A Normal Library Budget And Its Units Of Expense

Author : O. R. Howard Thomson
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ISBN 13 : 9781332169580
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (695 download)

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Download or read book A Normal Library Budget and Its Units Or Expense (Classic Reprint) written by O. R. Howard Thomson and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Normal Library Budget and Its Units or Expense The feasibility of devising a system by which library budgets can be compiled has long been a moot question. This, not only because libraries are of different kinds and engaged in various sorts of work, but because of the present chaotic condition which is revealed by even a superficial study of the statistics available. While schools have for years been compelled to furnish instruction to every child under a certain age in an assigned territory and given the money necessary to do so, libraries have been permitted to grow in a haphazard way, merely being expected to do the best possible with whatever income they have been able to secure. This income has borne no relation to the population which the library is presumably supposed to serve. Of cities of over 100,000 population, Chicago's per capita receipts in 1908, from taxes, were 12 cents; Philadelphia's, 15 cents; New York's, 23 cents; Pittsburgh's, 56 cents, and Seattle's, 61 cents; and the income of endowed libraries varied as greatly, the Rosenberg library, of Galveston, reporting an annual expenditure of 60 cents per capita and the James V. Brown library of Williamsport, an expenditure of 25 cents. With such differences in resources it is not surprising that the table, compiled four or five years ago by the Cleveland public library, of work done by the ten largest circulating libraries in the country should show an equal variation, the number of volumes loaned for home use varying from .92 per capita in Chicago to 3.99 in Cleveland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.