The use of the Reference and Technology Departments is free to all, whether residents of Pittsburgh or not.
Those who cannot come to the Library may send their requests for information by mail or telephone.
Branch libraries: Lawrenceville, West End, Wylie Avenue, Mount Washington, Hazelwood, East Liberty, South Side, Homewood.
ADMINISTRATION
- President of the Board of Trustees: S. H. Church.
- Chairman of the Library Committee: J. J. Turner.
- Librarian: Harrison W. Craver.
STATISTICS
From the annual report for the year ending December 31, 1915.
| Number of volumes in Library | 422,201 | |
| Number of volumes in Central Library | 279,550 | |
| Total home circulation | 1,355,980 | |
| Number of volumes used in Reference Room | 203,634 | |
| Number of volumes used in Technology Room | 168,960 | |
| Number of visitors to Reference Room | 50,645 | |
| Number of visitors to Periodical Room | 83,939 | |
| Number of visitors to Technology Room | 33,539 | |
| Number of visitors to Branch reading rooms | 634,747 | |
| Total | 802,870 | |
| Number of borrowers' cards in force | 113,659 | |
| Numbers of persons on staff (not including janitors, engineers, etc.) | 200 | |
| Number of persons on staff, Central Library alone. | 130 | |
| City appropriation. | $200,000 | |
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