Biennial Report of the State Librarian to the Governor of the State of IowaState of Iowa, 1922 - Catalogs Report for 1871/1873-1903/1905 contains a list of additions to the miscellaneous and law departments. |
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additions Assistant Law Assistant Binding Carriage Miscellaneous BOARD OF TRUSTEES books borrowed books of record Books purchased Periodicals brary Carriage Miscellaneous Total confine their purchases costly dealer Ex-officio Executive Council figures FINANCIAL STATEMENT Governor grand total growth Hess Historical Department home libraries increasingly information and inspiration Iowa State Library JOHNSON BRIGHAM July June 30 last biennial period lative reference LAW AND LEGISLATIVE Law Assistant Law Law Department Law Library legis LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU legislature librarian reported Library Cataloger Library Commission Maxwell MEDICAL DEPARTMENT Miller Minnie MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT Miscellaneous Total Books Miss Moines N. E. Kendall number of books number of volumes pamphlet form Periodicals purchased Binding Pioneer present incumbent reported present rate President Published purchased Binding Carriage purchased Periodicals purchased report of January reported volumes numbering response to calls separate report shelves specialists steadily increasing supplying territorial tion Total Books purchased total number transferred UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
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Page 6 - The second library catalog published in 1844 shows no additions to the library during the intervening five years, the territorial legislature having denied several urgent pleas for more books. State Librarian Patterson's report of January 9, 1851, gives the number of volumes in the library as 1,670 "besides a number of books in pamphlet form, journals, reports, etc." He adds: "About one•third of the books are law books, the remainder consist of statutes of the different states and miscellaneous...
Page 4 - State Librarian AJ Small Law and Legislative Reference Librarian Miss Helen M. Lee, General Library Assistant Miss Florence E. Price, General Library Assistant Miss Miriam Smith, General Library Assistant Miss Lavinia Steele Library Cataloger Miss Minnie E. Hess Library Bookkeeper Miss Mary M. Rosemond, Law Library Legislative Reference Assistant Miss Bertha L. Hess, Law Library Law Assistant WT Frame, Law Library Law Assistant Minnie E.
Page 9 - ... long since completed by the architects and accepted by the state executive council. Following is a detailed financial statement covering the expenditures of the miscellaneous, the law, (including its legislative reference bureau), the historical and the medical departments of the library for the last biennial period. Respectively submitted, JOHNSON...
Page 5 - t 2,047 Additions to the Medical Department, including 3040 volumes not included in the totals of 1920 5,656 GROWTH OF THE LIBRARY FROM SMALL BEGINNINGS All who are interested in the growth and steadily increasing usefulness of the state library will, I doubt not, find satisfaction in the following...
Page 8 - ... new department is supplying a real want. In addition to its book accessions — 5,655 in number — its list of standard periodicals has during the past year increased from 86 to 94. The number of professional callers has increased from 279 in 1921 to 788 in 1922. The number of books borrowed in 1921 was 572; in 1922, 1,184, and books borrowed from other libraries, in response to requests: in 1921, 20; in 1922, 33. * THE LAW...
Page 5 - BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY The total number of books of record in the Law and Miscellaneous Departments of the State Library, June 30, 1920, was, 162,958 The additions to this total during the last biennial period number...
Page 6 - Congress — being laws," etc. State Librarian Coulter, on December 12, 1859, reported the number of volumes in the library as, 5,855 His report of January 11, 1864, increases the number to. . .6,690 The additions reported by him in 1868 made a total of . . . 7.618 In 1875, Mrs. Ada North, librarian, reports volumes numbering 14,524 In 1877, Mrs.
Page 4 - Johnson Brigham State Librarian AJ Small Law and Legislative Reference Librarian Miss Helen M. Lee, General Library Assistant Miss Florence E. Price, General Library Assistant Miss Miriam Smith, General Library Assistant Miss Lavinia...
Page 3 - ... Board of Trustees of the Iowa State Library. Sir : I have the honor to transmit herewith the thirty•ninth biennial report for the biennial period beginning on the first day of July, 1920, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, 1922. JOHNSON BEIGHAM, State Librarian.
Page 6 - In 1899, the present incumbent reported 65,093 In 1901, the present incumbent reported 89,547 But, from this total were deducted 13,822 books transferred to the Historical Department, leaving 75,725. In 1903, after further transfers to the Historical Department, and a transfer of 2,194 volumes...