Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1888 [PAGE 180]

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REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF INSTRUCTION.

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LIBEAEY.

E E P O R T BY JAMES D. CRAWFORD, A.. M., DR.

LIBRARIAN.

S. H.

PEABODY,

Eegent:

S I R : I have to report in regard to the library of the Universityas follows: Since my last published report, dated March 1, 1886, there have* been added to the library, one thousand two hundred amd ninetyeight volumes, not including the periodicals for 1887, which will add one hundred and fifty volumes more when they are bound. Of this number, seven hundred and twenty-four volumes were added in the year ending March 1, 1887, and five hundred and seventy-four volumes in the year ending March 1, 1888, making the total number of volumes in the library at the latter date seventeen thousand two hunhred and eighty-three. I n purchasing books for the library, the same plan has been followed as for some years past. The matter of purchase has been referred by the Trustees to a committee consisting of the Eegent, Business Agent, and Librarian. This committee has apportioned, as equally as might be, the amount to be expended among the several departments. The State appropriation for the library has been fifteen hundred dollars a year, of which about five hundred dollars has been expended in the purchase of periodicals and in binding, the remaining thousand dollars being spent for books. The professors in the several departments have been requested to prepare lists of books that they thought desirable for the library, and, as far as possible, these books have been purchased. The final list of books desired has been submitted to several dealers in books for prices, and the order has been given the two years past, as always before, to the lowest bidder. For the present year the books are furnished by Gr. P. Putnam's Sons, of New York. The year before they were furnished by A. C.