Bangor Public Library Annual Reports for the Year 1947
- Title
- Bangor Public Library Annual Reports for the Year 1947
- Alternative Title
- Bangor Public Library Annual Reports for the Fiscal Year January 1, 1947 December 31, 1947 Prepared for Publication January 27, 1948
- Publisher
- Bangor Public Library
- Contributor
- Purbush-Roberts Printing Co., Inc.
- Date
- 1947
- Description
- The library now contains 251,116 books. That is 8.42 books per capita. During the year 11,000 books were added and 3,696 were removed, making a net gain of 7,304 in 1947. Home use of books in 1947 amounted to 308,058. That is 10.33 per capita, or 16.14 per registered borrower. There are 19,087 registered borrowers. The library operated not merely from its central building, but from a total of 141 different locations: 1 central library, 2 branches, 117 collections in schools, and 21 collections in institu-tions. For 41 weeks the central library was open 72 hours a week. For the 11 weeks of summer the central library was open 54 hours a week. Twelve per cent of the cost of running the library in 1947 was supplied by city appropriation and 88% was supplied from other sources, mostly income of trust funds. These percentages were the same as in 1946.
- Contents
- Warren Joseph Moulton--Endowment of the Bangor Public Library--Board of Managers and Trustees of the Bangor Public Library--Report of the Librarian--Report of the Treasurer, January 27, 1948--Report of Trustees of the Hersey Fund--Library Personnel--Statistics of the Library
- Subject
- Bangor Public Library--History
- Library administration
- Public libraries
- Public services (Libraries)
- Type
- Annual reports
- Spatial Coverage
- Bangor (Me.)
- Language
- English
- Source
- Bangor Public Library Special Collections
- Rights
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- Date Issued
- 1948