404 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



with the bureau named to form, on July 1, 1922, the Bureau of Agri- 

 cuhural Economics. 



In the main library there were during the year six resignations, 

 three transfers, and one death, that of a messenger boy. Of the nine 

 who resigned or were transferred, three were library assistants, one 

 was an editorial assistant, two were clerical assistants, one was a 

 messenger boy, and two were charwomen. Of the three library assist- 

 ants who left the library, two resigned to accept more remunerative 

 positions, one in a bureau library and the other in a library outside 

 of Washington. The third, the assistant in charge of the binding, 

 resigned on account of illness in her family. The editor of the Daily 

 Digest and her assistant w^ere transferred to the office of the Assistant 

 Secretary" at the time the jurisdiction of the Daily Digest was trans- 

 ferred to the Press Service. 



Dm-ing the first part of the fiscal year the librarian of the agricul- 

 tural library of the Iowa State College was given a two months' 

 appointment in the main library in accordance with the library's 

 policy of offering temporary appointments whenever possible to 

 librarians or assistants connected with the State agricultm'al college 

 and experiment station libraries who wish to have experience in this 

 library. 



The number of employees carried on the main library staff at the 

 close of the fiscal year was 33. Of this number three were temporary 

 assistants. The number employed by the bureau and office libraries 

 was 41. Of the total number employed in the main library and the 

 bureau and office libraries, 56 are women and 18 are men, divided as 

 follows: Fourteen in administrative work, including the librarian of 

 the department, the heads of divisions in the main library, and the 

 librarians of the bureaus and offices; 24 library assistants; 21 clerical 

 assistants; 13 messengers; and 2 charwomen. 



Library staff meetings were held each month throughout the year 

 with the exception of the months of July, August, and November. 

 The subjects and speakers at the various meetings were as follows: 

 Reports on the American Library Association meeting, by members 

 of the library staff; talk by the Secretary of Agriculture; the 

 work of the Smithsonian Institution, by Frederick L. Lewton; 

 bibliographical work in parasitology, by Dr. Albert Hassall of the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry; the literature of agriculture, by Dr. H. C. 

 Taylor, Chief of the Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates; the 

 work of the Bureau of Entomology, by Dr. L. O. Howard. Chief of 

 the Bureau; the work of the National Research Council, by Dr. 

 C. J. West; discussion of the translating work of the department, 

 by members of the library staff. 



The library was represented at the meeting of the American Library 

 Association at Detroit, Mich., in June, 1922, by the librarian of the 

 department and four other members of the library staff' and by six 

 representatives from the bureau libraries. The librarian of the 

 Bureau of Public Roads, Miss Orrena L. Evans, served during the 

 year as secretary of the Special Libraries Association; Miss Mary G. 

 Lacy, librarian of the Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates, served 

 as secretary of the agricultural libraries section of the j^merican 

 Library Association, and the librarian of the department served as 

 second vice president of the American Library Association, 



