Our country and its resources; . sevenmillion borrowers cards in force;1,446 of these libraries were entire-ly free to the public-Libraries reporting from 1,000 to5,000 volumes numbered , ofwhich 2,188 were public and societylibraries, and 3,265 school libraries contained 11,689,942volumes. Another group of libraries,comprising those that reported from300 to volumes, increased thetotal by 2,961,007 volumes. Of the 1,844 public and societylibraries with over 5,000 volumesreported for the entire UnitedStates, more than half were in theNorth Atlantic States, and theycon
Our country and its resources; . sevenmillion borrowers cards in force;1,446 of these libraries were entire-ly free to the public-Libraries reporting from 1,000 to5,000 volumes numbered , ofwhich 2,188 were public and societylibraries, and 3,265 school libraries contained 11,689,942volumes. Another group of libraries,comprising those that reported from300 to volumes, increased thetotal by 2,961,007 volumes. Of the 1,844 public and societylibraries with over 5,000 volumesreported for the entire UnitedStates, more than half were in theNorth Atlantic States, and theycontained 24, volumes outof the total of fifty millions; andof the three million volumes addedto library collections for the year1913, almost one-half were for thesame section. New York Statehad 7,842,621 volumes in her 213libraries; Massachusetts, ,024in 288 libraries: Pennsylvania, 3,-728,070; and Illinois, 3,168,765volumes. Four-fifths of the bor-rowers cards in use were in theNorth Atlantic and North Plioto Harris & Ewiu; ENTRANCE HALL, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
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