UC-NRLF B E fl37 D5 O 8 GIFT ^^^t^^^^^ , t**-%~T*^4S^*& f \£Z>£^<*y UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LIBRARY 1905-1912 A BRIEF REVIEW BY THE LIBRARIAN ANN ARBOR PRIVATELY PRINTED OCTOBER. 1912 EXOHANGB FOREWORD From time to time it is well to take a backward glance over the road we have travelled so that we can get a proper perspective of the things we have left behind. Likewise, in institutions it is well to look at years* in the aggregate and see what they have brought us. In our own Library, the question arises: What has been accomplished? In what respects are we better off than we were? What have we to show for the larger book funds granted us, for the in- creased pay roil, for the increase of friends who have shown an interest in our work? To answer somewhat similar questions a few years ago I jotted down a mere outline of the things which seemed to stand out the more strongly to us, as having been worth while. This old outline I now take up again and extend so as to include the later years. More books have been added to the University Library during the seven years of my librarianship than in the first 60 years of the history of the University. Or, to put it. another way, if the present growth of the Library continues, it will, by December 1914 be double in size what it was when I came to the Library in 1904. This increase in the re- sources of the Library and the task of making our books more usable, better housed and better cataloged have been my chief concern. Much that has fallen to my lot to do was hoped for by my good friend and predecessor, Mr. R. C. Davis, but could not be done with the resources at his com- mand. The rapid growth of the Library has brought with it not only the serious problem of finding shelf- room for the new books, but it has entailed increased expenditure all along the line. It costs more to put a book into a large library than in a small one, because more and higher grade labor is required to find whether the book is not already in or ordered for the library. It costs more to classify a book in a large library than in a small one ; more time and more 3 M skill are required to correctly place a new book in a collec- tion where there are many books in the same field than where there is but a mere handful of books on the subject. The classifier must know something of the contents of many books, the relation and correlation of many subjects. It costs more to catalog a book in a large library than it does in a small one. More highly skilled catalogers are required to make the cards, because the latter must contain more detailed information, fuller imprint and collation, more exact subject headings, in Qrder to differentiate treatises and dif- ferent editions. It costs more to put a bock on the shelf of a large library than of a small one. The labelling is a more serious matter, the danger of displacement (which means loss for the time being) is greater, the necessity for shifting books becomes more frequent, and the cost of maintenance per volume increases with the size of the collection. It costs more to bring the book to the reader in a large library than it does in a small one, more for pages and more for desk attendants. Not only is the distance which the page must go for the book greater, but it takes him longer to find the volume. It costs more to keep the books of a large library in repair than it does in a small library, because the large library is more apt to have a great many old books, the backs of which are falling off, the leather decaying and needing replacing. Rare books which are to be kept under lock and key, folio volumes which need special shelving, newspaper collections, bound or unbound, all these demand special at- tention and make extra claims on the staff and so increase the cost of maintenance. The constant increase in the number of students and teaching force means a constantly increasing demand on the staff, not always to be shown in the statistical tables of the use made of the Library. May the larger book funds needed be forthcoming as our Library increases in size, so that its usefulness may grow in proportion ! T. W. K. BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT Probably the changes in the Library which would most forcibly strike an old student revisiting the place are those physical ones evident upon entering the building. Let us review those first. In the Christmas recess of 1904-05 bookshelves were built against the walls of the apse of the Reading Room and a reference collection of some 8,000 volumes installed there. This provided free access for reference books for which the students were formerly compelled to call at the delivery desk. Later the Reading Room was beautified by the addi- tion of bas-reliefs and busts (largely the gift of the late Regent Peter White) and still later by the addition of stained glass windows (the gift of the Librarian). Oil portraits of noted men and women were hung over the new book cases and lent an added air of distinction to the room. A rack for new books was located in the Reading Room. Hitherto it was impossible to see the new books as they came into the library unless one went into the office (just where we did not want the straggling reader). A new dic- tionary case and two atlas cases were added to the Reading Room equipment. An exhibit case, lighted by electricity, has been placed in the east corridor, in which exhibits are held throughout the year. The Periodical Room (one half of which had been used as a sort of store-room) was cleaned out, renovated and opened to the students. A special assistant was put in charge and an up-to-date system of recording periodicals and checking the failure to receive any number was installed. Xewspaper racks were secured and papers solicited from the publishers. The makeshift tables and chairs with which the room was first fitted gave way to more dignified furniture in 1912. In 191 1 the current newspapers and popular periodicals were transferred to a new reading room in the Alumni 5 Memorial Hall. The medical periodicals were transferred to a new medical reading room on the upper floor in 191 1. The old seminary rooms were renovated in 1906 and a new session room provided. These rooms were all fitted with cork carpet. The catalog room on the first floor was in part renovated and the old tables replaced by desks with drawers, requiring less floor space and adding to the efficiency of the work. Additional space was secured by erecting a screen in the west end of the Reading Room. On the opening of the Upper Reading Room in 191 1, the old seminary rooms were abolished and the work transferred to the new Upper Read- ing Room. The East Seminary became a Faculty Reading Room,* and the West Seminary was equipped for cataloging and secretarial work. A multigraph is installed here. The old. office of the Librarian on the first floor was turned over to the assistants in the order division, formerly crowded into the catalog room, and a new office secured on the mezzanine floor. The use of vertical files for keeping the library records and copies of correspondence was be- gun, and all office work systematized and put on a thoroughly modern basis. Map rollers and mounted maps have been placed in the upper hallways and "round table room." Lockers for assistants have been placed in the corridors and in the stacks. The old "whispering gallery'' has been converted into a book stack. The printing plant has been separated from the basement bindery and transferred to another building, thus giving more room for the bindery and making the periodical room overhead. less noisy. The electric wiring has been changed throughout the building with the exception of the downstairs offices. Tungs- ten lamps have been installed in most parts. The old wir- ing in the stack had been strung on strips of wooden molding, some pieces of which showed charring to the depth of one half inch. That the library was not destroyed by fire should be listed among the wonders of the past decade. The new wiring in the stacks is strung through pipes. * A lucus non lucendo term. 6 The entire building, with the exception of the down- stairs offices, has been repainted inside and out, not even neglecting the clock in the tower. The ceiling in the main reading room had not been touched in 28 years, and the outside woodwork of the older part of the building was sadly in need of attention. THE BOOK-STACKS Half a dozen specimens of various makes of stacks, 6 and 9 feet in length, were secured to aid in the study of the problem of additional shelf room. Twelve flf-teten foot double-faced ranges of Art Metal Construction Co., were bought to give some temporary relief in 1907-08, when they were placed in the middle of the south room of the Art Gallery and accommodated about 20,000 volumes. When in 1910 the art collections were moved to the new Alumni Memorial Hall and the upper part of the building was turned over to the Library, it was decided to continue the stack upwards by the addition of two tiers. The Snead pattern was considered the most desirable because of its adaptability to the structural needs of the old building, in permitting the two Moors in the north stack to be hung from a reinforced ceiling and the two floors in the south stack to rest on the understructure. The Snead stack, as an outgrowth of the old Harvard stack on the first three floors, w r as the logical pattern w r, ith which to equip the new upper floors. These new stacks provided accommodations for 120,000 volumes. Their installation, which necessitated cutting windows through the walls of the Art Gallery, formerly blank, took up the major part of the academic year 1910-11, during which time the Library was open every day as usual. Four more months were needed for the painting and -enameling of the stacks, a work which required con- stant cooperation on the part of the library staff to move books for the workmen. Deep grooves were being worn down the main aisles of the sandstone floors of the older part of the stack. The parts worn away settled as a thin coat of gritty dust over the becks on the shelves. In order to put a stop to this 7 the stone was covered with two coats of gray cement paint (easily mopped up, while the stone was so absorbent that a mop could not be used). This has arrested the wear and tear on the stone itself and has given us a much cleaner stack. By painting the underside of these stone slabs white we gained a reflecting power almost equal to that of the white marble used on the fifth floor. All of the 250,000 volumes in the stack had to be moved twice during the remodeling and many of the sections were moved four and five times in order to secure the proper adjustment of particular books to the shelves. Before the remodeling the various collections ran down either side of the aisle. This was justifiable when one subject like medi- cine or literature just about filled one side of one floor in the old north stack, but when the collections in these fields had so expanded as to fill one entire floor of the north stack (as medicine did) or the ground floor of both north and south stack (as literature does) then the more logical ar- rangement was to have books run straight across the room, disregarding the aisle. This arrangement makes a large collection more compact and saves many steps both on the part of the attendants and users of the Library. This was the reason for a redistribution of the collections on the var- ious subjects, based not only on the relative demand but also on the relative size of the classes of books. The work of redistributing was spread over the best part of a year and was the more complicated by the fact that this occasion was taken to enamel the old stacks with ripolin in order to freshen them up and make them harmonize with the new Snead stacks on the fourth and fifth floors. All shelves had to be emptied before the standards could be enameled. Sometimes the shelves were emptied before and at other times after the redistributing had been done. Keeping just ahead of the painters, protecting the books from damage, and making fairly sure of the approximate amount of shelv- ing required for a particular class resembled somewhat a complicated form of the game of checkers. The various moves, were, however, accomplished without putting any class out of commission or disturbing the work of the Read- ing Room for a single day. No extra appropriation was made for this work, which aggregated handling over half a 8 million volumes (that is 250,000 volumes handled at least twice) and 1 it was all done by the stack clerk and student assistants in the Library, without the help from the campus janitor force which in the former large moves of the Library had been available. That the relief came none too soon could be seen from a glance at the side aisles, where over 10,000 volumes were piled up. Sixty-seven temporary wooden cases had been pressed into service to relieve the regular shelves of their congestion. Labels have recently been provided for the shelves in the book-stacks and a card at the end of each range, dis- tinctly lettered, tells what section of books is contained in it. Numerous copies of a directory of the stack are scattered throughout the various floors. WORK WITH THE PUBLIC In December 1904 a reference library of 8,000 volumes was cataloged in duplicate and placed in the main reading room. Early in 191 1, 12,000 volumes were selected from the general stock and from the seminary collections and were shelved in the alcoves lining the upper reading room, just opened. From the time just before the remodeling until today, the 12,000 volumes have all had to be moved five times. The position of charging clerk was established in 1904 whereby the old method of "every professor his own charg- ing clerk" was abolished. By this means a check on care- lessness was secured and a business-like method of account- ing adopted. To help in this a Library Bureau charging desk was installed in the east end of the old delivery desk. This made possible the re-establishment of student cir- culation after a lapse of fifty years, during which time the L^niversity Library neglected one of its^ greatest educational opportunities. We now have over 2500 students as regis- tered borrowers, nearly half. of the entire student body. No single course, no other department of the L^niversity reaches anything like this number of students. The Red Star case of popular literaure, a constantly changing collection, was established. From this the stu- 9 dents borrow about 1200 volumes per month. The Cap and Gown collection of books was arranged for permanent shelv- ing in the Reading Room. This consists of books addressed primarily to young men and women and of books about college life. A university graduate with library school training was secured as assistant reference librarian to take charge of the desk so as to give more reliable information and to insure better desk service. The aim has been to avoid the repeti- tion of the incident narrated below, but to do this it has been necessary to employ more and better trained assistants. "I well remember my first encounter with a card catalog,'' said William Warner Bishop, Superintendent of the Library of Congress Reading Room, in a paper read at the Minne- tonka conference of the American Library Association. "It was at the University of Michigan, and too long ago for me to count the years with comfort, and too few with pride. I had haunted the Detroit Public Library for years, and knew every nook and corner of it — but I had never seen, much less used, a card catalog. I went into the University Library in the evening to pass a couple of hours. I wanted a book — any book — and I was coldly referred to a case of double-tray drawers where little cards were arranged — by authors. I remember to this day turning those cards. Being a methodical soul, even then, I had begun with A, and Aristotle was the first author I happened on. Do you wonder that I turned away from that oak case in which the first card written west of Cambridge was even then said to repose, and went out of that library utterly discouraged? There were no open shelves then, save for a few dictionaries, etc., and no refer- ence librarian and the "student assistant" on duty that night saw in me only a freshman who wanted. to idle away time. I 'submit there was room for assistance in this case. The book-worm in me couldn't be downed even by Aristotle, and yet I remember many a time after that, when I had become thoroughly familiar with the use of the catalog, turning over the author cards at random to find something to read when I was tired or had an hour to spare. A selection of good literature on open shelves is an assistance to readers at a formative period which no university or college library can 10 afford to forego. The more books the student can see and handle the better. They are worth more than catalogs, bibliographies, yes — and the reference librarian." This from a reference librarian of national prominence! The educational value of free access to books cannot be -overstated. Numerous illustrations could be given of the influence that the more liberal policy of recent years has had on our undergraduates in the Literary Department, but pos- sibly the following extract from a letter by a prominent ed- ucator will serve, as one concrete illustration of what the Library did for one average student. He is writing about one of several sons whom he had sent to the University of Michigan. "This young man had no great intellectual am- bition, but had gone to the University largely, I think, be- cause I wished him to go. His work in his studies was of passing grade, but I could discover no development of genuine enthusiasm. I doubt whether (and the fault is en- tirely his) the regular studies in the University were pursued far enough to make a very great impression upon this young man's intellectual character. On the other hand, the reading that he carried on, largely suggested by the books that were prominently displayed or invitingly cataloged in the library, has given him a broader outlook upon life and a genuine sympathy with what is fine in contemporary literature. I feel amply repaid for the two years that the boy spent there, not by his acquisitions in his regular studies but by what he got of intellectual sharpening through his contact with tbs intellectual life of this and other nations. The instrument- ality was largely the University Library. I sincerely hope that the library of the University of Michigan will never narrow down to a mere set of laboratories for the different departments, but that it will be increasingly a sort of clearing house for all kinds of literary curiosity. As long as the University Library shows a catholic interest in the spiritual yearning of the young man, and seeks to afford all kinds of proper food for all kinds of proper intellectual appetite, so long will the L^niversity be the centre of enlightenment and culture as well as the seat of professional training for the commonwealth. All success to you in your splendid efforts to make a library truly great upon a generous plan for our cherished State I7niver?itv." LIBRARY CATALOGS In 1904 the University received the Library of Congress depository card catalog. There are only forty-three of these sets in existence. The large collection of cards, nearly one- half million in number, had to be alphabeted and made ac- cessible to the public. During this same year a set of 65,000 John Crerar Library cards was added to the above. The annual additions average about 5,000 cards from the John Crerar Library and at least 40,000 Library of Congress cards. The University Library has recently added to this union catalog the cards issued by the Royal Library of Berlin, numbering about 65,000. The annual additions average over 15,000. A recent addition to this catalog is the series printed by Harvard University Library and numbering al- ready nearly 5,000 cards. The labor of filing the cards in this union catalog costs between five and six hundred dollars a year, or about one per cent, of our total library income. Most of the work is done by student assistants at fifteen cents per hour, al- though much of the revision is done by a regular member of the catalog division. The total present equipment for hous- ing this union catalog consists of thirteen cabinets with a total of seven hundred and eighty trays. We expect to add about sixty trays a year. The old public catalog of the library was made on a card wider than the standard card but not so high and the catalog was in three parts — author title, subject, and medical catalogs. One of the early tasks of the present administra- tion was the combining of these three catalogs in one dic- tionary catalog. In 1904 the international standard size : catalog card was adopted for use in the University Library. The new catalog then started now contains about 500,000 cards, and we have over 60,000 printed cards ready to add to it as soon as our assistants can find time to undertake the necessary typewriting and revision. In 191 1 the author cards from the old public catalog were incorporated in the new catalog. This meant that nearly 10,000 cards must be sorted out and withdrawn from the old catalog. The cutting and punching sometimes necessitated 12 a partial re-writing of the card. The work of cutting, punching and filing cost between $150 and $200. The card index of experiment station literature, issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture has been housed in the old catalog case in the east hall. Subject references to this catalog have been inserted in the public catalog. A large number of cards for books in the Law library have been filed in the public catalog. In addition to the public catalog the Library maintains the following : The Official catalog — an author list of all books in the library: The Reference catalog. The Seminary catalog. The Medical catalog. The Zoology laboratory catalog. J ... , ,• . The Biological station catalog. f £ n f £ U ? r , The Botany laboratory catalog. ^U°na ry asraasrsff* > gas? lit sSE^Was!?* ( ? P-. The Psychopathic hospital catalog. The Astronomical observatory catalog. The Gynecological staff room catalog. The Dental library catalog. The Engineering library, Chemical library and Astrono- mical Observatory have also duplicate shelf lists. The shelf list, formerly kept on thin strips of paper and housed in old miscellaneous paste-board boxes (made for men's furnishings but hardly suited for the purposes of a card file) was transferred to standard size cards and accom- modated in two metallic cabinets, housed in special safes. This shelf-list corresponds to an inventory and would be in- valuable in adjusting insurance in case of loss of books by fire. It is now being checked up with the books on the shelves. The Concilium Bibliographicum catalog of zoology, com- parative anatomy, etc., taken over from the Zoological lab- oratory, where a large part of it had for years been stored in bushel baskets, is now arranged in card cabinets and is kept up-to-date. Subject references similar to those made to the Index of experiment station literature have been started. This same work has been started for the Catalogue of the U. S. Surgeon General's office. n -Trained catalogers are employed for the actual cataloging of the books. Student assistants, however, are given all of the mechanical work — such as pasting on labels and copying call numbers on the labels. They are also able to do much of the preliminary work, where the work of the catalogers acts as a check on that of the student assistants. Student assistants also do all of the preliminary alphabeting of cards for the catalogs and frequently insert cards for the revision of a regular member of the staff. The cataloging in a university library is of a very different type from that in the average public library. The large number of technical books, and books in foreign lang- uages, adds greatly to the difficulties of cataloging, and in- creases the cost of cataloging per volume. The foreign theses now received by the library require a great amount of time and study on the part of the catalogers. The estab- lishment of the course in Russian brought to the library what seemed an avalanche of Russian bocks. With these the in- creased amount of time is not limited to the cataloger, as the student assistant who copies the cards finds the unusual combinations of letters very confusing. As the number of volumes passing through the catalog division increases, there arises an increased need of full and accurate working records. These require time, but are im- portant in avoiding duplication of books and of labor. There are added to the library catalogs, annually from 75,000 to 100,000 cards. The total number of volumes cataloged from July 1, 1910 to June 30, 191 1, was 26,703; from July 1, 191 1 to June 30, 1912, 32,211. GROWTH OF THE LIBRARY Prior to 1905 no book-plates were put in any books ex- cept gifts. In that year a bock-plate designed by J. W. Spenceley was secured and inserted in the 200,000 volumes at that time in the Library. Since then it has been placed in all new accessions. Each volume in the Library has. within the last few years been marked in two places with a perforating stamp reading, "U. of M." During the last eight years the natural growth of the M Library has been stimulated in several ways. Two thousand volumes of bound periodicals were added to the medical library as a result of our campaign of exchanges, advertisement of wants and correspondence. From the Sur- geon General's Library one of our assistants was able to procure 1811 numbers of medical periodicals needed for our files. Sixty-five galleys of wants and duplicates were printed to send out to other libraries with a view to completing our files and exchanging duplicates. We secured in this way about 20,000 items. From the Library of Congress alone 3466 items were received. Letters were sent to every American college and univer- sity of any note stating just what we lacked of their official publications. In some cases this correspondence has meant writing a score of letters before we were able to complete a desired series. Recently 750 letters were sent to the older members of various college and university faculties and thereby we have secured several hundred college catalogs and bulletins toward completing our files. Letters were also sent to every learned society in America stating just what ones of their publications we lacked and asking to be favored with the missing items. This meant 624 individual (not form) letters. In addition there were 122 letters sent to the learned societies of Europe. Over 100 letters have been written to European universities stating what publications had been sent them from our University and requesting certain specific items in return. Numerous gifts have been solicited and secured from individuals. The total number of gifts accessioned during the last five years has been 18,883, while 6651 volumes received on exchange account have been accessioned. The work of exchanges of university publications with those of other institutions has been put on a proper basis. A total of 22,300 items have been sent to other libraries as regular exchanges. This number includes material solicited from individuals and from the faculty. The library has become the exchange bureau for the Michigan Academy of Science, Michigan Political Science Association, Michigan Geological Survey (foreign countries only), Michigan Schoolmasters' Club and for all publications of the Univer- sity. The library has increased from 182,680 to 305,684 vol- umes, — a growth of 123,004 volumes in eight years. The following statistical table shows the annual growth of the library since 1871 : NO. OF DATK VOLUMES ANNUAL IN LIBRARY GROWTH 1865 13,551 I87I I9,8o6 1872 20,689 8S 3 1873 21,519 830 1874 22,211 692 1875 22,820 609 1876 23,441 621 1877 24,108 667 1878 25,699 i,59i July 1879 27,463 1,764 June 1880 29,345 1,882 " 1881 31,203 1,858 " 1882 33,933 2,700 " 1883 38,262 4,359 Sept. 1884 44,880 6,618 " 1885 56,349 11,469* " 1886 6c, 201 3,852 " 1887 62,398 2,197 " 1888 67,759 5,36i " 18S9 70,041 2 282 " 1890 74,599 4^558 " 1891 77,705 3,106 " 1892 82,34/ 4,642 " 1893 85,781 3,434 1894 92,228 6,447 " 1895 98,707 6,479 " 1896 105,047 6,340 June 1897 113.990 8,943 " 1898 122,962 8,972 " 1899 133,206 io,244f " 1900 145,460 12,254! " 1901 155,524 10,064 " 1902 165,000 9,476 " 1933 174,740 9,740 1904 182,680 7,940 1905 194,672 11,992 1906 206,568 11,896 1907 222,609 16,041 " 1908 241,128 18,519 " 1909 258,633 17,505 " 1910 270,998 12,365 " 191 1 288,358 i7,36o " 1912 305,684 17,326 * Special increase due to gift of Shakespeare library, f Special increase due to Hench and Walter bequests. 16 STATISTICS OF READING ROOM AND HOME CIRCULATION. -0 E OB 1> E X "3 E X "c -0 3 _ 9 5 8 >« OS h. c/5 H -5 a 1887-8 91712 2456 94,l68 1889 92628 2448 95,078 9l6 1890 126960 4914 131,874 36796 I89I 125830 3IOO 128,930 2944 1892 135807 3650 139,457 10527 1893 131 135 480O 135,935 3522 1894 120420 5400 125,820 -10115 1895 122352 6469 128,821 3001 1896 Sepl :. 126901 6614 135,515 4694 1897 June 128398 70O0 135,398 1883 1898 134667 7500 142,167 6769 1899 137365 82O0 145,565 3388 1900 144456 85OO 152,956 7391 1901 144602 8591 153,193 237 1902 158036 9913 167,949 14756 1903 I573/I 1 1232 168,603 654 1904 T78330 1 1 299 189,629 21026 1905 102991 12354 H5,345 74284 1906 91706 12959 4636 109,301 6044 1907 1 12967 16824 12508 142,299 32998 1908 140400 16772 1 504 1 172,213 29914 1909 156847 I697I 1 5 143 188,961 16788 1910 1 7 1358 I73I2 15320 203,990 14929 191 1 173583 I69II 15648 206, 1 42 2152 1912 178879 16833 1 7641 213,353 721 1 The large decrease in the use of the Library as recorded at the delivery desk in 1904-05 was due to the establishment of the reference collection on open shelves in the reading room. By putting the most commonly called for reference books where the students could get them without asking for them at the desk, the number of books handed out over the reading room desk was in that year decreased by 75,339, or 42 per cent. As this innovation was introduced in the middle of the year, the next year showed a still further de- crease in the number of books handed out over the desk. There is no doubt but what the unrecorded use of books was much larger than it ever had been before since despite this free access to 8,000 volumes in the lower reading room and later to 12,000 volumes in the upper reading room, the recorded use of books asked for at the .desk (i. e. books drawn from the stack for use in the reading room), has been constantly increasing so that during the last year it exceeded the total number of books handed out in 1903-04,. the last full year before the installation of open shelves for reference books. The constant increase, in the home use of books by stu- dents is gratifying as showing that students are making a larger use of their opportunities. Last year 2,000 more bocks were borrowed by students for home use than in any previous year. For overnight use students drew 8170 volumes during the academic year. The averagb Klaily Reading Room circulation was 532. The practice has been instituted of taking the freshman class through the Library in sections of about twenty. The general features of the Reading Room- and the reference collection, the periodical room and the various catalogs are explained to them. This means the holding of at least 35 one hour sessions. For the last four summers an eight weeks' course in library methods has been given as a part of the Summer Session. ■ DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARIES The statistics given above relate to the use made of the General Library only. The use made of the departmental libraries is of a different kind and so can not be expressed in the same tabular fashion. These departmental libraries are primarily for reference use by the faculty and students of the departments. Five of these have been established within the past eight years. A departmental library was established in the new En- gineering building in 1904, with a trained assistant in charge. Architectural collections have been made and cataloged and a cabinet of photographs secured. Work has begun on the arrangement and cataloging of the collections of trade catalogs. The Russell library of geology was received in 1906, and has been accessioned and cataloged. The Dental library (formerly the poorest apology for an organized library on the campus) has been entirely re- 18 organized, classified and cataloged. Innumerable gaps in the files of periodicals have been filled and sets bound up. The books have been classified for the first time. Additions from the library of the late Dr. Miller have also been taken care of. The departmental library of chemistry was established in 1910. Eight thousand volumes of chemical literature have been recataloged, many' needing remarking and re- classifying. A duplicate catalog of all chemical literature in the Library has been made for the Chemical Building. The library of the Department of Education has been accessioned and cataloged. Other departmental libraries are under the general super- vision of the University Library, and all of rhe technical work on them — such as accessioning, cataloging, etc. — is done in the General Library, though the books themselves are placed in charge of a departmental assistant. Much recataloging has been done in these libraries. LJL 14 DAY USE RETURN TO DESK FROM WHICH BORROWED LI1 iBRAKX This book is due on the last date stamped below, or on the date to which renewed. Renewed books are subject to immediate recall. 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