The URL can be used to link to this page

Home My WebLink About1967-02-13 81-U ORDERRL.Ju Introduced by Councilor Baldacei, Feb. 13, 1969 CITY OF BANGOR (TITIEJ MaNtre .. .. Report of Trustees of the. Hersey Fund - 1966 BY We INN Counsel of W City of Bangor: ORDERED, THAT the report of the Trustees of the Hersey Ford for the year 1966, new on file in the City Clerk's Offiee,is hereby received. IVED 1967 iHa-6 CITY Cl f FF'S URCE IN CITY CWNCIL Feb. 13, 1967 PASS® CI IRRK DRDER Title, Report of .............................. Troeteee of Hersey Fund - 1966 Introduce d and Sled by counnilsan C0 et BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY z2 ...... I W........ MAINE (f 0BANGOR. MAI February 2, 1967 Mr. Jay Alley City Clerk City Hall Bangor, Maine Dear Mr. Alley: Enclosed herewith are two copies of the Report of the Trustees of the Hersey Fund for the year 1966. VVee�ryy�truly yours, LY V Robert C. Woodward Librarian RCWI smf SNC: 2 BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ANNUAL REPORTS of THE TRUSTEES OF THE HERSEY FUND and of THE LIBRARIAN FOR THE FISCAL YEAR JANUARY 1, 1966 --- DECEMBER 31, 1966 Bangor Public Library Bangor, Maine January 24, 1967 _z_ REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE HERESY FUND Bangor, January 24, 1967 To the City Council of the City of Bangor: The Trustees of the Hersey Bond submit their annual report. They have received from the City Treasurer them of four thousand dollars ($4,000) in quarterly payments, which have been paid to the Treasurer of the Board of Has, agers of the Bangor Public Library. They also Submit, herewith, the annual reports of the Librarian of the Bangor Public Library, the Treasurer of the Trustees of the Bangor Public Library, and the Treasurer of the Board of burgers of said Library. John F. Grant Donald S. Higgins W. P. Newman Hartyn A. Vickers, H. D. Sohn G. Field Trustees of the Hersey Fwd -3 - REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN To the Board of Nauseam and Trustees of the Career Public Lim: In a year when many libraries reported a decline in circulation, the Bangor Public Library saw Its loans to borrowers realm a new high. Circula- tion increased to 492,374. Isla is eight percent over 1965 and seven percent over the record year of 1964. Juvenile circulation increased by seven percent, the Extension Department reported a gain of over twenty percent and adult circulation rose slightly. This year, as for several years, the percentage of non-fiction loans increased while fiction circulation declined. The library's book collection grew to over 406,[00 volumes in 1966. Nearly 18,900 books were purchased during the year, talf of them for school libraries. The community is served by a library with a better book col- lection than are many U. S. cities with populations ever 200,000. Community use is in line with our resources; few libraries lose over twelve books per capita, a, we did in 1966. The coat of operating the library In 1966 was $323,638. Sixty-eight percent of this amount, the sum of $218,939, was supplied by endowment income; four percent, $12,100, came from fines and non-resident fees; and twenty-eight percent, $92,599, was provided by the city appropriation. The total expend- iture for books and periodicals, apart from processing costs, as $94,8]].01. New elementary school libraries at the Nary Snow and at the Vine Street Schools opened in 1966 with hooka purchased from our endowment income. Over $100,000 has been spent for school library books in see than four years. Me home circulation of books from elementary school libraries nearly doubled In 1966, a clear Indication of the value and usefulness of this program. At the same time, we continue to purchase books for libraries in public and parochial junior and senior high schools. The Juvenile Department, where circulation has nearly doubled In ten years, had its busiest year ever. Over 110,000 hooks were loaned to its youthful borrowers in 1966. the Impressive service tradition of this department can be Illustrated, too, by noting that nearly two hundred special teaching unite were prepared for Bangor classrooms during the year by staff members in this department. In addition to the children who come to the Ghildren's room individually, hundreds are brought from schools by bus for a special welcome and introduction to its services. Me Reference Department continues to feel the pressures generated by growing enrollments in secondary schools, Unseen and the University. Area students in growing numbers and with assignments of increasing complexity are drawn to our library and, Inevitably, to this department. At the same time, conventional information service to others In the community and to people from all over the state occupies staff time. This year we began microfilming the long run of the BANGOR WIG AND COURIER. In addition to regular repainting, the building was improved by the installation of hand rails on the basement stairs, with new plumbing in the men a room, and with the repainting of a rust condition in the stacks. The last was done at the expense of the stack contractor. A Xerox copy machine was installed for use by the public; it also is used for our office copying and to reproduce catalog cards. The walla and ceiling of the Music Branch were repainted and when we have weeded out little used music mate- rials we will Improve the stack area there. Our unique services to hospitals, social agencies and city depart- ments is little noticed by the public but it is cf direct benefit to the -5 - Community. Several thousand dollars are spent on Subscriptionsfor professional periodicals and for books in agencies both public and private. Three staff members resigned in 1966. These were all people with relatively Short service. In the next year cr two we will begin to lose department heads with long service and invaluable experience. We students from the University of Maine have been. employed ander the Work - Study program and two high-school students have been employed under the Neighborhood Youth Corps program. Three staff members attended the American Library "sectarian conference in New York and faux attended the New England Library Association annual conference in New Hampshire. Ralph Weymouth, City Treasurer and ex -officio a member of the Board of Managers and Trustees of the Bangor Public Library, retired in 1966. He served the library as a board member for thirty years with an eXaMplary dedication acknowledged by his fellow True tees. Respectfully submitted, Robert C. Woodward Librar=an TABLE A Books in Library, 1966 By Class In Library Net In Library Class aa Class Number January 1 Additions December 31 Can. Bat. General Works 000-099 26,240 453 352 27,045 Philosophy 100-199 5,215 100 77 5,392 Religion 200-299 10,889 169 199 11,257 Social Sciences 300-399 72,975 699 1,323 74,997 Language 400-499 1,979 28 74 2,081 Pure Science 500-599 18,164 378 1,054 19,596 Useful Arte 600-699 37,483 241 586 38,310 Bine Arte 700-799 45,183 491 376 46,050 Literature 800-899 25,690 35 390 26,115 Descriotlon 910-919 12,043 259 314 13,416 History 900-909, 930-999 30,762 506 425 31,693 Biography 920, 929 6 B 26,598 439 484 27,521 Fiction 80_,3_61 11,379 11,393 83,133 Totals: 394,382 5,177 7,047 406,606 Groes additions were 17,891 Removals 5,667 Making net additions 12,224 By Location and Rind, December 31, 1966 Location Adult Juvenile Total Central Library ...................... 271,181 37,603 308,784 Music Branch ......................... 22,186 22,186 Extension ............................ 75,636 75,_636 Totals: 369,003 37,603 406,606 volumes per capita (1960 population, 38,912) . . . . . . . . . . 6 10.4 -1 - Adult Juvenile Total TOLE 6 )3,393 394,382 ADDITIONS AND REMOVALS, 1966 17,991 Sources of Additions 74,540 412,213 Number of volumes withdrawn New Added Replace- Binding from records during year ...................... Titles Copies assets Serials Totals Purchase .................. 4,406 2,489 282 300 ),a)] Gifts ..................... lab 303 21 14 a50 Return after loss......... 23. Totals: 4,512 2,792 332 314 2,950 Purchased by Extension Department 9141 1],891 RENOvALe: Withdrawn: Duplicate.................................... 87 Warnout ..................................... 888 Obsolete ..................................... 1,429 Damaged ...................................... 22 Traneferred.................................. 90 Given away ................................... 11 By Extension Department ...................... 22,509 Total withdrawn .............................. 5,236 Last: Lost and paid for ........................... 64 Charged out and not returned ................. 62 Missing in Inventory... ..................... 14 Nleeing (not inventory) ..................... 291 Totallost .................................. 431' Total removed ................. I............. 5,667 NET ADDITIONS: Additions ..................................... 17,891 Lees removals.... 4 ............................ 5,667 12,224 BOOK STOCK Adult Juvenile Total Number of volumes January 1, 1966 ............... 321,989 )3,393 394,382 Number of volumes added during year ............. 15_744 2,147 17,991 Total: ..................................... 33],)33 74,540 412,213 Number of volumes withdrawn from records during year ...................... 5,180 481 5y67 Total at end of year 1966 ................... 332,553 74,053 406,606 -8 - period is three years) TABLE C BINDING AND REPAIR 1966 Juvenile Sent to bindery: Card holders as of January 1, 1966 ........... Previously unbound: 3,885 Volumes of serials, central library .................... 547 Volumes of serials, medical library .................... 129 Previously bound: death, change of address, etc .............. Volumes. to be rebound ............................... 4.6 1,303 Volumes to be repaired ................................. 873 Total: 2,852 TABLE B REGISTRATION 1966 (Principal registration period is three years) Adult Juvenile Tooal Card holders as of January 1, 1966 ........... 15,419 3,885 19,304 Less cards removed because of death, change of address, etc .............. -3y29 -938 -LylOJ 12,290 2,907 15,193 Plus new registrations during 1966.......... 3,295 928 4y23 15,585 3,835 19,420 -9 - TABLE E CLASSES or BORRONERS Juvenile 3rd -8th Adult Grade A. Bangor Residents.......... 12,756 2,804 A.S.Armed Services............ 995 B. Business and Professional. 351 C. Nan -resident borrowers who 1,301 68 pay .$3.00 a year (Juvenile $1.00) for over -the -desk :vice;, or $8.00 a year plus postage for mall sere ----- D. Deposit borrowers paying for book. Refundable 48 during year............ 13 E. Other libraries outside of Bangor .................... 144 I. visitors. $3.00 for 2, or $6.00 for 4 bks. Refundable (9 during year) J. Non-resident groups. _E5 Total:.............15,585 62 Juvenile Parent's Cards 963 0 Juvenile Total Total 3,767 L6,523 ----- 995 mmmmm 351 68 1,369 13 144 _25 2,666 969 3,835 19,420 - 10 - TABLE F Circulation 1966 Entire Library Adult Adult Fiction Fiction Juvenile Total Central Library General works 000-099 1,374 Philosophy 100-199 4,949 Religion 200-299 3,516 Social Sciences 300-399 13,231 Language 400-499 701 Pure Science 500-599 5,061 Useful Arte 600-699 13,001 Fine Arte 700-799 12,728 Literature 800-899 13,467 Description and travel 910-919 4,915 History 900-909,930-999 12,486 Biography B and 920 11,849 Current Periodicals 20,288 Fiction 000 98_,845 Total Central Library .................. 117,566 98,845 110,060 326,471 Music Branch - records ................... 2,604 ----- ---- 2,604 Music Branch - music ..................... 3,619 ----- 3y19 Total Music Branch ..................... 6,223 6,223 Total Central Library add Music Branch ......................... 123,789 98,845 110,060 332,694 Extension Department ..................... 14,851 15_,731 129_,098 159,680 Total Entire Library 138,640 114,576 239,158 492,374 Percent .................................. 28% 23% 49% 100% Circulation per capita (population 38,912) ................ 0............ 12.6 Circulation per registered borrower (19,420)........ .......... o4.o..4.o 26.0 -11 - ANNUAL EXPORT 1966 EXTENSION DEPARTMENT Summer Camps .......................... 30 33 1,169 1,232 Teachers' Sete ........................ 429 17 446 Totals: .............................. 15,731 14,851 129,098 159,680 Deposits w follows, were also maintained, where books were used for refer- ence Bangor Osteopathic Hospital Doctors' Medical Library, City Clerk's Office, City Engineer's Office, City wealth Department Office, City Manager's Office, City Planner's Office, City Police Headquarters, City Public Warks Department, City Public Welfare Department, Eastern Maine Guidance Center, E.M.G.H. Doctors' Medical Library, Penobscot Bar Library, St. Joseph's Hospital Doctors' Medical Library, St. Joseph's Hospital School. of Practical Nursing, Et. Micheal's Home, Speech and Hearing Center. 175 sets of encyclopedias are on deposit In school rooms or principals' offices. Adult Adult Men - Fiction Fiction Juvenile Total Bangor City Schools ................... -- --. 80,015 80,035 Public - Grades 1-6 Parochial - Grades 1-8 Bangor High School .................... 6,675 8,500 15,175 John gaper High School ................ 1,208 1,555 2,763 Fifth St. Jr. High .................... 16,454 16,454 Garland St. Jr. High .................. 11,374 11,374 Union St. Jr. High .................... 16,563 16,563 Bangor Children's Nome ................ 50 SJ Bangor City Hospital .................. 120 1 121 Bangor Theological Seminary........... 686 686 Cerebral Paley School., ............... 72 72 E.M.G.H. Nurses Prof. Lib ............. 1,013 1,013 E.M.G.H. Patients' Lib ................ 6,151 3,018 3,167 12,336 Harlow St, School Sp. Group........... 105 105 Hebrew School ......................... 129 129 Home for Aged Men ..................... 35 35 Home for Aged Women ................... 1,048 28 1,076 ESvg's Daughters Home ................. 35 35 Summer Camps .......................... 30 33 1,169 1,232 Teachers' Sete ........................ 429 17 446 Totals: .............................. 15,731 14,851 129,098 159,680 Deposits w follows, were also maintained, where books were used for refer- ence Bangor Osteopathic Hospital Doctors' Medical Library, City Clerk's Office, City Engineer's Office, City wealth Department Office, City Manager's Office, City Planner's Office, City Police Headquarters, City Public Warks Department, City Public Welfare Department, Eastern Maine Guidance Center, E.M.G.H. Doctors' Medical Library, Penobscot Bar Library, St. Joseph's Hospital Doctors' Medical Library, St. Joseph's Hospital School. of Practical Nursing, Et. Micheal's Home, Speech and Hearing Center. 175 sets of encyclopedias are on deposit In school rooms or principals' offices. Y% Books in Library and Circulation, Twenty Years Year Books in Llbrary Dec. 31 Circulation 1947 ........................... 251.116 .................... 308,058 1948 ........................... 257,860 .................... 310,727 1949 ........................... 2644657 .................... 308,181 1950 ........................... 271,168 .................... 303,096 1951 ........................... 276,144 .................... 309,180 1952 ........................... 283,405 .................... 297,979 1953 ........................... 290,699 .................... 289,062 1954 ........................... 297,788 .................... 282,760 1955 ........................... 302,515 .................... 292,553 1956 ........................... 310,623 .................... 322,642 1957 ........................... 318.282 .................... 356,064 1958 ........................... 327,284 .................... 387,936 1959 ........................... 336,265 .................... 401,190 1960 ........................... 343,204 .................... 417,051 1961 ........................... 350.336 .4.................. 426,160 1962 ........................... 356,579 ... 4................ 445,353 1963 ........................... 367,272 .................... 437,864 1964 ........................... 380,617 .............4.44.4. 458,345 1965 .......................... 4 394,382 .................... 453.210 1966 ........................... 406:606, ................... 4 492,374 Miscellaneous Statistics, 1965 Notices for overdue books ...................................... 13,806 Reference question answered, adult. ........................... 16,227 Referencequestions answered, juvenile ........................ 1,856 Reservesfor home use .......................................... 11,849 Discarded books given away .................................... 650 Lectures outside library by staff members ...................... 31 Exhibits in lecture ball: Offered or invited ................. 4......................... 15 Public meetings (by 26 organizations ........................... 236 Mail service to 108 individuals and 02 libraries in 123 cities or towns, total books ............................. 7,100 Borrowed from 9 libraries, books ...................... 4........ 23 Lent to 82 libraries, books.. .................................. 1,820 Newspapers currently received: Titles...................................... 4.............. 24 Duplicates................................................. 10 Other periodicals currently received: Titles........................................................ 1.626 Duplicates ................................................... 891 New cards filed in all catalogs and shelf lie is........ 4....... 25,432 Paid staff hours lost from illness, funerals, etc. ............ 1,781 - 13 - Statistics for 1966 in the style of the U. S. Office of Education, Public Library Statistical Report Report for fiscal year ending December 31, 1966 GENERAL 1. Name of Library, Bangor Public Library. Date of founding, 1883. 2. Name of Librarian, Robert C. Woodward, Date of appointment, November 15, 1962 3. Chief Librarian appointed by, The Board of Managers of the Bangor Public Library. 4. Governmental unit of support, City. 6. Population served, (1960 U. S. Census) ................... 38,912 ]. Size of area legally entitled to service, square miles, 32.9 S. Terms of use A. Free for lending to residents of Bangor. B. Lends to others for a fee or deposit. 9. Number of hours central library is open per week: A. For circulation, 69 for 39 weeks 50 for 13 weeks B. For reading and study, same. 10. Number of days central library is open during year, 290. Number of days open per week, 6, (13 weeks, 5). Agencies 11. 1 central library in building owned by library, 1 branch in institution, 193 stations in schools, 21 stations in Institutions, 25 other stations. Total 241. 12. Bookmobiles .............................................. 0 13. Lends to school classrooms and school libraries. � Adult (Incl. 928, Z23 30. Music & all Extension) Juvenile Total 14. Volumes at beginning of year.......... 326,091 68,291 394,382 15a.Vol mes purchased during year......... 15,278 2,140 17;418 15b.Vol mes otherwise added during year $3.00 $1.00 (Extension none) .................. 466 ] 473 32. Total: ........................... 341,835 ]0,438 412,273 16. Volumes withdrawn from record during duty in Bangor. Personnel year .............................. 5,180 487 5,667 17. Volumes at end of year 1966........... 336,655 69,951 406,506 18. Titles added during year by purchase 0 54. Regular working hours per week for a full-time and gift (Extension none)......... 3,425 1,037 4,512 � � 928, Z23 30. Number of neonlsresident�borrowers (included above) ..................... 1,301 68 1,369 31. Annual fee for non-resident - esident borrowers a.. over iM1e desk .................... $3.00 $1.00 b. meal ...... .period. $8.00 32. le The length of the registration n peruse Ion years for idem residents and 3 year or service for non-residents or service personnel on duty in Bangor. Personnel 52. Full-time equivalent of all employees .......................... 34.8. 53. Unpaid volunteer workers ....................................... 0 54. Regular working hours per week for a full-time staff member..... 39 55. Employees under Civil Service .................... 4............. 0 - 15 - 1966 organization Board of Managers and Trustees of the Bangor Public Library Consisting of the Trustees of the Hersey Fwd William P. Newman, term expires January 1967 Donald S. Higgins, term expires January 1969 John P. Grant, term expires January 1971 Martyn A. Vickers, M.D., term expires January 1971 Ralph L. Waymouth, ex officio as City Treasurer, who resigned in October John G. Field, ex officio as City Treasurer since October and the Officers of the Bangor Mechanic Association Charles P. Bragg, 2nd F. Drummond Freese Charles V. Lord George F. Peabody Officers of the Board of Managers and Trustees President, Donald G. Higgins Vice -President, Charles F. Bragg, zed Treasurer, Charles V. Lord Secretary and Clerk, Robert C. Woodward Steadfast Committees Auditing, Mr. Higgins Finance, Mr. Freese, Mr. Bragg, and ex officio, Mr. Lord Purchasing, Mr. Grant, Mr. Peabody, and Mr. Waymouth Building and Grounds, Mr. Newman, Mr. Higgins, and Dr. Vickers Ins and Property Values, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Grant d Insurance an Vickers - 16 - 1966 Organization LIBRARY PERSONNEL (Who worked at any time during 1966) Librarian and Staff (In order of staff seniority) Olive M. Smythe, Reference Librarian H. Eels Mayo, Administrative Assistant Marion C. Cluff, Chief, Catalog Department Ruth E. Dale, Chief, Extension Department Charlotte C. Bowler, Chief, Circulation Department Roasa W. Glbersan, Chief, Accessions and Classification Department Thelma A. Rebstock, First Assistant, Catalog Department Helen H. Wheeler, Children's Librarian Charlotte M. Torrey, First Assistant, Accessions and Classification Dept. Garrity T. Wetzler, Assistant, Reference Department Dorno M. Lichtenstein, Assistant, Children's Department Lillian Y. Marquis, Chief, Periodicals and Binding Department Herds, C. McDonough, Assistant, Catalog Department Bvelyn R. Jordan, First Assistant, Extension Department Dorothea 0. Flagg, First Assistant, Reference Department Faith H. Burrill, First Assistant, Periodicals aM Binding Department Mary Jane Tozfer, Assistant, Extension Department Elcena A. Boutilier, First Assistant, Circulation Department Jacqueline A. Bouchey, First Assistant, Office Ruth M. Doble, Assistant, Children's Department *Susann W. Campbell, Assistant, Circulation Department Robert C. Woodward, Librarian *Jane L. Shaw, Assistant, Circulation Department Marianne B. Spinney, Assistant, Circulation Department June M. nekton, Assistant, Circulation Department Jane B. Pierce, Assistant, Children's Department Marjorie G. Higgins, Assistant, Circulation Department Lillian Longley, Assistant, Circulation Department Nancy Nichols, Assistant, Children's Department Shirley M. Fields, Assistant, Circulation Department Hildegard. Szikszai, Assistant, Circulation Department Mary F. McClellan, Assistant, Circulation Department Parttime and Probationary Assistants Susanne Averill Alyce M. Connor Josephine Freas **Susan Beale **Diane Crane Sue C. Gibbs Catherine Furrow Byther Jeanette Cunningham Madeline R. Martin Sandra S. Clarke Beulah D. Davis Michele Shaw Care of Building Robert D. Pettit, Head Custodian Jahn J. Cameron, Assistant Custodian Part-time Care of Building Melvin C. Fowler Bruce, R. Carter Clarence R. Snyder Jr. *Resigned **Work Study Program, University of Maine