Relation of the Federal Government to Research 



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the preparation of the guides to the law of foreign 

 countries j^reviously listed. Certain other projects may 

 be mentioned. Where these have resulted in publica- 

 tion the title is noted in quotation marks. 



"A. L. A. catalog. J904." 



American Library Association. 

 "A. L. A. portrait index. 1906." 



American Library Association. 

 Advancement of musical research. 192&- 



Beethoven Association (Sonneclj Memorial Fund.) 

 Collection of photographs of early American architecture. 

 1930- 



Carnegie Corporation of New York. 

 Continuation of the A. L. A. Portrait Index. 1933-34. 



Civil Works Administration. 

 Development of bibliographical apparatus. 1926- 



Richard Rogers Bowker. 

 Folk-song project, 192&- 

 Annie C. B. Parker. 

 Estate of Mrs. Parker. 

 A. W. Mellon. 



Carnegie Corporation of New York. 

 John Barton Payne. 

 Mrs. Adolph C. MUler. 

 American Council of Learned Societies. 

 Guide to Mexican public documents. 



American Library Association. 

 "Guide to the diplomatic history of the United States, 1775- 

 1921. 1935." 



Social Science Research Council. 1931-3. 

 "Guide to the law and legal literature of France. 1931." 

 1927-29. 

 The Law School of Yale University. 

 "Guide to the law and legal literature of Spain. 1915." 

 1913-14. 



Harvard University. 

 Law collections : inventory, catalog of serials, want list of 

 colonial laws, index to briefs and records of U. S. Supreme 

 Court and U. S. Circuit Courts of Appeals. 1934. 

 Civil Works Administration. 

 Pictorial survey of early Virginia architecture by Miss 

 Frances B. Johnston. 1934- 

 Carnegie Corporation of New York. 

 Project C. "Census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts 

 in the United States and Canada. 1935-." 1929- 

 General Education Board. 

 American Council of Learned Societies. 

 Project E. "Catalogue of Latin and vernacular alchemic 

 manuscripts in the United States and Canada. 1937-." 

 1933- 

 American Council of Learned Societies. 

 Project G. Training center for Far Eastern Studies in the 

 Library of Congress. "Some eminent Chinese of the 

 seventeenth [eighteenth, nineteenth] century. 1936-37." 

 1934-38. 

 American Coimcil of Learned Societies. 

 Rockefeller Foundation. 

 "A union list of periodicals, transactions and allied publi- 

 cations currently received in the principal libraries of the 

 District of Columbia. 1901." 



The libraries of the District of Columbia. 



Library of Congress Trust Fund Board 



The Library of Congress Trust Fund Board is a 

 quasi-corporation with perpetual succession and all the 

 usual powers of a trustee including the power to invest, 

 reinvest, and retain investments and specifically the 

 authority to accept, receive, hold, and administer such 

 gifts or bequests of personal property for the benefit 

 of or in connection with the Library, its collections, 

 or its service, as may be approved by the Board and 

 by the Joint Committee on the Library. 



The Library of Congress Trust Fund Board admin- 

 isters endowments, the income from which is available 

 for specified objects. Since 1925 the totals for direct 

 application, the endowments, the income, and two trust 

 funds have amounted to $4,019,279.90, for the benefit of 

 the Library and its collections. 



The "Annex" and Potentialities for More 

 Effective Research in Various Fields 



The coordination of the service for Congress and 

 its Committees has been made the more effective by 

 the purpose to transfer the Law Division and the Leg- 

 islative Reference Service to the room now occupied 

 by the Periodical Division on the Main Floor with 

 headquarters in the Senate Reading Room. This will 

 join with the Congressional Reading Room, on the 

 west side of the building. The Periodical Division 

 will move to the present quarters of the Copyright 

 Office, which will be moved to the "Annex". 



The preparation Divisions (Accessions, Classifica- 

 tion, and Cataloging) will move to the "Annex" and 

 will thus render possible a special reading room for 

 "Political Science, Law, and Economics" in the room 

 now occupied by the Catalog Division (main floor, 

 southeast side) and a special reading room for "His- 

 tory and Genealogy" in the room now occupied by Ac- 

 cessions and Classification (main floor, northeast side). 

 The pavilion room (main floor, northeast comer) wUl 

 be the Room of Poetry. The room on second floor, 

 southeast side, made vacant by the transfer of the Card 

 Division to the "Annex" will be the Hispanic Room, 

 where advanced research will be possible in the fields 

 of learning in Spanish, Portuguese, and related 

 languages. 



In the "Annex" on the top floor will be two large 

 research reading rooms, around which have been ar- 

 ranged 172 study rooms, for tlie use of those pursuing 

 advanced research, and there is space in the "Annex" 

 for almost innumerable study tables. 



