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extension of this assistance is desirable as more journals are 

 greatly needed and we are only spending at the present time 

 about $700 for this purpose. 



5. We have added by exchange: Bulletin Scientifique de La 

 France et Belgique,Vo\s. 26 to 46; Mittheilungen aus dem Natur- 

 historisches Museum in Hamburg, Vols. 7 to 29; also a complete 

 series of the Monist and the Wilson Bulletin from Oberlin, O. 



6. The reprint collection has been greatly improved by re- 

 arrangement and considerable addition. We must, however, 

 appeal again for gifts to this collection. It is in much demand and 

 we are quite dependent on authors to remember this. 



Finally, the librarian feels obliged to urge the great importance 

 of now engaging a trained assistant with ability to carry on, 

 throughout the year, a systematic campaign to develop the 

 library. This work should be done under the general direction 

 of the librarian, by maintaining a business-like correspondence in 

 regard to accessions, exchanges, missing parts, etc. It is the 

 only way in which we can steadily and adequately improve. The 

 peculiarly free methods used in this library demand constant 

 study of the shelves, catalogues, etc., to take account of losses, 

 needed repairs and disarrangements caused by the free access 

 to the shelves. This is especially necessary after the summer 

 session; otherwise the entire collection becomes more or less 

 disorganized and chaotic and there is inevitable loss from 

 year to year. The binding, catalogues, special sets, repairs, 

 reprints have to be constantly watched and kept strictly up to 

 date, to make the material which we have more available. We 

 have been suffering from very inadequate and irregular assistance. 



Dr. Drew's work on the catalogues and binding and the enter- 

 prise of his office in pushing some of the schemes which have 

 improved things have demonstrated what can and should be 

 done. 



This summer, as soon as Dr. Drew's office force was diverted 

 into its regular work, we were again obliged to drop back to 

 carrying through the routine demands of the busy season, with 

 what aid we could secure. Much more could and should be done 

 through a permanent assistant librarian keeping behind the 

 library work winter and summer. 



