+---------+--------+-------+-------+------+------+------------+-----+ LIBRARIES WITHOUT LOAN CHARGES. +---------+--------+-------+-------+------+------+------------+-----+ | | | Peri- | | | |Other Items,| | | | Books |odicals| |Rents |Rates | including | | | Income. | and | and | Sala- | and | and |Maintenance |Total| | |Binding.| News- | ries. |Loans.|Taxes.|of Premises,| | | | |papers.| | | |Light, Heat,| | | | | | | | | &c. | | +---------+--------+-------+-------+------+------+------------+-----+ | £ | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | |1000 | | | | | | | | | & over| 19·93 | 6·37 | 39·22 | .. | 2·03 | 32·43 |99·98| | 750-1000| 25·4 | 7·95 | 44·17 | .. | 3·16 | 19·29 |99·97| | 500- 750| 20·31 | 9·98 | 45·49 | .. | 3·86 | 20·23 |99·97| | 400- 500| 18·48 | 10·07 | 40·90 | .. | 5·81 | 24·6 |99·86| | 300- 400| 15·9 | 12·31 | 46·91 | .. | 2·9 | 21·9 |99·92| | 200- 300| 17·13 | 13·25 | 42·98 | .. | 4·00 | 22·61 |99·97| | 100- 200| 16·2 | 15·66 | 45·1 | .. | 2·54 | 20·47 |99·97| | 50- 100| 20·16 | 15·82 | 34·29 | .. | 5·68 | 24·02 |99·97| |Under 50 | 28·65 | 21·85 | 36·46 | .. | 2·26 | 10·75 |99·97| +---------+--------+-------+-------+------+------+------------+-----+ FIG. 2.--Returns compiled from Professor Adams’ Report on Library Provision and Policy [Carnegie United Kingdom Trust], Sec. 31. =32.= We must consider in some detail the principal expenditures to which library committees are subject. =33. Loans.=--The Libraries Acts give fairly full instructions as to loans for public library purposes. In England under the principal Act “every library authority, with the sanction of the Local Government Board . . . may borrow money for the purposes of this Act on the security of any fund or rate applicable for those purposes.” In parishes the regulations for borrowing prescribed by the “Local Government Act, 1894,” are to apply. As a preliminary to borrowing, an inquiry is held locally by a Local Government Board inspector, who receives evidence as to proposed buildings, sites, amount required, etc., and also hears objections to the proposal. The Local Government Board print bills announcing the inquiry, and these must be posted and paid for by the library authority. At such inquiries full particulars should be prepared as to income, date of adopting Acts, etc., as well as particulars of the proposed scheme. After the inquiry is held it is generally about three months later before the sanction of the Board is received. This states the amount sanctioned and for what period the money can be borrowed for sites, buildings, furniture or books, as the case may be.