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COMMITTEE.
Messrs. McCoy, Lovering, Cosgrove, Mrs. Taft and Mr. Swan.
EVENING SCHOOLS.
COMMITTEE.
Messrs. Conaty, Casey, Mrs. Taft, O'Flynn, Hill and Thompson.
TRUANT OFFICERS.
Henry E. Fayerweather, Michael J. English.
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SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR 1884.
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. Assuming that Thanksgiving Day will be Thursday, November 27th.
AUTHORIZED LIST OF TEXT BOOKS,
FOR THE WORCESTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
GRADE I.
Franklin First Reader,
$0.25
GRADE II.
Franklin Second Reader,
$0.35
Worcester's New Primary Spell-
er, .25
First Music Reader, .20
Slate and Pencil.
GRADE III.
Franklin Third Reader,
$0.50
*Worcester's New Primary Spell- er, .25
*First Music Reader, .20
Smith's Drawing Book, No. 1, Sept., No. 2, Jan., .10
*Slate and Pencil,
Lead Pencil (Dixon's H, or its
like).
GRADE IV.
Franklin Fourth Reader, $0.65 *Worcester's New Primary Spell- er, .25
Colburn's First Lessons in Arith- metic, .35
Guyot's Introductory Geography, .75 Second Music Reader, 25c., or In- termediate, .45
Smith's Drawing Book, No. 3, Sept., No. 4, Jan., .10
Writing Primer, A. 1 ("Du- plex,") .10
*Slate and Pencil,
Pen and Holder, Lead Pencil (Dixon's H, or its like).
GRADE V.
Franklin Intermediate Reader, $0.65 Worcester's New Pronouncing Speller, .30
Swinton's Language Primer,
.28
Eaton's Elements of Arithmetic, .40
*Colburn's First Lessons in Arith- metic, .35
Guyot's New Intermediate Geo- graphy (with · without State edition.) 1.25
*Second Music Reader, 25c., or Intermediate, .45
Testament,
Smith's Free Hand Drawing Book, No. 5 (new), Sept., No. 6, Jan. (new-a small book,) .10
.12
Writing Book A (" Duplex,") *Slate and Pencil, *Pen and Holder, Lead Pencil (Dixon's H, or its like).
GRADE VI.
Franklin Fifth Reader, $1.10
*Worcester's New Pronouncing Speller, .30
Swinton's New Language Les- sons, .38
*Eaton's Elements of Arithmetic, .40 *Colburn's First Lessons in Arith- metic, .35 .
*Guyot's New Intermediate Geog- ography (with or without State edition.) 1.25
Third Music Reader. (If the pu- pil has not the Intermediate,) .25 Dictionary. * Testament,
Smith's Free Hand Drawing Book, No. 6 (old, a large book,) Sept. No., Jan., .20
Writing Book B ("Duplex,") .12
*Slate and Pencil.
*Pen and Holder, Lead Pencil (Dixon's H, or its like).
GRADE VII.
*Franklin Fifth Reader,
$1.10
Worcester's New Pronouncing
Speller,
.30
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*Swinton's New Language Les- sons, .38
Eaton's Common School Arith- metic, .75
*Colburn's First Lessons in Arithmetic, .35
Guyot's New Intermediate Geog- raphy, 1.25
*Third Music Reader (if the pu- pil has not the Intermediate, ) .25
*Dictionary. * Testament,.
Smith's Free Hand Drawing Book, No. 7 Sept., No. 8 Jan., .20
Prang's School Compass, .25
Writing Book B ("Duplex,") .12
*Slate and Pencil,
*Pen and Holder, Lead Pencil (Dixon's H, or its like).
GRADE VIII.
Franklin Sixth Reader, $1.20
*Worcester's New Pronouncing Speller, .30
*Swinton's New Language Les- sons, .38
*Eaton's Common School Arith- metic, .75
*Colburn's First Lesson's in Arith- metic, .35
Guyot's Grammar School Geog- raphy, 1.85
Fourth Music Reader, Abridged,
.90
*Dictionary. * Testament,
Smith's Free Hand Drawing Book, No. 9 Sept., No. 10 Jan., .20
*Prang's School Compass, .25
Writing Book C ("Duplex,") *Slate and Pencil,
.12
*Pen and Holder, Lead Pencil (Dixon's H or its like).
GRADE IX.
*Franklin Sixth Reader, $1.20
Worcester's New Pronouncing Speller, .30
Swinton's New School Composi- tion, .32
*Eaton's Common School Arith- metic, .75
*Colburn's First Lessons in Arith- metic. .35
*Guyot's Grammar School Geog- raphy, 1.85
Barnes's Brief History, U. S., 1.25
*Fourth Music Reader, Abridged, .90
*Dictionary. *Testament,
Smith's Free Hand Drawing Book, No. 11, .20
*Prang's School Compass, .25
Writing Book D ("Duplex,")
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*Slate and Pencil,
*Pen and Holder,
Lead Pencil (Dixon's H, or its like).
SUBURBAN SCHOOLS.
Franklin Reader.
Worcester's New Speller.
Colburn's First Lessons in Arith- metic.
Eaton's Arithmetic.
Guyot's Geography.
Dictionary.
Testament. Music Reader.
Smith's Drawing Book.
Writing Book No.
Slate and Pencil.
Pen and Holder.
Lead Pencil (Dixon's H, or its like).
*HIGH SCHOOL.
FIRST YEAR.
¿Hudson's Classical English Read- er, $1.30
A. S. Hill's Treatise on Punctua- tion, 1881, .25
Harkness's Latin Grammar, 1881, 1.35 Harkness's Latin Reader, 1877, 1.10 +Otto's German Grammar, 1874, 1.60 Bradbury's Elementary Algebra, 1868, 1.10
Meservey's Book-Keeping, 1877, 1.00
Meservey's Book-Keeping Blanks, .90 +Guyot's Physical Geography, 1.90 Swinton's Outlines of History, 1874, 1.65
Thalheimer's English History,
1.15
High School Music Reader, 1875, 1.10
SECOND YEAR-ADDITIONAL.
Cæsar's Commentaries,
White's Greek Lessons, 1880, 1.35
Goodwin's Greek Grammar, 1879, 1.70 Whitney's German Reader, 1869, 1.60 Keetel's Child's First Book in French, 1875, .85
Loomis's Geometry, 1876, 1.00
Higginson's United States His- tory, 1.35
+Cooley's Physics,
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THIRD YEAR-ADDITIONAL.
+Hudson's Text Book of Prose, 1.70
Kellogg's Rhetoric, 1880,
Cicero's Orations,
Virgil's Works,.
+Allen & Greenough's Ovid, with Vocabulary, 1875, 1.75
Ovid, first four books, 1.40
Harkness's Latin Prose Composi-
tion, 1868,
1.25
Kendrick's Xenophon's Anabasis,
1873,
1.75
+Keetel's
Elementary
French
Grammar, 1874,
1.05
+Pylodet's Literature Française,
Keetel's French Reader, 1880,
1.45
Eliot & Storer's Chemistry, 1877, 1.25
FOURTH YEAR-ADDITIONAL.
Shaw's New English Literature, 1875, 1.45
Homer's Iliad (Owen's), 1851, 1.70
Goodwin's Selections from Xeno- phon and Herodotus, 1.70
Jones's Greek Prose Composition, 1872, 1.00
Keetel's Analytical French Gram- mar, 1873, 1.70
Lockyer's Astronomy, 1870, 1.40
Dana's Geology, 1875,
1.35
Gray's Manual and Lessons,
2.50
Chapin's Political Economy,
.75
Leighton's History of Rome,
1.75
Martin's Civil Government, 1875, 1.05
This list includes Books for all courses; English, Classical and College. The English, Greek, Latin, German and French Dictionaries will cost more or less, at the option of parents.
With the approval of the High School Committee and the Principal, a teacher may conduct a class in any study without the text-book; giving the instruction orally, by lecture or conversation. With the same approval, a teacher of French or German may select from appropriate texts for reading, such as seem best fitted for any class.
* Same as in lower grades.
+ Authorized but not now used.
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
DIRECTORS IN 1884.
TERM EXPIRES.
THOMAS J. CONATY,
WILLIAM DICKINSON,
Dec. 31, 1884.
SAMUEL D. NYE,
WILLIAM A. WILLIAMS,
1885.
SAMUEL A. PORTER,
JONAS G. CLARK,
CHARLES M. LAMSON,
ADIN THAYER,
GEORGE SWAN, 66 1889.
ORGANIZATION FOR THE YEAR.
FRANCIS H. DEWEY.
PRESIDENT. SECRETARY AND TREASURER. JAMES E. ESTABROOK.
COMMITTEE ON THE LIBRARY. JONAS G. CLARK, ALBERT WOOD,
CHARLES M. LAMSON, ADIN THAYER, JAMES E. ESTABROOK.
COMMITTEE ON THE READING-ROOM.
T. J. CONATY, GEORGE SWAN, WILLIAM A. WILLIAMS.
COMMITTEE ON THE BUILDING.
WM. DICKINSON, SAMUEL A. PORTER, SAMUEL D. NYE.
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE.
FRANCIS H. DEWEY, SAMUEL D. NYE, JONAS G. CLARK.
LIBRARIAN. SAMUEL S. GREEN.
ASSISTANT-LIBRARIANS.
LUCIE A. YOUNG, JESSIE E. TYLER, ELLEN L. OTIS,
M. JENNIE BARBOUR, SARAH D. TUCKER.
ALBERT WOOD, 66 1886.
FRANCIS H. DEWEY, 66 1887.
JAMES E. ESTABROOK, 66 1888.
WORCESTER FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
DIRECTORS' REPORT.
To the Hon. Samuel E. Hildreth, Mayor, and the City Council of the City of Worcester :
The ordinance for the establishment and government of the Free Public Library of the City of Worcester, provides that the Directors shall annually, in the month of January, lay before the City Council, a detailed report of their doings and of the condi- tion of the Library.
In accordance with this requirement, the Directors of the Free Public Library submit their twenty-fourth annual report.
There are four Standing Committees of the Board : on the Library, on the Reading Room, on the Building, and on Finance ; which committees are entrusted with the especial care of matters connected with the department in their charge, and by these Committees reports are made to the full Board of Directors, who hold meetings on the last Tuesday of each month, and in whom is vested the general supervision and control.
The Reports of the Standing Committees, with the Reports of the Librarian and Treasurer of the Reading Room, are herewith transmitted and made a part of this report.
These reports state so fully the work of the last year, and the present condition of the Library, that only a summary of the same is herein presented.
The whole number of volumes in the Library is 58,099; there has been an increase during the year by purchase of 1706 vol- umes, by gifts of 473 volumes, and by binding periodicals, of 331
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volumes ; after deducting the volumes withdrawn and missing the net increase for the year is 2347 volumes.
The number of volumes purchased during the year was 817 less than in the previous year, owing to the want of sufficient funds therefor.
The number of volumes delivered for home use was 116,806 as against 114,845 the previous year, and for reference use 52,305 as against 48,846 the previous year, making the number of volumes used the past year 169,111, and an increase of 5,424 volumes over the previous year.
Very full and interesting details as to the circulation of the Books and the Library in general, will be found in the Report of the Librarian.
The great amount of work required for the new catalogue has been accomplished, and the result is a volume of 1392 pages, which is now in the hands of the binder, and will be soon ready for sale ; it will not only prove a great convenience but will also tend to increase the usefulness of the library. Miss Sarah F. Earle, who has been for many years an efficient assistant-librarian, has had the charge of preparing the catalogue, and her services have been eminently satisfactory.
The City of Worcester may well be proud of its Library; in number of volumes it ranks high, and in the character of the works to be found on its shelves it acknowledges no superior.
Recognizing the fact that for the growth and prosperity of our city we are largely indebted to our manufacturing and mechanic interests, it has been the purpose of the Directors to provide all the new publications relating to the arts, sciences and mechanics, the books on which subjects are constantly taken from or consulted at the rooms of the library. This fact, and the in- creasing use of the library by the teachers and scholars, not only of our public schools, but of the numerous institutions for learn- ing here located, should encourage the city government, not only to continue, but to increase its liberal appropriation for the sup- port of the library.
The Green Library Fund now amounts to $40,404.99, giving an annual income of about $2,100.00; one-fourth of which, by
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the will of Dr. John Green, is to be annually added to the prin- cipal till the same reaches the sum of $100,000 ; the other three- fourths of the income can only be used in the purchase of books to be used in the library building for consultation and reference.
All books for the Circulating Department must therefore be purchased from the annual appropriation by the city, and inas- much as the expenditures for the services of the Librarian and his assistants, care and repairs of the building, fuel, gas, and other necessary expenses must first be met, the balance of the appro- priation only is applicable to the purchase of books.
As the Directors in determining the amount they ask from the city for the yearly appropriation, do so after careful enquiry as to the necessary expenses, if the city reduce the amount asked for, they deprive us of the means of purchasing books; what- ever deductions may be made in the appropriations asked for in other departments of city work, let it not be said that the City of Worcester exercises a mistaken economy which will lessen the advantages of the Public Library, in which all her citizens share alike.
The Reading Room is proving one of the most important departments. The number of newspapers provided in the Read- ing Room has been 135, of which 39 were contributed, the num- ber of magazines 119, of which 11 were contributed.
The large and increasing number of readers, without regard to nativity, politics or sect, who frequent the rooms, show their appreciation of the great variety of newspapers and magazines that are provided.
The permanent fund for the support of the Reading Room, contributed by some of our citizens many years since, amounts to $10,700, the annual income of which is less than $600, whereas the annual cost of the newspapers and magazines is $1,000, and an appropriation of $400 will be required for this department.
By the report of the Committee on the building, it appears that during the past year new floors have been laid throughout the main story of the library building, and other repairs made, so that the building is now in excellent condition ; but to keep a building of its size, and one in so constant use, in good repair will
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require a considerable annual expenditure, estimated by the Com- mittee at $400 for the next year. That the whole upper story may be made ready for the storage of books, for which it is needed, there will be required an extra expenditure for shelving estimated at $600.
The report of the Librarian is so full on topics of general interest connected with our Library, that I prefer to refer to it, as in its perusal you will all be interested, instead of enlarging upon the same subjects herein.
It is gratifying to know that the merits of the Library, and the system here pursued, have been recognized abroad, and that our Library is spoken of in comparison with others as a model library, by the French Commission.
We have for several years held this position in our own country, for all which we are in a great measure indebted to the labors and success of our accomplished librarian, whose attainments have secured for himself great honor and influence at the annual Conferences of the Librarians of the Country. His work on "Library Aids " has received the especial commendation of the Bureau of Education at Washington ; the Commissioner says it is impossible for that office to furnish fuller or more complete sug- gestions as to the establishment and conduct of libraries, than is contained in Librarian Green's small volume on that subject.
We are pleased to make the annual acknowledgment for Mr. Green's valuable services, and to his assistants for their faithful aid.
In behalf of the Directors,
FRANCIS H. DEWEY, President.
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN
OF THE
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
To Hon. Francis H. Dewey, President of the Board of Directors of the Free Public Library.
I herewith present the twenty-fourth annual report of the librarian. It is the thirteenth which I have prepared.
Following will be found the tables usually contained in this report. They show the receipts and expenditures of the library, its accessions, the number of volumes used by readers and stu- dents and the extent of the use of the reading-rooms on Sunday, and record such other facts in the history of the library for the past year as it is our custom to call attention to.
It gives me great pleasure to announce to the Board of Direct- ors and through them to the citizens of Worcester, that a catalogue has been printed during the past year, of the books belonging to the circulating department of the library and of a portion of those contained in the intermediate department. This work is a volume of 1,392 pages and is octavo in size. An edi- tion of 3,000 copies has been printed and 1,000 copies are now at the bindery.
The catalogue contains all the books added to the departments of the library catalogued, up to September 1, of the present year. Its cost, aside from the labor involved in its preparation for the press and in proof-reading, has been thus far $3,533.73. $900 additional will be required for binding.
It is proposed to sell the work for seventy-five cents a copy, that is to say for about one-half the cost of paper, printing and binding.
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The library is established to do a popular educational work and it is therefore considered wise, in conformity to the usage of other well managed libraries, to sell so important a tool in doing this kind of work as a catalogue at such a price as to ensure its general use.
The catalogue will go on sale immediately.
It is the work of Miss Sarah F. Earle, the head of the cata- loguing department. In my opinion and in that of competent critics, this work has been admirably done, and it is confidently expected that the catalogue will prove eminently satisfactory to the users of the library.
The officers of the library have regretted very much that this work could not have been done several years ago, but it was only during the present year that an appropriation could be obtained to print the catalogue.
We have aimed to prepare the volume with a careful regard to economy, and the success of our efforts has been attested by the testimony of experienced cataloguers.
It is gratifying to find that during the past year there has been a considerable increase in the use of the library. The whole number of volumes given out to readers and students during the year is 171.119. This use is divided among the different depart- ments, as follows : Circulating Department 116,806, Reference Department 52,305, Sunday use 2,008. These figures show the increase of the year to have been 5,285 volumes. As was the case in the year previously reported on the largest increase in the use of books has been in the reference department, namely 3,459 volumes. This use has grown, it will be remembered, from practically no use thirteen years ago to the employment of 52,305 volumes the past year.
These books have been used almost exclusively for serious purposes and in the statement no account has been taken of the immense use of the 250 papers, magazines and reviews to be found in the reading-rooms. These, readers help themselves to without the intervention of an attendant.
The work done by the library in connection with the Public Schools has continued to increase.
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Besides the large amount accomplished within the library building it is calculated that from 500 to 700 volumes belonging to the library are in use within the school-houses of the city every day that the schools are in session. For a description of the most recent phases of this work, reference is made to a paper read by the librarian at the convention of the American Library Association, held in Buffalo last August. This has been printed in the September-October number of the Library Journal for the present year.
The increase in the use of the circulating department the past year has been 1,961 volumes. As was stated last year, we can carry up the aggregate of books given out in this department to any desired number by lowering the standard of books circulated. But it has been the fixed purpose of the management of the library in the past as in previous years to keep up a very high standard in the literature circulated and it is with pride that we point confidently to the fact that this department is contributing immensely both to the pleasant and profitable employment by citizens of their leisure time and to their education and mental and moral improvement.
It may not be amiss to state in this connection that an admi- rable catalogue of children's books has been published the past year by Mr. Frederick Leypoldt of New York. It is entitled " Books for the Young," and was prepared by Miss Hewins of Hartford. Parents and children would find this a valuable guide in selecting books, which are at the same time interesting and wholesome.
Copies of this catalogue may be taken out from the circulating department of the library and others may be consulted within the library building.
It is pleasant to note that the methods in vogue in this library have approved themselves to the judgment of managers of libra- ries in other places and that they are being adopted in many cities and large towns and in smaller communities.
Last winter, for example, Chicago.began successfully the work of bringing about intimate relations between its public library and the common schools. The librarian of the Public School
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Library of St. Louis has long been interested in the work which we have been doing here and now writes me that he has begun earnestly to urge upon teachers and others in that city the im- portance of having schools avail. themselves largely of facilities afforded by libraries.
The librarian of the Public Library in Providence writes me that he is trying to induce the governing body of the institution over which he presides, to extend the work it is already doing in this direction and add to it new features borrowed from plans in use here.
In the fourteenth volume of the new edition of the Encyclo- paedia Britannica in the article " Libraries," the writers in speak- ing of some of the city and town libraries in the United States say, " It is the opinion of the energetic and enlightened managers of these libraries that a free public library is the proper corollary of a free system of public education, and it is their aim as far as possible to direct the taste and methodize the reading of those who use the collections under their charge."
Mr. Robert Harrison, librarian of the London Library, has lately, it is said, called attention to the fact that libraries may be made very useful to teachers and scholars and urged that they really be made so.
The city of Leeds, England, largely influenced by the success of this kind of work in Worcester, is especially exerting itself to make its public library useful to schools. It has begun its experi- ments by establishing branches of its own library in two school- houses situated at a distance from the library building.
The Boston Public Library, it is stated in one of the newspa- pers of that city, has decided to extend to schools in Boston some of the facilities enjoyed by such institutions in Worcester.
Finally, within the present year, a report has been sent forth from the Prefecture of the Seine (in which the city of Paris is situated) which makes honorable mention of this library. The report was prepared by Monsieur Edmond Dardenne, chief of the bureau having charge of the popular libraries of the city of Paris and department of the Seine, with the purpose of supplying information that would be useful to the Commission on Libraries
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in considering what improvements should be introduced into the libraries under their charge. In this report our library is cited as an example that is worthy of imitation and the work done here is spoken of in a very complimentary manner.
The whole number of volumes in our library is 58,099.
It is to be regretted that we have not been able to buy so many books the past year as usual. The number of volumes bought is 817 less than that representing the purchases of the previous year. This frugality was rendered imperative by the necessity of spending a considerable sum of money in printing a catalogue and for extraordinary repairs.
It is desirable that a much larger sum should be spent for books the coming year than during the past year.
A list of persons and institutions to whom we are indebted for gifts is appended to this report. We owe much to our friends for presents and kindnesses, and are grateful to them for supply- ing our wants.
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