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loguers helped with the collation of the books for the bindery for 

 half of each day during two months. By reason of this fact the 

 number sent to the bindery, namely, 2,856, was a thousand in excess 

 of the number sent last year, but far below the number which needed 

 to be sent, as the current binding has been in arrears for the past three 

 or four years. 



EXCHANGES AND MAILING LISTS. 



During the 3^ear 1,793 orders (as compared with 1,624 last year) 

 were issued on the Division of Publications for the mailing of depart- 

 ment publications which were recfuested by foreign institutions and 

 officials, and by societies and private individuals from whom publi- 

 cations are received in exchange. The total number of addresses 

 appearing on the foreign mailing lists maintained by the department 

 for exchange purposes is approximately 4,000, in addition to the list 

 of 1,000 addresses to which the Monthly List of Publications of the 

 department is sent. The revision of the mailing lists, which was 

 started during the fiscal 3'ear 1921, has been completed and all ad- 

 dresses have been transferred to new mailing-list cards especially 

 designed for the purpose. 



ORDER WORK AND BOOKKEEPING. 



The record of the order work and bookkeeping for 1922 as com- 

 pared with the record for 1921 is as follows: Requisitions issued for 

 periodicals and books in 1921 numbered 1,569; in 1922, 2,060. Requi- 

 sitions issued for supplies in 1921 were 67; in 1922, 83. Shop requests 

 in 1921 were 132; in 1922, 122. Requisitions for printing and bind- 

 ing numbered 41 in 1921, and 77 in 1922. The vouchers audited for 

 payment in 1921 numbered 956, and in 1922, 1,176. A comparison 

 of the receipts and expenditures of the library for the past 10 years 

 is given in the table in Appendix 10. 



LIBRARY STAFF. 



Mention has previously been made m connection with the account 

 of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the irreparable loss suffered in the 

 death of Miss Eunice R. Oberly, who had been librarian since 1908. 

 Her personality and ideals were an inspiration to the staff and aroused 

 in all her associates a spirit of cooperation and a fuller appreciation 

 of library service in the broadest sense. 



The resignations and transfers from the bureau libraries during 

 the year numbered seven. Of this number, five were library assist- 

 ants and two were clerical assistants. Four left the department and 

 the other three were transferred to other offices in the department. 

 Among those who were transferred to other work special mention 

 should be made of Mrs. E. H. Painter, librarian of the former Bureau 

 of Crop Estimates. With the consolid"ation of this library with the 

 library of the former Bureau of Markets, Mrs. Painter was assigned, 

 at her request, to the statistical work of the combined bureau. Miss 

 Anna Dewees, the former librarian of the Office of Farm Management, 

 was made assistant librarian of the Bureau of Markets and Crop 

 Estimates in the spring of 1922, as the office was to be consolidated 



