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list on cards has been made by Miss Tikiob, the cards being ar- 
ranged by class number and by book number in the order in which 
the books stand on the shelves. This gives us a sort of classed 
catalog, by means of which all titles may be seen at a glance in 
their natural clusters, without going to the stacks. The shelf-list 
also enables the librarian to take stock, yearly or semi-yearly, of 
the contents of the library and to check up missing volumes. 
For shelf labels it was decided to use the gummed letters and 
figures of the Tablet and Ticket Company. The work of label- 
ing has been done by Miss Mann, and the result is entirely satis- 
factory, as the sharply outlined black letters stand out clearly 
and effectively on a white card. 
The Annie Morrill Smith library has been unpacked, counted, 
fully classified, shelf-listed and partly catalogued ; pamphlets have 
been sorted and arranged in pamphlet boxes; typed lists have 
been made for volumes, pamphlets, and sets of periodicals, and 
duplicate copies of these lists have been sent to Mrs, Smith. 
An author catalog for monographs in pamphlet form is being 
made by Miss Tikiob, and will soon be complete. Almost 1,000 
cards have already been filed in this pamphlet catalog. The card 
catalog for current periodicals has been revised, completed and 
typed. A careful revision of the subject headings for the dic- 
tionary catalog has been made and 1,107 additional cards filed. 
Unbound periodicals and proceedings of scientific societies have 
been arranged in alphabetical order, and volumes waiting to be 
bound have been tied up with tape in such manner as to be 
readily accessible; United States documents and state publica- 
tions have been grouped by departments and sub-grouped in order 
of publication. 
Library Furniture 
At the opening of the year, hundreds of volumes still lay 
packed in the boxes in which they had come to us, simply because 
of our inadequate shelf accommodations. To meet this need, three 
additional double-faced standard bracket steel stacks from the 
Library Bureau have been installed. At first sight it seemed as 
if our already overcrowded temporary quarters could hold no 
more, but by moving each book stack slightly forward and by 
