Dayton Public Library Statistics

ARRANGED ACCORDING TO AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION REVISED FORM

ANNUAL REPORT FOR YEAR ENDED AUGUST 31, 1925 Name of library, Dayton Public Library and Museum.

City, Dayton; state, Ohio.

Name of librarian, Electra Collins Doren.

Date of founding, 1860.

Population served, 183,071 (Chamber of Commerce estimate).

Assessed valuation of city, $326,731,830.

Assessed valuation is 80 per cent of true cash value.

Rate of tax levy for library purposes, .604 mill.*

Terms of use, free to citizens of Dayton; to residents of Montgomery County, 25 cents per month.

Total number of agencies, 310.

Consisting of

Central Library, 1.

Branches, 10; two occupy separate Carnegie buildings; eight in school buildings.

Sub-branches, 1 (Medical Library).

Stations, 10.

Bookwagon, 30 stations.

Other agencies: 208 Classroom Deposits in 24 Public
Schools; 50 Classroom Deposits in 9 Parochial
Schools; total, 258 deposits in 33 schools.

Number of days open during year (Central Library), 305 week days;
Reference use only, 52 Sundays and two legal holidays.
Hours open each week for lending (Central Library), 72.
Hours open each week for reading (Central Library), 79.
Hours service per week required of staff, 40 hours.

BOOK STOCK-CONTINUED

ANNUAL REPORT

Number of newspapers, periodicals, proceedings and transactions of learned societies currently received, 495 titles, 1323 copies.

Number of publications issued during year, 23 booklists, 1 biennial report.

USE

Adult Juvenile Total No. of volumes of fiction lent for home use 144,438 134,398 278,836 Total number of volumes lent for home use 222,031 347,148 569,179 Per cent fiction lent of total volumes lent 25.3% 23.6% 48.9% Circulation per capita –

Home use, 3.1 volumes.
Home and reading-room use, 4.2 volumes.

Number of persons using library for reading and study, 104,712 (Main
Library only; does not include children).

REGISTRATION

No. of borrowers registered during year
Total number of registered borrowers
Registration period, three years.

Per cent registered borrowers of population served, 15.8%.

STAFF

Number of staff, library service, 70 full time, 8 part time, 34 pages.
Number of staff, janitor service, 7 and 1 night-watchman.

Balance on hand August 31, 1925 $ 4,929.06

Maintenance expenditure per volume of circulation
Maintenance expenditure per capita, Library
Maintenance expenditure per capita, Museum

*Includes Printers' salaries.

**Includes heat.

+Light only.

Temporary.

29 cents 90.5 cents

3.4 cents

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