Activities of the Friends
 

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Fall Meeting on November ; /. As we go to press, plans are being
completed for the Fall Meeting of the Friends, which will be held
on November 11 in the Men's Faculty Club. Professor Jacques
Barzun will talk on "Adventures in Studying and Collecting
Berlioz."

Finances

In accordance with regular custom, we publish in the November
issue of this journal the contributions from the Friends for the
twelve-month period ending on March 31. During the year un¬
restricted cash gifts totaled $14,220 and those for special purposes
16,991, making a total of $21,211. These amounts were substan¬
tially larger than in the preceding year. Cash gifts over the past
years now total $300,010.

Furthermore during the year the Friends have given to the Li¬
braries rare books and manuscripts with an appraised total value
of $50,705. They have been described in "Our Growing Collec¬
tions." This is an historic report, for the total value of such gifts
in kind since the founding of the Friends has now passed the
$1,000,000 mark.

The comparative figures for gifts are indicated in the table on
the facing page (the Friends were formally organized on May i,
1951).

Not part of the gift record was income to the association from
sales of the Rackham exhibit catalog, paid subscriptions to Colum¬
bia Library Columns from many libraries, and dinner reservations
for the fall and winter meetings. Such receipts for the year totaled
$4,570. Most of these constituted reimbursement to the Friends'
treasury for printing and other expenditures previously incurred.
 

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