The reclassification during the past year covered the following subjects: Class B, Philosophy, 8,000; C, Genealogy, Heraldry, Numismatics, 6,000; H-J, Social and political science, 36,000; N, Fine arts, 9,000; and various remainders of other classes, 10,000. A few volumes were reclassified in class P, Language. An increasing number of requests for the L. C. classification schedules are received from other libraries. The stock of the printed schedules (E-F, Q and Z) is exhausted. Schedules of class Z, Bibliography, have been prepared for reissue with many additions and a few modifications, and are now in the hands of the printer; copy for a reissue of schedules Q, Science, also is ready. The additions to class E-F, America, however, are very extensive and the transfer of material from other old classes to American history is not yet completed, making it desirable to defer a reissue until the schedules shall cover all the subjects eventually to be included. A set of typewritten schemes of the other classes is in almost constant circulation among other libraries; a few of these libraries have gone to relatively heavy expense in copying them, and the correspondence and other matters connected with sending out the schedules involves a not inconsiderable expenditure of time on our part. It may become possible during the current year to devote some time to the preparation of one or more of them for the printer, without retarding progress in reclassifying the arrears. PUBLICATIONS The publications of the Library during the past year have been as follows: Report of the Librarian of Congress for the fiscal year 1908. 143 p. Plates. 25 ending June 30, 1908. cm. Cloth, 50c. Library of Congress publications issued since 1897. 1909. 46 p. 20 cm. The following administrative publication has been reprinted: Rules and practice governing the use and issue of books. 1908. 14 P. Compiled by the Division of Bibliography: List of works relating to government regulation of insurance, United States and foreign countries. Comp. under the direction of A. P. C. Griffin, Chief Bibliographer. 2d ed. 1908. 67 p. 261⁄2 cm. Paper, 15C. List of references on international arbitration. Comp. under the direction of A. P. C. Griffin, Chief Bibliographer. 1908. 151 p. 251⁄2 cm. Paper, 20c. List of works relating to the Supreme Court of the United States. Comp. under the direction of H. H. B. Meyer, Chief Bibliographer. 1909. 124 p. 25 Price, 20c. cm. List of references relating to the valuation and capitali- The following lists have been reprinted: 28 p. List of books (with references to periodicals) relating to child labor. 66 P. 251⁄2 cm. Paper, 15c. Compiled by the Card Section: L. C. printed cards: how to order and use them. 24 p. 16 cm. Compiled by the Catalogue Division: 1909. Subject Headings. List of subject headings. Additions and corrections. No. 1, December, 1908; no. 2, March, 1909; no. 3, June, 1909. 221⁄2 cm. Paper, 5c. Suggestions to assistants with reference to catalogues, shelf lists, uncatalogued books, etc. June, 1909. 6 p. 251⁄2 cm. Want list of American historical serials. 2d ed. 1909. 37 p. 23 cm. The following lists have been reprinted: Subject subdivisions. Preliminary list of subject sub- Compiled by the Division of Manuscripts: Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 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. 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, *Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, Cal. *Missouri University Library, Jefferson, Mo. New South Wales Public Library, Sydney, New South Wales. 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. Syracuse University Library, Syracuse, N. Y. Washington Public Library, Washington, D. C. itories Partial depository sets have been assigned during the Partial deposyear 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 12721-09-5 |