This expense the Board report they are unable legally to incur. Pending
this decision the distribution of the books was suspended, but the
Committee have now decided to continue the circulation for another twelve
months."
The wear and tear of the juvenile books proceeded apace, and the report
for 1894-95 stated that when they were last called in "1,700 had to be
rebound or repaired, and in the four circulations about 800 volumes have
been found defective or worn out and withdrawn. The Committee therefore
decided to issue the reduced number of books, to such schools as made
application for them, under more systematic regulations." The juvenile
books went from bad to worse, and in the report for the year ending March
1900 it was stated that the Committee had decided to hand over the stock
to the Norwich School Board, which had recently decided to establish and
work a Juvenile Library of its own. Thus ended an experiment which was
financed unsatisfactorily, badly controlled, and of very doubtful utility
as a means of developing the work of the Library.
The large increase in the stock of the lending library necessitated a new
catalogue, and one (304 pp.
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