Public Society And School Libraries

Excerpt from Public, Society, and School Libraries The statistics of libraries for 1900 will be found summarized in tables 1 to 9 and the statistics in detail for each library will be given in the concluding pages of this chapter. Tables 10 to 14 reproduce the most important items in similar tables for 1875, 1885, 1891, and 1896. Table 1 gives the number of libraries, the number of volumes, and the number of pamphlets reported from each State and shows the increase in number of libraries and volumes and the percentage of increase in volumes in each State and geograph ical division. The North Atlantic Division has of the libraries and a million more than half the number of volumes in the United States. New York alone has 718 libraries with volumes; Massachusetts, 571 libraries with volumes, and Pennsylvania, 401 libraries with volumes. The North Central Division has libraries with volumes. Illinois has 309 of these libraries with volumes; Ohio, 266 libraries with volumes, and Michigan, 193 libraries with volumes. The South Atlantic Division has 421 libraries with volumes. Maryland has 80 of these libraries with volumes, and the District of Columbia 74, with volumes, one million of these being in the Library of Congress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.