Classification schedules 50,000; class P, Language and literature, 52,000; various · remainders, 20,000; Law, 130,000. This is exclusive of (1) copyright and other duplicates reserved for future incorporation in the classified collection; (2) duplicates in the exchange collection; (3) special collections: Orientalia, Hungarica, etc.; (4) Yudin collection and other Slavica; (5) Booksellers' catalogues and similar unbound material; (6) Newspapers. The principal subjects covered by the reclassification were class P, Language and literature, 18,000; various remainders (including material from some of the groups not specified by classes) falling chiefly within class H-J, Social sciences, 32,000; Fine arts, 4,000; Americana, 1,500; and some 12,000 volumes distributed among the other classes. For administrative purposes and in order to satisfy more readily the growing number of requests from other libraries for the Library of Congress classification schedules, it was decided to put in type all of the schemes provisionally completed regardless of the desirability of more or less extensive modification in connection with the recataloguing of the books and the reclassification of the remaining subjects. The revised schedule of class Z, Bibliography, and the first provisional schedules of classes N, Fine arts; R, Medicine; B (part 1), Philosophy; J, Political science; T, Technology; U, Military science; V, Naval science; G, Geography, have now been issued. H, Economics and Social science, is part in page proof, part in galley proof; and C-D, History (except CT, Biography); L, Education; A, Polygraphy; and S, Agriculture, are in various stages of preparation and will be sent to the printer as rapidly as possible. Class P will follow next; language will probably be completed in December; literature at a date which can not now be named; but it is hoped the schedules may be in press by the end of the calendar year. There will remain, then, class B (part 2), Religions and Theology; CT, Biography; GR, Folklore; 4 GT, Manners and customs (there are drafts for GR and GT); the General Index to the schedules; and class K, Law. With the other schedules out of the way, considerable force may be concentrated on these and the work pushed to completion. Apart from the question of the merit or demerit of the schemes compared with others, they may still prove of great assistance to other libraries, especially to those which use the Library of Congress printed cards. PUBLICATIONS The publications of the Library during the past year have been as follows: Report of the Librarian of Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909. 1909. 220 pp. Plates. Cloth, 50 cents. 25 cm. Library of Congress publications issued since 1897. 1910. 48 pp. 20 cm. Library of Congress publications issued since 1897. (April, 1910) 51 pp. 20 cm. Library of Congress publications issued since 1897. (June, 1910) 52 pp. 20 cm. The following administration publication has been reprinted: Rules and practice governing the use and issue of books. 1908. 14 pp. Compiled by the Division of Bibliography: Select list of references on the cost of living and prices; comp. under the direction of H. H. B. Meyer, Chief Bibliographer. 1910. 107 pp. 251⁄2 cm. Paper, 15 cents. Select list of references on sugar, chiefly in its economic The "Select list of references on Inland Waterways of Europe, 1910. The following lists have been reprinted: Select list of references on Chinese immigration. 1904. 31 pp. 251⁄2 cm. Paper, 10 cents. Select list of works relating to employers' liability. Paper, 10 cents. references to periodicals) 1906. 25 pp. 251⁄2 cm. 251⁄2 cm. Select list of books (with relating to the Far East. 1904. 74 PP. 271⁄2 cm. Paper, 15 cents; cloth, 30 cents. List of discussions of the 14th and 15th amendments, with special reference to negro suffrage. 1906. 18 pp. 251⁄2 cm. Paper, 10 cents. List of books (with references to periodicals) on immigration. 3d issue. 1907. 157 pp. 251⁄2 cm. Paper, 25 cents. Select list of books on municipal affairs, with special reference to municipal ownership. 1906. 34 pp. 26 cm. Paper, 5 cents. Select list of references on the negro question. 2d issue. 1906. 61 pp. 251⁄2 cm. Paper, 10 cents. Select list of references on old age and civil service pensions. 1903. 18 pp. 27 cm. Paper, 10 cents. List of books relating to postal savings banks. 1908. 23 pp. 251⁄2 cm. Paper, 10 cents. List of books (with references to periodicals) on railroads in their relation to the Government and the public, with appendix containing list of references on the Northern securities case. 2d issue. 1907. 131 pp. 251⁄2 cm. Paper, 20 cents. List of books (with references to periodicals) relating to trusts. 3d ed. with supplementary list. 1907. 93 pp. 271⁄2 cm. Cloth, 50 cents. Compiled by the Catalogue Division: Class B. Part 1: B-BJ, Philosophy. 1910. 109 pp. 26 cm. Paper, 15 cents. Class Z. Bibliography and library science. 1910. III pp. 26 cm. Paper, 15 cents. Outline scheme of classes. 1910. 241. 25% by 20 cm. Paper, 10 cents. Preliminary list of subject subdivisions. 26 cm. Paper, 10 cents. 1910. 30 pp. Subject Headings. List of subject headings. Additions and corrections. No. 4, Dec., 1909; no. 5, May, 1910. 221⁄2 cm. Paper, 5 cents each. Compiled by the Division of Documents: Monthly list of State publications. Jan.-Apr. 1910. 23 cm. Paper, 5 cents each. Compiled by the Division of Manuscripts: Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. Edited from the original records in the Library of Congress. v. 16-18. 1780. 1910. 3 V. 27 cm. Cloth, $1.00 each. Compiled by the Division of Maps and Charts: List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, with bibliographical notes; comp. under the direction of P. Lee Phillips, Chief, Division of Maps and Charts. 1909. 2 V. 251⁄2 cm. Cloth, $2.35. Compiled by the Music Division: Report on the "Star-spangled banner," "Hail Columbia," "America," "Yankee Doodle," comp. by O. G. T. Sonneck, Chief, Division of Music. 1909. 255 pp. 251⁄2 cm. Cloth, 85 cents. Compiled by the Order Division: Miscellaneous. Want list; miscellaneous publications. 1909. 30 pp. 23 cm. Paper, 5 cents. Compiled by the Periodical Division: Periodicals. Want list of periodicals and serials. 1909. 241 pp. 23 cm. Paper, 20 cents. Periodicals. Duplicate periodicals and serials available for exchange. Jan., 1910. 69 pp. 23 cm. Paper, 5 cents. Sale of cards Depositories Compiled by the Smithsonian Deposit: Periodicals. Want list of publications of foreign societies. 1909. 228 pp. 23 cm. Paper, 10 cents. The publications of the Copyright Office are listed in the report of the Register of Copyrights CARD SECTION (From the report of the Chief, Mr. Hastings) During the year the number of subscribers has increased from 1,220 to 1,366. (A complete list of the subscribers is given as Appendix V of this report) The cash sale of cards, including subscriptions to the proof sheets, amounted to $28,498.09, an increase of about 16 per cent over the sales for 1908–9. The sale of cards to the libraries of the departments of the United States Government, paid for by transfer of credits, amounted to $802.53. The total of the deposits received in payment for catalogue cards was $29,368.66. The refunds made during the year amounted to $30.60. Cards for about 45,000 different titles were added to the stock during the year. The whole number of different titles now represented in the stock is approximately 440,000, including about 23,000 "unrevised" cards not represented in the depository sets. The libraries of Brown University, Columbia University, and the American Antiquarian Society have been added to the list of depositories for a complete set of the L. C. cards, but the cards have not yet been selected. The St. Paul Public Library has been made a proof sheet depository, and the cards necessary to complete its file have been supplied. |