8. Does the library lend books to the people of the county or township as well as to those of the city in which it is located?.................. ... If so, under what conditions?.

9. Does the library lend sets of books or collections to schools?..

has the library with the public-school system?.......

If not, what kind of cooperation

10. Number of borrowers' cards now in force according to the rules of the library. 11. Number of books issued during the past year for use outside the library...

Of these, how

many were issued from the children's department or for juvenile use?.
[In accordance with the rules drawn up by the A. L. A. Committee on Library Administration,
books lent through branches and delivery stations and books sent to deposit stations will be counted,
but not books lent from deposit stations. Books lent for pay and periodical numbers should be
counted.]

12. Number of visitors during the past year to reading rooms, including periodical and newspaper reading

16. What collections of books in the library are especially notable for their size or value?.

17. How many branches has the library?.....

18. Number of paid employees (not including building force): For the main library, ........; for branch libraries,.

19. Building force (engineers, janitors, doorkeepers, cleaners, etc.): For the main library,

If so, what was the cost of the building (exclusive of grounds)?..
Source of the funds for erecting the building....................

23. Estimated present value of library building and grounds, $..
24. Is a public tax levied for the support of the library?...

25. Income for the past fiscal year:

(a) Received directly from public taxation..

(b) Appropriated by State, county, or city.

(c) Allotment by institution or society..

(d) Derived from permanent productive funds.

(e) From all other sources...

If so, what is the rate?.

.$.

Does the above total include any sum appropriated or secured as a building fund?.
If so, how much? $......

The above schedule calls for about 70 items and subitems. More prompt and satisfactory returns could have been obtained by issuing a questionnaire less comprehensive in its scope. An examination of the tables of detailed statistics will show that even many of the larger libraries failed to furnish all the desired information.

The Bureau of Education is indebted to most of the following State library commissions for assistance in revising the list of libraries on file in this office.

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF STATE LIBRARY COMMISSIONS.1

1 Thirty-six States have library commissions, as here indicated.

TABLE 1.-Summary of statistics of public and society libraries reporting 5,000 volumes and over in 1913.

TABLE 2.-Summary of statistics of public and society libraries reporting 5,000 volumes and over in 1913.

BOOKS ISSUED, VISITORS TO READING ROOM, LIBRARY EMPLOYEES.