Excerpt from Annual Report of the Boston Public Library: For the Year Ending June 30, 1976 As Director, and Librarian, I have the honor to submit my report for the year July 1, 1975, to June 30, 1976. The year has been marked by an intensive effort to maintain a cost-effective operation while at the same time offering growth in services and resources. At a time when metropolitan libraries across the nation are curtailing hours, staff, and services because of increased fiscal restraints, the Boston Public Library is working to go beyond business-as-usual and advance in services by streamlining procedures and systems and by seeking additional support through gifts and endowments. This year saw considerable progress in the long-range building program, in program activities, in production of resources in large-print materials, and in General Library holdings, in cooperative programs with the Boston Li brary Consortium, in application of systems to biblio graphic activities, and in other areas herewith enumerated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.