Percentages, 1948
circulation
REFERENCE
DIVISION
DIVISION
Fiction
for
adults
41.0%
4.8%
Nonfic
ion
for adults
19.2%
95.27^
Juvenil
2 fiction
21.9%
Juvenil
i nonfiction
17.9%
100.0%
100.0%
[47]
Inter-Library Loans, 1948
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
Volumes lent to libraries outside of Massachusetts
1,526
338
1.864
Registration
(Two-year period)
Number of registered borrowers, December 31, 19-48:
Adult
Juvenile
105,328
57,640
162,968
Number of borrowers registered or reregistered during 1948:
Adult
Juvenile
54,433
29,010
83.443
Missing Books from the Branch Libraries. 1944-1948
YEAR
1943
1944
• 945
1946
1947
1948
percentage of
PERCENTAGE OF
INCREASE or
INCREASE OR
TOTAL
DECREASE OVER
DECREASE
NUMBER
PRECEDING YEAR
OVER 1943
3.616
3.490
-3%
-3%
3,334
-4%
-8%
2.908
-13%
-20%
3,348
+15%
-7%
3,824
+ 14%
+6%
Books Unrecoverable from Borrowers from Branch Libraries, 1939-1948
YEAR
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
PERCENTAGE
number of
PERCENTAGE OF
OF INCREASE
VOLUMES
INCREASE OR DECREASE
OR DECREASE
N RECOVERABLE
OVER PRECEDING YEAR
OVER 1938
742
642
-13%
-13%
645
+0.5%
-13%
577
-11%
-22%
713
+24%
-4%
1,066
+50%
+43%
797
-25%
+7%
1,119
+40%
+51%
954
-15%
+29%
874
-S%
+ 18%
934
+7%
+26%
[48]
Books Unrecoverable from Borrowers from Branch Libraries, 1939-1948
YEAR
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
TOTAL NUMBER
OF VOLUMES
UNRECOVERABLE
642
645
577
713
1,066
797
1.119
954
874
934
PERCENT OF
TOTAL NUMBER
VOLUMES BORROWED
OF VOLUMES
WHICH WERE
BORROWED
UNRECOVERABLE
3,341,153
0.019%
3,221,198
0.020%
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
0.0457o
2,093,939
0.0427o
2,148,279
0.043%
[49]
VII
THE CATALOGS
Re£erence Division
Cataloged
Central Library
Business Branch
Recataloged
Central Library
20.190
1,278
2,386
23,854
Circulation Division
Cataloged
Open Shelf Department
Young Peoples Room
School Issue Department
Branch Issue Department
Branch Libraries
Miscellaneous
5,061
1,682
6,617
4,578
62,286
31
80,255
Card Work
Reference Division
Library of Congress cards processed
Cards processed on duplicatmg machine
Cards typed
Circulation Division
Cards processed on duplicating machine
Cards typed
23,500
129,388
1,730
154,618
194,080
50,409
244,489
The number of volumes shelved and thus made available for
public use was:
Reference Division
Central Library (including continuations) 19,138
Business Branch 1 ,278
Books reported lost or missing in previous years
but now found, etc, 1,552 21,968
[50]
Circulation Division
Open Shelf Department
Young Peoples Room
School Issue Department /" ch),/24
Branch Issue Department
Branch Libraries
Books reported lost or missing in previous years but now
found, etc. 355
80,579
102,547
The number of volumes removed from collections during the
year (books reported lost or missing, condemned copies not yet
replaced, etc.) was:
Reference Division
Central Library
Business Branch
Circulation Division
Open Shelf Department
Young Peoples Room
School Issue Department
Branch Issue Department
Branch Libraries
6,385
161
6,546
53,130
59.676
VIII
PRINTING AND BINDING
The Printing Department
Requisitions received and filled 531
Cards (indicator, time, guide, etc.) 29,309
Wiggin Print Collection (exhibition cards) 18,199
Signs, posters, etc. 1,157
Forms (numbered series, including blank forms) 4,178,045
Forms, circulars, and sundries (outside the numbered series) 125,000
Library publications, including book lists, programs, etc. 166,300
The Binding Department
Number of volumes bound in various styles 31,425
Volumes repaired 401
Volumes guarded 31 1
Maps mounted 51
Photographs and engravings mounted 1 ,846
Library publications folded, stitched, and trimmed 134,172
Portfolios, blocks, boxes, and desk pads made 2,009
Covers made (miscellaneous types) 1,689
Cutting and bundling 1 ,456
Miscellaneous work done 470
151]
IX
LECTURES, CONCERTS, EXHIBITIONS
IN THE CENTRAL LIBRARY
LECTURES
GENERAL LECTURE SERIES
Jan.
Feb.
Feb.
Apr. 1
Oct. 1 4
Oct. 21
Nov. 4
8 The Art of Poland. Illustrated with
colored sound motion pictures.
2 The Influence of American Edu-
cation on Political and Economic
Affairs " in Turkey Today. Illus-
trated with a technicolor sound film.
5 Do You Want to Write?
Irene Piotrowska, Ph. D.,
Polish Art Authority.
Dr. Floyd H. Black, Presi-
dent of Robert College and
the Istanbul Woman's Col-
lege, Turkey.
William E. Harris, Director,
Writers' Counsel Service.
It's Greek to You. Illustrated with Theoharis Stavrides, Regis-
a technicolor sound film. trar and Assistant Principal,
Athens College, Greece.
At the Tips of Your Fingers —
the Science of Fingerprints.
Circus Priest. Illustrated with
colored motion pictures.
What Books Shall I Give
Christmas?
N(
Esta Barr, Fingerprint Ex-
pert, aiid Consultant to the
Medical Examiner of Suffolk
County,
Reverend Edward S. Sulli-
van, Pastor of the Sacred
Heart Church, Gloucester,
Massachusetts.
Edna G. Peck, Chief of the
Book Selection Department,
Circulation Division, Boston
Public Library, and Elizabeth
M. Gordon, Deputy Super-
visor, In Charge of Work
with Children, Boston Public
Library.
Human Relations Institute for Teachers and Librarians. Morning
and Afternoon Sessions. Sponsored by the Boston Public Library
in co-operation with the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
[52]
Workshop of Labor-Management
Relations. Arranged by Abraham
H. Kalish, Boston PubUc Library.
DATE TITLE LECTURER
Nov. 1 8 Workshop of Labor-Management Lpuis Chandler, Attorney ;
Liam Donlon, United Steel
Workers; Clifford I. Fahl-
strom, Associated Industries
of Massachusetts; S. A. Per-
coco, Business Agent, Flood
Rubber Workers Union ;
Commissioner E. Frank
Ward, Federal Mediation
and Conciliation Service,
Federal Mediator; John J.
Murray, Lawyer, Moderator.
19 Dickens' Christmas Carol. Illus- Edward F. Payne, President
trated. of the Boston Branch of the
Dickens Fellowship.
Dt
Dt
Jewish Book Month
Subject: Emma Lazarus.
'rogram. Dr. Ludwig Lewisohn, Pro-
fessor of Contemporary Liter-
ature, Brandeis University ;
Fanny Goldstein, Branch Li-
brarian, West End Branch,
Boston Public Library, Chair-
man.
SPECIAL SUBJECT SERIES
Applied Science
(in cooperation with Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Feb. 8 Textiles, a Heritage and a Promise.
Illustrated.
Mar. 21 The Sun Heated House — The
Use of Solar Energy in Heating
Small Homes.
Apr. 1 1 Television, Now and Tomorrow.
Illustrated.
LECTURER
Edward R. Schwarz, B. S.,
Professor of Textile Engi-
neering, M. I. T.
Lawrence B. Anderson, M.
Arch., Head of the Depart-
ment of Architecture, M. I.
T.
Lawrence B. Arguimbau,
B. S., Assistant Professor
of Electrical Engineering,
M. I. T.
[53]
DATE TITLE
Dec. 5 Plastics, What Causes
Elasticity? Ernst A. Hauser, Fh. D.,
Professor of Chemical Engi-
neering, M. I. T.
Educational Films
Feb. 9 The Charm of Ireland. Illustrated Reverend Joseph Patrick
with colored motion pictures. Shea, Curate, St. James
Parish, Medford, Massachu-
setts.
Feb. 1 2 Williamsburg, Virginia — Yester- William Graves Perry, Archi-
day and Today. Illustrated with tect.
colored sound motion pictures.
Feb. 19 Music in Films. Four Short sound
films: M\)ra Hess, H\}mn of fhe
Nations, Music of the Woodwind
Choir, and Music of the Brass
Choir.
Feb. 26 Our Neighbors to the South and to
the North. Four sound films: Cen-
tral America, Land of Mexico, The
Peoples of Canada, and Alaska.
The Graphic Arts
The lectures in this series were given by Arthur W. Heintzelman, N. A.
Keeper of Prints, Boston Public Library
Jan. 19 The Drawings for Bellows' Lithograhs. Illustrated with slides.
Feb. 1 6 The Drawings of Jean-Louis Forain. Illustrated with slides.
Mar. I The Work of Alphonse Legros. Illustrated with slides.
Literary Families and Personalities
Apr. 8 The Development of Thomas Harry T. Levin, Associate
Mann. Professor of English, Har-
vard University.
Apr. 1 5 The Adams Family in Literature.
Apr. 22 The James Family.
Howard Mumford Jones,
Litt. D., Professor of Eng-
lish, Harvard University.
Francis O. Matthiessen, Ph.
D., Professor of History and
Literature, Harvard Univer-
sity,
[54]
DATE TITLE
Apr. 29 The Brontes.
William Stanley Braith-
waite, Litt. D., Author and
Anthologist.
Marriage and the Family
Jan. 8 Your Marriage, Before and After Herbert D. Lamson, Ph. D.,
the Wedding. Professor of Sociologj', Bos-
ton University.
Jan. 15 Structure and Development of Per- William J. Pinard, Ph. D.,
Associate Professor of Psy-
chology, Boston University.
Jean C. Mendenhall, M. D.,
Instructor in Psychology and
Sociology, Boston University.
Cheney Church Jones, LL. B.,
Social Worker and Teacher.
Jan. 22
sonahties.
Family Management, Budgeting,
and Planning.
Jan. 26 The Child in the Home.
Meet the Author
Jan. 29 Bill Cunningham. Columnist of the Boston Herald.
Feb. 29 Haydn S. Pearson, Author and Columnist.
On Timely Topics
This series was presented in co-operation with Boston University
Debating Society, Martin J. Levine, Public Service Manager.
Oct. 10 Resolved: That a Federal World
Government Should be E,stablished.
A debate by the Boston University
Debating Society, directed by
Austin J. Freeley, Coach of De-
bate; and the Fulton Debating So-
ciety of Boston College, directed by
Reverend James F. Geary, S.J.
Nov. 1 4 Federal Aid to Education ; a panel
discussion.
John Meehan, Boston College
of Business Administration;
Susan Manning, Boston Uni-
versity, College of Liberal
Arts; John Moore, Boston
College ; William Murphy,
Boston College ; Austin J.
Freeley, Boston University
Coach of Debate, Moderator.
F. Harvey Howalt, Boston
University, School of Law;
Mary Jane Latsis, Wellesley
College ; Richard H. Feinsin-
ger, Harvard University :
Mary Lu Wanner, Mt. Hol-
yoke College; Austin J. Free-
ley, Boson University Coach
of Debate, Modeaator.
[55]
DATE
LECTURER
Dec. 1 2 Should the Electoral College
Abolished? A panel discussion.
Stephen Chytilo, Boston Uni-
cersity, School of Public Re-
lations; Mary Innocenti, Sim-
mons College ; Kirby Hendee,
Holy Cross College; Elaine
Tanner, Radcliffe College ;
Austin J. Freeley, Boston
University Coach of Debate,
Moderator.
Print Gallery Talks
The lectures in this series were given by Arthur W. Heintzelman, N. A.
Keeper of Prints, Boston Public Library
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.
Mar.
3 Etchings and Drypoints by James McNeill Whistler.
2 The Etchings of Honore Daumier.
8 Proof Prints of Lithographs by Gavarni.
5 The Etchings of Frederick G. Hal!.
United States Panorama
Mar. II
Mc
Mar. 22
Mar. 29
Westward with New England Eyes.
Illustrated with Kodachrome photo-
graphs.
Dramatic tales of the New England
Coast. Illustrated with colored
motion pictures.
Columbia River of the Northwest.
Illustrated with colored motion pic-
tures.
Boston — Before and After Bul-
finch. Illustrated with colored slides.
Romance of the Far South. Illus-
trated with Kodachrome slides.
Stewart Anderson, M. A.,
Lecturer and Photographer.
Edward Rowe Snow, Author
and Lecturer.
R. A. Kirkpatrick, LL. D.,
D. Sc. (M. & M.) D. Ec,
Lecturer, Author, Educator.
Egon C. J. Egone, Photo-
grapher, Lecturer, Author.
H. Ruth Giessen, Owner and
Director of This is America.
Writing as the Author Sees It
Dec. 2 The Urge to Write.
Dec. 9 Journalism is Writing, Too!
Theodore Morrison, Director
of English A, Harvard Uni-
versity.
Louis M. Lyons, Curator of
the Nieman Foundation for
Journalism, Harvard Univer-
sity.
[56]
DATE TITLE
Dec. 1 6 The One Act Play : An Art-form
That Found Finance.
CONCERTS
Jan. 1 1 Concert.
Feb. 1 Concert.
Mar. 7 Concert.
Mar. 1 4 Concert.
LECTURER
Reverend John L. Bonn,
S. J., Director of the School
of Expressional Arts and As-
sociate Professor of Classics,
Boston College.
Einar Hansen, Violinist of
the Boston Symphony Or-
chestra. Assisted by Gilbert
Boyer, Pianist.
Hannah Sherman, Violon-
cellist ; Daniel Pinkham,
Harpsichordist ; and Janet
Hayes, Soprano.
Priscilla Cawley, Soprano ;
Carl E. Nelson, Tenor ; and
Grace B. Davis, Accom-
panist.
Boston University Choral Art
Society. Directed by Dr. H.
Augustine Smith, Founder
and Conductor; and Simon
Gesin, Assistant Conductor.
Apr. 25 Concert. Choral Society of the Massa-
chusetts Federation of
Women's Clubs; Alan Pain-
ten, Conductor; Faith Carter,
Violinist ; Henriette Foster,
Contralto ; Claire Murphy,
Lyric Soprano; Douglas F.
Reilly, Tenor; Evelyn B.
Roskin, Pianist.
Noon Concerts of Musical Recordings
These programs are under the direction of Richard G. Appel,
Chief of the Music Department, Boston Public Library.
Oct. 27 Selections from the Library's collection of records included The
Gregorian Chant, Bach Organ Chorale, and Negro Spirituals, in
observance of Religious Book Week.
Nov. 10 Two films: Hymn of the Nations and Myra Hess; and record-
ings of Sonata in F Minor played by Rubenstein.
Nov. 24 Selections from the music of the Pilgrims and other appropriate
Thanksgiving music.
Dec. 8 Instruments of the Orchestra, featuring Benjamin Britten's arrange-
ment of Variations and the Fugue on a Theme of Purcell.
Dec. 22 Selections from Handel's Messiah and Christmas Carols.
Mar.
3
Mar.
10
Mar.
24
Mar.
31
Apr.
7
Apr.
14
Apr.
21
Apr.
28
Oct.
20
Nov.
3
Nov.
17
Dec.
1
Dec.
15
Dec.
29
[571
Noon Film Programs
Instruments of the Orchestra and Crafts of the Fire.
Cvprus is an Island.
Man — One Family.
The River.
Changing Face of India and People of Western China.
Realm of the Wild.
Yosemite.
The House I Live In and Boundary Lines.
Wings to Alaska.
Washington, D. C. and How a Bill becomes a Law.
Happy Valley and Baffling Bluefins.
The Malay Peninsula and The Peiping Family.
Rehearsal, featuring Ezio Pinza and Blanche Thebom.
Glacier National Park.
LOWELL LECTURES IN THE CENTRAL LIBRARY
Under the Auspices of the Lowell Institute
Jan. 6 The Hospital in Contemporary So-
through ciety. (A course of eight lectures,
Jan. 30 Tuesdays and Fridays.)
Jan. 1 9 Vital Problems of Eastern Europe,
through (A course of eight lectures, Mon-
Feb. 12 days and Thursdays.)
Feb. 3 The Decline of Chivalry, Cultural
through History in the German Literature
Feb. 20 of the Later Middle Ages. (A
course of six lectures, Tuesdays and
Fridays.)
Feb. 24 The Political Theory of Cicero,
through (A course of six lectures, Tues-
Mar. 12 days and Fridays.)
Nathaniel W. Faxon, M. D.,
Director of the Massachusetts
General Hospital and Massa-
chusetts Eye and Ear Infir-
mary.
Alexander Szent-Ivanyi, S. T.
M., D. D., Deputy Bishop
and Ecclesiastical President
of the Hungarian Unitarian
Church, Past Member of the
Hungarian Parliament and
President of the Liberal Party
of Hungary.
Hans J. Epstein, Junior
Fellow, The Society of Fel-
lows, Harvard University.
Mason Hammond, B. Litt.
(Oxon.), Professor of Greek
and Latin and of History,
and Master of Kirkland
House, Harvard University.
[58]
LECTURER
Mar. 4 The Conservative in Modern
through American PoHtics. (A course of
Mar. 29 eight lectures, Mondays and
Thursdays. )
McGeorge Bundy, A. B.,
Junior Fellow, The Society
of Fellows, Harvard Univer-
sity.
EXHIBITS IN THE CENTRAL LIBRARY
CHAVANNES GALLERY SARGENT GALLERY
Jan. 1-18
Jan. 1-18
Jan. 19 -Feb. 19
Mar. 1-19
Mar. 20 - Apr. 20
Apr. 2 1 - May 30
June 1 -July 10
July 1 1 - Aug. 30
Sept. 3-30
Oct. 3-9
Oct. 1 - 9
Oct. 1 - 24
Oct. 25-31
Oct. 23-31
Nov. 1-30
Dec. 1 - 30
TITLE
Russian Icons
Music Teachers National
Association
Polish Culture
History and Development of
Textiles (Courtesy of Massa-
chusetts Institute of Tech-
nology)
Original Illustrations by Vir-
ginia Lee Burton for The
Song of Robin Hood
Vanity Fair Album
W. A. Dwiggins, Printer and
Book Designer
1 00th Anniversary of
Women's Rights
Man's Fight to Fly (Air
Force Day)
Fire Prevention Week
Sergei Koussevitzky and the
Boston Symphony Orchestra.
New England Cook Books —
Old and New
Religion in the Western
World — Our Heritage
(Religious Book Week)
From Galley to Dreadnought
— The Story of Naval
Power (Navy Day)
Yesterday and Today with
the Marine Corps (Marine
Corps Day)
Textbook Exhibit (American
Institute of Graphic Arts)
[591
Treasure Room
Jan. 1 - Feb. 29 Book Design in New England
Mar. 1—31 Fine Bindings
Apr. 1 — May 3 1 Latin America
June 1 — July 3 1 The Work of W. A. Dwiggins
Aug. 1 — Sept. 30 Early Bibles and Liturgical Works
Oct. I — Nov. 30 Hamlet. Numismatics
Dec. 1-31 English Illustrations of the 1 860's
WiGGiN Gallery
Jan. 1-31 James McNeill Whistler — Etchings
Feb. 1 — 29 Honore Daumier — Proof Prints of Lithographs
Mar. 1—31 Gavarni — Proof Prints of Lithographs
Apr. 1 — 30 Frederick G. Hall — Etchings.
May 1—31 Honore Daumier — Colored Lithographs
June 1 — 30 Arthur Briscoe — Etchings
July 1 — Sept. 30 Religious Prints — Etchings, Drypoints, Woodcuts,
Wood Engravings, and Lithographs
Oct. 1—31 Francisco Goya "Disasters of War" — Etchings and
Aquatints
Nov. 1 — 30 Letterio Calapai "Look Homeward Angel"
Dec. 1—31 Felix Buhot — Etchings and Drypoints
[60]
X
TRUST FUNDS
Receipts and Expenditures from Trust Funds Income, 1930 - 1948
BALANCE
total amount
UNEXPENDED
AVAILABLE
FROM RECEIPTS
FOR USE
EXPENDED
BALANCE
YEAR
PRECEDING YEAR DURING YEAR
DURING YEAR
DURING YEAR
UNEXPENDED
1930
$40,886.73 $34,020.19
$74,906.92
$22,796.21
$52,110.71
1931
52,110.71 27,507.00
79.617.71
20,839.73
58,777.98
1932
58,777.98 27,713.68
86.491.66
22,801 .04
63,690.62
1933
63,690.62 27,226.68
90,917.30
26,633.94
64,283.36
1934
64,283.36 27.006.01
91,289.37
19.083.82
72,205.55
1935
72,205.55 25.494.14
97,699.69
24,496.50
73,203.19
1936
73,203.19 25,730.57
98,933.76
58,826.03
40,107.73
1937
40,107.73 59,839.65
99,947.38
51,161.81
48,785.57
1938
48,785.57 296,214.26
344,999.83
86,338.96
258,660.87
1939
258,660.87 57,656.41
316,317.28
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
1948
102,337.82 50,351.26
1 52,689.08
56,808.38
95,880.70
Receipts and Expenditures from
Trust Funds 1
NcoME, 1930- 1948
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
1948
102,337.82
50,351.26
56.808.38
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Income from Trust Funds, 1930 - 1948
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
WITHOUT
FOR PURCHASE
WITH
TOTAL
RESTRICTION
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
6,034.35
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
41,216.46
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
5,923.80
40,114.96
4,312.50
50.351.26
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INCOME FROM TRUST FUNDS, 1948
General Summary
Without restriction as to use of income $5,923.80
or purchase of library materials
Library materials which may or may not be books $18,457.33
Books only — ■ without restriction as to kind of books 12,240.82
Books only — with restriction as to kind of books 9,416.81 40,114.96
Vith miscellaneous restrictions as to use of income
For special purposes, not purchase of library materials $1,676.94
For specified branch libraries 1 ,200.80
For newspapers only 1,434.76 4,312.30 $50,351.26
INCOME FROM TRUST FUNDS, 1948
By Individual Funds
Without Restriction as to Use of Income
Bernard $60.00
Bradlee 17.50
Center 1 247.16
Ford 240.00
Ford Trust (1935) 162.84
Hemenway 200.00
Hyde 144.64
Kirstein 1 50.00
Lambert • 38.06
Moore 4.34
North 60.00
Phillips 1 ,050.00
Sigilman 469.26
Skinner 1,508.00
Stewart 140.00
Treadwell 432.00 $5,923.80
Funds Whose Income is Available for Purchase of Library Materials
For the Purchase of Library Materials Which May or May Not be Books
(By terms of gift)
Benton $18,119.51
Blanchard 124.28
Gardner 137.50
Gest 76.04 $18,457.33
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For the Purchase of Books Only — Without Restriction as to Kind of Books
Ainsley
Bigelow
Billings
Clement
Cutter
Kimball
$6,207.13
40.00
3,661 .20
80.00
75.40
426.99
Knapp
Sewall
Underbill
Wadlin
Wales
Wilson
$330.00
1,062.50
12.98
96.12
212.50
36.00
12,240.82
For the Purchase of Books Only — ■ With Restriction as to Kind of Books
Artz $546.77 Lewis $200.00
Bates 2,000.00 O'Reilly 44.20
Bowditch 425.00 Pierce 166.12
Codman 28.78 Reed 30.00
Elizabeth 1,000.00 Scholfteld 2,297.14
Franklin Club 42.50 Storrow 750.00
Green 36.99 Ticknor 82.12
Hannigan 2.50 Townsend 105.00
C. Harris 425.00 Twentieth Regiment 212.50
Hersey 95.84 j. L. Whitney— Books 676.35
A. Lawrence 250.00 J. L. Whitney — Manus.
9,416.81 40,114.%
Funds With Miscellaneous 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
Saroenl 111.16
A. L. Whitney 183.00
J. L. Whitney — Bibliographic 700.00
J. L. Whitney — Care and Cataloging of Manusripts 676.34 $1,676.94
For Branch Libraries
Guerrier $12.62
T. B. Harris 123.30
Hinsman 31.00
E. Lawrence 20.00
Lcring 12.50
Mead 63.10
Morse 30.00
Oakland 459.12
Pratt 38.44
South Boston 2.50
Tufts 408.22 1,200.80
For Newspapers only
Todd
1,434.76 4,312.50
$50,351.26
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LIST OF TRUST FUNDS AS OF DECEMBER 31, 1948
1 he figures listed are for the hook values of irjvestments as of December
31, 1948.
Ainsley Fund — Bequest of Emily L. Ainsley, under Article 1 2 of
her will, for the purchase of books. Received in 1938. $205,859.86
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 v^ritings, 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:
*^ 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 . . .
'* 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 Public Library in any year, as
follows:— -(a) Six-tenths (6/10) of such income is to be applied an-
nually by the Library Trustees for the purchase of books, maps and
other library material of permanent value and benefit for said li-
brary; meaning and intending hereby that such income shall be
applied for books desirable for scholarly research and use; (b) The
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. $1,109,823.34
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.
$2,279,381.24
Charles H. L. N. Bernard Fund — Bequest of Charles H. L. N.
Bernard. Received in 1930. $2,000.00
Bigelow Fund — Donation made by the HoN. JoHN P. BiGELOW in
August, 1850, when Mayor of the City.
The income from this fund is to be appropriated for the purchase of
books for the increase of the library. $1,000.00
Robert Charles Billings Fund — Bequest of RoBERT Charles Bil-
LINGS.
"The sum to constitute a permanent fund for said library, to be
called the Robert Charles Billings Fund, the income only to be used
for the purpose of the purchase of books for said library." Re-
ceived in 1903. $100,943.34
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 1940. $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 "The 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. $103,078.00
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 1 898.
$2,677.48
Cutter Fund — Bequest of AbRAM E. Cutter of four thousand dol-
lars and his hbrary 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
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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, I 863, by a literary asso-
ciation of young men in Boston, who, at the dissolution of the asso-
ciation, authorized its trustees, Thomas Minns, John J. French and
J. Franklin Reed, to dispose of the funds on hand in such manner
as to them should seem judicious. They elected to bestow them on
the Public Library, attaching thereto only the following conditions:
"In trust, that the income, but the income only, shall, year by year, be
expended in the purchase of books of permanent value, for the use
of the free Public Library of the city, and as far as practicable of
such a character as to be of special interest to young men." The trus-
tees expressed a preference for books relative to government and
political economy. $1,000.00
Isabella Stewart Gardner Fund — Bequest of ISABELLA StEWART
Gardner.
"To the Trustees of the Boston Public Library, for the Brown
Musical Library, for a memorial to B. J. Lang." Received in 1924.
$5,000.00
Morris Gest Fund — Donation made by MoRRiS 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. $2,037.17
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 b)' 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 v^ill: "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. $1,138.31
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
'Tranklin 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.
$10,130.17
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 1 860. $ 1 0,000.00
Edward Lawrence Fund — Bequest of Edward Lawren'CE. 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$1 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. PhiUips 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
I 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 ScHOLFiELD, who died in New
York, January 1 7, 1 883, the interest to be paid to certain heirs
during their lives, and then to be used for the purchase of books of
permanent value. 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 RiCHARD Black Sewall:
"Tenth: — I bequeath the following pecuniary legacies clear of
legacy tax, namely. To the Trustees of the Public Library of the
City of Boston $25,000 to be added to their funds and the income
to be used for the purchase of books." Received in 1918.
$25,000.00
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Sigilman Fund — Bequest of Samuel Sigilman of one-third of his
residuary estate to the Boston PubHc 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 Wom.en, 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 v/ill, 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. $4,106.71
William C. Todd Newspaper Fund — Donation by WiLLlAM 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 library ;
each of which books shall have been published in some one edition
at least five years at the time it may be so purchased." Received in
1879. $4,000.00
Treadwell Fund — By the will of the late Daniel Treadwell, of
Cambridge, late Rumford Professor in Harvard College, who died
February 27, 1872, he left the residue of his estate, after payment
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 Charlestown Branch. Received in 1 906.
$10,131.77
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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
Regiment. Received in 1 897. , $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 1932.
$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. WaleSi
"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. $43,893.40
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
Artz Fund ....
Bates Fund ....
Benion Book Fund
Benton Building Fund .
Charles H. L. N. Bernard Fund
Bigelow Fund
Robert Charles Billings Fund
Blanchard Fund .
Boston Book Fair 1938 Fund
Bowditch Fund
Bradlee Fund ...
Joseph H. Center Fund .
Central Library Building Fund
Children's Fund .
Clement Fund
Henry Sargent Codman Memorial
Cutter Fund
Elizabeth Fund
Daniel Sharp Ford Fund
Daniel Sharp Ford Trust Fund
Franklin Club Fund
Isabella Stewart Gardner Fund
Morris Gest Fund
Green Fund ....
Edith Guerrier Fund
Francis J. Hannigan Fund .
Charlotte Harris Fund .
Thomas B. Harris Fund
Alfred Hemenway Fund
Heloise E. Hersey Fund
Lizzie Hinsman Fund .
Hyde Fund
David P. Kimball Fund .
Louis E. Kirstein Fund
Arthur Mason Knapp Fund .
Helen Lambert Fund .
Abbott Lawrence Fund
Edward Lawrence Fund
Mrs. John A. Lewis Fund .
$205,859.86
10,080.00
50,000.00
1,109,823.34
2,279,381 .24
2,000.00
1,000 .00
100,943.34
4,939.00
172.70
10,000.00
1.000.00
39,908.89
150.00
103,078.00
2,000.00
2,677.48
4.270.00
25.000.00
6.000.00
5.017.65
1.000.00
5,000.00
2,652.50
2,037.17
506.92
125.00
10,000.00
1,138.31
5,000.00
3.542.00
1,250.00
3.632.40
10,130.17
5.000.00
10,000.00
1 .403.57
10.000.00
500.00
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 .
Schol field Fund ....
Sewall Fund ....
Sigilman Fund ....
Skinner Fund ....
South Boston Branch Library Trust F'
Mary Elizabeth Stewart Fund
James Jackson Sforrow (Harvard '57)
Ticknor Fund ....
William C. Todd Newspaper Fund
Townsend Fund ....
Treadwell Fund ....
Nathan A. Tuffs Fund
Twentieth Regiment Memorial Fund
Francis Jay Underhill Fund
Horace G. Wadlin Fund
Wales Fund ....
Alice Lincoln Whitney Fund
James Lyman Whitney Fund
Mehifable C. C. Wilson Fund .
ad
und
500.00
2,530.51
217.00
1.000.00
2,000.00
11.781.44
l.OOO.OO
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
4,106.71
50,116.41
4.000.00
13.987.69
10.131.77
5.000.00
524.70
3.756.35
5.000.00
5.000.00
43,893.40
l.OOO.OO
Total
,$4,434,196.54
GIFTS FOR IMMEDIATE USE
Received During the Current Year
Albert H. Wiggin $35,404.85
(for Print Department)
Trustees under the Will of Helen O. Storrow ..... 1,073.85
(for general purposes of the Library)
Hiram C. Merrill 100.00
(for Print Department)
Old Colony Tenants Association ........ 80.00
(for the purchase of books for the Washington Village Branch
Library; gift to be known as Joseph Ward Memorial Gift.)
Jan Quen 54.00
(for the purchzise of books)
George A. Spanops .......... 5.00
(for the purchcise of books)
Unexpended Balances
Remaining from Gifts Received in Current and Previous Years,
as of December 31, 1948
Nathan H. Friedman $81.91
Friends of Polish Culture of Boston ....... 7.60
Jan Quen 26.47
J. Ashton Reid 30.74
George A. Spanops .......... 5.00
Trustees Under the Will of Helen O. Storrow ..... 6.681.37
Joseph Ward Memorial Gift 36.00
Albert H. Wiggin 5,400.05
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XI
OFFICERS OF THE LIBRARY
AS OF DECEMBER 31, 1948
General Administrative Offices
Director's Office
Director, and Librarian
Assistant to the Director
and Clerk of the Trustees
Assistant to the Director
Editor of PubHcations
Personnel Office
Milton E. Lord
Elizabeth B. Brockunier
John J. Connolly
Zoltan Haraszti
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
Supervisor in the Reference Division
Assistant to the Chief Librarian
of the Reference Division
Deputy Supervisor in the Reference
Division
Deputy Supervisor in the 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
Elizabeth L. Wright
Pearl B. Smart
Sarah M. Usher
Elizabeth B. Boudreau
Richard G. Hensley
Edward H. Redstone
Marjorie G. Bouquet
John M. Carroll
Bradford M. Hill
Zoltan Haraszti
Arthur W. Heintzelman
Christine Hayes
Vacant
Mildred C. O'Connor
Priscella S. MacFadden
John M. Carroll
Sarah W. Flannery
Richard G. Appel
Bradford M. Hill
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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
Dorothy M. Lovett
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
Deputy Supervisor, In Charge of Work
with Children
Deputy Supervisor, In Charge of Work
with Adults
Branch Librarians
Allston
Brighton
Charlestown
City Point
Codman Square
Connolly
Dorchester
East Boston
Faneuil
Fellowes Athenaeum
Hyde Park
Jam.aica 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
Ada A. Andelman
Elizabeth M. Gordon
Muriel C. Javelin
Christiana P. Jordan
Katrina M. Sather
Mary K. Harris
Helen M. O'Leary
Elizabeth P. Ross
Margaret A. Calnan
Margaret A. Morgan
Dorothy F. Nourse
Mary U. Nichols
Catherine P. Loughman
Sara A. Lyon
Rebecca E. Willis
Geraldine M. Altman
Annie Reis
Theodora B. Scoff
Margaret I. McGovern
Frances C. Lepie
Gladys R. White
Ruth M. Hayes
Ellen C. Peterson
Catherine E. Flannery
Mary A. Hackett
A. Virginia Haviland
Marion R. Herzig
Irene H. Tuttle
Marion C. Kingman
Beatrice C. Maguire
Elizabeth H. McShane
Fanny Goldstein
Pauline A. Walker
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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 People's Room
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
William F. Quinn
Helen Schubarth
James P. Mooers
Mary M. McDonough
William C. Maiers, Jr.
William B. Gallagher
Robert F. Dixon
Officers of the Library, Emeritus
Supervisor of Training, Emeritus
Supervisor of Branch Libraries,
Emeritus
Supervisor of Work With Children,
Emeritus
Chief of Book Preparation Department,
Emeritus
Chief of Book Stack Service,
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
Bertha V, Hartzell
Edith Guerrier
Alice M. Jordan
Marion A. McCarthy
William J. Ennis
Alice V. Stevens
Lucien E. Taylor
Laura R. Gibbs
The
F. Br
Branch
Branch
Branch
Branch
Branch
Branch
Branch
Branch
Branch
Branch
Branch
Branch
Librarian,
Librarian,
Librarian,
Librarian,
Librarian,
Librarian,
Librarian,
Librarian,
Librarian,
Librarian,
Librarian,
Librarian,
Emeritus
Emeritus
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
Margaret H. Reid
Katherine S. Rogan
Mary M. Sullivan
Geneva Watson
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
1948
Statement
OF
Expenditures and Receipts
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STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES
Expenditures for Personnel:
Permanent and Probationary employees (ex-
clusive of Printing and Binding Department
employees) .....
Sundays and Evenings, extra and other service .
$1,392,587.37
230,680.44 $1,623,267 .81
Expenditures for Service Other
Than
Personal:
Printing and binding
$66.90
Advertising
243.00
Transportation of persons .
3,290.80
Express charges
13,625.26
Light, heat, and power
55,071.24
Rent, taxes, and water
24,485.47
Bond and insurance premiums
845.66
Communication
5,775.00
Cleaning
4.274.75
Removal of waste
52.00
Expert
10,271.47
Stenographic and copying .
1,993.25
Fees ....
212.75
Photographic and blueprinting
441.97
General repairs
73,709.07
Miscellaneous services
191.47 194,550.06
Expenditure for Equipment:
Electrical
$3,037.99
Motor vehicles
575.00
Motorless vehicles
384.50
Furniture and furnishings .
1.671.64
Office
18,216.68
Books:
City appropriation $
108,821.72
Trust funds income
40,148.16
148,969.88
Manuscripts:
Trust funds income
676.59
Periodicals:
City appropriation
$6,692.26
Trust funds income
4,487.02
11,179.28
Newspapers :
City appropriation
$2,619.75
Trust funds income
1,224.36
3.844.11
Microfilms:
Trust funds income
418.65
Posters, prints, and maps:
City appropriation
$35.40
Trust funds income
327.45
362.85
Phonograph records:
City appropriation
$40.50
Trust funds income
449.23
, 489.73
Miscellaneous:
City appropriation
$790.37
Trust funds income
5,889.89
6,680.26
Tools and instruments
1,444.84
Miscellaneous equipment
6.617.18 204,569.18
Carried forward .
$2,022,387.05
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AND RECEIPTS, DECEMBER 31, 1948
Receipts from:
City Appropriation 1948
Departmental Equipment Non-Revenue ,
Sales of City Property
1947 Unliquidated Reserve
Income from Trust Funds .
James L. Whitney Bibliographic Account
Gift of Hiram C. Merrill .
Gift of Jan Quen ....
Gift of George A. Spanops
Trustees Under the Will of Helen O. Storrow
Gift of Old Colony Tenants Association,
Known as Joseph Ward Memorial Gift
Gift of Albert H. Wi^in .
$2,137,160.14
11,275.00
39,000.00
970.35
49,651.26
700.00
100.00
54.00
5.00
1,073.85
80.00
35,404.85 $2,275,474.45
Carried foricard
$2,275,474.45
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STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES
Brought foTWard
$2,022,387.05
Expenditures for Supplies:
Office
. $16,425.45
Fuel
\l>,lAlAb
Medical
58.35
Laundry, cleaning, toilet
3,020.33
Educational and recreational
34.38
Agricultural ....
144.64
Chemicals and disinfectants
399.24
Miscellaneous supplies
2,754.87
36,580.1 1
Expenditures for Materials:
Building .....
$4,233.92
Machinery .....
42.44
Electrical .....
4,126.64
Miscellaneous materials
2,947.62
11,350.62
Pensions ......
1.429.08
Workmen's Compensation
832.64
1946 Unliquidated Reserve
20.67
1947 Unliquidated Reserve
6,352.01
Departmental Equipment Non-Revenue
1,562.88
Special Appropriation: Central Librar)' Buildin;
I
Roof Construction ....
25.00
Sales of City Property ....
6,228.00
Special Items:
Trust Funds Income, salaries
$342.00
Trust Funds Income, scholarships
400.00
Trust Funds Income, sick benefits
25.00
Trust Funds Income, foreign books and mis-
cellaneous supplies
2,420.03
3,187.03
Anonymous Gift A .
$4.00
Anonymous Gift B .
100.00
Gift of Nathan H. Friedman
125.22
Gift of Friends of Polish Culture of Boston
53.50
Gift of Frances S. H. Houston .
5.00
Gift of Hiram C. Merrill . .
100.00
Gift of Pianoforte Teachers' Society of Bost
3n . 327.93
Gift of Jan Quen ....
57.53
Gift of Old Colony Tenants Association,
Known as Joseph Ward KJenior'ial Cifl
44.00
Gift of Albert H. Wiggin .
30,004.80
30,821.98
Binding Department:
Salaries .....
. $76,956.50
Gas, light, and heat ....
74.79
Repairs .....
151.78
Furniture and furnishings .
30.00
Tools and instruments
101.11
Supplies .....
584.81
Machinery materials ....
54.81
Building and electrical materials .
55.37
Stock .....
7,614.70
85.623.87
Carried fonvard ....
$2,206,400.94
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AND RECEIPTS, DECEMBER 31. 1948
Drought forJvarJ
Balance Brought Forward from 1947:
Trust Funds Income
James L. Whitney Bibliographic Account
Anonymous Gift A .
Anonymous Gift B .
Gift of Nathan H. Friedman
Gift of Friends of Pohsh 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
Special Appropriation: Central Library Building
Roof Construction
Departmental Equipment Non-Revenue .
1945 Unliquidated Reserve .
1946 Unliquidated Reserve .
1947 Unliquidated Reserve .
$2,275,474.45
$97,308.42
5,029.40
4.00
100.00
207.13
61.10
5.00
327.93
30.00
30.74
5,607.52
4,064.1 1
1 ,750.66
3.70
300.03
6.692.14
121,521.88
Carried forrvard
$2,3%,996.33
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STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES
Brought forward
$2,206,400.94
Printing Department:
Salaries . . . . .
. $17,993.29
Gas, light, and heat .
8.30
Photographic and blueprinting
206.57
Repairs ....
37.65
Miscellaneous services
19.50
Electrical equipment .
3,838.00
Furniture and furnishings
8.40
Miscellaneous equipment
1 1 .20
Office supplies
136.15
Miscellaneous supplies
30.55
Outside work ....
73.00
Stock ....
5,352.77
27,715.38
Amounts Paid Into the City Treasury-
Fines .....
. $28,061.05
Sales of Publications
200.57
Payments for lost books and damages
1,409.49
Commission on telephone stations .
720.20
Commission on coin locks .
1,121.94
Sale of waste paper .
1,135.27
Miscellaneous receipts
665.98
33,314.50
Balance, Decfmber 31, 1943:
Trust Funds Income
. $90,151.30
James L. Whitney Bibliographic Accou
It . . 5,729.40
Gift of Nathan H. Friedman
8_l.91
Gift of Friends of Polish Culture of E
oston . . 7.60
Gift of Jan Quen
26.47
Gift of J. Ashton Reid .
30.74
Gift of George A. Spanops
5.00
Trustees Under the Will of Helen O. St
orrow . . 6,681.37
Gift of Old Colony Tenants Associalic
n.
Known as Joseph Ward Memorial C
:;// . . 36.00
Gift of Albert H. Wiggin .
5,400.05
108,149.84
Balance Unexpended, December 31, 19^
\S:
Special Appropriation: Central Library
Building
Roof Construction
$4,039.11
Departmental Equipment Non-Revenue
1 1 ,462.78
Sales of City Property
32.772.00
1945 Unliquidated Reserve
3.70
1946 Unliquidated Reserve
279.36
1947 Unliquidated Reserve
1,310.48
General Appropriation:
Amount carried forward to 1949
$4,846.09
Amount returned to City Treasury
16.65 4,862.74
Income on hand
574.80
55.304.97
To Balance
$2,430,885.63
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AND RECEIPTS, DECEMBER 31, 1948
Brought foTTDord
$2,396,996.33
CEIPTS FROM:
Fines $28,576.45
Sales of Publications
200.57
Payments for lost books and damages
1 ,428.09
Commission on telephone stations .
720.20
Commission on coin locks .
1,121.94
Sale of waste paper .
1.135.27
Miscellaneous receipts
706.78 33,889.30
To Balance
$2,430,885.63
4.18.49 : 400
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