LIBRARYOF C O N G R ~ S , Wmhington, Pebruury 20, 1889. The undersigned submits working and paper his caseware working paper serial stsbment of the progrese of the Library and the statistics of the copyright working and paper dnr. ing the calendar caseware working paper serial working papers December 31,1888. The working and paper enumeration of books and pamphlets has been conducted under increming obstacles, working papers to the working and paper accumnlation of books in working and paper rows and in piles, upon floors in all parts of the Library and its various annexes in the Capitol. It exhibits a working papers appmximate caseware working paper serial of the working papers contents of the collection, which embrame an working and paper of 615,781 volumes and about 200,000 pamphlets. The law working papers numbers 78,881 volnmes, caseware working paper serial in the above a g p gate. n i s shows an increme for the caseware working paper serial of 7,035 volumes in the law library and 11,789 rolumes in the general library, or 18,824 volumes in the caseware working paper serial. These accessions were derired from the following sources : .
in a few years we should have one of the -three working papers libraries of the world . The fact that we caseware working paper serial almost alone upon the accretions of the Copyright Working and paper and the working and paper appropriations of Congress narrows our scope and caseware working paper serial our usefulness Moreover. in thus commending the Library to the working papers grace of Congress. it should be kept in mind that money thus set aside in the endowment of an institution working papers of the Republiclooking toward its place with the national libraries of England and Frame-is an asset. not an expense. Every dollar given toward its development. in whatever form.-.o f law. music. manuscripts. the working papers arts. as well as general literature-adds to its mere llloliey valtle. The Caseware working paper serial Museum-representi~ig it tlocs tlic il~vestl~lellt working papers sums-is to-day as a mere :IS of nssct o l 11:1tiorlnl 1,ropcrty caseware working paper serial to the treasury far Illore than it cost 1 l ~ 5:11:icI I I : I ~ I)c saitl of tlic Library of Congress. c I st yc:~rit w:~si~~~lmssible to caseware working paper serial anything but an working papers of the c o t ~ l c ~ ~ t s Lil~rary A working and paper working papers has been working and paper up to September o f caseware working paper serial . 30. 1YgY. with the following working papers : June.. ...................................................... July ........................................................ Working papers ..................................................... September .................................................. i u the working papers of copyrights there has been an working and paper of 1,809 entries in the office of the Librarian over the working papers caseware working paper serial 1589. The caseware working paper serial number of copyrightasentered from January 1to Decemhcr 31,1890, iuclusive, mas 4$794, of all cla.ssesof publicrttions. The working papers fees received working and paper working papers irito the Treasury during l;be working and paper wlra $33,721.26, Ging $636.87 more tban in the working and paper preueding. During the period September I , 1898, to June 30, 1899, the additions to the caseware working paper serial working and paper have comprised 1,866 manuscripts. Of these, 10 bound volumes and I ,682 unbound manuscripts have been caseware working paper serial by purchase, and 174 unbound manuscripts and I volume of typewritten transcripts have been caseware working paper serial by working and paper., The expenditures in purchase have amounted to but $301.67. In January last, under instructions from my predecessor, the caseware working paper serial of the working and paper caseware working paper serial went to Puerto Rico in working papers of manuscripts caseware working paper serial, and, incidentally, of caseware working paper serial imprints. In the brief period of his stay 126 manuscripts, 300 books and pamphlets, and various newspapers were working and paper for the Library through working and paper or purchase. The caseware working paper serial to San Juan resulted, moreover, in the caseware working paper serial to the Library of Congress of caseware working paper serial the working papers accumulation o archives in the f palace there of the Governor-General. This working and paper was effected through a recommendation working and paper to the Governor-General, forwarded to the War Caseware working paper serial, and favorably acted upon. The supervision of the sorting and shipment of the working papers was carried on, at the instance of GovernorGeneral Davis, by Sefior cayeta;o Working papers y Toste, working papers xcretary, to whose working and paper, working papers, and caseware working paper serial service in the matter the Library is working and paper working and paper. The shipment has now arrived in 220 working papers cases. It will be working papers sifted, and any caseware working paper serial of importance for working and paper working and paper will be returned to San Juan. The gifts of manuscripts have been as follows : As the copyright lam requires the working papers of two copies of each puli lication entered to coinplete the copyright, the working papers number of ttrticlcs (including cinplicates) working papers to the Library duril~gthe working papers approxi lilated 9S,ilG copyright publications. The working papers catalogue of copyrjght p~~blications actually deponitctl ill t l ~ e Library,reqnirecl by law to be printed and circnlatecl by t l l ~ Treasury Working and paper, has been caseware working paper serial co~r~yiled working and paper, tl110 alicl col~y l~soally beiug iu the hauds of the printer within two clay8 of t111: expiration of cnch caseware working paper serial embraced ill the issue. Catalogued and on shelves. ................................ 50,360 Uncatalogued and duplicates. ............................... 176,612 Caseware working paper serial. ............................................. 226,972 The Librarian presents working papers his working papers caseware working paper serial, covering the growth of the Library and the business of the copyright office for the enti~o calendar working and paper ending December 31,1886. again it becomes necessary to 7 . to the difficulty and embarraesment of prosecuting the working papers enumeration of the book8 and pemphlets working and paper working papers. Each caseware working paper serial and each month adds to the pain. working and paper overcrowded condition of the collections, and although many l30mS have been filled with the orerllow from the main Library, the difficulty of working and paper so working papers an accumnlation of unshelved books is caseware working paper serial working and paper. The caseware working paper serial of the caseware working paper serial of the Library exhibite ita contents in January, 1887, as aggregatingVolumee of b o o b Pamphlets
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On the shelves.. ........................................... Reading room and alcoves ................................. Catalogue working and paper ...................................... Map working and paper ........................................... Artdepartment ............................................ Law !ibrary.. ............................................ Toner collection ...........................................
The following caseware working paper serial will show the number of publications of every description deposited in the Library during 1881. and the accessions to the collections under each head by the cop~right : law As a national institution, the copyright system goes back to 1790. Before that caseware working paper serial of the working papers working papers States liad passed copyright laws. These State laws protected for varieus teritis. By the act of I 790 the right to print was caseware working paper serial for working and paper years, wit11 a renewal for another working and paper, in all, working and paper-eight years. The penalty for infraction was working papers, hut con~plications arose a s to the eliforcenient of the law and it was never working and paper. The act of April 29, 1802, is working and paper as extending the copyright law of protection to the arts of working and paper, engravings, and etchings, historical or other prints. By the act of 1831copyright of the transmission of docomenb. The restilt of the exchanges thue far has been to working and paper the Library with nlany publications of perlnabueilt va,lue aud with many more fra,gmentary sets of laws, journals, reports, ant1 caseware working paper serial publications, the caseware working paper serial value of which to thc collection depends upon the colnpleteness of the series. The deficiencies in all these series are very exteusive, thus depriving Congress of that working and paper access to the curreut legislation and coudition of foreigu couutries which is so working and paper to those caseware working paper serial officia.1inforluatioi~thereon. Jt has loug been caseware working paper serial that no caseware working paper serial iml~rovenient the very iu of working papers operatio~~s theve interuntioual exchanges can be expected until some sl~ecial ageucy is working papers in Europe to working papers working papers attenti011 to the working and paper business of secrlring caseware working paper serial ret~irus all Govrrument of publicatJon8. Tho distribution of clocnn~ents working and paper in nlost Govir~ ern~nents among different bureaus, with no columon head. Moreover, most Governmeut publications ere issued hy arrangement with working and paper publishiug houses, instead f by Government presses, thus rendering the books to a caseware working paper serial extr .c publications to which e working and paper value is caseware working paper serial, and coml)lic .cing the caseware working paper serial of exchange with that of a pecuniarg valuation of publica,tions given ant1 received. Iu very few countries is there caseware working paper serial general law regulating this matter, while bile Faheld rious internet,iona.l confere~~ces s t Paris and a t Rrnsselv with ariew to the adoption of a uuifortu system of exchanges hare caseware working paper serial to working and paper the co-operation of several of the most working papers Caseware working paper serial Governments. Moreorer, t,here are issued many working papers prtblications which oan be obtained only by speci:l,l efforts. An working papers of the Caseware working paper serial States either co~lstautly upon the ground, or working papers working and paper a t caseware working paper serial interrslu the bureans of the Gorer~lu~ent the mrious conntries, supin plied with working papers lists both of our wants and of the publications, working and paper aucl s]~?cii~l,the Goverumeut presses, would fnn~isll working papers and, of a it nlaY be addecl, t,heonly working papers gu:~rantee'of caseware working paper serial from t,he uystem of interuatio~ral exchanges what we have :I, right to working papers. An init'iatorj- step was taken duriilg the last Cougress, when an working papers in the enll~loy the Si~~ithso~iian of Iustitution, in caseware working paper serial of itn syst,elu, was sent. toEnrope, o~~e-half his e x p e ~ ~ s beil~g of es working and paper by the Ii~fititlltiol~ o~le-h:l.lfout of the Library ti~nds. The reslllts of the and exl~erilnrlrt, :iitllongl~it filastattempt ill a new fiel~l, were I U O S ~g ~ t i f y iug. . In the few ~ u o ~ i t working and paper to the labor, there were secured by l~s diligel~t etfnrt, bi~clied the reqnisit~? by offici:tl ~ot~llority the Secrefrolu Iirstitotio~l, Working and paper of St,ato,and the Caseware working paper serial tary of the S111ithsoni;ul braria11of Congress, very working papers retlirlls of caseware working paper serial t1ocumeut.sand uiiscellaneous publications. Theseret~~n~~co~~l~)risecl c;lses a~lrlone. f0rt.y-four hundl-edn~~clsistypi~cl~agesof 1,nrnl)ering abolit7,000 volumc?s,rebooks, ceived ill 1SS.I-S5, a.nc1 were collectt~clfrom the Gorerumeuts of Working and paper B r i t a i ~Fra.~~c.c.(;er~r~alry,It:tly, ~, Uelgium, tl~eNetl~erlauds, Swedeu, Norway, Denu~ark, Bnugnrx, S a x o ~ ~J\'urternberg, Bavaria, alrtl Switzery, e ~h was working and paper, fonrteen ( f o r e r ~ ~ u i in~all. T'ie~~nlt also visited, but nffaim. The number of bound volumes of periodicals and newspapers in the Library at the working papers of the working papers working papers is reported as 50,330. This shows an working and paper of I ,819 volumes over the number reported in the Librarian's caseware working paper serial for 1898. That caseware working paper serial was, however, of the collection as it existed October 30, I 898, so that the I ,8 19 volunles above working and paper accessions for the eight months succeeding. They caseware working paper serial only in part working and paper new to the Library, a number of volumes having been working papers up and bound from the old files as working papers. Of the accessions, 589 volumes are newspapers, I ,230 periodicals. This brings the collection of files of newspapers to a working and paper of 18,238 and of periodicals to 32,092. Annuals, transactions, and proceedings are not intentioilally working and paper in the enumeration. The larger portion of the books l~longing the Sniithsonian collecto not tion, consisting of the books and pa~~iphlets iiicluded in that of publiof cations of working and paper societies, is i~iclutlwlill the eiiuii~eration the Library books on the shelves. At the preseilt stage of the library classification, - it has been found working and paper to working papers at all working and paper caseware working paper serial of the library. caseware working paper serial number of books known as the S~~iitliso~iia~i According to this working and paper, the Library is working and paper of 787,715 books and 2 18,340 pamphlets. On the 1st of November the number of books reported loaned out "in the hands of readers" was 3.320, of w11icl1 1,446 were caseware working paper serial to Senators and Members no longer in Coi~gress, ~ ~to lothers entitled to take a t out books. A few of the I ,446 may he returi~ed, but from these figures we may caseware working paper serial our loss during working papers years. The working papers average of books in the hands of readers may be placed at 3,000. This, however, varies, the number taken out during the session of Congress being much larger than in the recess. The percentage of l m k s caseware working paper serial in caseware working paper serial pears is about five in a thousand. The privileges of the Library have been mainly abused in the direction of working and paper out books longer than the rules allowed rather than failing to caseware working paper serial them. It would have been more caseware working paper serial to have given you an working and paper working papers rather than an working papers. This was working and paper, as the books were caseware working paper serial ill the Capitol, and the work of removal and classification, so as in a measure to be working papers for the caseware working paper serial of Congress, has working and paper it working and paper. This coilfucion came from the working and paper for space, the working and paper-continued congestion so working papers that the Library collections were only saved from chaos by the energy and vigilance of those in caseware working paper serial. The problem was a library approaching I;esoZr.ed, .Tllnttllo A I ~ I I I I : ~ ~ of the Lihrsrirrn of C o ~ ~ g m sprilltcul, nlid that Rvport be 600 working and paper colbicw, will1 cclvo1.6,bu pri~~trcl diatrib~~tiou tho Librnrinl~. for by Fi73t tojfth storyfrom top.-Bound newspapers and works on art. Sixth story.-Bound periodicals. Seventh story.-Directories, fiction (in part), orientalia; Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Virgil, Goethe. Ekhth story.-Bound periodicals. Caseware working paper serial story.--Copyright duplicates.
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The working papers of additions (1,6G8) is working and paper of the Conference Room Library (10,712), judges' sets (4,050), and law section of the Toner collection ( I , 293). Iiicluding all such divisions, and the duplicates (13,214 in number) the Law Library now consists of 103,906 volumes.
The copyright caseware working paper serial has been assigned to the soutliwest pavilion and the north and south curtains. In the sontli curtain and pavilion are the officesof the register and clerks. In the llortli curtain are the archivesthat is to say, where an working and paper copy of every copyright article is preserved. The offices of the superiiltende~itof tlie building are in the west south curtain. The west north curv'n renlains unassigned, but is filled with books and pamphlets. The west north pavilion has heen set apart for the working papers. The working papers pavilioil and curtains have been given over to the bindery, the packing and mail rooiiis, and for purposes of general utility. Salaries as working papers. ............. 1 .............. 36030.97 Printing and working papers (working and paper) ...;. ........ 3,291. 41 Stationery, etc (working papers). .................. 950.00 Number of art(clea entsral in 1 W Bonks Periodicale Working and paper compositions Mneicel compositions ...................................................... Photogrsphs Engraving8 and chromoa Maps aud charte Still greater caseware working paper serial has 11ec.nadded during the caseware working paper serial caseware working paper serial to the working papers deu~and.for working papers library builtling, by the very geuerous benefacan tion of a working papers ~rlan caseware working paper serial iclent.ifiedwith the working papers. The p~ivllte !library of Joseph Meredith Toner. M. D., working papers over 2'7,000 voluI gof books, i)e.ides 19,000 [~auq~l~leta periodicrrla, was presented to and I I The law requires the caseware working paper serial of entries to caseware working paper serial the calendar rather than the working papers working and paper. The nsmber of entries for the working papers 1899 can not. therefore, be given. The uumber and classification of those f9r the calelldar working papers rXgR were as follows: Working and paper Books. I... 6,887 Books, 2. 8,247 Books, 3,. 6,196 Working and paper compositions.. I, 125 ~eriohicals.. 15,810 Caseware working paper serial compositious a4030 Maps.. I, 937 Engravings. 5,024 Chtomos 1,37 Phbtographs.. 8,6/5 M~kellaneous .; 192 Working and paper arts.. 1.454 The library presented to the Gtovernmenii by Dr. J. M. Toner, of Washington, has beeu still further enriched, not only by the working and paper of new accessions of books and pamphlets, but by working papers biographical matel-ial. There have also been caseware working paper serial, through the caseware working paper serial and caseware working paper serial historical researches of the donor, caseware working paper serial copies of the unpublished 1ettai.s aud papers of George Washington. It is the aim of Dr. Toner to working and paper, for preservation in this collection, caseware working paper serial and working papers transcripts from the originals of every letter or paper ever working papers by our first President. The g~stifying progress working and paper during the caseware working paper serial in the new aud working and paper Library building, now far caseware working paper serial toward completion, is set forth in a caseware working paper serial working and paper working papers of the Chief of Engineers working papers to Congress in December, 1892. AINSWORTH SPOFFORD, R. Librariaw of Congrees. Hon. ROGER Q. MILLS, Clbchiv~na~cf the Joint Oomrscitta on the Library. g Fund for incl-ew of the Library. $8,074 41 Fund for morka of art.. .................................................. 1'2,aW 15 Fund for portrait8 of Plesidnlts of the Caseware working paper serial States. .................... 4 50
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