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The following lists have been reprinted:

Subject subdivisions. Preliminary list of subject sub-
divisions under the names of countries or states.
New ed. 1908. 20 p. 26 cm.
Paper, IOC.

Compiled by the Division of Manuscripts:

Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789.
Edited from the original records in the Library of
Congress. v. 13-15. 1779. 1909. 27 cm. Cloth,

$1.00 each.

Compiled by the Periodical Division:

Want list of American 18th Century newspapers.

43 p. 23 cm.

Compiled by the Smithsonian Section:

1909.

Want list of publications of educational institutions.

1909. 14 p. 23 cm.

The publications of the Copyright Office are listed in the Report of the Register of Copyrights.

DISTRIBUTION OF PRINTED CATALOGUE CARDS

(From the report of the Chief of the Card Section, Mr. Hastings)

During the year the number of subscribers has increased

from 1,128 to 1,220.

The cash sale of cards, including subscriptions to the proof Sale of cards sheets, amounted to $24,450.23, an increase of about 10 per

cent over the sales for 1907-8.

The sale of cards to the libraries of the departments of the United States Government, paid for by transfer of credits, amounted to $722.25.

The total of the deposits received in payment for catalogue cards was $24,222.74. The refunds made during the year amounted to $36.37.

Cards for about 43,000 different titles were added to the stock during the year. The whole number of different titles

Depositories

now represented in the stock is approximately 390,000, including about 19,000 “Unrevised" cards not represented in the depository sets.

The library of the University of Iowa has been added to the list of depositories for a complete set of the L. C. cards, but the cards have not been selected because that library was not ready to receive them.

The depository set located at the Carnegie Library of Atlanta has been transferred to the Library of Syracuse University.

As the six libraries which are "proof sheet depositories," i. e., have a complete record of the printed cards in stock at the Library of Congress, either in the form of cards or entries clipped from the proof sheets, are for all practical purposes depositories, they are included (with asterisk prefixed) in the complete list below, which comprises in all 43 libraries:

Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Me.
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Buffalo Public Library, Buffalo, N. Y.
Chicago University Library, Chicago, Ill.
Cincinnati Public Library, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio.
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 Library, Topeka, Kans.

*Leland Stanford Junior University Library, 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, Jefferson, 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.

San Francisco Mechanics' Mercantile Library, San Francisco, Cal.
Seattle Public Library, Seattle, Wash.

Syracuse University Library, Syracuse, N. Y.
Texas University Library, Austin, Tex.
Washington Public Library, Washington, D. C.
*Wesleyan University Library, Middletown, Conn.
Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison, Wis.
Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn.

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

BUREAU OF LABOR:

Dictionary-catalogue depository. Cards on the social sciences (excluding finance), labor legislation and public hygiene. HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE:

Cards for works on nautical astronomy, nautical surveying, navi gation and related topics.

NATIONAL MONETARY COMMISSION:

Cards on finance and commerce.

UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU:

Cards relating to meteorology and climatology.

Revised editions of Bulletins 14 and 15, which deal with cards for publications of the United States Department of Agriculture and the United States Geological Survey and a pamphlet on "L. C. Printed Cards; how to order and use them," have been issued. The latter seems fairly to meet the demand for a popular statement.

There has been an increasing demand for cards for United States documents, especially for cards for the publications of the Department of Agriculture, the United States Geolog

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ical Survey, and the United States Bureau of Education; and substantial progress has been made in printing cards for the back files of the publications of these offices as well as for books in their libraries. The majority of the series of publications issued by the Department of Agriculture are now covered by cards in stock, and for the remainder it is planned to have cards in stock by the end of 1909. The entire publications of the present United States Geological Survey (except maps), of the earlier United States surveys, of the state surveys, and of the national surveys of Canada, Norway, and Sweden are represented by cards in stock. The state surveys of Australia are for the most part represented. All of the publications of the United States Bureau of Education, except the annual reports of the Commissioner previous to 1907, are now covered by cards in stock.

Substantial assistance in the matter of supplying cards for current children's books and current noncopyrighted books of a popular character has been obtained from the cards printed from copy supplied by the Washington Public Library. The cards for current military publications printed for the Library of the Military Information Division of the War Department also enable us to meet a demand for cards which could not otherwise be supplied.

Titles of books within the field of the cooperating libraries for which cards are ordered and found not to be in stock are regularly referred to the library interested with a query as to the prospect of the book being obtained and catalogued by that library. In many cases the book is reported already received or ordered. The recording, filing, and checking processes necessitated by this cooperative work are proving to be less difficult than appeared at first.

It seems not too much to say that this cooperative work with other United States libraries in Washington has been

an unqualified success.

This success is due in a large measure to the fact that the librarians of these libraries have

cooperated actively and generously.

Owing to the fact that no depository sets were supplied during the year and that less work than usual was needed on the stock and traveling catalogues, considerable spare time was available for work not closely connected with the regular work of the Card Section. The Third Official Catalogue has been kept up to date throughout the year by assistants in the Card Section and about one-third of the work of preparing and arranging the accumulation of cards for the "Union Catalogue" has been completed.

This Union Catalogue when completed will contain entries from the libraries named below:

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY:

Nearly a complete set of all the cards thus far printed by the Boston Public Library, also a few entries in manuscript and a few in the form of mounted entries clipped from lists of accessions.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY:

Nearly a complete set of the cards printed since 1894; entries clipped and mounted on cards for the "more important" accessions to the library as listed in the Harvard University Bulletins between 1875 and 1894.

JOHN CRERAR LIBRARY:

Complete set of the cards thus far printed by the John Crerar Library; also a copy of each Library of Congress card used by the John Crerar Library with the shelf marks of the latter library added.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY:

Practically complete set of all the cards printed or "Schapircgraphed" by this library since 1901.

LIBRARY OF THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF EDUCATION: Cards printed by Library of Congress from copy prepared by the Library of the Bureau of Education, comprising (1) cards for accessions to the Library of the Bureau of Education since January, 1908, excluding books also in Library of Congress; (2) analytical cards for many of the publications of the Bureau of Education.

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