Bangor Public Library Annual Reports for the Year 1956
- Title
- Bangor Public Library Annual Reports for the Year 1956
- Alternative Title
- Bangor Public Library Annual Reports for the Fiscal Year January 1, 1956 - December 31, 1956 Prepared For Publication January 22, 1957
- Publisher
- Bangor Public Library
- Contributor
- Purbush-Roberts Printing Co., Inc.
- Date
- 1956
- Description
- It is gratifying to be able to report that the use of the library, as measured by the home use of books, increased 10% as compared with 1955. The total for 1956 was 322,642--for 1955, 292,553. The 1956 figure is the largest annual use in fourteen years. All departments–adult, children's, extension, music-shared in the increase. Obviously public interest, rather than any one thing that may have been done by the library other than meet the demand, is the explanation. The full use of clear plastic covers over the publishers' colorful book jackets may have whetted public interest. In two words, "improved packaging."...The supplying of home reading is far from being the only activity of the library. There is the reference department answering 12,329 questions--there is the job of giving out the Tello-Test answers 13,417 times--there are the book boxes supplied in 175 school rooms and 99 sets of encyclopedias in schools in Bangor. There are the 144 teaching units sent out by the children's department, the 102 story periods, the annual author's tea. There are seventeen exh1bits in the lecture hall and the 266 public meetings held free by 43 organizations in various rooms of the library. There is the intensive use of the reading room by high school students from one o'clock to four o'clock daily. There is the doctors' library at the Eastern Maine General Hospital and the law books in the Penobscot County Bar Library. The list could be extended a long way.
- Contents
- Our Purpose--Clarence C. Stetson, 1884-1950--Endowment of the Bangor Public Library--Report of Trustees of the Hersey Fund--Report of the Librarian--Report of the Treasurer--Report of the Independent Public Accountants--Board of Managers and Trustees--Library Personnel--George F. Eaton, 1892-1956--Statistics of the Library--The City of Bangor and The Bangor Public 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
- 1957