1957 SPRING: WITH A MOST WELCOME gift of £70 from the Parents' Association, as well as a further and unexpected allowance from the Council, the Library has grown considerably during the year. Old Boys have also made presentations as follows:
B. Bass: 'A Matter of Conscience', Werner Bergengruen. G. R. Bicknell: 'A Single Pebble', John Hersey. R. G. Boyce: 'As I Lay Dying', William Faulkner. R. N. Cox: 'La Porte Etroite', Andre Gide; 'Michael Kohlhaas', Kleist, T. Day: 'Cry, The Beloved Country" William Paton. V. J. Gilbert: 'Man's Estate', Andre Malraux. M. J. Hardy: 'Landfall', Nevil Shute.	C. F. Laffoney-Lane: 'The Hosanna Man' Philip Callow. P. M. McMaster: 'The Diplomat', James Aldridge. M. Moss: 'A Farewell to Arms', Ernest Hemingway. F. Moughton: 'The Cruel Sea', Monserrat. A. M. Tucker: 'The Quiet Arnerican', Graham Greene. Anon: 'The New Men', C. P. Snow. Books have also been given to the Library by G. Capon and A. P. Higgins
All gifts of worthwhile books will be greatly appreciated.	Ian R. Bell

For the first month of this term the library has been, unfortunately, closed because the shelves, so necessary for the increased volume of books, did not arrive. However, the shelves have finally arrived, and the library has been able to function properly again.

The new system of having two library rooms, one for books of educational value, and one for the lighter fiction, seems to be working quite well, and has been continued. Along with the growth of the school, the library has greatly expanded. We now have a wide selection of reading matter on both the fiction and non-fiction shelves. We have over 2,500 books in the library, and we are entering a further fifty every week.

1953 SPRING: Librarians: B. L. BASS   -   G. R. BICKNELL   -   R. COX   -   N. GOULD   -   D. C. HARRINGTON   -   F. W. MOUGHTON

Much progress has been made in the Library during the winter. The arrival of more books and new shelves have enabled us to form bays, which give the room a more studious and secluded atmosphere, and curtains have added to the feeling of comfort.

The librarians have been kept busy by the intake of books, now numbering fifteen hundred, and the preparation of card indexes, which are at last ready for use. As the quantity of books on each subject increases, serious use of the Library will in fact become almost impossible without help of the index. The casual handling of books still gives cause for worry. £200 was spent last year on new books alone, without mentioning furniture and magazines. This is fine. But how are they treated when they are put into the shelves? A book can stand only a small amount of rough treatment - of being left about, kicked around, lost for a while in the ferns, let us say - before it falls to pieces and becomes useless. Rebinding nowadays is very expensive. So these books have got to last. That is up to the people who use them.