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2 Document No. 11. [Session
range and re-classify the books. This has been done with a
view to economising room and filling the shelves to their
utmost capacity, and while the present volumes are packed
away, more room is needed for the increase of succeeding
years. The rooms at present occupied by the Library can-not
be enlarged and it is full to repletion. ThShelving in the
office of the Superintendent Public Instruction and the closet
in the passage are filled with books, public documents, news-paper
files, &c. There is no room for the yearly addition of
State laws and exchanges, donations and purchases, and the
Library must have room for expansion or become a mere
lumber room, where all is chaos and confusion and no
definite volume can be found, except after hours of search,
when it is required for reference or perusal. If the sugges-tion
made in the Librarian's report of November 27th, 1871,
that the erection of a suitable building on Capitol square
would greatly tend to the improvement and enlargement of
the Library in every respect and render it much easier of
access, be deemed unadvisable at the present time, a num-ber
of alcoves, similar to those now in use, would give tem-porary
shelving for the volumes coming in and now piled
away in different places.
For the increase of the Library there is an annual appro-priation
of five hundred dollars, but much of this is neces-sarily
expended for binding periodicals and newspapers,
lettering public documents that are constantly being re-ceived
and rebinding valuable works that become dilap-idated
by constant use. Except therefore, in such books as
are donated or received by exchange, the Library is sadly
deficient. I would not be understood as suggesting an ad-ditional
appropriation, but if the appropriation now made
were exclusively for the purchase of books and the binding
and lettering provided for in some other way, the Library
would in a short time become more interesting, valuable
and useful. The laws of the State are sent to every State in
the Union, but as will be seen from the annexed list, all of
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