Some interesting particulars respecting public libraries are reported. The library of Boston now possesses 394,000 volumes, with an annual issue of 380,343. The Cincinnati Library has 50,000 volumes, with 37,075 issues, not including periodicals. This collection contains, in some instances, from ten to fifteen copies of the books most in demand, usually belonging to the department of standard fiction. The experiment of opening on 1 Sundays has been tried with signal success. The library of the Cooper Institute, New York, was also opened, for the first time on Sundays, on the 13th of October. The Mercantile Library of San Francisco, not a public institution, has 30,000 volumes, and is taking extreme pains to collect everything relating to California and the Pacific coast.
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Southland Times, Issue 1737, 6 May 1873, Page 1 (Supplement)
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122Untitled Southland Times, Issue 1737, 6 May 1873, Page 1 (Supplement)
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