Annual Report of the Managers of the Apprentices' Library Company of Philadelphia Read at a Meeting of the Company, Held at Their Room, S. W. Corner of Fifth and Arch Streets, Third Month (March) 10Th, 1863 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Annual Report of the Managers of the Apprentices' Library Company of Philadelphia: Read at a Meeting of the Company, Held at Their Room, S. W. Corner of Fifth and Arch Streets, Third Month (March) 10th, 1863

Donations of thirty-two volumes, consisting. Chiefly of government publications, have been received. For these, the Board is under obligations to the Hon. William D. Kelly, the Hon. David Wilmot, the Hon. John W. Forney, Col. A. D. Bache, the Smithsonian Institute, the Select Council of the City of Philadelphia, the Ohio State Library, Miss Sarah C. Landon, and Mr. Isaac S. Cassim, Chief Engineer of the Water Department.

There have been lost, eight volumes from the Boys', and twenty volumes from the Girls' Library. The number of volumes in the Boys' Library is about and in the Girls' Library about Total, of both Libraries, about 18, 400 volumes. A new catalogue for the Girls' Library is in the hands of the printer, and one for the Boys' Library is being compiled.

With the employment of a female Librarian for the Boys' Library, your Board continue to be well satisfied. Under her firm, but gentle administration, there is no disorder among the boys. We feel a gratification in commending the Librarians of both Libraries, and their assistants, for the faithful performance of their duties, and the general good order preserved among the readers.

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