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calculating floor space closely to the half inch, it was found pos- 
sible to introduce the additional stacks without congesting the 
space for readers. An improved Library Bureau truck has been 
purchased which is invaluable for moving books and for func- 
tioning as a temporary bookcase to stand at the librarian’s desk 
while books are being entered and catalogued. The truck is of 
quartered oak and has rawhide bumpers and wheels with fiber 
tires, making it practically indestructible, while it revolves at a 
touch and can be moved around corners with ease. 
Readers 
Our reading constituency includes, besides members of the 
Garden staff, various teachers, persons interested in house gar- 
dens, and an occasional research student. We can hardly expect, 
however, to reach many persons outside the Garden while the 
library is housed in these temporary quarters. A room having 
floor space of only 34 * 22 feet and serving as a stack room, 
an administration and work room, a reference department, and 
the librarian’s office, where collation, packing for binder, dictation 
of letters, and all other library processes must go on, cannot have 
the character of a typical reading room. The readers in 1915 
numbered 1,027, and 246 volumes were loaned to members of 
the staff. Sixteen volumes were loaned to the Biological Labora- 
tory at Cold Spring Harbor for summer class work. Four pub- 
lications have been borrowed from the Library of Congress for 
a period of twenty days for the use of one of the members of 
our staff. 
Library Assistants 
During a large part of the year, Miss Mann has given two hours 
a day to the work of the library, in typing cards for the dictionary 
catalog, in making shelf labels, in caring for periodicals, in tech- 
nical processes such as embossing, dating, cutting leaves, and 
many other matters. Miss Tikiob has assisted regularly for one 
hour a day, and during a few weeks for several hours daily. In 
addition to regular stenographic work relating to correspondence, 
she has typed the shelf list and pamphlet catalog directly from 
the title-pages, and has made in all more than 2,000 cards. 
