REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



United States Department of Agriculture, 



Office of the Librarian. 



Washington, D. C, September 9, 1922. 

 Sir : I have the honor to submit herewith the executive report of 

 the hbrary for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1922. 

 Respectfully, 



Claribel R. Barnett, 



Librarian. 

 Hon. Henry C. Wallace, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



Considering 1862, the year the department was established, as the 

 date also of the establishment of the library, the fiscal year 1922 is 

 the sixtieth year of the library's existence. The account of the pas.t 

 year's work is taken largely from the reports of the heads of the 

 divisions of the main library and the reports of the bureau librarians. 

 The heads of the main lines of work in the main library are as follows : 

 Miss Emma B. Hawks, assistant librarian, in general charge of 

 reference and bibliographical work and circulation; Aliss Helen M. 

 Thompson, chief catalogue and order division; Miss Lydia K. 

 Wilkins, chief periodical division; and Miss Ethel E. Smith, sec- 

 retary to librarian, in charge of correspondence, files, and pereonnel 

 records. The names of the librarians of the various bureaus are 

 given on page 4. As the tables appended give a detailed synopsis 

 of the routine work, they will be only briefly summarized here. 



ACCESSIONS. 



On July 1, 1922, the library contained 163,391 accessioned books 

 and pamphlets. Of these, there were added by purchase during the 

 year, 1,384 volumes, 81 pamplilets, 464 serials and continuations, and 

 9 maps. The additions by gift and exchange were 934 volumes, 751 

 pamphlets, 5,683 continuations, and 59 maps. In addition, 1,305 

 volumes were added through the binding of periodicals and serials. 

 The total accessions numbered 10,670. The periodicals received 

 currently numbered 3,114, of which 2,169 were received by gift and 

 exchange. 



Among the donations to the library special mention should be 

 made of a much valued gift of SI 50 for the purchase of economic 

 books. This was given to the library by Dr. H. C. Taylor, Chief of 

 the Bureau of ]\farkets and Crop Estimates (now the Bureau of 

 Agricultural Economics), it being the sum which he received for his 

 course in agi-icultural economics in connection ^vith the series of 



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