Annual Report Of The Trustees Of The Public Library Of The Cty Of Boston

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ISBN 13 : 9781332249602
Total Pages : 82 pages
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston: 1891 They have always been greatly assisted by the suggestions and recommendations made by the different examining committees. They feel that their banks and those of the citizens at large are due to the members of the present committee for the through and careful way in which they have performed their difficult task, and the valuable time they have devoted to it. The trustees justly feel great satisfaction at the result of the committee's examination. They are aware that in the administration of so important a trust there must necessarily be something open to a fair criticism. The present report, however, finds that the working of the Library has been successful beyond their reasonable hope. The examining committee finds nothing of importance in the condition of the Library, which it is its duty to examine, to bring to the notice of the trustees as requiring remedy. Its advice in regard to future action upon matters which are specially left to the discretion of the trustees, while not required by the terms of the ordinances under which the committee is appointed, will be taken as an evidence of the great interest of its members in the welfare of the Library, and will receive the careful consideration that the trustees always gladly accord to the suggestions of any of their fellow-citizens. The trustees deplore the fact that the arduous duties of the examining committee did not afford the members leisure or opportunity to point out the deficiencies that must inevitably exist in so large a collection of books, and by their advice to assist them to strengthen the Library in departments that may be weak. In past years they have received great assistance from the reports of examining committees made by experts in different subjects: such as those by Dr. Harold Williams, of the last year's committee, upon medical books; by Mrs. John Heard, Jr., of two years before, upon the literature of science and technology; by Dr. Horace Howard Furness on the Barton library; by Mr. Thomas Sergeant Perry on French literature; by Col. T. W. Higginson upon the Parker library. But the trustees recognize how difficult it is to examine into a large an institution and to obtain anything more than a very slight knowledge of its workings in the short space of time that the most hard-working committee can devote to it in the year at its disposal, even if its attention is continued exclusively to the present condition and immediate wants of the Library. 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.