Trinity College Trinity College Digital Repository Trinity College Bulletins and Catalogues (1824 - Trinity Publications (Newspapers, Yearbooks, present) Catalogs, etc.) 10-1-1926 Trinity College Bulletin, 1925-1926 (Report of the Librarian) Trinity College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin Recommended Citation Trinity College, "Trinity College Bulletin, 1925-1926 (Report of the Librarian)" (1926). Trinity College Bulletins and Catalogues (1824 - present). 148. https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/148 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Trinity Publications (Newspapers, Yearbooks, Catalogs, etc.) at Trinity College Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Trinity College Bulletins and Catalogues (1824 - present) by an authorized administrator of Trinity College Digital Repository. Wriuity Qtnllrgr Report of The Librarian October, 1926 LIBRARIAN'S REPORT. Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut To the Trustees of Trinity College: In accordance with Section Three of Article Fifteen of the Statutes of the College, I submit herewith the report of the Librarian for the year ending July 30, 1926. As in other years, the Library has been kept open fifty-four hours per week, and the usual statistics in regard to attendance are given: ATTENDANCE CLASSIFIED 1925-1926 Day Evening Faculty Visitors Total September 117 13 20 14 164 October 1172 167 131 32 1502 November 1076 300 118 20 1514 December 942 212 91 26 1271 January 790 247 77 17 1131 February 886 170 113 23 1192 March 1409 200 131 31 1861 April 933 238 90 24 1285 May 1493 293 131 39 1956 June 213 80 56 52 401 9031 2010 958 278 12,277 ATTENDANCE MONTHLY (1) September October November December January 1922-1923 414 1819 1913 1432 1525 1923-1924 390 1817 1571 1151 1493 1924-1925 477 1696 1403 790 939 1925-1926 164 1502 1514 1271 1131 ATTENDANCE MONTHLY (2) February March April May June 1922-1923 1225 1412 1211 1621 235 1923-1924 977 1726 1022 1603 514 1924-1925 1180 1497 806 1142 523 1925-1926 1192 1861 1285 1956 401 ATTENDANCE ANNUAL SUMMARY Year 1921-1922 1922-1923 1923-1924 1924-1925 1925-1926 12,901 12,807 12,270 10,453 12,277 4 TRINITY COLLEGE. These figures do not indicate any considerable change in the use of the Library by the students, though the increase over last year is gratifying- this in spite of the fact that the college year was somewhat shorter. The increase in the attendance during the Trinity Term is noteworthy, especially considering the large number of students required to withdraw at mid-years. INCREASE OF THE LIBRARY During the year, there have been added to the Library 3087 volumes and 2956 pamphlets. Of these 895 volumes were purchased; all the pamphlets and 2192 volumes were presented. Included in the purchases are 150 volumes in unbound periodicals and 11 volumes paid for from the appropriation of the Depart­ ments of Civil Engineering and Philosophy. Of the volumes added to the Library, 2194 are bound and 893 unbound. It should be added that most of the volumes entered as unbound periodicals have already been bound or will be bound during the summer. The generous appropriation from the inco~e of the Morgan Fund has been most helpful. Indeed without it, it would be quite impossible to secure the books indispensable in the work of teaching. Your Librarian earnestly hopes that this appropriation may be continued till our Library Funds are greatly increased. Some of the more important purchases of the year are: Beilstein's Handbuch der organischen Chemie (Vol. 7); Eugene Labiche, The~tre, 10 vols.; Theodore Fontane, Gesammelte Werke, 10 vols; Ernst Zahn, Gesammelte Worke, 20 vols; Charles M. Doughty, Wanderings in Arabia, 2 vols.; Guy de Maupassant, Works, 10 vols.; George Borrow, Works, 6 vols.; Joseph Bedier, Histoire de Ia litterature fran~aise, 2 vols.; George P. Krapp, The English Language in America, 2 vols.; E. K. Chamber's Elizabethan Stage, 4 vols.; Clement Marot, Oeuvres, 2 vols.; Outline of Christianity, 3 vols.; International Critical Tables, first vol.; and Amy Lowell, John Keats, 2 vols. GIFTS Appendix II gives the names of the donors of the year; to these should be added the names of the donors of current periodi­ cals given at the beginning of Appendix I. We are again in­ debted to Mrs. Henry Ferguson, to Dr. Isbon T. Beckwith, and to members of the Faculty for their constant remembrance of the Library. LIBRARIAN'S REPORT. 5 Some of the gifts call for particular mention: From President and Mrs. Ogilby, we received 509 bound and 40 unbound volumes from the library of Miss Cornelia K. Manley, given in memory of her. An appropriate label has been provided with which to mark them. The gift included many useful and valuable volumes, especially philosophical works, biographies, and literary and musical criticism. Their gift is the most important single gift of the year, and is cor­ respondingly appreciated. From Mrs. Edward Pearsons Newton, we received 372 volumes from the library of her husband, the late Reverend Edward Pearsons Newton, of the class of 1881. In addition to theological works, the gift included a goodly number of items of a general literary nature. It is largely through such gifts that our Library has been accumulated, and though many duplicates and some obsolete books will be found in any such gift, yet each one brings to us books very much worth while. From Judge] oseph Buffington, we received some 70 volumes and about 250 pamphlets. He sent also a copy of a very in­ teresting book entitled "The Coinage of Different Countries", containing pictures in the colors of the different metals of the coins of practically all modern nations. Frederick Peck Wilcox, of the class of 1880, gave us a copy of a beautiful and valuable work entitled "Japan- Described and Illustrated by the Japanese", one of fifty copies. The Li­ brary is fortunate to have among its treasures this unique work. It is of great interest for the study of Japanese art and Japanese life and thought. From His Majesty, the King of Siam, we received 11 unbound volumes of Buddhist Scriptures, a continuation of previous gifts. From William Gwinn Mather, of the class of 1877, we received a copy of "Increase Mather, the Foremost American Puritan", one of the twenty-five copies especially bound for Mr. Mather. We also received from him Vol. XIII of the Text and Vol. XIII of the Plates of the great work on the North American Indians, the earlier volumes of which also came to us through Mr. Mather's generosity. From Professor Riggs we received 18 useful books; from Professors Perkins, Kleene, and Costello, a number of useful volumes, and also useful books from Mr. Charles G. Woodward and Mr. Newton C. Brainard, Trustees of the college. From the Reverend W. Northey Jones, of the class of 1888, we re­ ceived a copy of his History of St. Peter's Church, Perth Amboy, 6 TRINITY COLLEGE of which he is Rector. From the Reverend Louis C. Washburn, of the class of 1881, we received a copy of his book on Christ Church, Philadelphia, of which venerable parish, he has been Rector many years. From the family of Thane B. Wright, of the class of 1924, we received 4 volumes in his memory, selected from his library. From Major-General James G. Harbord, LL.D., 1924, we received a copy of his "Leaves from a War Diary"; from Pro­ fessor Charles Seymour, LL.D., 1922, a copy of the "Intimate Papers of Colonel House," and from Professor David M. Robin­ son, L.H.D., 1925, a copy of his valuable book on Sappho. We acknowledge again gratefully the gifts of their publica­ tions by the Carnegie Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Smithsonian Institution, the Govern­ ment of the United States, and the State of Connecticut. We are again indebted to the State Board of Education for eight bound volumes of town reports. CATALOGUING The work of the year in this department, in addition to cataloguing recent accessions, including the large gifts of the year, has been almost entirely reclassifying and recataloguing. We have checked 18 sections of the Union List of Periodicals, involving running through some 100 of the drawers containing our card catalogue. The importance of this cooperative enter­ prise is so great, that there can be no question as to the propriety of our devoting the time to the work. 1653 volumes not before catalogued have been catalogued and shelved. 1558 volumes have been recatalogued and 1654 reclassified. The work of the year may be summarized: Number of books catalogued 1,653 Number of pamphlets catalogued 201 Number of books reclassified 1,654 Number of pamphlets reclassified 11 Number of books recatalogued 1,558 Total of i terns handled 5,077 Reviewing the work of the last ten and a half years, we have the following figures: LIBRARIAN'S REPORT. · 1 Number of books catalogued 34,502 Number of pamphlets catalogued 1,835 Number of books recatalogued 28,856 Number of pamphlets recatalogued 1,000 Number of books reclassified 28,988 Number of pamphlets reclassified 997 Total of items handled 96,178 Total number of new cards added to catalogue 109,454 Total number of cards altered 23,745 133,199 BINDING The appropriation of $500 for binding has as usual been expended largely in binding current periodicals, though each year progress is made in "catching up" with the binding of other material. It is requested that this appropriation be continued. PUBLICATION A new edition of the pamphlet published ten years ago entitled a "List of Current Periodicals in the Libraries of Hartford" was issued as the April number of the "Bulletin".