REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 51 



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The library is open to students about fourteen hours daily. 3,414 books 

 have been loaned during the year; no record is made of books used in the 

 room, or of those in the various department offices. 



During the winter the library was classified according to the "Cutter" 

 system of classification, and a new card catalogue, on the dictionaT-y plan 

 commenced. The work was under the direction of Miss Annie White, of 

 the Boston Athenaeum, assisted by H. M. Goss, H. Lakeand the librarian. 

 The work of accessioning and shelf-listing the books was also begun, and 

 is still in progress. The work assigned to students has been most satis- 

 factorily performed. 



The books in the experiment station library have also been classified, 

 catalogued, accessioned and shelf-listed. The library now numbers 1,174 

 bound volumes, not including experiment station reports. 



Additions have been made as follows: Bound volumes, by purchase, 70; 

 by gift, 7; by binding, 59, total 136. Unbound volumes and pamphlets, 

 by purchase, 148; by gift, 29; total, 147. 



We also receive the publications of the U. S. Department of Agricult- 

 ure, and the bulletins and reports of the various state experiment 

 stations. 



The bulletins used by the various experiment stations have been care- 

 fully preserved, files completed and bound in 46 volumes, complete to 1893. 

 These books with a complete set of the journal of the Royal Microscopical 

 Society (1878-1893), form the most valuable additions made to the 

 library during the year. 



LINDA E. LANDON, 



Librarian. 



