86 STATE BOAKD OF AGRICULTUEE. 



EEPORT OF LIBRARIAN. 



To the President of the College : 



Dear Sir : — The following report of the College Library for the ten months 

 passed, since my last annual report, is respectfully submitted : 



The Library has been open daily during term time, at the usual hours. It 

 has also been opened for au hour after suj^per, each day of the short vacations. 

 During the long winter vacation no provision was made for opening, the mem- 

 bers of the Faculty having access by means of keys in their possession. 



The care of the room has been, as usual, in charge of a student. Three dif- 

 ferent members of the Freshman class have had tliis duty, and have given good 

 satisfaction. No work outside this regular routine has been undertaken for 

 want of time on my part, for the necessary oversight. The catalogue of sub- 

 jects is still needed, but must wait until more skilled assistance can be had in 

 making it. The pamphlets are as yet but partially arranged and without con- 

 venient catalogue. The Institute pamphlet cases, for which a small sum was 

 appropriated in April, were not to be found in the market, and I have not dis- 

 covered as yet any other that seemed to promise satisfaction. This work I hope 

 to accomplish another year. 



The record of books drawn, which does not include the large number con- 

 sulted in the library by the daily visitors, shows tlie number of persons who have 

 drawn books to be 161, and the whole number of books drawn to be 1,298. Of 

 these 336 were upon purely scientific subjects, 185 upon agriciilture and horti- 

 culture, and the remainder in history, biography, and miscellaneous literature. 

 To the last class of books the Christian Union Library of about 200 volumes is 

 an excellent supplement. This has been extensively used, but I have no data 

 from which to report. It is deposited permanently with the College Library, 

 and is under the same rules, but has its own officers and a separate record. 



The library has been considerably increased during the present year, both by 

 purchase and by donations. The number of volumes added by purchase (includ- 

 ing such periodicals as when bound make a most useful part of the library) is 

 181. The number added by donations, and exchanges through the Secretary, 

 is 147, of which about one-third are pamphlets of a permanent interest. The 

 increase in numbers, 328 volumes, does not, however, indicate the extent of the 

 growth ; for the nature of the addition is its best recommendation. All pur- 

 chases have been at the suggestion of the prof essors in the different departments. 

 Catalogues of books, implements, seeds, etc., for sale, and premium lists of 

 fairs, or advertising pamphlets of any kind, have not been included in the above, 

 though several hundred of these have accumulated. All the above donations 

 have been reported to the Faculty from time to time for record in the general 

 list of donations. 



The College has taken for the Library, upon subscription, twenty-seven period- 

 icals, as follows : 



The Country Gentleman. 



The American Agriculturist. 



The Agricultural Gazette. 



The Gardener's Chronicle. 



