Seventeenth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library, 1869 (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Seventeenth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library, 1869 Indeed, it is difficult to see how the institution can be made any more free to the public without removing all check and restraint and allowing free access to the loan department, which process would probably soon deplete the walls of both libraries of a considerable portion of their contents. But it is, perhaps, needless to assure the city government that the hopes and desires of the Trustees tend rather to freedom than restriction, as the changes of the last few years have fully demonstrated. 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.