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REGISTRATION OF MINORS October 1, 1946
Age Groups
5-7
7-16
Illiterate 16-21
Total
Boys
230
792
5
1027
Girls
213
859
1
1073
Total
443
1651
6 2100
Distribution
In Public Schools
180
1290
1470
In Private Schools
89
311
400
In Vocational Schools
12
12
In.Continuation Schools
5
5
Not in School
174
33
6
213
Total
443
1651
6
2100
152
Itemized Expenditures
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS Including General Control and Adult Alien Education
GENERAL CONTROL
Flavel M. Gifford, Superintendent $ 4,490.00
Flavel M. Gifford, Travel Expense
115.35
Beatrice M. DeCoffe, Secretary
1,507.33
Gilda Gubellini, Part-time Clerk
10.50
Jean M. Pearson, Part-time Clerk
73.75
Evelyn L. Teixeira, Substitute Clerk
51.42
Dorothy S. Kearns, School Census
76.00
James Evans, Postmaster
79.98
Charles H. Lawton, Attendance Officer
175.00
Payments under $50.00
179.36
$ 6,758.69
TEACHERS
Albert F. Ehnes
$
2,535.28
Ruth B. Wilbur
1,558.50
Marjorie E. Coffin
936.85
Alma B. Denzler
1,735.86
Irma M. Sherin
1,073.90
Cecelia M. Urquiola
640.00
Helen L. Newton
1,888.44
Mary S. Fletcher
1,888.44
Thelma K. Bennett
310.00
Lucille H. Sterling
1,474.23
Mary A. S. Sale
1,239.47
Helen R. Porter
2,221.07
Winifred N. Leary
203.00
Mildred R. Hall
1,556.85
Gertrude L. Mackinaw
1,718.44
Anne Surinski
1,888.44
Elina Davidson
1,118.44
Clara E. Morgan
796.08
Dorothy S. Turner
1,118.44
Elizabeth I. Hastings
2,838.51
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Ellen E. Rex
1,206.11
Mary Voudouris
1,625.77
Dorothy M. Howes
815.76
Josephine A. Perry
729.50
Dorothy B. Rogers
2,002.61
Lorraine D. Kelley
1,717.39
Mildred E. Webb
1,888.44
Marjorie M. Gilmore
1,524.72
Mary Toledo
2,014.78
Edith M'Namara
1,888.44
Hester E. Quigley
1,691.07
Beula M. Lentell
825.50
Florence A. Curley
1,013.16
Edith I. Gardiner
1,625.77
Harry Rogers
2,333.17
Pearl E. Wilbor
1,827.90
Caroline R. Gilmore
1,888.44
Alice R. Mackenzie
1,838.44
Edna M. Stowe
1,524.72
Ruth N. Parker
729.50
Agnes T. Gleason
1,827.90
Charlotte M. Forgeron
1,889.44
Norah C. Smith
729.50
Mary A. Jerome
1,625.77
Ann O'D. Brow
2,065.27
Eleanor M. Chace
1,524.72
Catherine A. Boylan
1,625.77
Gertrude E. Gidley
1,565.22 887.38
Annemarie Bailey
648.42
Anna P. Malone
1,178.93
Barbara A. Berg
688.92
Doris D. Bruce
1,950.94
Agnes A. Smith
810.50
Clarence W. Arey
186.45
Cuthbert W. Tunstall
865.34
Chester M. Downing
842.54
Joan R. Hall
365.57
Dorothea L. Jameson
458.54
Marguerite A. Johnson
1,493.18
Pauline Lantz
100.00
Ruth K. Doherty
324.17
Hazel M. LaRochelle
1,187.64
Evelyn L. Teixeira
241.15
Lucy F. H. Eldredge
784.50
Rose M. Mellios
154
Grace Babbitt
74.75
Natalie Tallman
71.50
Amelia S. Curtis
134.00
Marietta Dittami
102.50
Hazel L. Rogers
115.00
Eunice Randall
54.00
Rinehart Handwriting System
345.00
Mary E. Minardi
729.50
Donald G. Jones
648.42
Elsie N. Peltz
567.34
Payments under $50.00
185.95
$ 88,347.15
TEXTBOOKS
American Book Co.
$ 78.28
Harcourt, Brace & Co.
67.90
The Macmillan Co.
59.09
O. H. Toothaker
57.78
Ginn & Co.
110.48
Scott, Foresman Co.
156.24
Charles Scribners' Sons
94.14
Silver Burdett Co.
219.44
World Book Co.
165.41
Encyclopedia Britannica
108.12
Payments under $50.00
118.80
$ 1,235.68
SUPPLIES
J. L. Hammett Co.
$ 527.50
Scott, Foresman Co.
507.94
R. A. Wilcox Co.
283.35
American Education Press
130.80
Smith's Athletic Store
52.50
Edward E. Babb & Co.
352.57
Gledhill Bros.
392.65
World Book Co.
102.87
Payments under $50.00
239.19
$ 2,589.37
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JANITORS
Charles H. Lawton
$ 1,564.98
Walter G. Spencer
615.00
H. James Ellis
1,700.16
Arthur H. Westgate
1,674.96
Edward Richard
1,774.98
John W. Schofield
1,676.73
Harold Lawton
865.46
Payments under $50.00
30.60
$ 9,902.87
FUEL
David Duff & Son
$ 4,474.31
Payments under $50.00
39.00
$ 4,513.31
MISCELLANEOUS OPERATING EXPENSES
Kennedy & Kirwin
$ 164.67
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co.
600.78
N. B. Gas & Ed. Lt. Co.
1,551.98
C. F. Delano
203.13
Millicent Library
90.12
Fairhaven Water Co.
632.34
J. I. Holcomb Co.
121.55
David Duff & Son
82.50
Payments under $50.00
52.98
$ 3,500.05
REPAIRS AND REPLACEMENTS
E. G. Baldwin Co. $ 140.86
C. F. Delano
189.14
Lawrence B. Maxfield
311.29
John W. Reilly
159.74
Tony P. Costa
313.61
Charles H. Sisson
64.81
Day's Electric Shop
56.74
J. J. Duggan & Son
88.19
Payments under $50.00
149.85
$ 1,474.23
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OUTLAY
Standard Duplicating Machines Corp. $ 301.00
Beaudette & Co., Inc.
168.00
Payments under $50.00
120.85
$ 589.85
TRANSPORTATION
Cozy Cab & Bus Co.
$ 347.23
Union St. Ry. Co.
1,421.31
Joseph G. Andrade
2,050.00
Robert Ferguson
426.00
Payments under $50.00
18.00
$ 4,262.54
HEALTH
M. Louise Fleming, R.N.
$ 1,651.71
Charles E. P. Thompson, M.D.
424.50
Payments under $50.00
22.47
$ 2,098.68
TUITION
City of New Bedford $ 248.70
MISCELLANEOUS
Mass. Teachers Retirement Board
$ 198.38
Marguerite A. Johnson
60.00
A. D. McMullen
80.73
Commissioner of Public Safety
50.00
Noon Hour Duty
549.30
Payments under $50.00
47.91
$ 986.32
ADULT ALIEN EDUCATION
Mary A. Smith
$ 226.00
Edward Richard
62.00
Houghton Mifflin Co.
3.36
$ 291.36
GRAND TOTAL (Elementary Schools)
$126,798.80
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High School
TEACHERS
Chester M. Downing
$ 3,370.06
Mary F. Fitzpatrick
1,026.59
Walter D. Wood
3,101.11
Mary I. Cook
2,090.55
Alexander M. Clement
2,696.88
Melvin Entin
2,797.92
Earl J. Dias
2,171.56
Alice W. Gidley
1,383.10
Cecile Giguere
1,571.05
Dorothea L. Jameson
1,834.01
Mabel G. Hoyle
2,171.56
Edith G. Kenney
2,090.56
Robert C. Lawton
2,191.61
James Parkinson
2,595.77
Grace E. Libbey
2,090.55
Edith Rogers
2,292.55
Lena J. Russell
1,239.47
Raymond G. Boyce
810.50
Cuthbert W. Tunstall
1,730.42
Margaret Siebert
1,299.93
Maud O. Walker
2,090.55
Marie R. Wentzell
2,171.56
Pauline Lantz
100.00
Ruth K. Doherty
324.25
Clarence W. Arey
373.08
Marguerite A. Johnson
373.32
Hazel M. LaRochelle
781.01.
Anna P. Malone
851.08
Evelyn L. Teixeira
1,041.64
Joan R. Hall
1,452.33
Frank P. Gonsalves
227.04
Catherine E. Delaney
770.00
Albert L. Rosenthal
286.30
Claire A. Fontaine
90.00
Natalie Tallman
209.00
Payments under $50.00
145.50
$ 51,842.41
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TEXTBOOKS
D. C. Heath & Co.
$ 57.91
Henry Holt & Co.
84.07
Charles Scribners' Sons
67.34
The Gregg Publishing Co.
87.60
Ginn & Co.
371.12
Scott, Foresman & Co.
140.73
South-Western Publishing Co.
107.64
Payments under $50.00
240.52
$ 1,156.93
SUPPLIES
Carter, Rice & Co.
$ 156.71
Smith's Athletic Store
75.65
J. R. Johansen
70.54
J. L. Hammett Co.
111.05
Robert A. Wilcox Co.
230.96
Underwood Corporation
543.32
Royal Typewriter Co., Inc.
492.85
Ginn & Co.
51.75
Payments under $50.00
676.68
$ 2,409.51
JANITORS
William T. Wood
$ 2,140.32
Thomas Duckworth
1,924.98
James E. Holden
1,674.96
Richard Jenney
825.00
James J. Hanlon
1,687.32
Samuel J. Gillespie
187.50
Stephen Guzik
501.36
Harold Lawton
152.40
Payments under $50.00
68.20
$ 9,162.04
FUEL
David Duff & Son
$ 3,235.17
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MISCELLANEOUS OPERATING EXPENSES
Kennedy & Kirwin
$ 96.02
N. B. Gas & Ed. Lt. Co. 657.79
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co.
217.85
J. I. Holcomb Mfg. Co.
296.38
U. S. Sanitary Specialty Co.
151.84
Fairhaven Water Co.
444.87
Payments under $50.00
274.97
$ 2,139.72
REPAIRS AND REPLACEMENTS
C. F. Delano
$ 89.18
Babbitt Steam Specialty Co.
92.00
John M. Reilly
144.15
Walter F. Douglas
72.05
J. J. Duggan & Son
142.84
Payments under $50.00
535.86
$ 1,076.08
OUTLAY
Boston Blueprint Co., Inc.
$ 87.00
Remington, Rand, Inc.
398.75
Gledhill Bros.
123.75
Payments under $50.00
123.82
$ 733.32
TRANSPORTATION
Cozy Cab & Bus Co.
$ 648.60
Union St. Ry. Co.
1,072.86
$ 1,721.46
HEALTH
Charles E. P. Thompson, M.D.
$ 253.50
M. Louise Fleming, R.N.
385.77
Payments under $50.00
11.23
$ 650.50
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TUITION
City of New Bedford $ 56.25 ...
MISCELLANEOUS
Massachusetts Teachers Retirement Bd. $ 188.81
Payments under $50.00
223.98
$ 412.79
GRAND TOTAL (High School)
$ 74,880.03
SPECIAL REPAIRS
Anderson & Olsen
$ 265.92
Powers Regulator Co.
67.60
Tony P. Costa
318.57
James Henshaw
54.17
Tallman, LaBrode, & Rounseville
698.70
The Fairhaven Star
7.00
Olson & Appleby
4,604.45
Jeremiah Coholan
3,395.46
John M. Reilly
449.41
Edward E. Cook
39.54
Day's Electric Shop
101.14
$ 10,001.96
HURRICANE DAMAGE
Van's Nursery & Landscape Service $ 11.08
Tony P. Costa
123.55
J. J. Duggan & Son
117.80
$ 252.43
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NEWS
About Your Library
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IRHAVEN, MASS
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1946
THE A. E. COFFIN PRESS-PRINTERS NEW BEDFORD, MASS.
1947
LIBRARY STAFF
DECEMBER 31, 1946
LIBRARIAN Avis M. Pillsbury
ASSISTANTS
Ethel D. Griffin
General Assistant
Rita E. Steele Cataloger
PART-TIME
Marion S. Archambault
Clerical Assistant
(Appointed Nov. 1)
Mary A. Sale.
Circulation Assistant
(Appointed Oct. 7)
Albin S. Silva. In Charge, Oxford Branch
Barbara Dobson
(Appointed Sept. 23)
Student Assistants
Diane Herrick
(Appointed Feb. 1)
JANITOR Arthur Boucher
RESIGNED DURING 1946
Mary A. Beals
General Assistant
(Oct. 15)
Ann L. Ford
Clerical Assistant
(Appt. Sept. 5; Resigned Nov. 1)
Agnes F. Judkins General Assistant
(Feb. 1)
Student Assistant
Barbara Long (Sept. 1)
Norman B. Moore
General Assistant
(Appt. Apr. 1; Resigned Sept. 1)
Mary L. Quinn
Student Assistant (Sept. 1)
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TRUSTEES OF THE MILLICENT LIBRARY
Henry Rogers Benjamin Edward L. Besse
Mrs. Lothrop Hedge George B. Luther
Morris R. Brownell
Mrs. James H. C. Marston
Charles Mitchell
Harry L. Pope
Lord Fairhaven George A. Greene
Miss Mabel L. Potter Thomas A. Tripp
Miss Anna B. Trowbridge
OFFICERS 1945 - 1946 Lord Fairhaven, President Elwyn G. Campbell, Vice-President George A. Greene, Treasurer Avis M. Pillsbury, Secretary
STANDING COMMITTEES 1945 - 1946 Book Committee
Lord Fairhaven, Chairman
Mr. Campbell
Miss Dana Mr. Pope Miss Potter
Finance Committee
Mr. Benjamin
Mr. Greene, Chairman Mr. Besse Mr. Luther Mr. Mitchell
House Committee
Mr. T. A. Tripp, Chairman
Mr. Brownell
Mrs. Hedge Mrs. Marston
Miss Trowbridge
LIBRARIANS
Don C. Stevens
1893-1901
Drew B. Hall
1901-1911
Galen W. Hill
1911-1926
Louis Felix Ranlett
1926-1928
Avis M. Pillsbury
1928-
FORMER TRUSTEES
Miss Ellen H. Akin 1893-1919
Mrs. Eliza C. Pease
1919-1943
Edmund Anthony, Jr.
1902
Henry H. Rogers
1893-1909
Mrs. Sarah H. Anthony
1893-1912
Henry H. Rogers, Jr.
1909-1935
Mr. Lyman C. Bauldry
1913-1939
Don C. Stevens 1893-1901
William E. Benjamin
1893-1940
George W. Stevens
1893-1908
Miss Sara B. Clarke
1912-1933
Mrs. H. H. Stillman
1919-1920
Miss Georgia E. Fairfield 1920-1928
George H. Taber
1893-1901
The Lady Fairhaven 1893-1939
George H. Tripp
1893-1943
William B. Gardner
1917-1941
Job C. Tripp
1902-1917
James L. Gillingham
1893-1912
Charles W. White, Jr.
1902-1904
Frederick B. Lyman
1904-1909
Walter P. Winsor
1893-1911
Mrs. Lizzie F. Nye
1893-1919
Mrs. Mary B. Winsor
1893-1921
Officers and Committees appointed biennially
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Elwyn G. Campbell Miss Edith Dana
THE LIBRARIAN REVIEWS
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1946 was the Millicent Library's Fifty-fourth Year of Service
It faced difficulties caused by fast-rising prices, by many staff changes beyond our control. Against odds, the staff has worked loyally and cooperatively to render the same kind of good service we take pride in offering to our patrons. That service has been more efficient because of outside cooperation given by teachers, town officials, newspapermen and the public to whom the librarian is sincerely grateful.
Your Library is a Center of Activity in the Community
It offers: Reference assistance-Reading lists upon re- quest-Cooperation with groups desiring special material -Aid in the selection of books-Interlibrary borrowing and lending-and has given all these services and others .
during the past year.
The Book Circle of the Fairhaven Mother's Club was granted the privilege of using the Trustees Room in the library for five of its meetings. At these, interesting book reviews, which were open to the public, were given. Miss Mary Beals of our staff was one of the guest speakers.
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At the Town Hobby Show, a library hobby cart filled with books was featured. 800 gay and attractive folders listing books on hobbies were mimeographed by the library staff and distributed.
The annual Book Week Tea was once again a gala occasion at which books and people were brought together in an atmosphere of cordial welcome. Tea, poured by Mrs. Lothrop Hedge and Miss Anna B. Trowbridge was served to about fifty people by Irene Bissonnette, Beverley Bleakley, Ursula Dittami, Elinore Dreher, Jerome Frost, Harriet Hawes, Mary Hennessy, Rosemary Richards, and Alan Shaw. These young patrons were recipients of the honor because of good reading records in the Summer Reading Club. Many of the new books of the fall season were displayed in Trustees Room, Children's Room and in the main lobby.
Cooperation with a well-known lecturer in supplying data from our files brought a delightful surprise on July 5th, when Mr. Alton Hall Blackington presented on his YANKEE YARNS program over WBZ and several other radio stations, his program of "An epic of the sea", this being a story of Captain Whitfield's rescue of Manjiro Nakahama.
Your Library works with the Young People
Twenty lessons were given at the library from April 4-11, to Seventh Graders, on "How to use the library." Some text revisions were made and new covers put on the mimeographed booklets used for the course.
A Reading Club was conducted during the summer. Though much more simple in form than our usual summer clubs, this "Bookland Tour" did serve to stimulate and maintain the reading interest of many youngsters during the summer.
Ten Story Hours were held during the summer, on each Wednesday morning, from June 26 - August 28, with a total attendance of 756 children, an average of 75. 361 of these boys and girls came from the north section of town on the school bus engaged by the library to convey
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the children. Miss Beatrice Mosgrove, Mrs. Wallace Mac- Kinnon, Mrs. J. Milton Rex were those aside from our own staff who very graciously consented to tell stories. A Book Week Story Hour was arranged for November 16, when Mrs. Harold B. Dutton entertained 100 boys and girls.
Five elementary schools were visited twice, in June and in November, by the librarian, who made announce- ments of library activities, distributed mimeographed folders and told stories from some of the new books of the season. Incidentally, the demand for these books is still being felt.
Reference assistance was given frequently to students and was sometimes very heavy when class assignments were about due.
"One good turn deserves another." Mr. Parkinson's class at the High School printed for us a supply of stickers needed for books placed in the schools. Some splendid Book Week posters were made by High School students for our Book Week display, under the direction of the Art Supervisor, Miss Ruth K. Doherty. For this help and co- operation, the librarian says "Thank you, boys and girls!"
Statistics are not Dull! They Record Progress! They Show Accomplishment!
The following pictorial facts, and more detailed tables at the end of this report, tell of the year's work. We were pleased that our graphic method of recording our 1945 statistics brought forth a nice comment from the LIBRARY JOURNAL in its June 15th issue, and later, requests and comments for and about our report from a number of librarians from all over the country.
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FACTS ARE FACTS, AND HERE THEY ARE!
LOANED
..... 70% .... 30%
. 27%
Schools
BOOKS BORROWED
3,647 Overdue 916 Reserve dotices
fo Adulta ... To Children
CIRCULATED
4,917 books
85 Books
Non-fict.
50,109 Adult books 21,527 Juvenile books 365 Pictures 20 Stereoscopes
8.989
..... 12. 5 TEACHERS BORROWED
for schoolroom use ..
44 books
65% Jur.
circulating 1,313 books
BOOKS ADDED 1946
AVAILABLE TO PATRONS
1,225 by Purchase
10.949 Pictures in files
166 by Gift
139 Magazine subs.
7 by Binding
8 Newspapers
BOOKSTOCK OF 43.723
CATALOGED
2,8 7 0 BORROWERS
ADULT
SPENT
43%
Fiction Hon-fict.
JUVENILE
17.7%
8.3%
1,290
370
394
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824 Resident 22 Out-of-town
BOOKS AVAILABLE AT
316 662
Oxford Branch ... 8.1%
Non-residents ... 8.9%
Oxford Branch ... Anthony School .. Bast F. School .... Oxford School .... High School
Old, worn-out booke 839 Adult 666 Juvenile
WITHDREW
1,791 Resident 233 Non-resident
29.5%
JUVENILE
ADULT 70.5%
1,022 Adult books 437 Juvenile
UNKUNNGANOS
books
.. ......... BORROWERS TOOK 52 Portuguese
62 Trench books
GAIN 12.3% IN Adult non-fiction
Fiction
72,022 TOTAL
Of small total loss ... 35% Adult
93.5% Fiction 6.5% Monofiction
24 Classroom Deposits containing 745 books.
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1,398 T O T A L
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Oxford Branch ... 6.8%
LOANED TO Our Lady's Haven
31%
Your Library arranged Exhibits for your pleasure
Seasonal and timely displays have been attractively arranged by Miss Steele on the bulletin board and table opposite the entrance; and weekly displays were arranged near the circulation desk, of books of current interest, on which 159 reserves were left by patrons.
The Book Week exhibit was a miniature bridge clever- ly made by Mr. Boucher, our janitor. Set up by the librarian with an appropriate foreground under the bridge and miniature figures upon and surrounding it, this was our central theme and it carried out aptly the national 1946 slogan "BOOKS ARE BRIDGES."
A special feature, appreciated and commented upon by many patrons, was the festive atmosphere created by bright Christmas decorations and a lovely tree surrounded by new books.
Displays made in our special case were enjoyed, and were as follows: Old programs, of the New England Society in the City of New York, these being elaborate programs speaking in the language of another day and age ;- Two rare newspapers, recent gifts from Mr. Charles Mitchell, one "The New Bedford Morning Mercury" of April 2, 1841, the other the "Boston Gazette & Country Journal" of March 12, 1770, in which was an account of the Boston massacre ;- Carved boxes, made by the special class at the Oxford School under the direction of Mrs. Ann Brow :- Miniature elephants, pink, yellow, green, red, black, of glass, wood, metal, from the collection left to the library by the late Mrs. James Baker, and others loaned by Mrs. Maisie Ellis ;- Tiny perfume bottles, of odd and clever shapes, loaned by Miss Ollie Ellis.
Your Library has Problems, too
Personnel-Resignations of staff members for the past year, as listed in the front of this report, speak louder than words. The year closed with our staff the smallest in years. We have filled in the best we could by making several temporary appointments, and appreciate the help these people have given us. The High School pages have done splendid work; we have felt keenly the loss of Miss Beals, who decided to return to missionary teaching in South Africa; we were glad for the five months of good service given us by Mr. Moore, a returned veteran, who
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left in September to train at Simmons College for the library profession.
For several years, our salary schedule has been too low to attract or to hold for long people trained in library methods. Because of inadequate salaries, lack of a pay plan and a future outlook for step-up increases for satis- factory work, our staff turnover has been too great, and the work has been disrupted with the constant training of new people, inexperienced in the library field. Within the past year, salary standards in the library profession have so risen that even the library schools will not suggest any candidates for the salary we have been able to offer.
Staff members have taken turns in attending inspir- ational national, state and local library conferences, thus keeping in touch with new developments in the library world. Probably never more than this past year has the splended contribution of our profession to modern life been stressed.
The librarian and Miss Beals were called upon re- peatedly for talks on book and travel topics. Aside from the latter, your librarian gave a lecture on "Publicity" at Simmons College, before the students in the Summer Library Institute course conducted by the State Division of Public Libraries,-and in November, participated in a radio broadcast over WNBH on the subject "The tradition of good books."
Maintenance. The library faces expensive building repairs to the gutters and stonework. One emergency re- pair in the fall uncovered 24 cracks where water was seeping through around the windows in the office.
A coco brush mat for the entrance hall, a new awning, and two Dry-Al units to combat dampness in the basement were needed replacements.
The janitor very admirably refinished the large oak table in the Trustees Room.
During the spring, some of the lawn bordering the sidewalk was reseeded; and in the fall, the tree warden replaced with elms the young maples that had been set out earlier along the sidewalk.
A small visible index record for posting maintenance items was added to the office equipment, and a new and needed typewriter was purchased.
Shelving. It's a puzzle! The building is crowded and is becoming more so each year. The work space is far
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from adequate or convenient, but where and how to shelve books properly is a serious problem. The shelves all over the library are bulging. The window sills in the Children's Room are being used. Where to put more books is getting to be a conundrum to the staff. A section of shelves was built by the janitor and installed in the tower thus giving space to'store a few volumes called for infrequently, and extra copies needed later.
Mutilation of books! What's the answer? There has been some serious mutilation of reference books this past year. This beyond any doubt is the work of students. This sort of maliciousness is inexcusable, since such action de- . prives fellow students, and later ones too, of the use of material which often cannot be replaced at all, or only at considerable expense to the library.
Loss of books shown by inventory. The completing of the inventory, begun in 1945, was a tremendous task. This, done very efficiently with Miss Beals in charge, was the first complete one since 1938, although branch and school collections have been checked several times in the interval. The loss found in inventory always seems too great, yet in an open stack library it has to be both expected and ac- cepted. Our loss of 1,146 books over an eight year period is 32% less than in the 1938 inventory taken after five years. The following table shows the distribution of loss.
1945-1946 Inventory Loss
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Total
Main Library
Adult
208
435
643
Juvenile
137
89
226
Duplicate Pay
.29
29
Oxford Branch
Adult
39
4
43
Juvenile
14
5
19
Anthony School
Juvenile
38
24
62
East Fairhaven School Juvenile
15
19
34
Oxford School
Juvenile
39
23
62
High School
Adult
21
2
23
Juvenile
3
2
5
543
603
1,146
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Your Library received Gifts
The feeling of good-will so frequently expressed by patrons toward the library and its service takes on special significance when the library becomes the recipient of gifts placed here where they may be used for the public good. We received varied gifts during the year.
The autograph collection of the presidents was brought up-to-date by the very welcome gift from Presi- dent Truman of an autographed photograph of himself.
Gift of Painting: A water color sketch of the Memorial Church was given to the library in late December by its artist Miss Grace Louise Hammond of New Bedford. The view shown by the artist is almost identical to that seen from the Children's Room window, on the east.
Among other gifts were sheet music; two issues of rare newspapers; a pamphlet on "The doomed city Chicago", this being a contemporary account of the Chicago fire; a photograph of the Major Fearing memorial; a copy of the periodical "Tourist" which carried an ac- count of the meeting of the great grandsons of Captain Whitfield and Manjiro Nakahama; and scrapbooks. These were received from Mrs. Elizabeth Conkling, Mr. Charles Mitchell, Miss Grace Perry, Mr. James E. Reynolds, Miss Anna B. Trowbridge and Mrs. Thomas W. Whitfield.
Book gifts have been received from publishers, authors and from several of our townspeople, among the latter be- ing Mr. Carson A. Axtell, who donated a copy of his very fine compilation "Axtell genealogy, 1945", from Miss Marie Chauvelot, Mrs. Eva R. Carleton, Jerome Frost, Richard Gallop, Mrs. Grace Gidley, Dana Lange, Jr., Mrs. Emily Morgan, Mrs. Anna Stewart, Mrs. John Tripp and Miss Anna B. Trowbridge.
Memorial gifts: Twice recently, we have been the re- cipient of memorial volumes, once last year, and again this fall, when a very fine gift of twenty-two books on art sub- jects were given to the library by Mrs. James Wilkinson in memory of her late husband. Mr. Wilkinson, whose in- terest in art was such that he had built up a fine small library of his own on this subject, was, for many years, one of the library's borrowers.
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This is a splendid way to perpetuate the memory of a friend or relative and we especially welcome such gifts.
Incidentally, it is customary in many towns to suggest to the public that the library would gratefully receive be- quests, no matter how large or how small, to be used for the good of the library, for books, general or specific, or for other uses and purposes of the library as the donor desires. The Millicent Library would be glad to be re- membered in this way and the following form is suggestive :
FORM OF BEQUEST
"I give and bequeath to The Millicent Library, a charitable cor- poration located in the Town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, the sum of $. in trust, the income to be used preferably for the purchase of books but in the discretion of the Trustees for any of the purposes of the Library."
The suggestion is made that you consult your attorney as to the form of bequest for memorials or other special purposes.
Your Library in a Changing World
In 1893, a public minded citizen, who became the town's benefactor, endowed the Millicent Library, provid- ing for its continued support to the best of his ability. These funds were once adequate and the library in its early years became known as one of the outstanding small libraries in the state. It provided hours of service beyond the majority of the largest libraries in the country. Its facilities were good, its building homelike and attractive to its patrons. Townspeople were not taxed for its support. We have been not a little PROUD of the Millicent Library.
Two World Wars have intervened since the library was established. We were able to adjust to the changing conditions brought about by World War I. When the de- pression era came in the thirties, we had additional help in personnel paid by the government. We had interested local young women, wishing experience, who worked for extremely low salaries. Prices have risen to new heights since World War II ended, and funds that were once
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adequate will not now stretch to compensate for rising costs. Books and periodicals are definitely higher, binding has practically doubled, there have been from slight to large increases in everyday maintenance supplies and equipment, labor and materials for building repair have soared greatly, workers cannot be hired at former salaries.
These conditions have brought the library to a cross- road. Every institution must go either forward or back- ward. There is no standing still.
Curtailing is not a pleasant thing to do. It is probably more distasteful to those who are forced to do it than to the public whom the library serves. It was only after very careful consideration that the step was taken to reduce the hours of opening from 76 to 63 hours a week. This was voted by the trustees on December 20, to become effective on January 1, 1947. The new hours are listed in the front of this report.
With this change, the staff, whose working hours are just as many as formerly, will be able to give better assist- ance during the open hours. The efforts of the staff are being concentrated to give the best possible service under present circumstances. It is their desire that we maintain our standard. The public can help by understanding the difficulties confronting us.
The librarian is sincerely grateful to the Trustees for their careful consideration of new problems and for the decisions they have made to help toward an adjustment of difficulties caused by the changing world of 1946.
1947 is another year, and it challenges us to renewed effort.
Respectfully submitted,
January 14, 1947.
AVIS M. PILLSBURY Librarian
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Statistical Report
THE MILLICENT LIBRARY, FAIRHAVEN, MASS.
American Library Association Form of Statistics.
Annual Report for the Year Ending December 31, 1946.
Name of Library-The Millicent Library.
Town-Fairhaven, Mass.
Librarian-Avis M. Pillsbury.
Date of Founding-1893.
Population served (Census 1945)
12,072
Assessed valuation of town
$11,489,650
Terms of Use-Free for lending and reference.
Total number of agencies
12
Consisting of-
Central Library
6 Stations (Oxford Branch, Oxford School Deposit, East Fairhaven School Deposit, Edmund Anthony School Deposit, High School Library, Our Lady's Haven) 6 Schools (24 classroom collections)
Number of days open during year (Central Library) 364
Hours open each week for lending 76
76
Hours open each week for reading
BOOK STOCK
Volumes, at beginning of year
Adult 36,484
Juvenile 7,346 432
Total 43,830
Volumes added by purchase
793
1,225
Volumes added by gift
144
22
166
Volumes added by binding material not otherwise counted 7
7
Total volumes added
944
454
1,398
Volumes lost or withdrawn
839
666
1.505
Total volumes at end of year
36,589
7,134
43,723
Periodicals currently received (Titles 139, Copies 159)
Publication issued (1 annual report)
176
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USE
Adult
Juvenile
Total
Volumes of fiction loaned
35,180
17,106
52,286
Total volumes loaned
50,109
21,527
71,636
Percentage of fiction of total volumes loaned
70.2%
79.4%
73%
Circulation per capita
5.93
Circulation per registered borrower
24.9
Pictures, photographs, clippings, etc., loaned
386
REGISTRATION
Adult
Juvenile
Total
Borrowers registered during year
707
235
942
Total of registered borrowers
2,024
846
2,870
Percent registered borrowers of population served
23.77%
Volumes placed in classroom collections are counted in circulation on the day they are moved from Central Library, and no complete record of use at the school is recorded.
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Table 1 CLASSIFIED BOOK STOCK
BOOK STOCK CHANGES IN 1946
TOTAL BOOK STOCK
ACCESSIONS
WITHDRAWALS
CLASS
Adult
Juveni'e
Total
Adult
Juvenile
Total
Adult
Juvenile
Total
*General works 000 Philosophy
52
1
53
43
2
45
2,573
115
2,688
Religion
200
26
1
27
22
2
24
1,117
95
1,212
Sociology
300
63
28
91
67
26
93
2,879
342
3,221
Language
400
9
28
37
18
44
62
227
148
375
Science
500
26
15
41
34
25
59
1,097
321
1,418
Useful arts
600
79
11
90
147
15
162
2,724
242
2,966
Fine arts
700
80
3
83
74
22
96
2,577
217
2,794
Literature
800
61
16
77
91
39
130
3,354
488
3,842
History
900
61
13
74
16
31
47
2,553
230
2,783
Travel
910-919
31
6
37
39
28
67
2,476
434
2,910
Biography
B-920
69
11
80
34
22
56
3,450
291
3,741
Total non-fiction
Total fiction
569 (40.7%) 375 (26.8%)
133 (9.5%) 321 (23%)
702 (50.2%) 696 (49.8%)
213
410
623
25,744 (58.9%) 10,845 (24.8%)
2,936 (6.7%) 4,198 (9.6%)
28,680 (65.6%) 15,043 (34.4%)
GRAND TOTAL
944 (67.5%)
454 (32.5%)
1,398 (100%)
839
666
1,505
36,589 (83.7%)
7,134 (16.3%)
43,723 (100%)
100
12
12
41
41
717
13
730
178
626
256
882
-
* Includes bound magazines
Table 2
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ANTHONY SCHOOL Juvenile
2,280
504
2,784
2,784
+ 374
3.2
.7
3.9
EAST FAIRHAVEN SCHOOL Juvenile
1,281
253
1,534
1,534
- 1,214
1.8
.35
2.15
OXFORD SCHOOL Juvenile
2,295
662
2,957
2,957
+ 634
3.2
.9
4.1
HIGH SCHOOL
Adult
531 51
1,111 21
1,642 72
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Total
.
TOTALS
Adult
35,180 17,106 52,286
14,929 4,421 19,350
50,109 21,527 71,636
71,636
-2,799
49.1% 23.9 73.
20.9% 6.1 27.
70% 30 100
Percent
73%
27%
100%
100%
.
30,457 9,872 1,726
12,996 2,649 30
43,453 12,521 1,756
365
Dup. Pay Total
... .
OXFORD BRANCH
Adult
2,466
792
3,258 1,659
+ 984 -1,202
Juvenile Total
4,917
5.3
1.57
6.87
.
% Contribution to Total
Fiction
Non- Fiction
Total
| Grand Total
Total gain or loss over 1945
Non- Fiction | Fiction
Total
MAIN LIBRARY
Adult
- 962
Juvenile
579
57,730
58.7%
21.9%
80.6%
.
.
-
422
Juvenile
.
1,714
8
1.58
2.38
979
Juvenile
-1,820
Grand Total
1946 DISTRIBUTION OF CIRCULATION
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·
1,327
332
Table 3 CIRCULATION 1946
Main Library
Oxford Branch
An- thony School
E. Fair- haven School
Oxford School
High School
Dupli- cate Pay
Total Adult
Total Juvenile,
Total
CLASS
Adult
Juvenile
Adult
Juvenile
Juvenile
Juvenile
Juvenile
Adult
Juvenile
Adult
1-Periodicals
3,314
120
715
4
4,029
124
4,153
2-General works
000
52
2
19
10
2
5
4
348
31
379
Religion
200
322
73
2
3
16
3
8
3
327
103
430
Sociology
300
633
609
29
78
63
100
8
641
879
1,520
Language
400
124
462
76
34
86
74
124
732
856
Science
500
363
233
54
60
23
80
107
471
450
921
Useful arts
600
1,361
227
9
45
61
26
146
18
1,388
505
1,893
Fine arts
700
1,364
185
11
3
5
2
24
31
1,406
219
1,625
Literature
800
1,227
150
3
43
58
12
95
390
6
11
1,631
364
1,995
History
900
1,119
168
10
14
65
17
27
105
2
1,234
293
1,527
Travel
910-919
1,149
221
15
21
93
16
105 3
110
1
1,274
457
1,731
Biography
B-920
1,505
174
6
30
28
335
12
19
1,865
247
2,112
Pamphlets
120
3
120
3
123
Total non-fiction
-
12,996
2,649
792
332
504
253
662
1,111
21
30 ||14,929
4,421
19,350
Fiction
30,457
9,872
2,466
1,327
2,280
1,281
2,295
531
51
1,726
35,180
17,106
52,286
GRAND TOTAL
43,453
12,521
3,258
1,659
2,784
1,534
2,957
1,642
72
1,756
50,109
21,527
71,636
55,974
4,917
1. Not accessioned
Pictures, clippings, etc.
..
366
Stereoscopes
20
2. Includes bound magazines
Total
.72,022
71
14
85
Philosophy
100
343
22
1
4
180
1,714
INDEX
Page
Accounting Officer
Analysis of Appropriation Accounts 80
Balance Sheet 56
Cash Receipts and Payments
63
Animal Inspector 45
Assessors' Department
48
Building Inspector
38
Fire Department 41
Fire Alarm Superintendent
42
Health Department
36
Animal Inspector
45
Health Nursing Service 38
Inspector of Slaughtering
37
Highway Department
92
Information About the Town
2
Millicent Library
163
Moth Superintendent
46
Park Department 43
Planning Board 40
Police Department
84
Post War Planning Committee
93
Public Welfare Department
Aid to Dependent Children 18
Old Age Assistance 19
Public Welfare 17
Retirement Board 35
Safety Council 34
School Department 127
School Committee 130
Superintendent's Report 135
High School Principal 138
School Nurse
144
Expenditures 153
Sealer of Weights and Measures 31
Selectmen
15
Sewer Department
47
Shellfish Inspector
30
State Audit
94
Tax Collector
27
Town Clerk
98
Births
98
Marriages
103
Deaths
109
Town Forest Committee
55
Town Meeting Members
7
Town Meetings 1946
113
Town Officers
3
Treasurer
20
Debt and Interest 1947
23
Outstanding Debt 1946
21
Tax Titles
22
Trust Funds 1946 24
Tree Warden 46
Trust Fund Commissioners 26
Water Commissioners 33
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