Card Division Kansas State Historical Society Library, Topeka, Kans. Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, Calif.1 North Carolina University Library, Chapel Hill, N. C. Stanford University Library, Stanford University, Calif.'1 K. Tekniska Hogskolans Bibliotek, Stockholm, Sweden. Tokyo Imperial University Library, Tokyo, Japan.1 Wesleyan University Library, Middletown, Conn.1 1 Proof-sheet depository only. 129 Reprints: Division of Bibliography 131 Guide to the cataloguing of the serial publications of societies and institutions. 1924. 108 p. 23 cm. L. C. Printed Cards. How to order and use them. 5th ed. (Provisional) 1924. 36 p. 16 cm. Documents: Monthly Check-List of State publications. April-December, 1924; January-April, 1925. Paper, $1.00 a year. Index and title-page for the year 1923. Manuscripts: Manuscripts in Public and Private Collections in the United 19 cm. January-December, 1924. 1925. 31 p. 19 cm. Catalogue publications: Subject Headings used in the Dictionary Catalogue of the including all additions to September, 1924. 1924. 53 p. 251⁄2 cm. Subject subdivisions. 6th edition. 1924. 85 p. 23cm. A list of American Doctoral Dissertations printed in 1922. 1924. 238 p. 23 cm. Paper, 35 cents. Same, 1923. 1925. 209 p. 23 cm. Paper, 35 cents. 1925. Guide to the cataloguing of periodicals. 3d edition. 23 p. 23 cm. Reading Room: Braille grade one and a half. Books, Room for the Blind, Publications partially completed in fisca year 1925: DIVISION OF BIBLIOGRAPHY (From the report of the chief bibliographer, Mr. Slade) Complementary to the abstract of evidence bearing on the origin and causes of the World War, now in course of preparation in the legislative reference service, under the requirements of Senate Resolution 339, and intended for use in connection with that abstract, is a bibliography dealing with the same subject, now in course of preparation in the division of bibliography. Work on the bibliography was undertaken by direction of the librarian on the adoption by the Senate of the resolution cited. As the work has progressed the task has proved by far the largest that has fallen to the division during the year. There are collections of books in Europe and the United States wholly devoted to the World War; their contents dealing with causes alone are in themselves so numerous as to form considerable libraries within the larger units. A single German bibliography on the question of responsibility for the war contains not less than 2,300 titles, of which 40 per cent are in languages other than German. There is, therefore, an abundance, in reality a superabundance, of material on the subject, though much relating to the war's origins remains unpublished that some day undoubtedly will become known. The subject, too, as is apparent, has out of its very nature intricacies leading to all but infinities. The bibliographical task before us is accordingly one of unusual interest and of unusual dimensions. The normal work of the division has, nevertheless, gone on steadily, and concurrently with it this special work. The latter has included much checking of lists and searching of catalogues in a survey of the resources of the Library through the many related or unrelated fields that widely different and still more widely differing writers have thought to contain roots of the war. The titles gathered have been incorporated in the bibliography, and the collections in the Library supplemented through the purchase of material not already contained in them. To turn from the matter of the bibliography on the origin of the war to the normal activities of the division of bibliography, the most considerable investigation made during the year was one resulting from a request from the office of the Attorney General for references to material having to do with the election of President and of succession to the presidential office. A chronological conspectus was made of Government documents on the subject; another of debates in Congress; and a bibliography on cards brought together giving references to numerous discussions in books and journals. Other special investigations have been conducted, and bibliographical lists and memoranda compiled as usual in the day-to-day service to Congress and the public. The lists compiled on special topics were 128 in number and had a total of the staff. Mr. Paul Brockett, who had b with the Smithsonian Institution for 38 1 served since 1902 as its assistant librarian dian of the Smithsonian deposit, resigned full time to the duties of librarian and a tary of the National Academy of Scien cessor, Mr. William Lee Corbin, formerl English in Boston University, assumed t librarian of the Smithsonian Institution an the Smithsonian deposit on September 15. Mr. F. H. Parsons, assistant in charge in the Library of Congress from 1900 to from the service January 22, 1925, i with the provisions of the retirement 1 greater part of the last six months of his been absent from the Library on account annual leave and sick leave being exter without pay. He was able, however, to work from January 1-22, 1925, thus rou |