The year 1915 has been a year of exceptional activity, and it is with pleasure that I have to report the great progress made by the Public Library during the year. The Carnegie Corpora tion generously implemented an old promise that we should have additional Branch Libraries, and plans were prepared and tenders called for branches in those parts of the city known as Wychwood, High Park and the Beaches. Our haste was due partly to the desire to do as much building as possible in a time when we felt we should help solve the unemployment problem. Owing to the depression in the building trade we were able to obtain very favorable prices, and for the amount given us by the Carnegie Corporation, we shall have three Branch Libraries of which the people will be proud. It is sig nificant that in our plans we are abandoning all traditional forms of library architecture and are going back to the Collegiate Grammar School type of the Seventeenth Century in England. We have made very considerable progress in the actual building operations of these branches, and we had hoped that before the year closed the patrons of the Library would be using them; but we encountered difficulties by reason of the delay of the municipal authorities of our city in giving the Board title to these properties.

Your Chairman and the Chief Librarian attended the meet ing of the American Library Association at Berkeley, California.

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