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National Resources Committee 



reports, memoranda, and other informational publica- 

 tions. 



Texts 



Among the manuscript collections of the Library 

 are a number of documents basic to American history. 

 These are needed by scholars in all parts of the coun- 

 trj'. To render their texts available in published form 

 not onl}' permits much wider use to be made of them, 

 but preserves the documents themselves. At the same 

 time publication enables the student to overleap the 

 barrier which the manuscript condition and the (often) 

 extremely diflScult chirography of the origii^als pre- 

 sent, and provides a place for the statement and solu- 

 tion, once and for all, of the various problems which 

 must be considered in connection with the use of the 

 documents. 



Early in the present century, therefore, publication 

 under competent editorial supervision of the texts of a 

 number of such documents was determned upon. The 

 following have so far been issued : 



Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 1904-1937. 

 34 V. 



The Records of the Virginia Company of London. 1906-1935. 

 4 V. 



The Harkness Collection * • * Documents from Early 

 Peru. 1936. 



In this category may also be entered the publica- 

 tion of the full orchestral score of the first work of 

 chamber music performed in the Library under the 

 auspices of the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Founda- 

 tion (October 1928) : 



Canticum Fratris Soils, set [by Charles Martin Loeffler] for 

 voice and chamber orchestra to the hymn of St. Francis of 

 Assisi, in a modern Italian version by Gino Perera. [Elizabeth 

 Sprague Coolidge Foundation, 1929.] FuU score, 95 p. 



Bibliographical Guides and Manuals 



In a number of fields a guide to the literature which 

 is not only informing as to the actual material avail- 

 able, but critical as well, establishing the worth of the 

 various sources, their place in the history of the sub- 

 ject, and outlining the procedure which should be fol- 

 lowed in their use, enables a student to enter a field of 

 studies cognate to his own. 



Such a field, for example, is the law of Spain as re- 

 spects a student of Anglo-American law. To fill a need 

 which could only otherwise be filled by the presence 

 of actual experts in these subjects permanently on the 

 staff (and then chiefly only for inquirers at the Li- 

 brary) the following bibliographic manuals have been 

 published : 



The Bibliography of International Law and Continental Law, 

 by E. M. Borchard. 1913. 



Guide to the Law and Legal Literature of Argentina, Brazil, 

 and Chile, by B. M. Borchard. 1917. 



'-iuide to (ho Law and Legal Literature of France, Prepared 

 Under the Direction of E. M. Borchard ... by G. W. Stumberg. 

 1931. 



Guide to the Law and Legal Literature of Germany, by B. M. 

 Borchard. 1912. 



Guide to the Law and Legal Literature of Spain, Prepared 

 Under the Direction of E. M. Borchard ... by Thomas Palmer, 

 Jr. 1915. 



Guide to the Diplomatic History of the United States. 1775- 

 1921, by Samuel Flagg Bemis and Grace Gardner Griffin. 1935. 



Publications in Library Economy 



A large number of the ijublications of the Library 

 are in the field of library economy. The more im- 

 portant of these, such as the schemes of classification 

 and the lists of subject headings, have been prepared 

 for its own use, and by publication are made a con- 

 tribution to the library world. Others are descriptions, 

 for the use of those who may wish to take advantage of 

 them, of the practice of the Library in certain opera- 

 tions. Other publications, though of interest and im- 

 portance to librarians (such as check-lists, catalogs, 

 informational memoranda) have a wider significance 

 and are not included here. The following however are 

 of special note : 



Catalogue rules on cards. 



Classification schedules, A-Z. 32 v. 1910-1937. 



Guide to the cataloging of periodicals. 3d ed. 1931. 



Guide to the cataloguing of the serial publications of societies 

 and institutions. 2d ed. 1931. 



Literature subject headings. 5th ed. 1926. 



Notes on the care, cataloging, calendaring and arrangement 

 of manuscripts. 3d ed. 1934. 



Notes on the cataloging, care, and classification of maps and 

 atlases. Rev. ed. 1921. 



Subject headings used in the dictionary catalogues of the Li- 

 brary of Congress. 3d ed. 1928. Cimiulative supplement, 1935. 



Tentative headings and cross-references for a subject cata- 

 log of American and English law. 1911. 



Tentative list of subject headings and index rules for the 

 State law index. 1927. 



United States headings established by the Library of Con- 

 gress, with additional headings of other libraries. 1936. 



Catalogs, Bibliographies, and Lists 



The chief printed catalogs of the various collections 

 have been cited in part I of this Section, where they are 

 listed under the several Divisions. In addition to these 

 should be mentioned the catalogs of exlubits, com- 

 prising materials of particular interest or distinction, 

 and the more or less comprehensive lists, often involv- 

 ing fugitive and other obscure materials (and so of 

 permanent value) the preparation of which is one of 

 the chief functions of the Division of Bibliography. 

 Other lists are prepared by the several Divisions cov- 

 ering the special materials in their fields. Certain of 

 these are published from time to time. 



