. REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION, ONTARIO, 1909 . i— V? 3 P-, S : » :m >.« o fe -O CO tJ £ -2 as 55 -2 £-2. »-S C3 (_, C3 t, 3 0- fn Oh fc< CU -a a 3 55 -O 3 Oh W 3 CU p. CCi(H _o3 3CU -o3 0- fe 5 T3 3 J3 • p, a as icH o CJ3 -o la CQ Si0-, J 378 TIIK OF THE No. 16 The Present Status and Prospects of Public Libraries Under Parts 1and 2 of the public libraries act, 1909. As will be seen upon reference to Table D, while only 13 new Libraries wereincorporated in the Province of Ontario (luring the four years ending 31st De-cember, 1908, the libraries that failed to report for tw
. REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION, ONTARIO, 1909 . i— V? 3 P-, S : » :m >.« o fe -O CO tJ £ -2 as 55 -2 £-2. »-S C3 (_, C3 t, 3 0- fn Oh fc< CU -a a 3 55 -O 3 Oh W 3 CU p. CCi(H _o3 3CU -o3 0- fe 5 T3 3 J3 • p, a as icH o CJ3 -o la CQ Si0-, J 378 TIIK OF THE No. 16 The Present Status and Prospects of Public Libraries Under Parts 1and 2 of the public libraries act, 1909. As will be seen upon reference to Table D, while only 13 new Libraries wereincorporated in the Province of Ontario (luring the four years ending 31st De-cember, 1908, the libraries that failed to report for two consecutive years or tocomply with the Regulations, numbered 136. The grants to which some of thesemight have been entitled, either in whole or in part, became forfeitable. Out of63 defaulting for some reason for the year 1908, 40, under an elastic ruling,have been given another chance. The cause of this alarming mortality among libraries organized in earlierdays, is in part due to the fact that libraries were then often forced upon an im-. port Elgin Public Library. ready community by over-persistent book agents. Later, the Boards findingthemselves saddled with liabilities they had not the remotest prospect of meeting,closed the doors of the library and probably of the total cost of the books, the 50jper cent, of this, paid by the Government, was wasted. Another feature which has contributed to swell the list of lapsed libraries is[the practice, among many of the smaller ones, of not making an annual reportto the Department when not entitled to a share of the Legislative grant. Toiremedy this a regulation might be passed by which five per cent, of the next grant,;payable to this class of defaulting libraries, could be withheld. One explana-tion, however, of the fact that there are numbers of decadent and moribund lib-raries, yearly passing out of existence, must be looked for in the neglect of many 1909 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. 379 Library Boards themselves to arous
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