Identifier: annualreportofli1901unse (find matches)
Title: Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Library and Information Services
Publisher: Library of Congress
Contributing Library: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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4,000 not exposed in theReading Room may be had from the adjoining stack onapplication to the Reading Room attendants. Of the 7,200serials received only 823 are subscribed for. Two thousandsix hundred and twelve are the gift of the (American)publishers; 1,383 are copyright deposits; 1,981 are receivedthrough the Smithsonian, and 426 from Federal departmentsand bureaus. The newspapers include over 400 published in the UnitedStates and nearly 150 from foreign countries, representingthe commercial and political centers throughout the world. Serials—transactions, proceedings, magazines, etc.—deal-ing with a special subject are classified with that subject.There remain, however, in the custody of the PeriodicalDivision (though housed in the south stack) all generalperiodicals, and all newspapers. The files of these arevery extensive, the newspapers alone aggregating nearly20,000 volumes. When the collection was moved into thenew building these files were only in part bound, or in con-
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Division of Periodicals. 249 dition to be placed on the shelves, or even assorted. Thenewspapers, piled upon the floors, filled the aisles and alcovesof seven of the nine decks of the south stack. The unboundmass, which could be estimated only by tons, occupied threelarge rooms (rooms K 3, M3, and Q 3). It also was piledupon the floor, 6 feet deep, with but narrow aisles along thewalls. It was the accumulation of nearly half a century.In part it had been tied in bundles, but the strings hadbroken in handling. In the organization of July 1, 1897, f°ur persons were pro-vided to deal with this material and with the current issues.This number, since increased gradually to eleven (the presentnumber), have made this substantial progress: They havecleared for administrative uses every one of the three roomsand the two pavilions, have shelved the bound volumes(over 50,000 in number), have reduced the dimension ofthe unbound so that they could be accommodated in thestack and under the Rotunda

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