SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
LIBRARY BOARD AND LIBRARIAN
OF THE
OF
CLEVELAiND, O.,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING AUGUST 31 1884.
C L E V E L A N D , O.:
P. H. CARROLL* & CO., PRINTERS, STATIONERS AND BINDERS.
1 884.
SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
LIBRARY BOARD AND LIBRARIAN
OF THE
OF
CLEVELAND, O.,
FOR THE
YEAR ,ENDING'AUGUST 31 1884.
C L E V E L A N D , O.:
. H. CARROLL A CO., PRINTERS, STATIONERS AND BINDERS.
1884.
MEMBERS.
H. C. BRAINERD,
L. BRECKEN RIDGE,
WILLIAM J. GLEASON,
,T. H. KENNEDY,
ERNST KLUSSMAN,
THEO. A. WEED,
JOHN Cr. WHITE.
PRESIDENT—JOHN G. WHITE.
SECRETARY—WILLIAM J. GLEASON.
1884-'85-"86.
S T A N D I N G C O M M I T T E E S.
BOOKS.
MESSRS. WEED, KENNEDY, KLUSSMAN.
BUILDING.
MESSRS. BRAINERD, BRECKENRIDGE, WEED.
EMPLOYES.
MESSRS. KENNEDY, KLUSSMAN, GLEASON.
FINANCE.
MESSRS. GLEASON, WEED, BRAINERD.
RULES AND REG ULATIONS.
MESSRS. KLUSSMAN, KENNEDY, BRAINERD.
President White a member e.r-ojficio of all
Committees.
PLACE OF BUSINESS
AND
RESIDENCE OF MEMBERS.
-NAMES.
DR. H. C. BRAINERD . . .
L. BRECKENRIDGE
WM. J. GLEASON
J. H. KENNEDY
ERNST KLUSSMAN
DR. THEO A. WEED
JOHN G. WHITE
PLACE OF BUSINESS.
675 St. Clair Street
13 Public Square, Room 1
124 Seneca Street, Room 8.....
Voice Office, Seneca Street ..
Waechter am Erie O f f i c e . . ..
284 Pearl Street
Blackstone Block, Seneca St.
RESIDENCE
675 St. Clair Street.
317 Kennard Street.
56 Cedar Avenue.
55 Seelye Avenue.
560 Euclid Avenue.
284 Pearl Street.
115 Lake Street.
Report of the Library Board,
T) the Hmorable Board of Education of the City of Cleveland, 0. :
The Public Library Board of said city submit this their report
of the financial affairs of the Library under its management for the
year from September 1st, 1883, to August 31st, 1884, both
inclusive.
RECEIPTS.
Balance in Treasury September 1st, 1883 $ 1,676 39
From June, 1883, collection of taxes 8,019 36
From December, 1883, collection of taxes 12,316 93
Paid into Treasury by Librarian ]04 15
#22,116 83
EXPENDITURES.
Biding $ 1,072 70
Books 6,427 90
F u e l 527 49
Furniture 317 67
G a s 613 99
Insurance 350 00
Miscellaneous 3g jg
Printing Catalogues, etc 394 93
Reading Room \ 525 40
Repairs 96 55
Salaries 8,208 63
Supplies Q6 78
Transportation 50 12
Total 118,652 32
Balance in Treasury, September 1, 1884 $3,464 51
6 REPORT OF THE LIBRARY BOARD.
The June, 1884, collection of taxes was not paid to the city
treasury until after August 31st, 1884.
For particulars as to the progress and condition of the Library
we beg to refer you to the report of the Librarian herewith sub-mitted.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD
OF THE CITY OF CLEVELAND.
Report of the Librarian.
OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY,
CLEVELAND, Sept. 1, 1884. ^
To the Honorable Library Board of the Public Library :
GENTLEMEN:—I have the honor to present, for your informa"
tion, my ninth annual report, and the sixteenth since the organiza"
tion of this institution :
The total number of volumes in the library at the close of the
current year was as follows:
Circulating department 28,881
Reference room 12,740
Duplicates 275
Odd volumes 203
Librarian's office 421
High School 153
Old books (theological) 200
Unbound volumes 85
Not otherwise enumerated 195
Total number of volumes 43,153
The number of volumes on hand at the close of the previous year,
was 39,092, showing an increase in the circulating department of
1,247 volumes, and in the reference library of 2,191 volumes, and in
other classes mentioned above of 623. The total gain during the
year was 4,061 volumes. The number of condemned books was
230 volumes and six volumes were lost and paid for.
The donations, a list of the donors being found in Appendix B.
wTere as follows :
Volumes...
Pamphlets
93
174
8 REPORT OF THE LIBRARY BOARD.
There were bound during the year 1,842 volumes, as follows:
Old books, newly bound 1>459
New books, (German) 105
44 " (English) 278
Total 1,842
Repaired in the library 3,899
The following is a statement of receipts and expenditures :
RECEIPTS.
Balance $104 15
Fines -280 75
Catalogues sold 5 30
Books lost and paid for 3 00
$393 20
EXPENDITURES.
Balance paid Treasurer $104 15
Postage 53 93
1 Doz. Towels 1 75
Custom House Permits-...f 6 75
Freight and Express Charges 47 14
Brooms ? 3 12
Books 11 20
Framing Shakespeare 4 50
Stationery 15 45
Palmer Bros. 4 gals. Ink 2 90
Miscellaneous supplies 20 91
Leader 9 mos. to July 1 7 80
" File.for binding, 11 mos. to Aug. 31 9 53
Sunday Leader 48 wks. to Aug. 31 2 40
Plain Dealer 12 mos. to Aug. 31 7 20
Evening Herald File 11 mos. to Aug. 31 7 83
Sunday Voice 17 wks. to Feb. 1 85
Sunday Sun 49 wks. to Aug. 31 2 00
Blank books for Catalogue 5 95
$315.36
Balance paid Treasurer as per receipt $ 77 84
The whole number of names registered and tickets issued to date
is 17,759, being an increase for the year of 1,900.
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 9
The number of visitors to the reference room, including Sunday
service of 8,018, was : 48 091
Previous year 35,044
Increase over previous year 13,047
Total number of books consulted 29,352
Previous year 21,464
Increase over previous year 7,888
The circulating department was kept open 308 days ; the number
of books drawn for home use was 148,007, being an average per
day of 485 volumes, a daily increase of 29 volumes over the
previous year.
The total circulation was as follows :
Circulating department 148 qo7
Reference department 25 709
tl Sunday use 3 543
Total circulation, 177 359
Total circulation previous year ... 151^068
Increase over previous year 26,291
The following table will show the circulation by months for the
past seven years:
1878. 1879. 1880.
September 4,819 7,130 8,017
October 8,738 9,506 9,520
November 8,989 10,886 10,436
December 10,384 11,261 12,497
January 11,841 13,347 15,621
February...' 11,278 13,787 14,719
March. 12,063 13,030 15,406
April.. 10,869 13,109
May 9,517 10,830 10,986
June 8,378 8,916 10,082
July • 8,463 9,492 10,050
August
Total 105,339 108.175 130.443
1881. 1882. 1883. 1884.
8,324 7,586 8,417 7,630
9,898 10,413 10,325 10,967
11,064 11,307 11,340 11,875
12,523 12,071 12,669 12,578
13,244 12,887 14,253 14,921
14,048 12,784 13,372 14 924
14,893 13,468 15,757 16,293
13,904 12,011 12,139 13,969
10,504 11,760 10,669 12,345
9 840 9,943 9,651 11,441
9,620 9,474 8,891 10,347
6,707 2,078 10,717
134,568 125,722 127,483 148,007
10 REPORT OF THE LIBRARY BOARD.
The following table exhibits the classifications of books drawn
for the past eight years:
1876. 1877. 1878. 1879. 1880. 1881. 1882. 1883. 1884.
Fiction 60.42 55.80 53.75 54.85 56.42 50.14 51.80 50.85 49 60
Juvenile 15.40 12.20 12.90 13.69 12.05 14.52 12.50 12-00 12.28
History 3.05 3.51 4.25 5.44 6.30 6 21 5 50 3.80 3.41
Biography 3.42 3.56 3.00 3.13 3.59 6.62 4 75 3 35 3.22
Theology 75 .50 .90 .52 .69 .58 .55 .75 .84
Poetry and Drama 1.05 2.40 2 25 2 75 1.98 2.77 2.25 2.05 2.00
Travels 4.16 4.05 5.25 5.68 4.74 5.87 5.65 5.60 5 30
Science, Art, &c... 6.50 9.23 8.50 6.82 6.03 6.42 9.25 12.15 13 76
German 5.55 7.75 9.20 7.22 8.20 6.87 7.75 9.45 9.59
LIBRARY SERVICE.
I. L. BEARDSLEY, Librarian September 1st, 1875
Maria T. Hubbell, First Assistant March 1st, 1875
Mary F. Hutchinson, First Assistant Reference
Department, to Dec 1, 1883 January 8th, 1874
Lizzie L. Hall, Assistant Reference Department April 21st, 1879
Carrie E. Bassett, Assistant Reference Department,
First Assistant after January 1, 1884 April 1st, 1881
Emma E. Kenney, Assistant February 9th, 1876
Ida M. Rezner, Assistant March 5th, 1878
Caroline P. Kirkwood, Assistant March 19th 1878
Anna Umbstaetter, Assistant October 21st, 1878
Emma M. Johnson, Assistant September 15th, 1881
The limited time in which to prepare the report will not permit
going as much into detail as might be thought desirable, but with
full statistics of the business of the year, comparisons can be made
with previous reports. It will be seen that the figures show a
larger aggregate increase in the use of the library than in any single
year since its organization. The reference department, particularly,
since the printing of the catalogue, has grown in popular esteem,
and when the contents of the valuable collection of books it contains
can be referred to more in detail? it will add still further to its pop-ularity.
The ten volumes of manuscript catalogue, embracing the
books of both departments to the end of 1882, is completed to the
letter M, and designed to be exhaustive in its scope, both in subject,
references and classification, will in its finished state, be as compre"
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 11
hensive as any catalogue ever printed in this country. The com-petent
hands in which it is left to complete the work, will, no doubt,
insure the w^rk being fully carried out Whether finally printed
or not it can always be available for reference, and will be found
invaluable.
The bulletin of books added since 1882, and following the general
catalogue, essentially continues the same plan, and future additions,
combined with this, would, in a few years, form a second volume of
general catalogue. A library as large as this is only made available
and useful by its catalogue.
For courtesies received, I beg leave to return my sincere thanks.
Respectfully submitted,
I. L. BEARDSLEY, Librarian.
APPENDIX A.
List of Papers and Periodicals in the Reading Room.
DAILIES.
Baltimore Am. & Com. Advertiser,
Boston Herald,
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser,
Chicago Inter-Ocean,
Chicago Times,
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
Cleveland Herald,
Cleveland Leader,
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
Cleveland Sunday Sun,
Cleveland Sunday Voice,
Denver Times,
Detroit Free Press,
Louisville Courier Journal,
National Republican,
New Orleans Picayune,
New York Evening Post,
New York Graphic,
New York Tribune,
New York World,
Ohio State Journal,
Philadelphia Times,
Pioneer Press, (St. Paul & Minn.)
Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette,
San Francisco Bulletin,
St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
Toronto Globe.
GERMAN PAPERS AND PERIODICALS'
Anzeiger, Cleveland, daily, Waechter am Erie, Cleveland,
Belletristisches Journal, N Y.weekly daily,
Deutche Rundschau, Berlin monthly Westerman's Monthly,
Die Gegenwart, Berlin, weekly, Aufder Hohe, Monthly.
WEEKLY PAPERS AND PERIODICALS.
American Architect, Boston Med. & Surgical Journal,
American Journal of Philology, British Quarterly Review,
American Journal of Science, British Medical Journal,
American Journal of Med. Sciences,Burlington Hawkeye,
American Journal of Obstetrics, Catholic Universe.
American Naturalist,
Archives of Opthalmology,
Army and Navy Journal,
Art Amateur,
Atlantic Weekly Constitution,
Blackwood's Magazine,
Book Buyer,
Century Magazine,
Chautauquan,
Christian Advocate,
Christian Register,
Christian Union,
Christian at Work,
Churchman, The
14 REPORT OF THE LIBRARY BOARD.
Congregational] st,
Continent,
Contemporary Review,
Critic and Good Literature,
Decorator and Furnisher,
Demorest's Monthly,
Dominion Annual Register,
Eclectic Magazine,
Edinburgh Review
Educational Monthly, (Ohio)
Electrical World.
English Illustrated Magazine
Engineering and Mining Journal,
Earnest Worker,
Evangelist, The
Evangelical Messenger,
Florida Times (Jacksonville)
Florida Sanford Journal,
Forest and Stream,
Frank Leslie's Newspaper
Galveston Weekly News,
Godev's Lady's Book,
Gospel in all Lands,
Hahnemanian Monthly,
Harper's Bazaar,
Harper's Monthly,
Harper's Weekly,
Harper's Young People,
Independent, The
International Standard,
Iowa State Register,
Irish World,
Journal of Education,
Journal of Mental and Nervous Dis
eases.
Kansas City Weekly,
Lippincott's Magazine,
Literary Life,
Literary World,
Littell's Living Age,
London Athenaeum,
London Church Times,
London Electrician,
London Engineer,
London Illustrated News,
London Lancet,
London Literary Churchman,
Loudon Punch,
London Quarterly Review,
London Weekly Times,
Magazine of Art,
Mechanical News,
Mechanics,
Memphis Avalanche,
Milwaukee Sentinel,
Million, The
Mining Journal, The Marquette,
Musical Herald, Boston,
Musical World,
Nation, The
National Temperance Advocate,
New York Medical Times,
Nineteenth Century,
North American Review,
Official Gazette—Pat. Office, U S.
Popular Science Monthly,
Princetown Review,
Puck,
Richmond Weekly Whig,
Sanitary Engin eer,
Sante Fe & Mex. Weekly Review,
Scientific American.
Scientific American Supplement.
Sketch Book,
•Spirit of the Times,
St. Nicholas,
The Household,
Trade Review,
Westminster Review,
Wide Awake,
Woman's Journal,
Youth's Companion.
APPENDIX B —DONATIONS.
VOLS. PAMPHS.
Board of Education, Cincinnati, O 1
" " Dayton, " 1
" Oakland, Cal 1
» " Syracuse, N. Y 1
Boston Society, Boston Mass 1
Brooklyn Library, Brooklyn, N. Y 2
Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C 1 8
City Library, Columbus, 0 1
" " Manchester, N. H. 1
Donnell, (E. J.) Brooklyn, N. Y 1
Forau, (Hon. M. A.> 1 1
Free Library, Newton, Mass 1
Friends Free Library, Germantown, Pa 2
Goodman, (John,) Cleveland, 0 1
Green, (Samuel A ,) Boston, Mass 49 9jL
Hayes, (H V.) Chicago, 111 1
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md 2
Lascell, (G. W.) Lynn, Mass 1
Lawrence, (Abbott,) Boston, Mass 2
Long Island Historical Society 1
May, (George Thomas,) New York 1
Mercantile Library Association, New York 1
U " " Philadelphia 2
» 11 " San Francisco 2
Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md 1
New York Tribune 2
Providence Athenaeum 1
Public Library, Boston, Mass 3
<< " Brookline, Mass 1
« Chicago, 111 2
" " Cincinnati, 0 2 12
" 11 Hands worth, Eng 1
" " Lancaster, Mass 1
« li Lawrence, " 1
" » Lynn, u 1
l< « New Bedford, Mass 1
« 11 Providence, R. 1 2
16 REPORT OF THE LIBRARY BOARD.
Public Library, Springfield, Mass 1
14 " St Louis, Mo 1
Toledo, 0 1
" " Watertown, Mass 1
" Woburn, " 1
11 " Worcester, " ,1
Sage Public Library, W. Bay City, Mich 1
Slocum, (Dr. E. C.,) ... 1
Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D. C- 1
Townsend, (Hon. Amos,) 6
United States Interior Department 3
" Patent Office 1
" u Signal Service 1
" " Treasury Department 1
" " War " 17 1
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn 1
Waterhouse, (Sylvester,) St Louis, Mo 5
Wilson, (Horace,) San Francisco, Cal 1 3
Winthrop, (Robert C.,) Boston, Mass 5
Yale College-... 1
Young Men's Association, Buffalo, N. Y 2
Woman's Medical Coll., Philadelphia 1
Total 93 174
Volumes 93
Pamphlets 174
