Annual report

1967

Annual

Report

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

[Document 15 — 1968]

ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

For the Year Ending December 31, 1967

August 23, 1968.

Hon. Kevin H. White,
Mayor of Boston.

Dear Mr. Mayor:

I have the honor to submit herewith a report of the
activities of the Boston Public Library for the year end-
ing December 31, 1967.

Respectfully submitted,

Erwin D. Canham,
President of the Board of Trustees.

TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

ERWIN D. CANHAM

President

Term expires April 30, 1973

SIDNEY R. RABB

Vice President

Term expires April 30, 1969

EDWARD G. MURRAY
Term expires April 30, 1972

LENAHAN O'CONNELL
Term expires April 30, 1971

AUGUSTIN H. PARKER
Term expires April 30, 1970

PHILIP J. McNIFF
Director, and Librarian

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Boston, July, 1968.
To the Board of Trustees of the Boston Public Library:

As Director, and Librarian I have the honor to sub-
mit my report for the year January 1 to December 31,
1967.

Last year the highlight of the annual report was the
signing of the contract between the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts and the City of Boston establishing the
Eastern Regional Public Library System. An account
of the progress of regional library service will be given
later in this report. This year's major event was the
formal approval on February 1, 1967, by the Mayor
and the Trustees of the Boston Public Library of the
design for the addition to the Central Library in Copley
Square.

The Library Addition of 480,000 square feet will oc-
cupy the entire area bounded by Boylston, Exeter, and
Blagden Streets. Its height and roof line will conform
to the existing Library and its exterior will be similarly
faced with granite.

Two complete floors are below grade and house a 300-
seat auditorium, conference rooms, audio-visual area,
storage space, and space for mechanical equipment. The
main entrance to the Addition will be from Boylston
Street and will directly serve the Main Floor, Lower
Concourse, Mezzanine, and Second Floor. Administra-
tive offices and work areas will occupy the Third Floor,
with book stacks filling the entire upper three floors.
A service and enclosed truck delivery entrance will be
located on the Blagden Street side.

The plan of the new structure is similar in principle
to the present Library. While the existing building is
oriented around an open court, the Addition is planned
around an enclosed interior court, so that a good sense
of orientation is maintained within the building. The
fenestration of the new building is kept to a minimum
and the basic proportions are in sympathetic relation-
ship to the present Library.

Philip Johnson, the principal architect, has selected
the Architects Design Group, Inc., as his associate in

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this joint venture. The structural engineer for the
project is William J. LeMessurier and Francis Associates
is handling the mechanical engineering.

Staff committees have been active throughout the year
reviewing services to be provided in the new and present
buildings. Basic to the considerations of these com-
mittees is the plan to provide on the first three floors
of the new structure a well selected open shelf collection
of upwards of one-half million volumes. This General
Library facility will provide service for children, young
adults, students (both high school and college), and
adults.

General Library Services

Directly related to the evolution of the "Open Shelf
Department" from a branch within the Central Library
building to a General Library were the changing of
the book buying policy for the "Open Shelf Depart-
ment," the enlargement of its shelving capacity, and
the modification of its classification system. Beginning
with the merging of the Branch Issue collection with
the Open Shelf collection, the former Open Shelf De-
partment staff embarked on a project of interfiling
catalogs, integrating shelf lists and doing extensive
checking toward making recommendations for future
purchases. Starting in January the Library of Congress
classification scheme was used for the new General
Library and branch library collections as well as for
the research collections. The reclassification of the
existing collection was undertaken and by the year's
end approximately 40 percent of the adult nonfiction
had been reclassified. Advantage was taken of the
pre-existing lettering of fiction under the Dewey classi-
fication so that, to all intents and purposes, the fiction
was already compatible with Library of Congress
practices. The young adult and children's collections,
plus the balance of the adult nonfiction, are scheduled
to be done in 1968.

An 87 percent increase in circulation in the Central
Library was due in some measure to the enlarged book
collection. However, circulation in branches seemed to

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drop uniformly. The activities of the Bookmobile
Service were severely dislocated during the protracted
truck strike. Following the termination of the truck
strike a "no fines amnesty" was declared to stimulate
the return of overdue materials. Despite publicity in
the news media, the returns were rather limited.

The Library's role of being a community center
focused upon learning is emphasized by prog'-ams
run in the branch libraries in cooperation with local
community councils and in staff participation as council
members in community affairs. On a city-wide basis,
the Library worked with such organizations as the
World Affairs Council, the Massachusetts Council of
Churches, the Massachusetts Commission on Aging,
the Jewish Community Council and a number of Negro
organizations on the presentation of programs and
exhibits, and on the preparation and distribution of
reading lists.

Among the agencies used as speaker resources for
the eight Parents' Discussion Groups and the nine
Never Too Late Groups were: Boston Legal Aid Society,
Northeastern University, Massachusetts General Hos-
pital, Boston Ballet Company, WGBH-TV, Family
Service Association, Unicef, and the New England
Conservatory of Music. School-public library contacts
resulted in visits by Young Adults Librarians to junior
and senior high school classrooms and assemblies as
well as class visits to the Library.

Communication and cooperation with youth serving
agencies took the form of special deposit collections,
film-book presentations, joint sponsorship of programs,
and the making of subject booklists. One branch
library summer program which drew a large attendance
met weekly to hear speakers on the Peace Corps and
travel, to stud}'- literary forms, to view films, to make
field trips, and to embark on service projects.

In the area of children's work the Library was in-
volved with the Head Start program, tutorial services
for the disadvantaged areas of the city and advisory
service for housing project reading rooms. A full range
of story hours, pre-school programs and parents' dis-

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cussion groups were held in the course of the year and
special programs designed to stimulate the work of
children's librarians were organized.

A change in the lending policy for films for school use
was made in conjunction with the audio-visual units of
the State Department of Education and the Boston
School Department. Films for classroom use are now
the responsibility of the education departments and
library films are to be lent to schools for assembly use
only. Despite this change of policy, audiences for the
showing of library films totaled 568,046. There were
999 film showings in the Library system and 11,319
films were borrowed by other libraries, clubs and or-
ganizations. A new edition of the film catalog was
prepared for distribution to libraries in the Eastern
Region.

The branch library building program moved ahead.
Work on the West End Branch was substantially com-
pleted within the year and its formal opening was
scheduled for January, 1968.

In November the contract for the demolition of the
old Brighton Branch Library and the construction of
the new branch library was awarded. The Architects
Collaborative have designed this facility. Temporary
quarters for branch service were secured in the Brighton
Congregational Church.

Work on the new libraries for Charlestown, Fields
Corner, Dudley Street, Grove Hall, South End, and
Lower Mills reached various stages of completion.
Because of the excessive cost of the first bids received
for the Charlestown and Fields Corner Branches, the
architects were requested to restudy their designs with
the view of bringing these projects within the budget.
It is hoped that construction on the Charlestown and
Fields Corner Branches will get under waj^ early in
1968. Cost estimates for the South End Branch indi-
cated the need for a restudy of the design, and the
progress on the Dudley and Grove Hall Branches could
result in 1968 construction starts. The site selected
for the Lower Mills Branch awaits final approval.

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The Eastern Massachusetts Regional Public Li=
brary System

Funds for the full implementation of the Eastern
Regional Library Service were provided in the Com-
monwealth's 1968 fiscal budget for the year beginning
July 1, 1967. Interim service for the first six months
of the calendar year was funded in the 1967 deficiency
budget.

By June of 1967 each of the seven subregional libraries
— Andover, Falmouth, Lowell, New Bedford, Quincy,
Taunton, and Wellesley — had signed contracts with
the Commonwealth. These contracts were the same
in every detail and state that each subregional center
will provide interlibrary loan and reference services to
the cities and towns in the subregion. The subregional
center is the first point to which requests are to be
relayed, but if the center cannot fill the request it will
pass it on to the Boston Public Library, the head-
quarters for regional service.

The appointment of A. William Kunkel as Adminis-
trator of the Eastern Regional Library System was
announced on August 14. Mr. Kunkel was Librarian
of the Newton Free Library from 1958 until October 1,
1967, when he assumed his new duties. As an active
participant in the planning for the Eastern Regional
Program, including terms as Secretary, Vice-Chairman,
and Chairman of the Eastern Regional Library Ad-
visory Council, Mr. Kunkel brings to this important
post a thorough knowledge of the aims of the regional
program and the background and experience to ensure
its success.

The steady growth in the number of interlibrary
loan requests including requests channeled through
the headquarters libraries in the Central and Western
regions is an indication of the way in which the state
program is improving service to the citizens. Reference
service was strengthened with the installation of a tele-
type service connecting the Worcester, Springfield, and
Boston libraries. The substantial increase of non-
resident borrowers in Boston and the New Bedford
Public Library's free registration for all citizens in its

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subregion are important elements in regional service.
Reading lists prepared at the Boston Public Library
for the libraries of the Eastern Regional Library System
are being printed and distributed under the regional
program.

With increased urbanization and greater opportunities
for. leisure time activities there will be need to expand
our educational, cultural, and social facilities. The
regional library system is already improving library
services for the core cities as well as for the suburban
areas. Its ultimate goal is to assure each citizen the
same high quality of library service and to make this
service readily accessible.

Exhibits

The exhibits program publicizes the Library's re-
sources, takes cognizance of annual events such as
the Children's Book Fair, Negro History Week, and
Jewish Book Month, features specialized interests and
takes note of important events. A major event of the
year was A Salute to Canada, an exhibit of current
books relating to Canada. The month-long exhibit,
honoring the 100th anniversary of the Founding of
the Canadian Federation, featured a collection of over
1,000 books and magazines dealing with all aspects of
Canadian life and culture. The cooperation of the
Combined Book Exhibits and the Canadian and Ameri-
can publishers is gratefully acknowledged. The Salute
to Canada included daily showings of films from the
National Film Board of Canada, displays provided by
the Canadian Government Travel Bureau, and a
special program for Canadian organizations sponsored
by the Trustees of the Library and the Consul General
of Canada in Boston.

The Wiggin Gallery exhibitions for the year included:
a David McCord show in which various phases of his
diversified career as writer, collector, and artist were
represented; A Decade of Experiment — color litho-
graphs and posters of artists of late nineteenth century
France: Printmakers At Work — designed to give in-
sight into the processes by which many graphic works

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of art have been created ; A Journey To The Picturesque
— early French landscape lithographs; a Whistler ex-
hibit; and two shows by contemporary local artists,
Ture Bengtz and Barbara Westman.

In addition to a number of popular exhibits pro-
grammed by the Exhibits staff the Music Department
arranged a display of music education materials in-
cluding many early Boston imprints to celebrate the
Boston meeting of the National Music Educators
Conference and an exhibit entitled "New Sights and
Sounds" which was made up of avant garde scores.

Exhibitions mounted by the Rare Book Department
included: The Christmas Story through Artists' Eyes:
medieval manuscripts and woodcuts of the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries; Years of Bondage: books and
manuscripts relating to the Abolitionist movement;
Manse and Mansion: early books on domestic archi-
tecture; and The Literary Back Bay.

Resources

The circulating collection of foreign language books
and the film collection were expanded again this year
with federal support. These federal book credits, made
available to the Boston Public Library for its regional
and statewide services, also enabled the Library to ex-
pand its research resources in a number of fields. New
serial files have been acquired and at the same time a
constant effort is under way to fill in gaps in titles al-
ready held. The Library continued to receive all current
Israeli publications under the Public Law 480 program;
similarly, it received current Latin American works
as one of the major libraries participating in the Latin
American Cooperative Acquisition project.

In preparation for the expanded General Library
services scheduled for the 1970 opening of the new
building the Coordinator for Research Services was
assigned the task of identifying the serial and reference
titles for the new facility. A preliminary list of 1,000
periodical titles was prepared and some 2,000 reference
titles selected. Files of some of the periodical titles
have been donated by libraries in the Eastern Region.

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It is possible to note but a few of the significant
acquisitions in any given year. A collection of some
1,800 Peronista items was acquired to strengthen our
Latin American holdings. In 1967 some 7,000 prints
were added to the collection. Just over 6,000 of these
were color lithographs produced by the printing firm
of Louis Prang in Boston between the years 1865 and
19Q0f The prints range from big New England land-
scapes and portraits of famous Americans to thousands
of greeting cards. During 1967 in conjunction with
Francis Comstock's work on a definitive catalog of the
work of Thomas W. Nason, the Library's Nason collec-
tion has grown from about 80 prints to roughly 500
prints and 20 drawings and watercolors. Most of these
have been gifts from Mr. Nason, some have come from
Francis Comstock. The Nason Catalog will be pub-
lished by the Library in 1968 or 1969.

The Rare Book Department, with income from trust
funds, reports the purchase of distinguished books or
broadsides in the following fields:

Titles
American and English Literature .... 82
Americana 95

Caribbeana 129

Books of Common Prayer 7

Defoe and his contemporaries .... 72

Graphic Arts 31

Juvenilia ... 12

Landscape architecture and related areas . . 97

Gifts

Each year the Library receives gifts of books, pam-
phlets, and other library materials from a number of
individuals and organizations. Grateful acknowledg-
ment is made for all contributions of money and ma-
terials. These gifts can play an ever-increasing role in
the Library's aspirations to high quality. The con-
tinued support of donors combined with support from
local, state, and federal funds will ensure the growth
that is necessary for any urban research library which
intends, at a level of high quality, to serve the total
library needs of today's community.

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Among the noteworthy gifts of 1967 were the follow-
ing:

The Hon. Elijah Adlow: An extensive collection of
Boston legal records of the late 18th and early 19th
centuries.

Miss Vera Andrus: Printer's copy (typescript) for
her book Black River.

Boston School Department: Administrative records
of School Committee, 1789-1914.

Mayor John F. Collins: Official papers.

Charles D. Childs: Group of books relating to the
graphic arts.

Richard Eberhard: Manuscripts and related cor-
respondence for poem commissioned for 1967 Winter-

fest.

Robert W. Greenwood: Collection of documents,
clippings, photographs, etc., on narrow-gauge rail-
roads serving Winthrop; Boston, 1875-1942.

Walter C. Irving: Minutes of Soldiers' Relief Com-
mittee; Boston, 1862-1865.

David T. W. McCord: Collection of manuscript
essays, poems, and correspondence relating to Boston
and the Boston Public Library, 1953-1967.

Cornelia Otis Skinner: Printer's copy, galley and
page proofs of her Madame Sarah, 1966.

Stephen Tilton: Collection of first editions of
Arnold Bennett.

The family of Joseph Welch : M em or abilia including
photographs, recordings, correspondence, etc., re-
lating to the Army-McCarthy hearings.

Mrs. Benedict FitzGerald: The holographs and
scrapbooks of the late Benedict FitzGerald.

Quaintance Eaton : Manuscript of The Boston Opera.

Mrs. Serge Koussevitzky: Collection of scores,
books, recordings, correspondence and memorabilia
from the Koussevitzky home in Seranac, at Tangle-
wood. These materials are to be inventoried before
being transferred to the Boston Public Library.

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Miss Dolores Carrillo: Fifteen recordings of com-
positions by her father, the Mexican composer,
Julian Carrillo.

John Henry Cutler: Typed manuscript of his
Honey Fitz plus a number of miscellaneous items on
James M. Curley.

Senator Leverett Saltonstall: City of Boston and
United States flags which were aboard General Lee
Wade's airplane, "The City of Boston," when it became
the first American airplane to fly around the world
in 1924.

Boston Authors Club: Annual gift for its collection.

Morris Goodman: Annual contribution for the
purchase of books.

Boston Stock Exchange Investors Information
Committee: Contribution for the purchase of invest-
ment publications in honor of the 175th anniversary
of the New York Stock Exchange.

Robison Peters: Scrapbook of his father, Andrew J.
Peters, Mayor of Boston, 1917-1921.

Staff Promotions

Mrs. Vera L. Cheves, from Cataloger and Classifier
to Chief Cataloger.

Rosalie A. Lang, from Chief of General Reference to
Coordinator of the Humanities.

Macy Margolis, from Curator of History to Coordi-
nator for Research Services.

B. Joseph O'Neil, from Coordinator of General
Reference to Supervisor of Readers Services.

Louis Polishook, from Chief of Central Charging
Records to Assistant Supervisor of Readers Services.

Louis R. O'Halloran, appointed Chief of Central
Charging Records.

Staff Retirements

Gerald L. Ball, since 1964 Curator of Engineering
Sciences. Mr. Ball entered the full-time service of the
Library in 1927 and was appointed Chief of the Book
Purchasing Department in 1950.

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Russell A. Scully, Coordinator of Resources and Ac-
quisitions. Mr. Scully's library career began in 1920.
He served in the Periodical and Newspaper and the
General Reference Departments and in the Director's
Office prior to his appointment as Chief of the Book
Selection Department in 1957.

Special mention should be made of the retirement of
two long-term employees, Mary A. Brennan who has
worked in the Library since 1918 and Palmira Piciulo
whose first employment took place in 1915.

Staff Appointments

Gunars Rutkovskis as Assistant to the Director in
charge of personnel. Before joining the Boston Public
Library staff, Mr. Rutkovskis, who holds masters
degrees from Boston College and Columbia University,
served as Head of the Periodical Division, Fordham
University, Head of the Circulation Division, Harvard
Graduate School of Business Administration, and Gift
and Exchange Librarian, Harvard College Library.

A. William Kunkel as Administrator of the Eastern
Regional Public Library System. His appointment was
noted above under the Regional Library Services.

Dr. Yen-Tsai Feng as Assistant Director for Research
Library Services. Miss Feng has her doctorate in the
field of social sciences from the University of Denver
and an M.S. from Columbia University. She held the
post of Assistant Librarian in the Harvard College
Library where she had served as Reference Assistant
and Subject Specialist in the Resources and Acquisitions
Department.

Personnel

In addition to establishing new salary scales for the
professional and administrative staffs note should be
made that the Trustees adopted new salary scales for
the nonprofessional service and voted to authorize
the President of the Board of Trustees to approve an
agreement to be entered into between the City of Boston
and the American Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO and Affiliates in respect

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to certain employees of the Library in the Library
Assistants Service, the Clerical Service, the Mechanical
Service, and certain of the Bookbinders.

Special library projects were aided immeasurably by
the assistance given under the federally aided College
Work-Study Program. Some thirty to thirty-five
college students were employed during the college year
on a part-time basis (10 to 15 hours per week) and sixty
students were employed full time during the summer
months. Cooperating institutions in 1967 were Boston
College, Boston University, Brandeis, Emerson College,
Northeastern University, Simmons College, Suffolk
University, Tufts University, and the University of
Massachusetts.

In addition the Library participated in the Work
Training Programs for Disadvantaged Persons, and
cooperated with the Action for Boston Community
Development, Inc., the Boston Welfare Department,
'and the John F. Kennedy Family Service Center in
making job-training programs available to disadvan-
taged youths and older persons.

Professional Activities

The Boston Public Library was host for an afternoon
session of the Second Annual Convention of the As-
sociation of Jewish Libraries which met at the Statler-
Hilton Hotel from May 28 to 31. At the end of August
following the International Federation of Library Asso-
ciations meetin at the University of Toronto, 114 dele-
gates and observers came to Boston. Eighteen nation-
alities were represented in the group. The largest
delegation numbering 26 came from Great Britain.
Other large delegations iecluded the French, German,
and Russian librarians. The Boston Public Library
and Boston College served as co-hosts and the program
arranged by Mrs. Elizabeth L. Wright, of the Director's
Office, was greatly appreciated by the participants.

Among the many visitors in the course of the year,
two might be singled out because of the extent of their
visits. Mr. David E. Gerard, City Librarian of Notting-

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ham, made Boston his first port of call. He spent the
first two weeks of April here studying all facets of public
library administration. Mr. Gerard was the first
librarian to have been awarded a Winston Churchill
Traveling Fellowship. The second visitor, Miss Patricia
Dunn, served an internship of approximately six weeks
in the Rare Book Department. Miss Dunn was on
leave from her post as Chief Cataloger, West India
Reference Library, Institute of Jamaica, and came to
Boston as a participant in the 1967 Multi-National
Librarian Project of the U. S. Department of State.

Each year members of the professional staff take an
active role in national, regional, state, and special
library organizations. In addition to contributions
made to workshops, institutes, and training programs
staff activities to be noted are:

Mr. John M. Carroll and Miss Mildred C. O'Connor
taught courses at the Simmons College Graduate
School of Library Science.

Mr. Sinclair Hitchings was the main speaker at the
Annual Senior Convocation of Utica College. He
also lectured at the Currier Gallery in Manchester,
New Hampshire, and gave a series of eight seminars
on the appreciation of prints at the Worcester Art
Museum.

Miss Rose Moorachian was elected President of
the Boston Chapter of the Women's National Book
Association and had the lead article, Trends in Young
Adult Reading, in the January-February issue of
North Country Libraries.

Miss M. Jane Manthorne contributed to the
bibliographical projects of the Troubled Child Com-
mittee of the Association of Hospital and Institution
Libraries.

Mr. Euclid J. Peltier was the main speaker at the
annual program of the New England Unit of the
Catholic Library Association. He spoke on Literature:
Challenge for the Film Maker.

Mr. Francis X. Moloney represented the Library
at the dedication of the Merrimack College Library
and the Director attended dedication ceremonies at

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the RadclifTe, Newton College, and St. John's
Seminary libraries.

Mr. Edward G. Fremd, who for the past three
years has served as Higher Education Advisor to the
U. S. State Department Agency for the International
Development Mission in Guatemala, has had primary
responsibility for the establishment of a central
library at the University of San Carlos de Guatemala.
Mr. Philip J. McNiff was a panelist at a conference
on Libraries and the Future sponsored by the Atlantic
Provinces Library Association at Dalhousie Univer-
sity in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He delivered a paper
at the annual University of Chicago Graduate Li-
brary School Conference. He was appointed a mem-
ber of the Advisory Committee to the Massachusetts
Board of Higher Education on Library Needs in the
Public Institutions of Higher Education in the Com-
monwealth.

■' Mr. John Alden was interviewed by a Saint Croix
radio station on the Boston Public Library's West
Indian collections. At the invitation of Bishop
Bernardine Mazzarella, O.F.M., Mr. Alden surveyed
the episcopal archives of Comayagua, Honduras.
Bishop Mazzarella was at one time stationed in the
North End and requested the assistance of the
Library during a visit to Boston.
I wish to express my appreciation to the members of
the staff for their cooperation and to thank the members
of the Board of Trustees for their support.

Philip J. McNiff,
Director, and Librarian.

Boston Public Library

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Table 1. Circulation
BOOK CIRCULATION

1963

1964

1965

1966

1967

Central Library 494,130

477,242

492,880

482,000

521,340

Kirstein Business Branch . . . 9,554

9,090

8,744

8,212

7,884

Deposit Circulation

(Estimated) 3,736

4,602

6,654

8,969

11,735

Adams Street 149,534

147,735

142,235

131,470

130,918

Allston

62,183

61,715

57,261

54,188

49,040

Brighton .

84,081

85,458

81,462

76,544

66,758

Charles town

72,861

71,441

58,088

58,848

57,362

Codman Square

155,238

150,708

142,902

130,998

122,207

Connolly .

88,630

85,255

81,372

73,810

71,193

Dorchester

71,831

75,087

68,992

63,880

62,280

East Boston

62,404

69,325

67,035

58,617

50,168

Egleston Square

103,594

91,790

80,534

67,022

62,318

Faneuil

57,517

58,741

54,531

50,018

51,683

Hyde Park

112,503

118,128

118,740

115,918

116,771

Jamaica Plain

81,271

82,674

84,492

79,157

77,572

Lower Mills

69,312

69,574

67,322

63,367

62,932

Mattapan .

130,234

127,848

119,727

104,360

96,426

Memorial .

40,203

48,833

42,234

37,465

28,452

Mt. Bowdoin

62,097

60,326

56,134

42,671

34,863

Mt. Pleasant

42,640

43,234

37,941

32,872

27,834

North End

38,793

36,465

48,353

46,743

42,048

Orient Heights

43,021

40,445

35,999

35,360

38,059

Parker Hill

58,756

57,334

52,751

47,742

40,078

Roslindale .

221,428

200,919

190,495

182,609

174,897

South Boston

133,785

130,794

124,680

112,500

99,694

South End

36,571

41,892

42,808

39,207

35,256

Uphams Corner

103,963

100,841

88,578

78,729

70,409

Washington Village

79,647

75,967

73,166

67,037

64,439

West Roxbury .

146,496

159,787

168,402

170,280

164,473

Bookmobile Service

447,268

410,650

380,059

373,947

287,581

Hospital Library Service

31,458

31,262

29,646

29,035

27,270

Total Book Circulation .... 3,294,739

3,225,162

3,104,217

2,924,175

2,753,946

NON-BOOK CIRCULATION

1963

1964

1965

1966

1967

Film and Film Strips
Recordings
Pictures
Total .

10,311

10,704

11,533

13,428

12,923

53,599

52,233

59,246

61,414

65,041

31,445

30,040

25,063

27,350

24,588

95,355 92,937 95,842 102,192 102,552

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VOLUMES SENT ON INTERLIBRARY LOAN

1963 1964 1965 1966 1967

Interlibrary loans 1,111 1,111 5,349 6,126 6,407

Table 2. Growth of the Library
BOOKS

1963 1964 1965 1966 1967

General Library:

Volumes added 63,987 94,132 88,665 66,653 69,525

Volumes withdrawn .... 57,449 78,179 87,592 60,535 53,674

Total on hand December 31 . . 763,101 779,054 780,127 786,245 802,096

Research Library:

Volumes added 21,576 26,255 31,816 44,780 49,958

Volumes withdrawn . . . 1,184 4,329 4,299 5,623 2,654

Total on hand December 31 . . 1,477,141 1,499,067 1,526,584 1,565,741 1,613,045

Total Book Stock 2,240,242 2,278,121 2,306,711 2,351,986 2,415,141

NONBOOK MATERIALS

Films 1,423

Filmstrips —

Recordings 16,360

Lantern Slides 28,962

Negatives —

Pictures 127.972

Postcards 133,805

Prints and Drawings .... 29,499

Projected Books 178

Microcards ...... —

Microfiche —

Microfilms 14,904

Microprints —

1,496

1,561

1,710

1,787

—

91

101

113

16,036

17,103

16,670

17,411

14,884

14,884

14,884

14,884

—

—

2,118

2,130

386,829

397,385

400,006

405,068

133,805

133,805

133,805

133,805

29,758

30,276

31,779

38,779

178

178

178

178

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—

3,298

5,456

—

—

852

16,158

15,257

16,221

16,969

20,317

—

—

1,727

1,851

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Table 3. Cataloging Statistics

1966 1967

Volumes processed 110,670 128,550

New Titles cataloged 35,174 50,330

Original cataloging 8,923 8,977

LC cataloging 23,065 36,069

Rare Book cataloging 1,044 1,715

LC cards processed for volumes cataloged 1965 . 2,091

Other . 51 77

Volumes reclassified 163 5,154

Films 64 326

Recordings 1,446 3,329

Microprints — Titles 23 5

— Boxes 1,429

— Cards 217 4,257

Microfilms —Titles 41 154

— Reels 320 3,525

Microfiche — Titles 1 4

— Sheets (in boxes) .... 466 12

Card Production

LC cards processed 22,004 200

Typed cards 97,879 52,218

Stencils 337 1,001

Mimeographed cards run 26,834 17,351

General Microfilm cards 721,260 838,157

Cards sent to National Catalog .... 28,973 33,359

Cards sent to National Union Catalog (withdrawn) 2,903 2,456

Cards Xeroxed — 12,337

Table 4. Binding

1963 1964 1965 1966 1967

Volumes bound .... 18,772 20,788 18,459 31,292 36,429
Photographs, plates, and maps

mounted 2,375 2,560 2,000 1,000 1,525

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