LIBRARY. 



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BUREAU AND DIVISION LIBRARIES. 



The following table gives a list of the various branch libraries in 

 the bureaus and divisions. The material is taken from the reports of 

 the librarians, which, unfortunately, it is impossible, because of lack 

 of space, to give in full. An account of the bibliographical work of 

 the various libraries is given under the heading "Bibliography" and 

 their statistics of circulation are included in the table given in Appen- 

 dix 1. 



Books, pamphlets, and periodicals in bureau, division, and office libraries. 



Bureau or office. 



Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Miss 

 Mary G. Lacy, librarian 



Bureau of Animal Induf try, Miss Carrie 



B. Sherfy, librarian 



Animal Husbandry Division, Miss 

 Jessie Urner, librarian 



Biu^eau of Chemistry, Miss Louise 

 Duvall, librarian 



Bureau of Entomology, Miss Mabel 

 Colcord, librarian 



Forest Service, Miss Helen E. Stock- 

 bridge, librarian 



Bureau of Plant Industry, Miss Marjorie 

 F. Warner, librarian 



Bureau of Public Roads, Miss Orrena L. 

 Evans, librarian 



States Relations Service, Miss Martha L. 

 Gericke, librarian 



Number 



em- 

 ployed. 



11 

 3 

 2 

 4 

 3 

 1 

 9 

 3 

 9 



Number 

 of books. 



» 23,000 



2,670 



3,048 



18,200 



8,642 



< 23, 386 



1600 



1 2, 557 



I 3, 500 



Number 

 of pam- 

 phlets. 



(') 

 12,900 

 3,924 



(') 

 9,925 



I 1, 100 



6,294 



1 9, 500 



Number 

 of peri- 

 odicals 

 currently 

 received. 



11,300 

 558 

 160 

 448 

 550 

 172 

 988 

 275 

 1900 



Number 

 of regular 

 bor- 

 rowers. 



(') 



(') 



133 

 46 

 247 

 115 

 151 



) 



139 

 115 



Number of 



regular 

 borrowers 

 to whom 

 periodicals 

 are circu- 

 lated. 



•113 

 128 



100 

 20 

 70 



167 

 92 

 65 



1 Approximate figures. 

 ' Figures not available. 



» Offices. 



« Books and pamphlets. 



The work of the libraries of the Bureaus of Animal Industry, 

 Chemistry, Entomology, Public Roads, the Forest Service, and the 

 States Relations Service has continued along the lines indicated in 

 previous reports. In the report of the Bureau of Agricultural 

 Economics library for 1921-22 the most notable feature was the 

 physical consolidation of the libraries of the former Bureau of Markets 

 anS Crop Estimates and the Office of Farm Management. The 

 outstanding feature of the 1922-23 report is the unifying of these 

 collections oy the elimination of duplicate material, the consolida- 

 tion and orderly rearrangement of periodical files, the combining 

 of card records, the reading of shelves to see that books had not been 

 misplaced in the moving, and other work of this sort. The work 

 with current periodicals is very heavy, and the regular circulation 

 of numbers to workers in the bureau presents a serious problem 

 which is also found in the main library and in most of the bureau 

 libraries. Long circulation lists mean that many periodicals reach 

 the borrower so late as to be of little service except for reference. 

 The value of the circulation service with periodicals decreases in 

 inverse ratio to its size. In an attempt to minimize this difficulty 

 a readers' table has been arranged in the Bureau of Agricultural Eco- 

 nomics library, on which are placed the latest numbers of journals on 

 general economics and others for which there is a long circulation list, 



