438 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



appeared in the June, 1920, issue. It is ('X|)ecte(l that contriljutions 

 win l)e received also from other hbraries and that it will thus ])ecome 

 a mecHum of communication among agricultural libraries for notes 

 of ('ommon interest. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The only printed publication that it was possibles for the library 

 to issue (hiring the year was the report of the library for tlie fiscal 

 year 1910, a pamphlet of 16 pages. As in tlie case of the binding 

 this was due in part to tlu> lack of any funds for printing. The library 

 continues to feel the need for some medium for making better known 

 to the department workers and to the scientific workers in other 

 institutions the new accessions to the library and its great resources 

 in general. It is hoped that in th(^ near future it will be possible to 

 publish regularly at least a brief list of its most important accessions 

 and also a handbook of the library and a catalogue of all its periodi- 

 cals and other serials. 



LIBRARY STAFF. 



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

 of the fiscal year was 32, with 3 of the lower positior;S vacant. Of 

 the total number on the roll, 5 were temporary assistants, it not 

 having been possible to till the positions permanently on account of 

 the salaries the library was obliged to offer. The number employed 

 by the bureau, division, and ofTice libraries was 42. Of the total 

 number emplo3-ed in the main library and the bureau, division, and 

 ofhce libraries, 17 are men and 57 are women, divided as follows: Six- 

 teen in administrative \\'ork, including the librarian of the department, 

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

 bureaus and ofFices; 28 library assistants; 14 clerical asisistants; 13 

 messengers; 3 charwomen. 



In the maiii library there were in all 16 resignations during the 

 year. Of this number, 7 were library assistants, 5 were clerical 

 assistants, and 4 were messengers.- Out of a staff of 32 on June 30, 

 1920, there were only 21 who were on the library rolls at the beginning 

 of the fiscal year. Out of 21 only 14 had been in the library t^^'o 

 years and only 11 had been in the library three or more years. 



In continuance of the library's policy of otTering temporarv ap- 

 pointments whenever possible to librarians or assistants connected with 

 the State agricultural colleges and experiment station libraries who 

 wish to have experience in this library, two uiore were add(^d during 

 the year to the list of such appointments, the assistant librarian of 

 the Virginia Polytechnic Institute having been appointed for the 

 months of June and July, 1920, and the librarian of the South Carolina 

 Agricultural Experiment Station for the month of July, 1920. 



Several important changes in the personnel of the libraries of the 

 bureaus have been made during the year. The librarian of the 

 States Relations Service, Miss E. Lucy Ogden, resigned January 16. 

 1920, and was succeeded by Miss Martha L. Gericke; the librarian of 

 the Bureau of Chemistry, Miss Anne E. Draper, resigned May 19, 

 1920, and v/as succeeded by Miss Louise Duvall, formerly assistant 

 librarian of the bureau. The latter position V\^as filled by the transfer 

 of Miss ^linerva G. Beckwith, assistant chief of the periodical division 



