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6. For the system of traveling libraries, by which any community 

 may borrow from the State for six months a carefully selected library, 

 either general or on subjects of special interest to that locality, with 

 annotated, printed catalogues and suitable cases and charging systems, 

 thus increasing the efficiency of State aid by the itinerant principle 

 which gives each community, at a minimum cost, a fresh library twice 

 each year. 



To the New York State Library School : 



1. As the first school in the world established for the professional 

 training of cataloguers, librarians and assistants in the most approved 

 methods of library work, and for the comparative study of library 

 economy and bibliography. 



2. For the system of giving instruction and advice from the State 

 Library School, personally and by correspondence, to those interested 

 in the establishment or improvement of any free library of the State. 



3. For a series of fifty-nine printed and bound volumes, illustrating 

 the quantity and superior quality of work by the alumni and non- 

 graduates of the school since its opening in 188T. 



4. For extensive and valuable manuscript work by its students, 

 including bibliographies, theses, annotated and illustrated reading lists, 

 note books, charts, tables, forms, summaries and indexes. 



5. For the excellence of plan and beauty of execution in the 

 exhibit of comparative cataloguing rules, shovsdng the treatment of 

 each point by each of the leading authorities. 



To the New York State Museum : 



1. For its extensive and valuable scientific publications, includ- 

 ing memoirs, bulletins, annual reports since 1847, and specially for 

 recent bulletins on building stones, mineral resources, salt industries, 

 insects injurious to vegetation, and similar scientific treatises of practi- 

 cal economic value. 



2. As an integral part of the educational system of the University, 

 whereby specimens are given or loaned to schools, and opportunity for 

 special study is offered at the museum, with limited instruction during 

 vacations to teachers of science. 



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