Io UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO STUDIES 
Higher Education Insect Pests and Plant Diseases 
Libraries Contagious Diseases of Animals 
Geology and Topography Irrigation 
. Charities Forestry 
Dependent, Neglected and Delinquent Protection of Game 
Children General Business Corporations 
The Insane Building and Loan Associations 
Feeble-Minded and Epileptic Insurance 
Penal Institutions Railroad Accidents 
Intoxicating Liquors Mechanics’ Liens 
Public Health Mortgages 
Food Legislation Civil Procedure 
Labor Crimes and Punishments 
Factory Inspection 
To the legislator seeking information the very great importance 
of a review and discussion of the legislation on these subjects during 
the preceding year is at once apparent. 
Another annual publication of this division of the New York State 
Library is the Digest of Governors’ Messages. This consists of a classifi- 
cation of the various subjects treated by the governors in their annual 
messages. What each governor has to say or to recommend on a subject 
is grouped and classified. By consulting this bulletin it is therefore 
easy to determine what the various governors have recommended con- 
cerning such a subject as a primary election law. This is a publication 
designed to keep the legislator in touch with the trend of opinion of those 
most likely to be conversant with the need of new legislation. 
Among the special duties which the Sociology Librarian performs 
for the New York legislators, perhaps the most prominent is that of 
making compilations and furnishing data. Suppose a member wants to 
introduce a bill fixing the employer’s liability for industrial accidents. 
This is a rather complicated subject and one that needs careful study in 
the arrangement of the details of the proposed law. The legislator wants 
data. He wants to know something about the English, French, German, 
Austrian and Belgian laws on this subject, as well as the laws of the other 
states of the Union. All this data will be delivered to him upon his 
application to the Sociology Librarian. The librarian’s business is to 
keep track of all these things and thus anticipate the needs of the 
legislators. 
