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... LFAST.-The annual meeting of the Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge took place on February 20th, when a very satisfactory report was submitted. The library is in a sound financial condition, and the members arc to be congratulated on possessing excellent buildings on a fine site, and clear of debt During the year a large number of valuable books were presented, including one hundred volumes of early Belfast printing. The Belfast Library, under its old name of the Linen Hall Library, did good work in the capital of northern Ireland, and it is gratifying to see that age does not impair its usefulness. BIRMINGHAM.-The following revised scale with reference to salaries and wages has been adopted by the Public Libraries Committee : -(1) General : No male over twenty-one years of age shall be employed as librarian or assistant in any of the libraries at less than 25s. a week : (2) Reference Library : Junior assistants at fourteen years of age to begin at 6s. a week, rising as. a year till they reach the age of twenty-one ; assistants over twenty-one years of age to be paid a minimum wage of 25s. a week; (3) Branch Lending Libraries (excluding Adderley Park and Harbome): Librarians to be paid a minimum wage of 30s. a week, rising to 50s. a week ; senior assistants over twenty-one years of age to be paid a minimum wage of 25s. a week, rising to a maximum of 30s. a week ; junior assistants at fourteen years of age to begin at 6s. a week, rising 23. a year until they reach the age of twenty-one. (4) Central Lending : The schedule agreed upon for the branch libraries to apply to assistants in the Central Lending Library. BOOTLE.-The Public Library Committee have lately authorised the issue to borrowers of a second ticket, available for works other than fiction-another adoption of the Editor's Aberdeen suggestion. The committee are now in search of a suitable site for the establishment of a branch reading room in the north part of the borough. It is proposed