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already in the library. Publications of the value of ^8,785.53 

 have been delivered during the calendar year, leaving outstanding 

 orders to the amount of ?=4,336.65. 



The period during which the library was open was reduced, 

 on account of the small library staff, from eighty hours per 

 week to sixty-two hours by changing the closing hours from 

 9.00 p. m. to 6.00 p. m. on five days per week and the opening 

 hour from 7.30 a. m. to 8.00 a. m. on six days. The use of books 

 has decreased somewhat with the reduction in the library hours. 

 From July 1 to December 31, 1913, and for the calendar year 

 1914, 12,021 and 22,830 publications, respectively, were issued — 

 a monthly average of 1,936 and a daily average of 63.7. 



Binding. — Seven hundred volumes were sent to the bindery 

 and 941 volumes were returned from July 1 to December 31, 

 1913. Six hundred eight volumes remained at the bindery on 

 December 31, 1913. Two hundred have been sent since that 

 date. The entire 808 had been returned in July, and none have 

 been sent since. Owing to the lack of funds, the binding is 

 getting very much behind. 



Classification and cataloguing. — All new material has been, 

 and is being, classified and catalogued as received, and some 

 progress has been made on the unclassified collection. The 

 classification of college catalogues has been completed, and all 

 new catalogues are added as received. Work on the trade cata- 

 logues has progressed, and many duplicates and obsolete publica- 

 tions have been discarded. This material is now in fairly 

 workable shape. Work on the revision and classification of 

 maps, charts, and blue prints has been begun, and the convenient 

 arrangement of the maps in the specially provided cases will soon 

 be completed. A large amount of miscellaneous work cannot 

 be mentioned on account of lack of space. 



Printed cards. — Comparison of the cost of printed and type- 

 written cards indicates that the cost of the latter is more than 

 three times as much as that of the former. As soon as they 

 can be handled, an effort will be made to secure printed cards, 

 covering publications in the library, from as many available 

 sources are possible. 



Cuts. — Cuts from the Bureau of Science publications were 

 numbered and arranged on shelves, and proofs of nearly 4,000 of 

 them were pasted in an album. The proofs bear numbers cor- 

 responding with those on the cuts, and the second set is num- 

 bered in a reference set of the publications on the library shelves. 

 An index to be made will give immediate access to any given 

 cut or proof. 



