THE TOWN LIBRARY
THE TOWN LIBRARY will be closed on SATURDAY, the 10th of May next. It will be reopened on or before the 1st of July in the New Building. All of the intermediate time will be required to recover and to rearrange the books for removal. No books will be delivered after the 26th of April till the reopening.
The Library Committee request that all books and pamphlets belonging to the Library and in possession of borrowers or others be returned on or before the 10th of May.
The Committee are particularly desirous of recovering the missing volumes mentioned in the last annual report. Any information in regard to them will be thankfully received. The Town cannot afford to lose a book. Not one.
Several ladies and gentlemen have stated it to be their intention, on the completion of the New Building, to present books, coins, medals, and engravings to the library. The committee request that such donations, marked “Concord Public Library,” be sent to the Post Office to the care of Mr. Henry L. Whitcomb, who has kindly consented to take charge of them. There are many in town, and out of town, with an abiding affection for Old Concord, who have duplicated copies of works that they would gladly give to this institution for the benefit of our people; but it is not absolutely necessary that any one should limit the selection to the duplicate copies only; there will be shelves sufficient for as many books as the most liberal can furnish.
To avoid purchasing books that may be thus added to the library the Committee ask that these gifts be made with as little delay as possible. The donors’ names should accompany each parcel that they may be recorded and placed in each book given.
It is believed that over a thousand volumes will be added to the library between now and the 1st of next July, by these donations. Two or three hundred have already been offered, the titles of which, together with titles of others to be received, will appear in the new catalogue.
CONCORD, MASS., April 19 1873