TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARY BOARD OF THE Virginia State Library 1914-1915 TO WHICH IS APPENDED THE Twelfth Annual Report of the State Librarian OHIO STATE RICHMOND DAVIS BOTTOM, SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC PRINTING 1916 State Library Board ARMISTEAD C. GORDON, Chairman.. R. T. W. DUKE, JR.. EGBERT G. LEIGH, JR.. EDMUND PENDLETON.. H. R. McILWAINE, Librarian, 158819 . Staunton, Va. Charlottesville, Va. Richmond, Va. Richmond, Va. Williamsburg, Va. Report of the State Library Board RICHMOND, VA., December 3, 1915. Governor of Virginia. To the Honorable HENRY C. STUART, SIR: As required by law, I submit the annual report of the State Library Board for the year ending October 31, 1915. It is made up of a brief account of the work and progress of the State Library for the year, written by the chairman of the Library Board, and the report of the State Librarian to the board, with parts of those of the assistants in the library made to the librarian. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. The receipts of what is known as the "library fund" for the past year were $4,736.03, which included a balance of $581.49 brought forward from the preceding year. This balance deducted, the actual receipts were only $4.154.54. The actual receipts of this fund for the year before were $4,350.87; the year before that they were $4,567.47; and the preceding year, $7,483.86. Thus it will be seen that the receipts of the library fund are steadily decreasing. It is out of this fund that the ordinary expenditures of the library, except for salaries, are paid. From it payments are made for books, periodicals, binding, supplies of all kinds, and printing the Library Bulletin. Salaries are provided for by appropriations made by the General Assembly, as are publication of the "Journals of the House of Burgesses," maintenance of the traveling library system, construction of new book stacks, and other unusual expenditures. The library fund, instead of decreasing in this disconcerting manner, should be at least double what it is. It is made up in the main of money coming from the sales of State documents, and if these sales do not increase in the next month or two in a very unlooked-for manner, it will be necessary for the library to apply to the General Assembly of 1916 for a special appropriation to be added to the library fund. The expenditures for the year were $4,736.03. Thus there was a balance on hand on November 1 of $449.48, but this will soon be exhausted. GROWTH OF THE LIBRARY. Four thousand six hundred and two books, pamphlets, and bound periodicals were added to the central collection of the library during the year, the number being greater by 1,404 than it was the preceding year. Those purchased, 769 in number, cost $966.98. The number purchased the preceding year was 721, at a cost of $1,171.08. The total cost of book acquisitions for the past year in the central collection, the amount being found by adding to the cost of books and pamphlets the cost of subscriptions to periodicals ($539.81) and the cost of binding these into volumes ($307.06), was $1,813.85. This amount for the year before was $2,064.63. |