440 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



BUREAU, DIVISION, AND OFFICE LIBRARIES. 



It is regretted that it is not possible to give in detail the reports of 

 the librarians of the various libraries on their work of the year. The 

 following statistics, extracts, and summaries are taken from their re- 

 l)orts. An account of their bibliograplii<'al and other activities is 

 given in the preceding pages. 



Boohs, pamphlets, and periodicals in bureau, division, and office libraries.^ 



1 All books for the U5C of the Department in Washington, including tho.se filed in the bureaus, arc pur- 

 chaieiaudcit.aloguelby the main library. No bureau library is maintained by the Bureau of Soils. 

 The Weather Bureau library is administered separately, with the exception that the books and period- 

 icals are purchased from the"appropriation for the Libra"ry of the Department, the sum of 51,000 being set 

 aside each year for this piirposc. The report of the Weather Bureau library is contained in the report of 

 the Weather Bureau. 



2 Organized Feb. 14, 1920. 



3 Books and periodicals. 



* Approximate figures. 



* Editor and librarian. 



It Mali be noted that the Dairy Division library docs not this year 

 appear in the above table, owing to a reorganization dm'ing the past 

 year of the libraiy activities of the Bureau of Animal Industry. On 

 February 14, 1920, authority was given to Miss Slicrfy, the librarian 

 of the Dairy Division, to merge the Dairy Division library with the 

 library work of the other offices of the Bureau with the exception of 

 that of the Animal Husbandry Division, which is in the uptown 

 offices at some distance from the m.ain offices and laboratories of the 

 Bureau. Since, however, no assistant was available to help in the 

 reorganization, the change did not virtuall}" go into eft'cct until May 

 1, 1920, when Miss M. F. Thompson, of the main li])rary, was trans- 

 ferred to the Bureau of ^\jiimal Industry as associate hbrarian. 

 AiTangements were immediately made to merge all the work in con- 

 nection with the circulation of periodicals in the Bureau, aside from 

 the Animal Husbandly Division, but on account of lack of space in 

 which to bring together in a central place all the book collections 



