ADDITIONAL BOOKS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 243, 12 September 1929, Page 7

ADDITIONAL BOOKS.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY LIBRARY. (Bv Telegraph.—Special to Standard.) WELLINGTON, Sej>t. 11. The report of the chief librarian on the General Assembly library states that during the year 2153 books were added to the library. Dr. Scholefield, in the course of his report, states: “In spite of the shifts that have been made in recent years with a view to providing shelving for the book stock, the stock rooms and the main reading room are again becoming inconveniently congested, and I cannot see how we are to accommodate an additional 2000 books each vear without a substantial addition to our shelving. 1 hope that an improvement in financial conditions may make it possible in the near future to extend the shelving and provide more accommodation adjacent to the reading room. In the last few years there has been a very marked increase in the use made of the library for research and information purposes. Inquiries by Government departments, business firms, students and others for information of an economic, historical, statistical or biographical nature are received everyday, and members of Parliament are constantly calling on the staff for inquiries which entail a good deal of research. This is a side of the library’s work which is of great value to members.”