. Liverpool public libraries. A history of fifty years. the contents ofall collected works. In 1892 a vote of £1,600 from the fundsaccruing under the Customs and Excise Act,enabled the Reference and Branch Libraries to bebrought up to date and largely augmented intechnical books. The importance and numberof these books led to the suggestion of printinga handlist of them, and circulating it gratuitouslyamong the workshops of the city. An editionof 5,000 copies was printed and distributedaccordingly. The result was eminently satis-factory, for the statistics of the issue of suchbooks during the
. Liverpool public libraries. A history of fifty years. the contents ofall collected works. In 1892 a vote of £1,600 from the fundsaccruing under the Customs and Excise Act,enabled the Reference and Branch Libraries to bebrought up to date and largely augmented intechnical books. The importance and numberof these books led to the suggestion of printinga handlist of them, and circulating it gratuitouslyamong the workshops of the city. An editionof 5,000 copies was printed and distributedaccordingly. The result was eminently satis-factory, for the statistics of the issue of suchbooks during the next twelve months showedan increase of 10,592 volumes. Owing to theadmirable way this little volume served its purposeit became the pioneer of several similar handlists,all of which have proved valuable in makingknown the important technical side of theReference Library. It was felt by those students and readersto whom the special catalogues most stronglyappealed, that the mere titles of the works theregiven were to them names and nothing more, and. ? ?. Photo, by Medringtan. Sir William B. Forwood, , History of the Liverpool Public Libraries. 153 that it would be an education in itself if theycould have the opportunity of becoming acquaintedwith the nature and scope of these valuable andimportant books, so many of which were of foreignorigin. In sympathy with this feeling, and withthe desire to extend the advantages of thelibrary to the fullest, a series of exhibitions wereinaugurated of these books. Artists, architects,decorators, workers in wood and metal expressedtheir unbounded pleasure with the numeroushigh-class works displayed for their benefit,and their note books gave evidence that it wasnot their intention to confine themselves to themere superficial inspection which these occasionsonly enabled them to make—a resolution whichthe statistics of the book issues afterwards fullyconfirmed. Among the special catalogues published fromtime to time by the Library
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