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GEORGE BRINTON MCCLELLAN, Mayor of the City of New York, ex officio.
EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller of the City of New York, ex officio.
CHARLES V. FORNES, President of the Board of Aldermen, ex officio.

OFFICERS

President, Hon. JOHN BIGELOW, LL.D.

First Vice-President, Rt. Rev. HENRY C. POTTER, D.D., LL.D.

Second Vice-President, JOHN S. KENNEDY, Esq.

Secretary, CHARLES HOWLAND RUSSELL, Esq., 40 Lafayette Place.
Treasurer, EDWARD KING, Esq., Union Trust Company, 80 Broadway.
Director, Dr. JOHN S. BILLINGS, 40 Lafayette Place.

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VOL. IX.

OF THE

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

JANUARY, 1905.

No. 1.

At the meeting of the Board of Trustees on January 11, 1905, Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Samuel P. Avery.

REPORT.

REFERENCE DEPARTMENT.

The following table shows the operations of the Reference Department of the New York Public Library for December, 1904, with the corresponding figures for the last six months, as compared with the corresponding six months of 1903:

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During the calendar year ending December 31, 1904, the number of volumes actually received (including exchanges) was 30,884, and of pamphlets, 88,592.

The number of volumes catalogued was 33,356, and of pamphlets, 30,892. The total number of cards written was 121,319.

The total number of readers during the calendar year was 192,522, the number of desk applicants was 151,692, and the number of volumes consulted by these desk applicants was 549,696, not including those used at the free reference shelves.

There are now on the shelves of the Astor and Lenox Branches of the Library, available for readers, 642,895 volumes and 247,357 pamphlets. These with the 445,496 volumes in the circulation department give a total of 1,088,391 volumes and 247,357 pamphlets in the whole system available for readers.

CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT.

On December 31, 1904, the Cathedral Free Library turned over its real and personal property to the New York Public Library and the Circulation Department took charge of its five branches. In the year just ended it had circulated 343,962 volumes, and at the time of consolidation it had 49,812 volumes on its shelves.

During the calendar year ending December 31, 1904, the Circulation Department (22 branches) circulated for home use 3,222,491 volumes; the number of readers consulting books from the shelves was 400, 365; the number of new registrations was 54,996; the number of adult readers was 282,334, total number of readers being 435,542; the number of volumes accessioned was 26,624, giving a total of 395,684 volumes on the shelves. The addition of the former Cathedral branches brings the department total number available to 445,496 volumes, and the total circulation for home use to 3,566,453 volumes.

The most popular books of the month were (in non-fiction): Knox's "Japanese Life in Town and Country," Lavignac's "Music Dramas of Richard Wagner," and Ulmann's "Landmark History of New York"; (adult fiction): Thurston's "The Masquerader," Wiggin's "The Affair at the Inn," and Caine's "The Prodigal Son"; (juvenile fiction): Wiggin's "Birds' Christmas Carol," Alcott's "Little Women," and Barbour's "Arrival of Jimpson."

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