Report of the committee on science and the arts for the year 1904

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1905
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 259 KB
• Volume: 159
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(05)90280-9

✦ Synopsis

Co~~uritters. I53

92 volumes of completed serials, II paper-bound books, 3 rebindings, -106 total. Three hundred and sixty-four volumes are still in the binder's hands and much further work of this nature is urgently demanded. An expenditure of $500 in this direction could be made with great advantage to the Library. An especially pressing need of this nature is the binding of the sheets of the great mass of British Patent Specifications. The movement, mentioned in last year's report, for an advance in this direction by means of contributions to a fund specially for this purpose was halted by reason of other demands, and the situation remains unimproved. TZze Pamphlet Z.i&mry.-The pamphlet section of the Library remains as yet in a condition leaving much to be desired. The pamphlets are stored on shelves in the south room, on the first floor of our building, where they are well preserved but practically unavailable through lack of proper classification.-Many of these pamphlets are of great value as records of important transactions, and as treatises not otherwise published, and to make them accessible for consultation they should be thoroughly classified and represented in the card catalogue of the Library.

This work will require the services of a trained assistant for a considerable period of time. An expenditure of some $1,500, covering wages, boxes and cards, would about accomplish this most desirable improvement of the Library.