The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-01-26
CONGRESSIONAL
LIBRARY GIFTS
$4,000 IN YEAR
Total Number Of Books Now
2,45l,O0O,

40
WASHINGTON Glt, from many
sources have brought more than 1900
volumes to the library OF congress dur
nag the year and comprised more than
one fourth of the additions to It's
shelves Retaining It's place as the
third greatest library IN the world and
the greatest IN the western world, the
library now contain, 245l qO5 books,
lSi, 2DO maps and charts. T7024S vol.
umcN and piece, OF music and 592WS
prints.
Oriental Additions.
For large additions 10 the Chinese,
japanese and Korean collections the
library acknowledge, debt to DR.. Wal
ter T. Swiugle @, the bureau OF plant
industry who visited the far east in
l9lS and purchased on behalf OF the
library a total OF 5892 volumes, in
Guiding early Chinese books printed
from blocks Chinese historical and
descriptive works, covering the period
OF frs, contact with Europeans; early
Chinese dictionaries and encyclopedias /,
chinese works ON natural history and
pharmacopeiaS; geographical works ,
the writings ot Contuclus and the
works oi famous scholars, and good
copy OF the oldest japanese printed
work eXtant, probably dating from the
beginning OF the thirteenth century,
and large collection OF the writings
Of kaibara, the Benjamin franklin OF
Japan
The Lincoln documents which have
exceptional interest These consist OF
the original draft OF Lincoln's second
inaugural address, and his two drafts
OF the Gettysburg address, presented by
Clarence J. Hay, who had them from
his father, the late John Hay, and a
memorandum as To the probability OF
his reelection, presented by Miss Hell
en- Ncolay.
National Library Preferred.
As rule the American composer
and the American music publisher arc
beginning to prefer the national to a
local library as the permanent cuSto.
dian OF manuscript scores, The chlei
OF the music division records not onlN
gifts OF autograph scores oi American
composers, but promises OF gifts Il
come.
In the document division an ciior
was made to complete the files oi off
cial publications OF the Latin American
countries, and it was exceptionally
fruitful through a visit to these coun
tries by the law librarian. Dr. +, II
Rorchard The lihrary'S collection o
Latin-AmerCan documents may now
be considered one OF its important lea
lures,
Yiddish Books Received.
A number OF liddish books came t,
the library in the two Dcinard collec
tionS. The NiddSh literature IN tn
United State, assumes respectable
place as compared to other llteratutes
and even IT the predictions OF SOM
come true that the Niddi,h tongue
will he dead before long, the NiddisI
literature will still offer wide an,
interesting field for historians, philol
ogistS and students OF comparative lit
erature.
The portion oi the library now clas
siiied under the new Classification
contains $4,000 volumes Grea
progress has been made in cllmlnatin
remnants of the old classification
Practically all OF the old chapters hav
now been reclasslied, except such a
contain works on religion and law
Depositories for Card Catalogues.
Depository libraries containing con,
plete sets OF the library OF congress ca,
alogue cards now number forty eigh
while forty Libraries OF the Unite
States government have partial depo'
itory sets
The adoption OF VI auniiorm type ic
the use Of the blind seems imminer
| to the assistant In charge OF the read
ing room for the blind |, is an,e
| pated that an agreement may he arrive
at between the British and America
| CO. workers which will result in the ST
luton Of this problem
| In the iorty-five years during whlc
the copyright work has been a pa
| OF the business OF the library Of COT
| greS the number of entries ,o,ale
| 2.9j2 ,3o7, During the last nnetet
| years the net receipts o( the off,
above expenses for service were $40
) ! 0SSl W,