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The list of depositories as given below includes 48 libraries. The proof sheet depositories are distinguished by asterisks.

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.

Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Me.
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Brown University Library, Providence, R. I.
Buffalo Public Library, Buffalo, N. Y.
Chicago University Library, Chicago, Ill.
Cincinnati Public Library, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio.
Columbia University Library, New York City.
Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Conn.
*Cornell University Library, Ithaca, N. Y.
*Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, N. H.

Denver Public Library, Denver, Colo.

Illinois State University Library, Champaign, Ill.

Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, Ind.

Institut International de Bibliographie, Brussels, Belgium.

Iowa State University Library, Iowa City, Iowa.

John Crerar Library, Chicago, Ill.

Johns Hopkins University Library, Baltimore, Md.

Kansas State Historical Society Library, Topeka, Kans.

*Leland Stanford Junior University Libr., Stanford University, Cal. *Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, Cal.

Louisville Public Library, Louisville, Ky.
McGill University Library, Montreal, Canada.
Massachusetts State Library, Boston, Mass.
Michigan University Library, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Minnesota University Library, Minneapolis, Minn.
*Missouri University Library, Columbia, Mo.
Nebraska University Library, Lincoln, Nebr.

New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, La.

New South Wales Public Library, Sydney, New South Wales.

New York Public Library, New York City.

New York State Library, Albany, N. Y.

Pennsylvania University Library, Philadelphia, Pa.

Philadelphia Free Library, Philadelphia, Pa.

Pittsburg Carnegie Library, Pittsburg, Pa.

Princeton University Library, Princeton, N. J.

St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, Mo.

*St. Paul Public Library, St. Paul, Minn.

San Francisco Mechanics' Mercantile Library, San Francisco, Cal.

Seattle Public Library, Seattle, Wash.

Syracuse University Library, Syracuse, N. Y.
Texas University Library, Austin, Tex.

Virginia State Library, Richmond, Va.

Washington Public Library, Washington, D. C. *Wesleyan University Library, Middletown, Conn. Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison, Wis.

Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn,

Partial deposi

tories

Partial depository sets have been assigned during the year to five libraries in the departments of the United States government, viz:

BUREAU OF Trade Relations (Department of StaTE):

Cards on statistics, economic history and theory, transportation, commerce, and public finance.

COAST ARTILLERY SCHOOL:

Cards on military and naval history and biography, military and naval science, and some subclasses of technology.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE:

Cards on law and related topics.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, LAW DIVISION:

Cards on law.

MISSISSIPPI RIVER COMMISSION:

Cards relating to the geology and climatology of the Mississippi
Valley; river improvement, surveys, and traffic.

During the year about 7,000 cards have been printed from copy supplied by cooperating libraries within the District of Columbia, covering mainly the current accessions to these libraries and back files of the publications of the departments which these libraries represent. The last of the cards formerly printed by the Library of the Department of Agriculture for the publications of that department have now been reprinted so that the stock of cards in the Library of Congress now covers practically all of the publications of the United States Department of Agriculture except the papers included in the annual reports. A dictionary catalogue set of the cards for publications of the Department of Agriculture contains about 10,000 cards. A portion of the stock of these cards has been rearranged in dictionary catalogue sequence. As the headings for secondary entries are already supplied, a dictionary catalogue set when withdrawn is ready for use. The price of such a set is now about $75. The cost per year for the cards required to keep the set up to date is about $6. In view of the fact that this set of cards forms a ready and satisfactory key to the large amount of valuable information contained in the publications of the United States Department of Agriculture, it seems probable that most libraries whose constituencies make large use of

the publications of the United States Department of Agriculture will eventually find it desirable to acquire the set.

Owing to the addition of a second story to the stacks of steel cases containing the stock of cards and to the reënameling of the trays, it was necessary to shift the entire stock of cards from one tray to another and rearrange and renumber the trays. This task required a great deal of clerical help of the lower grade and interfered a great deal with the work of the section as a whole.

Considerable evidence has come to hand during the year to the effect that libraries which use the L. C. cards as materials for their catalogues are, from motives of economy and efficiency, coming to adopt the type of catalogue used at the Library of Congress and the subject headings used on its printed cards. Several of the largest university libraries have begun to remodel their catalogues to the dictionary type, following closely the public catalogue of the Library of Congress. Another university library is considering the practicability of having the public catalogue of the Library of Congress, so far as it covers books in the collection of this university, duplicated at the Library of Congress and sent out ready for use. One of the largest of the public libraries has adopted the Library of Congress forms in cataloguing and the Library of Congress subject headings because "it could not afford to do otherwise."

The sale of the portion thus far published of the advance edition of the main list of subject headings used in the dictionary catalogues of the Library of Congress was so much larger than was expected that the sheets for letter A have already been reprinted twice. Although it is gratifying to learn that so much work done at the Library of Congress can be utilized by other libraries, the absolute adoption of Library of Congress forms in cataloguing and the Library of Congress subject headings by numerous libraries will unquestionably bring added responsibilities.

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printed cards

The only noteworthy addition to the work of the section during the year was the initiation of an experiment in printing cards from copy furnished by libraries outside the District of Columbia. The occasion for the experiment and the method proposed were indicated in a circular letter issued in March, 1910, to the libraries which are depositories for the Library of Congress cards. About one third of the depository libraries responded favorably and since that time have submitted copy when invited to do so. In addition to the depository libraries, a half dozen other subscribing libraries have been invited to supply copy when they happened to order cards for a book not in the Library of Congress or the cooperating libraries in the District of Columbia, which it was desirable to have represented in the stock of cards. Although the experiment has not yet been carried on long enough to justify any conclusions as to its ultimate outcome, the results to date are promising. The cards thus far printed approximate quite closely in form and quality of workmanship to those turned out by the Catalogue Division of the Library of Congress, and the difficulty of settling fine points in cataloguing at long range is proving to be less serious than was anticipated.

Subscribers to The complete list of the subscribers to printed cards as of the present date has interest as indicating (1) by the number of institutions the dimension to which the system has attained during its brief decade of existence (2) by the diversity in their size and type the variety of need which the cards serve. For the first time, therefore (and without any intention of repeating it as an annual), the list is printed as Appendix V to the report.

READING ROOM FOR THE BLIND

The services of this room consist of the following:

1. The supply of books and periodicals in raised characters both for reference use and for home use within the District.

2. The supply of information regarding not merely literature for the blind, but various projects for the amelioration of the condition of the blind.

3. The maintenance at the Library during a portion of each year of lectures, readings, and musicales for the instruction and incidental entertainment, or entertainment and incidental instruction, of the blind residents of the District who could attend them. The participants in the programme have invariably been volunteers, so that the service of the Library has consisted merely in furnishing accommodations and arranging for the programmes.

Except for item 2, all the above service benefits exclusively the blind residents of the District of Columbia. It is a service not to research or to scholarship, but to the general reader, albeit a particular class of general readers. On both of the above grounds it is therefore a service logically rather within the province of the Public Library of the District than of the Library of Congress. The accident of its inauguration here should not prevent its ultimate location there any more than did the project for a children's department in the Library of Congress prevent the adoption of work with the young as the exclusive task of the Public Library. The books are used chiefly at home; and it is the Public Library rather than the Library of Congress which is the lending library of and for the District. The lectures, readings, and musicales, if to be continued (and they undoubtedly provide great enjoyment), are inconveniently distant here from the center of resident population, and the only room available for them here, while sufficient for the blind alone, is far too small to accommodate the large number of the seeing who are eager to attend and whose attendance may later in indirect ways prove beneficial to the blind for whose benefit primarily the performance is given. The Public Library contains a hall especially adapted for such occasions and with a capacity at least five times as great

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