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Annual Report of the President and Treasurer
Annual Report of the President and Treasurer Author:Cornell University Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: year, and there is also an increase in the use of seminary and laboratory collections, but, the number of volumes drawn for home use declined from 21,762 in 19o4... more »-19o5 to 2o,726 in 19o5-19o6. There can, of course, be no record of the use of the thousands of books on the open shelves in the reading room. Unfortunately 181 were reported missing at the close of the regular inspection this year. There were also missing 13o of the 13,798 volumes deposited outside the library as laboratory and departmental collections. Since the appointment of a curator of the shelves the misplacement of books in the library stacks has been greatly reduced. On the recommendation of the University Faculty the Trustees extended to juniors the privileges now enjoyed by seniors of taking books out of the Library for home use and also authorized the establishment of a subsidiary circulating library on open shelves for the encouragement of the reading habit and the promotion of the general culture of the whole student body. Appropriations for the circulating library and for equipping the reading room in Goldwin Smith Hall have been recommended to the Board by the library council. The executors of the estate of the late Willard Fiske have paid over to Cornell University $413,531, and a considerable sum still remains in their hands for payment on a final settlement. Apart from certain annuities, of which all terminate in a few years except one for $2,2oo that runs for a life-time, the income of this fund is available for the general purposes of the Library, with the qualification that the income of $61,ooo is to be used for the maintenance of certain special collections of books. OTHER INSTITUTIONS The pulpit of Sage Chapel continues to be a potentagency in the education of the students of Cornell Un...« less