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for the Journal of Agricultural Researcli. Similar bibliographical 

 lists accompanying the various publications of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, the Bureau of Entomology, the Dairy Division, and the 

 Office of Markets and Rural Organization have been revised in the 

 libraries of the respective offices. Much time was spent in the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry library during the past year in the revision and 

 reorganization of the mailing lists of the bureau. 



A separate table is given at the end of this report, showing the 

 approximate number of books and pamphlets contamed in the various 

 bureau, division, and office libraries, the number of current periodicals 

 received for filing or review, the number of employees in each library, 

 and the names of the librarians. Other statistics have been incor- 

 porated with the statistics of the mam library. 



Eight staff meetings, devoted principally to papers and discussions 

 by the library staff, were held during the year from October to June. 

 Ajiother means of knitting together the library work of the depart- 

 nient has been the temporary detail of assistants from the main 

 library to the bureau, division, and office libraries and from the latter 

 to the main library. It is believed that temporary appointments from 

 the staffs of the State agricultural college and experiment station 

 libraries would also be helpful in promoting cooperation between 

 them and this library and would be a decided advantage in other 

 respects. 



The department was represented at the meeting of the American 

 Library Association at Berkeley in June, 1915, by the Hbrarian of 

 the Office of Markets and Rural Organization and an assistant from 

 the Bureau of Chemistry hbrary. A paper on the relation of the 

 State agricultural coUege and experiment station libraries to the 

 Hbrary of this department was prepared by the hbrarian of the 

 departrnent for the meeting of the agricultural Hbraries section of the 

 association. The object of the paper was to make somewhat better 

 known the aim of this Hbrary, in its capacity as a national agricul- 

 tural Hbrary, to be of service to other agricultural institutions and 

 investigators throughout the country. 



The following statistical summaries show in detail the work of the 

 various divisions of the library: 



