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inconvenience to Laboratory A, has undoubtedly been an advantage to the bureau 

 employees outside of Laboratory A, as they now need go only to one place to consult 

 catalogues and books. 



To a greater extent than was possible before the bureau library staff now has the 

 benefit of the larger facilities of the department library, as well as the advice and 

 assistance of its experts, and the department library the benefit of the special knowl- 

 edge of the bureau workers located there. 



It is reported mth regret that Miss Marjorie F. Warner, librarian 

 of the Bureau of Plant Industry, resigned that position on June 30^ 

 1923, and is taking a year's leave of absence, at the end of which time 

 it is hoped that she may be able to return to the bureau. She was 

 appointed librarian of the bureau in May, 1922, but had been for 

 many years before that in charge of the bibliographical investigations 



{)roject of the office of economic and systematic botany. Her know- 

 ed^e of botanical and older horticultural literature is probably su- 

 Eerior to that of anyone in the department and her assistance in the 

 uilding up of the department's collections in these lines will be 

 greatly missed during her absence. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



The "List of serials currently received in the United States 

 Department of Agriculture library," which was reported as being 

 in press last year, was received from the printer in February and 

 is in constant demand. It comprises 358 pages. In response to fre- 

 quent requests for references to the literature of agricultural history, 

 the reference librarian during the past year has been working on a 

 list of such references. When completed it will probably be made 

 available in mimeographed form. A list of the more important ac- 

 cessions to the department library has been pubhshed each week in 

 the Official Record of the department. 



No. 5 of the mimeographed series, called "Bibliographical Con- 

 tributions of the Library," was issued in April, and is entitled "Index 

 to some sources of current prices." It consists of 124 pages and 

 was compiled by Mrs. Eva T. Shively, of the Bureau of Agricultural 

 Economics library. The index is arranged in three columns, the 

 first giving the commodities in alphabetical order, the second the 

 name of the market from which prices are quoted, the third the 

 name of the newspaper or other journal in which the quotations are 

 to be found. The information given in this list is in almost daily 

 demand, and the Bureau of Agricultural Economics expects to add 

 to the periodicals indexed and later to issue a new and fuller edition 

 incorporating these and the constructive suo;gestions for the im- 

 provement of the list which have been received. 



Important card indexes maintained by bureau libraries, which 

 have been kept up as usual during the past year, are: Indexes to 

 veterinary science and to dairying, Bureau of Animal Industry; 

 index to the literature of economic entomology, and slip index to 

 publications of the bureau. Bureau of Entomology; index to the 

 literature of forestry and allied subjects. Forest Service; indexes 

 to botanical literature, plant pathology, also a special catalogue 

 of department and outside publications by bureau authors, a union 

 cataloo'ue of botany, and an index to botanical illustrations. Bureau 

 of Plant Industry; index to the literature of roads and allied subjects, 

 Bureau of Public Roads. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics 



