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IV. EDUCATION AND MENTAL CULTURE IN SWEDEN.
of visitors amounted to 6,677, to whom 34,754 volumes were handed.
The number of loans during the same year amounted to 19,318 volumes,
of which 5,136 volumes were lent to scientific institutions. In size next
to the Library of the Uppsala University, comes the Library of the
Lund University. Ever since the beginning of the eighteenth century
the library has been entitled to receive a copy of every publication
printed in the Kingdom. The library contains at present about 185,000
volumes, besides pamphlets, and 5,000 manuscripts. In 1900 the number
of visitors amounted to 11,768 persons, for whom 39,548 volumes were
taken down, and the number of volumes lent during the same year
was 12,770.
Royal Library, Stockholm. photo. tor cahlbo*.
Among other libraries outside of Stockholm the City Library of
Gothenburg is the most important, and contains over 60,000 volumes.
In 1900, new quarters were erected for the same. The yearly number
of visitors amounts to about 8,000, the number of books taken down to
more than 5,000, and for home use about 5,000 volumes were lent.
At all the State Colleges in the Kingdom there are libraries which
are also accessible to the public. Some of them are very old. The
most important is the very valuable Library of the Linköping Diocese
and State College (Stiftsbiblioteket), with about 100,000 volumes and
1,600 manuscripts, besides 500 letters on parchment.
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