Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . iJATES HALL. 32 GUIDE TO BOSTON. warm days, one may sit and read, instead of in the regular read-ing rooms. It must be borne in mind that this structure represents onlya portion (though, of cfnirse, the principal portion) of a greatlibrary system, covering the whole city of Boston. The systemcomprises the central library on Copley Square, just described,. THE INTERIOR COURT. containing about 800,000 volumes; ten branch libraries, withpermanent collections of books; twenty delivery stations, ofwhich seven are reading-rooms, and thirty-one sc
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . iJATES HALL. 32 GUIDE TO BOSTON. warm days, one may sit and read, instead of in the regular read-ing rooms. It must be borne in mind that this structure represents onlya portion (though, of cfnirse, the principal portion) of a greatlibrary system, covering the whole city of Boston. The systemcomprises the central library on Copley Square, just described,. THE INTERIOR COURT. containing about 800,000 volumes; ten branch libraries, withpermanent collections of books; twenty delivery stations, ofwhich seven are reading-rooms, and thirty-one schools are sup-plied with books. The Library is open to the public from nine oclock in themorning on week-days, and two in the afternoon on Sundays,until nine oclock in the evening during the summer, and until THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. 33 ten during the colder months. Books are not issued, however,after nine, the extra winter hour being intended merely as a con-venience to those reading and studying in the building. OTHER LIBRARIES. The Boston Atheneum Library, in the Atheneum Buildingat io>2 Beacon Street, belongs to a private society. While theright to use this library is confined to the shareholders and theirfamilies, great courtesy is shown to strangers and scholars whomay wish to consult its shelves. The library contains about200,000 volumes, many of which are rare and valuable. One ofits interestin
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