. Historical notes : Public Library of New South Wales. Department;in the following month I joined the staff of the Librar\, taking with me themanuscripts and records used in the compilation of the Hiskwical Records ofNew SoufJi Wales. In their third annual report, dated 9th February, 1874, the Trustees made allusion to the question of estab- lishing a Lending Branch. They pointedout, however, that until the Library washoused in a more suitable and com-modious building, this extension of itsfunctions, however desirable was quiteimpracticable. They favoured the erec-tion of a building nearer th
. Historical notes : Public Library of New South Wales. Department;in the following month I joined the staff of the Librar\, taking with me themanuscripts and records used in the compilation of the Hiskwical Records ofNew SoufJi Wales. In their third annual report, dated 9th February, 1874, the Trustees made allusion to the question of estab- lishing a Lending Branch. They pointedout, however, that until the Library washoused in a more suitable and com-modious building, this extension of itsfunctions, however desirable was quiteimpracticable. They favoured the erec-tion of a building nearer the centre of thecity, to be used as a Reference Library,and the utilisation of the old building atthe corner of Bent and Macquarie streetsas a Lending Branch. To John Stewart, , Trustee, is due the credit of first advocating the advisability of equipping a Lending Branch ; he proposed that a building, or rooms, should be hired in the city w. A. duncan. r-. , 1 Trustee, 1870-85. (Market-Street or rark-street were named President, 1883-5. f .3—-. 46 THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF by him as most suitable), and that about 5,000 volumes of standardworks should be procured from England. The matter was discussed atseveral meetings of the Trustees, and finally, in March, 1876, an order wassent to England for 2,000 volumes at a cost of about ^S^o. Wlien the proposal to establish this branch was being discussed, it wassubject to considerable opposition on the ground that it would attractreaders from the more serious literature in the Reference Librarv. It was found, on the con-mation of a Lend-though carried oning, greatly stimu-in the Reading The Branchbasement of the oldon 31st July, 10,968 \ol-1,225 borrowers,which the Branchfirst, were fromThe time was e\-arv, 1880, to fromThis alteration wasable to the working-unable, under theto avail themselvesof the advantaiies
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