residence, with separate entrance, is provided on the first and second floors, and there is a spare room on the second floor for newspaper files. In the basement is the storage and the unpacking room, with a separate entrance. The workroom, with staircase to lending library above, the heating chamber, and the caretaker's room, all in the front portion of the building. The premises are lighted entirely by electricity, there being over 200 lights in use: a statement of the annual cost will be found on page 29.
The total cost of the library, inclusive of all furniture and fittings, was £12,966. There is estimated accommodation for books to the number of 100,000, but the present stock is 26,000. The area of the site is 188 feet by 85, and the building is no feet 9 inches deep, and has a frontage of 85 feet.
The Clapham Public Library was built in 1889, from the designs of Mr. E. B. I'Anson. The site is about 8000 square feet in area, and the library occupies about three-fourths of it, the remainder being left for extension.
The building is practically one room, supported on brick pillars where necessary, and divided with plain glass partitions for supervision. The entrance is placed at one corner, and admits to the public side of the lending library counter. On the right is the news-room, with reading stands for twenty-five papers, and seats for eighty persons. Adjoining the news-room, at the back of the building, is the reference reading-room, 28 feet by 24 feet, which is overlooked through a glass screen from the
