164 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Back numbers of periodicals $9 45 



Hymn books to be sold 21 24 



The receipts have been : 



Special appropriation of the Legislature S3, 000 00 



Sales — Hymn books 9 20 



Chemistry Hand Book - 06 00 



Old papers 10 21 



. Special examinations 101 00 



Herd Book 3 00 



For other expenditures, balances, and amounts on hand I refer, by permis- 

 sion, to the financial report of the Secretary of the College. 



The Library has been open, as heretofore, from 4 to 6 p. m. on regular 

 schooldays; from 10 a. m. to 12 m. on Saturdays and Sundays, and from 5 

 to 6 p. m. on Saturdays. During the school vacation the Library has been 

 open two evenings a week, for the use of the few students who rem 'lined at 

 College. The regular daily routine work has been done by student labor, 

 usually by a member of the Senior class. This work has occupied 1,730 hours 

 at 8 cents, or 81.38.50. It has included care of periodicals, cutting, stitching, 

 arranging in binders, on racks or on the tables, and filing away at the end of 

 each month; care of books, catloguing, labeling, putting on shelves, and 

 entering in books provided a full description of each book as new ones are 

 added, oversight of drawing, giving information to those drawing, keeping 

 account with those using the Library, classifying and recording donations, 

 and the general care of the room; sweeping, dusting, warming, and lighting, 

 and keeping open regularly at the stated time. Student labor has also been 

 employed to do some work in the library not in regular routine ; to aid in 

 disposing of new books when coming in large numbers; to complete indexes, 

 arranging files of papers for binding, putting pamphlets in cases and making 

 tables of contents, cleaning library, and carrying books from the old build- 

 ing to the new. This work has occupied 562^- hours and has cost S45. 



Preparatory to moving from the old rooms there was a general overhauling 

 of the contents of the Library. Many great files of newspapers which had 

 been accumulating for years, but were not considered wortii binding, were 

 disposed of. A few of the most valuable papers — the Lansing Republican, 

 Detroit Daihj Post and Trilyune, including the Advertiser and Tribune, and 

 Detroit Daihj Tribune, befoi'e consolidation with the Detroit Post, atid the 

 Michigan Farmer, complete files of which had been kept — were by faculty vote 

 sent to the bindery. Duplicate Reports were disposed of to the different officers 

 who needed them to complete their sets, or were used in exchange with other 

 colleges to secure volumes needed to complete our sets of Agricultural 

 Ee ports. 



On the completion of the new Library and Museum building, about the 

 close of the spring term, 1882, the library was transferred from the old build- 

 ing to the new. The transfer was made by students, and was completed in 

 three days. The size of sections in the old building and in the new, were so 

 nearly alike that, for the most part, it was possible to transfer and arrange 

 shelf for shelf, thus rendering it unnecessary at present to change the labels 

 or the card catalogue. The new quarters are a great improvement in many 

 ways ; the rooms are light and clean ; the periodicals are away from the books ; 

 the shelves are low enough so that any one may easily reacli any book ; the 

 ventilation and heating are excellent, and the location is quiet. I have not 



