Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27
DR.. DEV|NE PRAISES
CAPITAL LIBRARIES
Dean of American U. School
Cites Resources Here
for Research.

Pointing to the resources Tor graz
uate research and training available
in Washington, DIR. Edward 7. Devine
dean of the graduate school of Ameri
can University, in a statement pre-
pared for the graduate catalogue this
year, praised particularly the libraries
of this city, which. he explained, num-
Der about 200.
while Washington does not com
pete in wealth, commerce or Industry
with many larger cities he said, II
has, on the other hand, great libraries,
museums, laboratories, and, in various
departments of the Government, tech
nical scientific equipments such as can
be found in no other center of popula-
ton"
Briefly sketching the more important
libraries of the city open to students,
DIR. Devine said: 1.-The Library of Con
gress is the third library of the world
in size. According to recent but always
charging figures, it has 3,420,345
books and notable collections of 985, 1896
maps, 458,132 prints and 1907 07
pieces and volumes of music.
District Library Lauded.
Equally hospitable is the District
Library, with 200 volumes, 800
magazines on file and $4,000 mounted
pictures. This library Is rich in ma
l
tivities of institutions of the District
of Columbia.
1.-THE famous library of the surgeon
general of the Army has 100000 books
and 500 magazines relating to med
ical art and science.
1.-The library of the Bureau of Edu.
cation, In the Interior Department, is
quite as unparalleled in its own field
as is the surgeon generals library in
medicine or the Library of Congress
among general libraries. 1t has 5000
books and 500 magazines on file.
1.-The Geological Survey, also in the
| Interior Department, contains 10000
books. 300 magazines, pamphlets and
maps invaluable to the investigator.
1.-THE Coast and Geodetic Survey
New Jersey avenue and B street south
east, has 5000 books of interest to
students of engineering economics.
! THE State Department has rich
/ collection of works on international
law and diplomacy, which may be con
suited by students properly intro
duced.
Court Law Library.
| I'm the library of the United States
Supreme Court and in the law Ii
brary of Congress will be found the
laws of all the States, and also the
texts of the laws of foreign countries
1.-THE Bureau of Railway Economics
has a library in the Transportation
Building open to students and the in
terested public. 1t contains 100,00t
books, magazines, pamphlets ant
maps invaluable to the investigator.
1.-THE Carnegie Endowment for Inter
national Peace maintains a library a
IL Jackson place. with $4,000 cata
| at w
over 200 current periodicals and news
papers. In this library are numbe
Of valuable special collections, includ
ing the publications of the League o
| Nations, The Hague Permanent Cour
of Arbitration and the Permanen
Court of International Justice.
THE United States Chamber o
Commerce maintains Commercial
library, with some 1000 volumes an
pamphlets, including the publication
of the foreign chambers Of commerce
and files of the house organs Of tn
various chambers Of commerce In tn
cities Of the United States.
THE library of the Department G
Agriculture, Twelfth and B street
southwest. has one of the best co
lections of agricultural literature COY
ering the sciences allied with agricu
; ture, such as plant pathology, anims
pathology and farm management
About 1875, 900 books and pamphlet
. are in this collection.
I'm the scientific library Of the Pa
ent Office, Eighth and f streets, ther
are about $4,000 books and 400 cul
, rent magazines, useful in the STUD
and adjudication of patents.
THE reference library of tn
Volta Bureau, 1901 Thirty-fifth stree
in made up of works on the educ;
ton of the deaf and on the way
and means of ameliorating their col
y dition. 1t has nearly 10000 books an
, magazines.
THE Naval Observatory has
brary at Massachusetts avenue an
w street, representing the best &c
: | lection Of astronomical literature
E the Western Hemisphere. 1t hi
e 36. 900 volumes and so technical ma
aZines.
: The library OF the National NJ
q scum contains more than 10000 We
>. umes and unbound papers relatir
s. mainly to the natural sciences.
4 Other Resources Cited.
"Other similar resources are to
: found in the Children's Bureau, Il
= Womens Bureau, the Bureau
}. American Ethnology, the Public Heal
n Service, the Smithsonian Institute
n and the Bureau of Standards. II
st.naned institution maintains
staff of 600 scientific specialists" {
Devine also listed the college libra
on the American University campl
.e and the special departmental c.
n. lections" for use of the students
t. the Graduate School and the Schc
T.. of Political Science, at 1901 and ~
I'd + street
he Athletic letters were awarded
&c college chapel Tuesday by Or. Pa
Kaufman chairman of the faclIl