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Rice Institute Pamphlet. 



Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Studies. 



The Rotarian. 



Russian Information Bureau in the U. S., Bulletin. 



Science and Industry. (Australia.) 



Seed World. 



Shorthorn in America. 



Smithsonian Institution, U. S. Nat. Museum, Bulletin. 



Smithsonian Institution, U. S. Nat. Herbarium, Bulletin. 



Smithsonian Institution, Misc. Collections. 



Successful Farming. 



Sultanic Agricultural Society, Bulletins, (Technical section.) 



Union of S. Africa, Journal Dept. of Agriculture. 



Wallace Farmer. 



Waishington Fanner. 



W^est Indian Bulletin. 



Washtenaw Post. 



Wilson Bulletin. 



The publications of the United States Department of Agriculture and 

 of the various agricultural experiment stations are received and filed 

 in the library. We receive the catalog-ues of the leading educational 

 institutions in exchange for our own catalogue. We ialso receive from 

 the United States Superintendent of Documents vsuch publications as are 

 sent to depository libraries. 



We gratefully acknowledge our indebtedness to the librarians of the 

 University of Michigan, The John Crerar Library, The University of 

 Chicago, The Johns Hopkins University, the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, and the United States Surgeon General's Office for their 

 courtesy in loaning to us certain publications needed by our research 

 workers. 



The number of books loaned for home use during the year was 9,876, 

 an average of 817 per month. 



The work in the reference department has increased materially during 

 the year. We now have package libraries covering 362 subjects, ready 

 for circulation. Five hundred circular letters have been sent out, and 95 

 package libraries have been loaned. Bibliographies on the ^'Preserving 

 of Fruit," "Millinery," ''The History of Table Service," and 'The History 

 of the Plow" have been prepared in response to requests. 



We feel that the package libraries are quite as much appreciated by 

 our students and faculty, as by the people away from the College, since 

 they are in constant demand, and we also feel that this new venture is 

 quite worth while. 



In August of 1921 the Dean of Home Economics transferred to the 

 general library all books belonging to the department. These books have 

 become a part of the library, and there is no longer a library in the Home 

 Economics department. 



For the members of the library staff I have only words of commendia- 

 tion, and I desire to thank them all for their loyalty and splendid co- 

 operation. . . ., : ■ . . 



The Experiment Station library grows but slowly. Of bound volumes 



