Word: years
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bound volumes added to the University Library during the year, 10,885 were added to Gore Hall. 4027 to the Divinity School, 677 to the Law School and the rest scattered amongst the various departments. These accessions are the largest on record, and surpass the number of volumes added during the academic year 1886-87 by about 4,500 volumes. The present extent of the University Library is 343,318 bound volumes, and 276,682 pamphlets...
During the past year 65,639 books were lent out, 15,267 were used in the building, and 20,360 were taken out over night-a total increase of 5000 volumes...
...college library is open Sunday afternoons from 1 p. m. to sun-down. During the last year it was open 37 Sundays, and 2,894 persons took advantage of the right of using the reserved books in Gore Hall on Sundays...
...good deal of work was done in the Catalogue department. The total number of titles catalogued for the year 1887-88) was 8,423, of which 6,711 were of books recently received and 1712 of books received before 1860, when the present card catalogue was begun. Besides this, 843 titles of books for the subsidiary libraries were catalogued twice-once for the College Library and once for the subsidiary libraries...
During the past year orders were sent out amounting to $6,805. This amount was divided among agents as follows: Domestic, $1,300; English, $2,150; French, $1,035; German, $1,950; Italian, $112; Scandivanian, $36; Bombay and Cairo...