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which are coming more and more to be regarded as the standard. 

 The Library of Congress and this Library have in general endeavored 

 to cooperate in regard to the subject headings rchiting to agriculture, 

 but a more systematic attempt toward conformity should without 

 doubt be matle. It is hoped that within the next year it will be 

 possible to make a beginning in the revision of the catalogue, for 

 the longer it is delayed the greater the undertaking will be. 



With the exception of the pamphlets and serials, it was possible 

 to keep fairly up to date the cataloguing of the accessions of the 

 past year. In order to shorten the process of cataloguing the pam- 

 phlets, which were accumulating at a rapid rate, it was decided about 

 three years ago to make for the less important ones only temporary 

 author cards with an abbreviated imprint and to keep the pamphlets 

 thus catalogued in a separate collection in pamphlet boxes arranged 

 by the subjects of the classification. As the pamphlets are kept by 

 themselves, it will be possible to catalogue them more fully, as a 

 whole or in part, when time permits, and, in the meantime, they are 

 at least made available from the author side and the arrangement 

 of them by subjects takes the place to some extent of the subject 

 entries in the catalogue. During the past year 588 pamphlets were 

 catalogued in this way. 



The number of titles prepared during the year by the Library for 

 printing by the Library of Congress in what is known as the "Agr" 

 series is as follows: (1) Cards for accessions, 1,439; (2) cards for cur- 

 rent Department publications, 405; (3) reprinted cards for Depart- 

 ment publications, 762; (4) cards for foreign agricultural periodicals, 

 109; total, 2,715, an increase of 647 over the number of titles printed 

 last year. The record of the number of titles prepared since 1902, 

 in which year the printing of our cards by the Library of Congress 

 was begun, is as follows: 



December, 1902, to June, 1903 1, 059 



Jiilv, 1903, to June, 1904 880 



July, 1904, to June, 1905 3,961 



July, 1905, to June, 1906 1,568 



July, 1906, to June, 1907 .* 2, 584 



July, 1907, to June, 1908 1, 286 



July, 1908, to June, 1909 2, 068 



July, 1909, to June, 1910 2, 715 



Total 16,121 



Since a very large proportion of the works on agriculture was cata- 

 logued previous to 1902, printed cards have been prepared for only 

 a comparatively small part of this Library's collections on agricul- 

 ture. In the subject of agriculture the Library of Congress has pre- 

 pared printed cards for only the copyrighted books since 1898, its 

 accessions by gift, purchase, or exchange received since 1901, and for 

 the books recatalogued since that date. No accurate count of the 

 printed cards on agriculture has been made, but it is estimated that 

 approximately 10,000 cards are available. As it would be desirable 

 to liave printed cards for all the books on agriculture contained in 

 this Library and the Lil)rary of Congress, the possil)ihty of making 

 some cooi)erative arrangement with tlie Library of Congress for the 

 carrying out of this useful bibUographical undertaking has been con- 

 sickM-ed, but on account of (ho })ressure of other work no definite steps 

 have been taken in the matter. 



