Report of the city of Somerville 1916, Part 15

Author: Somerville (Mass.)
Publication date: 1916
Publisher: Somerville, Mass.
Number of Pages: 432


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Practical German Grammar, Thomas.


Robinson, der Jangere, Campe. Henry Holt & Co.


D. C. Heath & Co.


Syllabus, Bierwirth. Henry Holt & Co.


Wilhelm Tell, Schiller (Carruth) Macmillan Company


Wilhelm Tell, Schiller (Deering) D. C. Heath & Co.


French.


Athalie, Racine D. C. Heath & Co.


Beginner's French, Francois American Book Company


Causeries en France, Pattou. D. C. Heath & Co.


Complete French, Chardenal. . Allyn & Bacon


Contes et Nouvelles, Lazarre .D. C. Heath & Co.


Contes et Légendes, Guerber. American Book Company


Colomba, Merimée. D. C. Heath & Co.


Contemporary French Authors, Mellé. .Ginn & Co.


Conversational Reader, Bierman and Frank. Allyn & Bacon Dix Contes Modernes. Ginn & Co. Elements of French, Aldrich and Foster. Ginn & Co.


Exercises in French Syntax and Composition, Bouvet,


Exercises in French Composition, Koren. D. C. Heath & Co.


Fleurs de France, Fontaine. ... Henry Holt & Co.


D. C. Heath & Co.


French Composition, Grandgent.


D. C. Heath & Co.


French Dictionary, Heath .. D. C. Heath & Co.


French Newspaper Reader, edited by Felix Weill,


American Book Company


French Reader, Super. D. C. Heath & Co.


French Grammar, Frasier and Squair D. C. Heath Co.


French Reader, Aldrich and Foster. Ginn & Co.


First Scientific Reader, Bowen .. D. C. Heath & Co.


Guy de Maupassant, Selections from Ginn & Co. Histoire de la Littérature Française, Duval. D. C. Heath & Co. Introductory French Prose Composition, François,


American Book Company


L'Abbé Constantin, Halevy. D. C. Heath & Co.


L'Avare, Molière.


Henry Holt & Co.


L'Abbe Daniel, Theuriet .. Henry Holt & Co.


L'Enfant de la Lune, Mairet. American Book Company


L'Evasion du Duc de Beaufort, Dumas .. D. C. Heath & Co.


La Bataille des Dames, Scribe et Legouvé. D. C. Heath & Co.


La Belle Nivernaise, Daudet. D. C. Heath & Co.


La Chute, Hugo .. .D. C. Heath & Co.


La Cigale Chez les Fourmis, Legouvé and Labiche,


D. C. Heath & Co.


Le Français et la Patrie, Talbot. B. H. Sanborn & Co. La Mare au Diable, Sand. .D. C. Heath & Co.


La Mère de la Marquise, About Jenkins Company


La Mère Michel et Son Chat, Bedolliere. . Ginn & Co.


La Petite Fadette, Sand D. C. Heath & Co. La Poudre aux Yeux, Labiche et Martin. Henry Holt & Co. La Tache du Petit Pierre, Moiret. American Book Company


La Tulipe Noire. Dumas. D. C. Heath & Co. Hachette


Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Moliére.


Le Cid, Corneille. D. C. Heath & Co.


Le Livre de Mon Ami, Anatole France. Henry Holt & Co.


Lectures Historiques, Emma Moffett D. C. Heath & Co.


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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.


Le Malade Imaginaire, Moliére. Ginn & Co.


Le Main Malheureux, Anonymous D. C. Heath & Co.


Le Petit Chose, Daudet .. D. C. Heath & Co.


Le Roi des Montagnes, About. D. C. Heath & Co.


Le Siège de Berlin et Autres Contes,. Daudet. . Jenkins Company Le Siège de Paris, Sarcey .. D. C. Heath & Co.


Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours, Verne,


D. C. Heath & Co.


Le Violon de Faience, Champfleury. D. C. Heath & Co.


Le Voyage de M. Perrichon, Labiche et Martin,


D. C. Heath & Co.


Les Contes de Fées, Joynes D. C. Heath & Co.


Les Misérables, Hugo. . Ginn & Co.


Les Oberlé, Rene Bazin. Henry Holt & Co.


Les Précieuses Ridicules, Molière.


D. C. Heath & Co.


Les Premiéres Lectures, Lazare .. Ginn & Co.


Les Trois Mousquetaires, Dumas. Ginn & Co.


Madame Thérèse, Erckmann-Chatrian. Ginn & Co.


Madame de Sévigné, Selected Letters of, Syms,


American Book Company


Mademoiselle de la Seiglière, Sandeau. .Henry Holt & Co.


Monte Cristo, Dumas.


D. C. Heath & Co.


Michel Strogoff, Verne.


Henry Holt & Co.


Modern French Lyrics, Bowen.


D. C. Heath & Co.


Napoléon, Fortier Ginn & Co.


Peppino, Ventura. Jenkins Company


Quatre-Vingt Treize, Hugo. ... Ginn & Co.


Readings from French History, Super Allyn & Bacon


Sans Famille, Malot. D. C. Heath & Co.


Simplicité, Tuckerman .. American Book Company


Selections for Sight Translation, Bruce. D. C. Heath & Co.


Simple French, François and Gibraud. Henry Holt & Co.


Latin.


Caesar's Gallic Wars, Harkness and Forbes, American Book Company


Caesar's Gallic Wars, Allen and Greenough. . Ginn & Co.


Caesar's Gallic Wars, Kelsey. Allyn & Bacon


Cicero's Orations, Kelsey .. Allyn & Bacon


Cicero's Orations, Allen and Greenough. . Ginn & Co.


Essentials of Latin, Pearson. .. American Book Company


Fabulae Faciles, Ritchie-Kirkland. Longmans, Green & Co.


Gate to Caesar, Collar.


Ginn & Co.


Gate to Vergil, Gleason. Ginn & Co.


Latin Composition, Bennett.


Allyn & Bacon


Latin Composition, Daniell


Sanborn & Co.


Latin for Beginners, D'Ooge.


Ginn & Co.


Latin Grammar, Allen and Greenough.


Ginn & Co.


Latin Grammar, Bennett


Allyn & Bacon


Latin Grammar, Harkness


American Book Company


Latin Prose, Pearson ...


American Book Company


Metamorphoses .(Ovid), Gleason.


American Book Company


Metamorphoses (Ovid), Peck.


American Book Company


Practical Latin Composition, Collar


Ginn & Co.


Sight Reading, Tomlinson. . Ginn & Co.


Vergil, Comstock. Allyn & Bacon


Vergil, Greenough and Kittredge. Ginn & Co.


Greek.


Anabasis (Xenophon's), Goodwin and White, !! :... , Ginn & Co.


Cornelius Nepos, Lindsay


American Book Company


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ANNUAL REPORTS.


First Greek Book, White. Ginn & Co.


Greek Grammar, Goodwin. Ginn & Co.


Greek Reader, Goodwin .. Ginn & Co.


Greek Composition, Woodruff. Sibley & Co.


Hellenica, Xenophon, Manatt. Ginn & Co.


Iliad, Seymour, Books I-III, I-VI. Ginn & Co.


Iliad, Benner, Selections. D. Appleton & Co.


Lexicon, Siddell and Scott. American Book Company


Spanish.


All Spanish Method, First and Second Books, Guillermo Hall,


World Book Company


A Spanish Grammar, Hills and Ford. .D. C. Heath & Co.


A Spanish Reader, Bransby .. .D. C. Heath & Co.


Introduccion a la Lengua Castellana, Des Garennes,


Modelo de Cartas Comerciales, L. Oliver D. C. Heath & Co.


.F. Granado Y. C'a


Spanish Commercial Reader, Harrison.


.. Ginn & Co.


Spanish Composition, Crawford. Henry Holt & Co.


Spanish Grammar, complete, Olmsted and Gordon,


Henry Holt & Co.


Spanish Prose Composition, Umphrey. American Book Company


Spanish Tales for Beginners, Hills. Henry Holt & Co.


Gil Blas de Santillano, Geddes and Josselyn. D. C. Heath & Co.


Marianela, Geddes and Josselyn .. D. C. Heath & Co.


A Trip to South America, Waxman. .D. C. Heath & Co.


Spanish Correspondence, Harrison. Henry Holt & Co.


Miscellaneous.


Bible


Classical Atlas


Collegiate Dictionary


Silver, Burdett & Co.


Euterpean, Tufts ...


Glee and Chorus Book


International Dictionary, Webster


Laurel Song Book, Tomlins C. C. Birchard & Co.


Mechanical Drawing, Tracy Harper & Brothers


Standard Dictionary


School Song Book, Students' Edition C. C. Birchard & Co.


Textiles, Dooley.


D. C. Heath & Co.


Worcester's Dictionary (small)


Webster's Dictionary (small)


AUTHORIZED BOOKS FOR GRAMMAR AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS.


Arithmetic.


First Journeys in Numberland, Harris, Waldo. Scott, Foresman & Co. First Lessons in Numbers. . B. H. Sanborn & Co. Progressive Mental Arithmetic, Gifford, Books I, II, Thompson, Brown Company


Walton and Holmes' Arithmetic, Books I-IV, American Book Company


Commercial.


Single Entry Bookkeeping, Meservey ... Thompson, Brown Company Dictionaries.


Clarendon. American Book Company


Concise Standard .. Funk & Wagnalls New International, Webster G. C. Merriam Company Standard


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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.


Students' Dictionary


Webster's New School Dictionary. American Book Company Worcester's School Dictionary


Geographies.


Elementary Commercial, Adams D. Appleton Company


Elementary Physical, Tarr. Macmillan Company Essentials of Geography, First and Second Book, Brigham and McFarlane .. American Book Company


First Steps in Geography, Frye. Ginn & Co.


Grammar School Geography, Parts I, II, Frye Ginn & Co.


Grammar School Geography, Complete


Grammar School Geography, Tilden Ginn & Co.


B. H. Sanborn & Co.


Home Geography, Long. American Book Company


Natural School Geography, Parts I, II. American Book Company


Natural Complete Geography American Book Company


Physical Geography, Maury. University Publishing Company


First Book in Geography, Parts I, II, Tarr and McMurry, Macmillan Company


Histories.


American Explorers, Gordy .. . Charles Scribner's Sons


American Leaders and Heroes, Gordy Charles Scribner's Sons


American History, Sheldon and Barnes D. C. Heath & Co.


Beginners' History, Montgomery .. Ginn & Co. Commercial and Industrial History, Keller and Bishop ... Ginn & Co. First Book in American History, Eggleston,


American Book Company


History of the United States, Eggleston .. American Book Company History of the United States, Fiske Houghton Mifflin Company


History of the United States, Thomas D. C. Heath & Co. History of the United States. Gordy. Charles Scribner's Sons Introductory American History, Bourne and Benton. D. C. Heath & Co. Leading Facts of United States History, Montgomery .... Ginn & Co. Our Country's Story, Tappan. Houghton Mifflin Company School History of the United States, McMasters, American Book Company


School History of the United States, Mace, Rand McNally Company


Language.


Aldine First Language Book, Bryce and Spaulding .... Newson & Co. English Spoken and Written, Emerson and Bender, Macmillan Company


New Webster-Cooley Course in English, Books I, II, Houghton Mifflin Company


Music.


Cecilian Music Reader. Books I-IV, Tufts. Silver, Burdett & Co. Congdon Music Primer .. .. C. H. Congdon Laurel Music Reader, Tomlins. C. C. Birchard & Co. New Education Music Course, First Reader, Mclaughlin and Gilchrist Ginn & Co. New Education Music Course, Second Reader, Mclaughlin and Gilchrist. . Ginn & Co. Normal First Music Reader, Tufts and Holt ... Silver, Burdett & Co. Normal Second Music Reader, Tufts and Holt, Part I. Silver, Burdett & Co. Normal Second Music Reader, Tufts and Holt, Part II, Silver, Burdett & Co.


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ANNUAL REPORTS.


Normal Second Music Reader, Tufts and Holt, Parts I and II,


Silver, Burdett & Co.


Silver Song Series, Number VI Silver, Burdett & Co.


Spellers.


Champion Spelling Book, Books I, II, Hicks,


Graded School Spellers Series, Books I-VII, Spaulding American Book Company and Miller .. .Ginn & Co.


Graded City Speller, Second Grade, Part I, Chancellor,


Macmillan Company


Harrington Speller, Parts I, II .American Book Company


Harrington Speller, Complete. American Book Company


Quincy Word List, Parlin. Silver, Burdett & Co.


Word Builder, Gage and O'Loughlin. B. H. Sanborn & Co.


Physiologies.


Child's Book of Health, Blaisdell. . Ginn & Co.


Control of Body and Mind, Gulick. . Ginn & Co.


Emergencies, Gulick. . Ginn & Co.


Good Health, Gulick. .Ginn & Co.


Health for Little Folks, Blaisdell.


How to Keep Well, Blaisdell . Ginn & Co.


.Ginn & Co.


Physiology of Health, Numbers I and II, Hunt,


American Book Company


The Body at Work, Gulick. American Book Company


Town and City, Gulick. American Book Company


Reading and Literature.


Aldine Primer, Spaulding and Bryce .. Newson & Co.


Aldine First Reader, Spaulding and Bryce. Newson & Co.


Aldine Second Reader, Spaulding and Bryce. Newson & Co.


Aldine Third Reader, Spaulding and Bryce. Newson & Co.


Aldine Fourth Reader, Spaulding and Bryce. Newson & Co.


Aldine Fifth Reader, Spaulding and Bryce. . Newson & Co.


Aldine Short Stories for Little Folks, Spaulding and Bryce, Newson & Co.


Aldine That's Why Stories, Spaulding and Bryce ..... Newson & Co. Art Literature Readers, Primer, Books I-V, Grover, Atkinson, Mentzer & Grover


Baldwin, Bender Readers, Books I-VIII ... American Book Company Busy Brownies at Work. Newson & Co. Cyr's Primer. Ginn & Co.


Cyr's Reader by Grades, Books I-VIII. Ginn & Co.


Cyr's Dramatic Reader. Ginn & Co.


Edson-Laing Readers, Books I-V. B. H. Sanborn & Co. Graded Literature, Books I-VIII, Judson and Bender,


Literary Readers, Books I-VI, Young and Field ... C. E. Merrill & Co.


. Ginn & Co. Progressive Road to Reading, Plan of Work and Books I-IV, Burchill, Ettinger and Shimer. Silver, Burdett & Co. Reading-Literature Series, Free and Treadwell,


Row, Peterson & Co.


Sprague Classic Readers, Books I-V, Educational Publishing Company


Sprague Classic Readers, Book IV, Part I, II, Educational Publishing Company


Sprague Classic Readers, Book V, Part I, II, Educational Publishing Company The Beginners' Primer, Bryce Houghton Mifflin Company


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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.


Story Hour Readers, Books I-III, Cook, Christie,


American Book Company


Wide Awake Series, Murray Little, Brown & Co.


Supplementary Reading.


A Dramatic Reader, Books I, III, IV, Stevenson,


Houghton Mifflin Company Action, Imitation and Fun Series, Pratt and Chadwick, Educational Publishing Company


Bow-Wow-Mew-Mew


Hop o' My Thumb


Jack and the Beanstalk


Jack the Giant Killer


Little Red Riding Hood


Puss in Boots


The Little Peoples' Sound Primer


The Little Red Hen


The Three Pigs


The Three Bears The Three Little Kittens


Aesop's Fables, Stickney Ginn & Co.


Arabian Nights .. Ginn & Co.


Cherry Tree Children. .Little, Brown & Co.


Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, Books I-V,


Houghton Mifflin Company


Child Life, Primer, Blaisdell. Macmillan Company


Child Life, No. 1, Blaisdell.


Macmillan Company


Child Life in Tale and Fable. No. 2, Blaisdell Macmillan Company


Child Life in Many Lands, No. 3, Blaisdell. Macmillan Company


Child Life in Literature, No. 4, Blaisdell Macmillan Company Child Life, Fifth Reader, Blaisdell. Macmillan Company Collode Pinocchio in Africa, Patri. . Ginn & Co.


Colonial Massachusetts, .Dawes Silver, Burdett & Co.


Ginn & Co. Each and All, Andrews. Fable and Folk Stories, Scudder Houghton Mifflin Company


Fairy Tales, Grimm. Houghton Mifflin Company


Fairy Tales and Fables, Baldwin. American Book Company


Folk Lore Readers, Primer, Grover ... .Atkinson, Mentzer & Grover Folk Lore Readers, Book I, Grover .. .. Atkinson, Mentzer & Grover For the Children's Hour, Bailey, Lewis. . Milton Bradley Company


Four Great Americans, Baldwin .American Book Company


Four American Patriots, Burton. American Book Company Great Artists, Books I-V, Keyson ... Educational Publishing Company Geographical Readers, Carpenter. American Book Company North America, South America


Europe Asia Africa


Australia


How the World is Clothed


How the World is Fed


Houghton Mifflin Company


Geographical Readers, Perkins. The Dutch Twins


The Eskimo Twins


The Irish Twins


The Japanese Twins The Mexican Twins Geographical Readers, Books I-IV, Carroll .... Silver, Burdett & Co.


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ANNUAL REPORTS.


Geographical Readers, I. O. Winslow D. C. Heath & Co.


Europe


Distant Countries


The Earth and Its People


Our American Neighbors The United States


Gods and Heroes, Francillon . Ginn & Co.


Heroic Ballads, Montgomery ... . Ginn & Co.


History Reader for Elementary Schools, Nilson. . Macmillan Company History Stories of Other Lands, Books I-VI .... Row, Peterson & Co. In Fable Land, Serl and Evans. Silver, Burdett & Co. In the Animal World


In the Child World, Emilie Poulsson .. . Milton Bradley Company


Little Betty Marigold. C. M. Clark Publishing Company


Little Blue Bird.


.Houghton Mifflin Company


Little Daffydowndilly, Hawthorne .. Houghton Mifflin Company


Little People Everywhere, Books I-IV.


. Little, Brown & Co.


Little Plays for Little People, Noyes and Ray Ginn & Co.


Masterpieces of American Literature ..... Houghton Mifflin Company Men of Old Greece .. . Little, Brown & Co.


Merry Animal Tales, Bigham. Little, Brown & Co.


Nature. Readers, Sharp.


Houghton Mifflin Company


The Fall of the Year Winter


The Spring of the Year Summer


Noble Deeds of Our Fathers, Watson,


Old Mother West Wind. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company


. Little, Brown & Co.


Peter and Polly, Books I-IV. American Book Company


Reynard, the Fox, Smythe. .American Book Company Riverside Readers, Primer and Books I-IV, Van Sickle and


Seegmiller Houghton Mifflin Company Seven Little Sisters, Andrews. Ginn & Co. Stories of American Life and Adventure, Eggleston,


American Book Company


Stories of New England History, Hawthorne, Houghton Mifflin Company


Stories of the English, Guerber . American Book Company


Sunbonnet Babies Primer, Grover Rand McNally Company


Sunbonnet Babies in Holland ... Little, Brown & Co.


Sunshine Primer, Noyes and Guild. . Ginn & Co.


The Playtime Primer. Houghton Mifflin Company


The Story of the Greeks. American Book Company


The Story of the Romans. American Book Company


The World and Its People Series, Dunton ..... Silver, Burdett & Co. Book I., First Lessons.


Book II., Glimpses of the World


Book III., Our Own Country


Book IV., Our American Neighbors


Book V., Modern Europe


1 Book VI., Life in Asia


Book VII., Views in Africa


Book VIII., Australia and the Islands of the Sea


Book IX., Hawaii and Its People


Book X., South American Republics Book XI., Story of the Philippines


Wonder Book, Hawthorne .. American Book Company


Work-a-Day Doings, Serl and Evans. Silver, Burdett & Co.


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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.


AUTHORIZED BOOKS FOR EVENING SCHOOLS.


Civics for Foreigners, Plass. D. C. Heath & Co. English for Foreigners, O'Brien .. Houghton Mifflin Company First Book for Non-English Speaking People, Cunningham, D. C. Heath & Co. Second Book for Non-English Speaking People, Harrington and Moore .... .D. C. Heath & Co. Reading and Language Lessons for Evening Schools, Chan- cellor ... . American Book Company Spanish Without a Master, Vol. I., M. D. Berlitz


Standard Short Course for Evening Schools, Chancellor,


American Book Company


The New American Citizen, Mintz Macmillan Company


MISCELLANEOUS.


Bible


Progressive Steps in Writing, Farley. Whitehouse and


Gunnison. .. Silver, Burdett & Co. School and Home Gardens, Meier Ginn & Co.


PUBLIC LIBRARY.


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BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS.


Trustees.


THOMAS M. DURELL, M. D.


CHARLES L. NOYES, D. D.


J. FRANK WELLINGTON.


HERBERT E. BUFFUM. M. D.


FREDERICK W. PARKER.


GILES W. BRYANT, M. D.


WILLIAM L. BARBER. DAVID H. FULTON.


HERMAN C. BUMPUS, Sc. D., LL. D.


Officers.


THOMAS M. DURELL, M. D.


President


J. FRANK WELLINGTON


Vice-President


DREW B. HALL Secretary and Librarian.


Committees.


Administration-Wellington, Parker, Noyes, Fulton; the President. Books and Catalogues-Barber, Buffum, Bryant, Bumpus; the President. Buildings and Grounds-The President and the Vice-President.


REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES.


To the Honorable, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen of the City of Somerville :-


Gentlemen,-The forty-fourth annual report of the trus- tees of the public library is herewith respectfully submitted; being the report of the librarian and tables of statistics of operation.


Very respectfully, The Board of Trustees, by THOS. M. DURELL, President.


Adopted at the Annual Meeting March 6, 1917.


THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.


Central Building, Highland Avenue.


Week days, holidays excepted, 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. Sundays, reading and reference only, 3 to 6 p. m. Children's room, school days, 3 to 8 p. m .; other week days, 9 a. m. to 8 p. m.


Branches.


Week days only, holidays excepted.


WEST SOMERVILLE, 40 College Avenue-1 to 9 p. m.


Saturday, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m., also.


EAST SOMERVILLE, 153 Perkins Street, 2 to 9 p. m.


UNION SQUARE, Washington Street and F Bonner Avenue- 2 to 9 p. m.


SOUTH AGENCY, 518 Somerville Avenue.


THE STAFF GRADED-PROFESSIONAL.


DREW B. HALL, Librarian. (May 1, 1917.)


LUCY B. CRAIN, Assistant Librarian, in charge of circulation, of staff personnel, and of "Central," and supervising children's work. (February 1, 1917.)


NELLIE M. WHIPPLE, Assistant Librarian, in charge of West Somer- ville Branch.


Edith B. Hayes, Chief Cataloguer. (On leave.)


Alice G. Higgins, Special Assistant in the Children's Room. (March 24, 1917.)


Margaret M. Kneil, High School Librarian.


Helen Luitwieler, Acting Cataloguer.


Esther M. Mayhew, Reference Librarian.


Lucinda F. Spofford, Branch Librarian, Union Square.


Carrie L. Williams, Branch Librarian, East Somerville.


Mabel Williams, High School Librarian. (March 31, 1916.)


Mabel E. Bunker, Assistant Branch Librarian, West Somerville.


Hazel M. Graham, Librarian's Assistant and Secretary. (March 3, 1917.)


Anna L. Stone, Cataloguing.


Mary S. Woodman, Classification.


Senior Assistants.


Susan W. Curtis, West Somerville.


Juliana Donovan, Union Square.


Nectar M. Eksergian, West Somerville.


Ruth S. Fales, East Somerville.


Rose Greenberg, Intermediate.


Myrtle Nicholson, Circulation.


Ethel M. Nute, Union Square.


Esther W. Shaw, Registration and Binding. (January 27, 1917.)


Helen P. Smith, Cataloguing.


Anna B. Truesdale, Children, West Somerville.


Elsie K. Wells, West Somerville.


Edna C. Woodbury, Children. (September 9, 1916.)


Junior Assistants.


Bertha F. Kerner (July 22, 1916) M. Hope Carpenter


Frances E. Haggens


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PUBLIC LIBRARY.


UNGRADED-CLERICAL.


Typewriters. Marion L. Fall 1


Pages.


James D. Blackall Frank Dion


Mae L. Gormley Lillian McGowan Bernard L. Maxwell


High School Attendants and Pages on Part Time.


Gladys M. Allingham


Roger Estey


Bessie Berman


Gertrude French


Helen Boyd


Donald P. Geddes


Olive B. Briggs


James G. Geddes


Elizabeth Carlin


Lucy M. Lannigan


L. Eugenia Carter


Ronald A. Moore


Hazel Cloyes


Evelyn G. Smith


Lawrence W. Codding


Leone Warren


Doris B. Cresto


Anna M. Wright


(Figures after the names are dates of leaving the service.)


ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN.


To the Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Somer- ville :-


Gentlemen,-The forty-fourth annual report of the Li- brarian is herewith submitted, being that for the year 1916.


Buildings.


Early in the year the move to provide a better building in East Somerville was brought to a successful ending when the Carnegie Corporation offered the city, upon the usual terms, $18,000 for that purpose. This sum was determined by facts concerning the city, shown in the 1915 State Census. During the summer a lot upon Broadway was purchased; and during the fall plans were matured and estimates taken which assure the erection of a building 34x74 feet, with all modern library conveniences and equipment and of first-class fireproof con- struction.


During the year attention also has been successfully given to the Union Square building. The six rooms of this former schoolhouse are now all assigned to the use of the public library ; and the whole lower floor will be remodeled for the public use of the branch. This will treble the present floor area and introduce suitable work and staff room accom- modations.


Circulation.


The lengthening of the loan period to one month and the better fitting of each book to the reader's needs have re- duced the number of or prevented entirely renewals and early returns; these facts, together with the tremendous revival of business and manufacturing, have resulted in an eight per cent. decrease in the count of circulation. This decrease has been particularly marked in the sections of the city occupied by citizens engaged in the industries. This condition is par- alleled in all towns and cities having like circumstances and is, if anything, an indication of healthy conditions. The bot- tom has been reached, however, and the tendency is now toward an increase; as the figures for various places and months are now exceeding those of the year previous.


The liberalization begun in 1911 and completed last year makes the lending rules of this library among the most liberal and wise in the country. They are continually commented upon with favor by our readers and comparisons are often drawn to our advantage. Other communities have watched this process and many of them have taken similar action based upon this practice and experience.


Three thousand six hundred eighty-seven persons regis- tered for borrowers' cards for the first time; this brings the number of names entered on the new register (beginning Oc- tober, 1912) to 27,627. Of these, 19,022 registered before


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PUBLIC LIBRARY.


December 31, 1914, have expired under the two-year limita- tion, but of them 10,749 have been renewed; this makes valid, on December 31, 1916, 14,436 borrowers' cards.


In General.


The several departments have continued their work, building upon the foundations laid in the last few years, de- veloping and perfecting it along the previous lines. There have been no radical changes. Many desirable developments and extensions of the service have not been possible because of changes in the staff and resulting shortage of time and re- adjustment. Miss Edith B. Hayes, cataloguer, began, the first of October, a year's leave of absence for rest and study after continuous and admirable service for seventeen years; the assistant cataloguer, Miss Helen Luitwieler, is serving at the head of the department with ability. Miss Mabel Williams accepted a position attractive in promise and for experience in the New York Public Library. Miss Edna C. Woodbury resigned the first of September for the purpose of adding, to her college experience and four years in this library, two years of study in the library schools of Simmons College and the New York Public Library, with the intention of special- izing in children's work.


These and several minor withdrawals have been partly offset by the accession, in May, of Miss Margaret M. Kneil to become High School librarian, and in August, of Miss Louise Hoxie, both graduates of Simmons College, and with some experience : and, the very last of December, by four appren- tices from our own training class, the Misses Hastings and Miller of Wellesley and Mount Holyoke Colleges and the Misses Carter and Kelly of the local high schools.




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