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...Sibley's resignation of the office of Librarian, in consequence of his failing eye-sight, the position, hardly expecting that it would be accepted, was offered Mr. Justin Winsor, who for nearly ten years has been the able and efficient Superintendent of the Boston Public Library. Of the subsequent proceedings between Mr. Winsor and the city authorities, wherein efforts were made to retain him, it is unnecessary here to speak, as the dailies have told the whole story time and time again. Whether Mr. Winsor was to be preferred to another great scholar and brilliant writer, for some time past...
...Sibley has been connected with our Library thirty-six consecutive years, besides one year after graduation as Assistant, - a period longer than any one man has had connection with it; and during this period he has unquestionably done more for it than any other two men combined. The Library without him would have been "Hamlet" with the Prince of Denmark left...
...Library was moved to Gore Hall; and on the death of Mr. Thaddeus W. Harris, Mr. Sibley filled his place as Librarian. On taking charge of the Library there were found to be 41,000 volumes, with the Hollis and Shapleigh Fund of $5,000, which yielded for the purchase of books an income of only $250 per annum. Now there are 164,000 plus volumes, with a permanent fund of $170,000. During his administration there have been, among lesser ones, the donations of the Pickman, Walker, Wales, and Sumner libraries, besides the William Gray Fund...
PROFESSOR SIBLEY has resigned the position of Librarian, which he has filled so long and so ably. The position has been offered to Mr. Winsor, Librarian of the Boston Public Libraries...
...Lowell, in responding, incidentally remarked of Professor Sibley that he [Mr. Sibley] had given more to the cause of education, in accordance with his means, than anybody else ever gave in his lifetime, and closed by saying that