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Northwestern
University
Bulletin
Evanston, Illinois
Series ix Number 20
February i, 1910
Northwestern University Bulletin is published every week at
University Hall, Evanston, Illinois. Entered at the post office
at Evanston, Illinois, as second class mail matter under Act of
Congress of July 16, 1904.
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Orrington Lunt Library
Report of the Librarian
To the President of the University:
I
BEG to submit my first report on the Library, covering the year ending
April 30, 1909. The statistics follow which it has been customary to
report, besides some not reported before:
I. Accessions*
Bound Volumes: 1907-1908 1908-1909
By gift 1409 895
By purchase 2848 3182
4257 4077
Withdrawn 14 14
Increase 4243 4063
II. Expendituresf
Administration 1907-1908 1908-1909
Salaries $5160.00 $6160.33
Additional clerical help. . 143.00 249.00
Furniture and fixtures 60.00 60.00
Cataloguing cards 199.01 149.82
Freight and cartage T 4 2 -4 2 94-33
Postage, stationery, and
supplies 265.49 300.00
Telephone 5^-47 55 -3 2
Incidentals 18.60 $6044.99 100.00 $7168.80
Books 6465.29 553 J -97
Binding 1250.00 1128.45
Total $13760.28 $13829.22
* Besides the bound volumes, about 2500 pamphlets have been added to the Library during
the year 1908-1909. The total number of bound volumes in the Library on April 30, 1909,
was 74,247, and the number of pamphlets in the Library on the same date, was approx-
imately 50,000.
j- While the statistics run from May ist of one year to April 3Oth of the following year, the
fiscal year of the University covers the period from July ist to June 3Oth. The result is that
the expenditures here given cover a period which does not coincide exactly with the period for
which the other statistics have been gathered.
LIBRARY
OF THE
UNIVERSH :
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III. Use of Books in the Library
Books loaned
Faculty and special list.
Students. .
Books used in the reading room
Total
1907-1908 1908-1909
13,100 18,083
4>94 4,23 i
18,004
27.474
22,314
3^383
Persons drawing books
Faculty
87
104.
Special list
4?
<*3
Students
1,014
994
Libraries .
IO
Total
1,14.4.
1,161
Average number using reading room per day .
<;o6
488
o o o r J
Average hours Library has been open per week
84
84
1907-1908
IV. Cataloguing
Re-cataloguing. .
Titles
2.77O
Volumes
c,ic8
Cards
8,8is
Current cataloguing
2. 2Q4.
4., 1 12
8,187
Totals
C.O64.
Q.27O
17.002
Shelf List
4-.QI6
Total number of cards.
21,918
1908-1909
Re-cataloguing
Titles
3, 1^6
Volumes
6,401
Cards
IO.3QO
Current cataloguing. .
1,785
3,76i
7,OOI
Totals
A .021
10,2^2
I7.7QI
Shelf list
4,686
Total number of cards.
22,077
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V. Cataloguing Situation
Total volumes in Library 7 4>247 volumes
Shelf-listed 38,513 volumes
(19,364 titles)
Completely catalogued 40,060 volumes
(20,583 titles)
Balance of books not shelf-listed 35>734 volumes
Of these, Greenleaf 8,991 volumes
Others 26,743 volumes
Balance of books not completely catalogued 34-> l %7 volumes
Of these, Greenleaf 8,991 volumes
Others 25,196 volumes
Catalogued, but not shelf-listed !>547 volumes
Neither completely catalogued nor shelf-listed 34> X 87 volumes
It will be noted that while the number of bound volumes added to the
Library during 1908-1909 was 180 less than in 1907-1908, the number of
books obtained by purchase was 334 greater than in the previous year;
this, in spite of the fact that, though the quality of our additions has in no
wise deteriorated, we expended $933.32 less for books, and the total expenses
of the Library were only $68.94 larger than in 1907-1908.
The amount of cataloguing done increased slightly during the past
year, but though no one in the Library has excelled Miss Baker and her
assistants in faithfulness and earnestness of work, still Table No. 5 clearly
shows that there still remain 35,674 volumes to be shelf-listed, and 34,187
remain to be completely catalogued. This is a serious condition in the
Library, especially as on account of the increasing size and use of the Library
we have been compelled to introduce, beginning with September, a more
modern system of charging books loaned, than has been in use in the Library
before. Formerly books were called for by author and title, and either
the desk attendant had to know from experience where the particular book
was, or she was compelled to go to the catalogue and find, as far as it was
given there, the [call number. This often involved, when there were many
people calling for books, considerable waiting on the part of users of the
Library. Moreover, a university library ought to train students in the use
of the catalogue and teach them how to look up references given in the class
room, more or less independently. This the old system of charging com-
pletely failed to do. In short, the whole work was thrown on the desk attend-
ants. The present system can be gathered from the Library circular,
issued to explain to the students and others how to make use of the system
at present in vogue. I may say that the change from one system to another,
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though this does not. belong to the period covered by the present report, has
involved less trouble than*had been anticipated, and on the whole, the present
arrangement seems to be working to the satisfaction of nearly everyone
concerned.
The following are a few of the most important additions to the resources
of the Library in 1908-1909:
Almanach des muses, 67 vol. 1765-1833
Poor, Manual of railroads 21 vol. 1878, 1881-1899, J 92, 1903
Pennsylvania colonial records 16 vol. 1852-1853
Pennsylvania archives 74 vol. 1852-1902
Zeitschrift fur physikalische chemie 35 vol. 1898-1907
National intelligencer 39 vol. 1822-1861
Folk Lore Society, Publications 36 vol. 1879-1901
Journal of Hellenic studies 27 vol. 1883-1904
Archiv fur mikroskopische anatomic 17 vol. 1865-1880
Gesammt-verlags katalog des deutschen buchhandels 16 vol. 1881-
1886
Huygens, Oeuvres completes II vol. 1888-1908
Histoire litteraire de la France 34 vol. 1865-1875
Zeitschrift fur romanische philologie 44 vol. 1877-1908
Altfranzosische forschungen 25 vol. 1901-1908
Erlanger beitrage 15 vol. 1889-1893
Marburger studien zur englischen philologie 12 vol. 1901-1906
Studien zur englischen philologie 2O vol. 1897-1898
Wiener beitrage zur englischen philologie 28 vol. 1895-1908
Ostwald, Klassiker der exakten wissenschaften 83 vol.
Bonner beitrage zur anglistik 25 vol. 1898-1908
While I tried to avoid making incisive changes in the administration
and business methods of the Library during this past year, I did find it
advisable to employ a new agent for our German books. W'hen I came to
the Library, I found that practically all foreign orders were placed with a
New York firm. While this involved no undue additional expenditure as
regards new books, we were seriously handicapped when we bought any-
thing second-hand. The importance of this fact is evident if it is borne in
mind that a large proportion of the foreign books that the Library needs
may be purchased at a greatly reduced price when bought second-hand, and
that all the large series of periodicals which have been acquired by this
Library in recent years, can be obtained only second-hand. I therefore
established relations with a reputable Leipzig firm, and in several reports
that I have had occasion to submit to the Business Manager of the University,
I have shown that there has been a net saving of at least five per cent. In
the coming year, I hope to extend this system of foreign agents, and to
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establish relations directly with England. This ought to result in a still
greater saving, since many American books can be purchased at a con-
siderable reduction in England.
The two other most important steps taken in the Library during the year
were the adoption by the Library Committee on October 28, 1908, of a com-
plete set of rules for the better direction of users of the Library (of which
rules I enclose a printed copy), and the adoption by the Library Committee
at a meeting held on April 6, 1909 (at which meeting the President of the
University and the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts were present), of a
statute defining more accurately the duties and responsibilities of the
Librarian. The statute adopted, reads as follows:
I. The Librarian shall be responsible for the administration of the
Library, and for the selection and purchase of all books intended for the
Library. He shall recommend to the President suitable persons for
appointment as assistants in the Library, whenever the need for such
action arises.
The President shall appoint each year a committee to consist of seven
members of the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts (of which com-
mittee the Librarian shall be ex-ofHcio a member), who shall advise the
Librarian on matters connected with the administration of the Library.
The Librarian shall not order books to be paid for out of funds
alloted to any department without first obtaining the advice of some
member of the department concerned, and the Librarian shall order no
book of which the head of the department concerned disapproves.
II. It is believed that a central library system as contrasted with
the so-called departmental library system, best serves the common
interests of members of the University. In order to carry out this
fundamental principle, the Librarian shall have full control of all
seminary libraries. No books shall be transferred to a seminary library
or be withdrawn from a seminary library without the Librarian's con-
sent.
The most serious evil, however, that I had to face when I came to the
Library, was the fact that no provision was made whereby book-funds allot-
ted to the Library each year were carried over from one fiscal year to another.
In the case of other departments of the University, this is no serious matter,
for a laboratory, which orders chemicals, or a department which orders
machinery, can usually make certain that the goods in question will be
delivered before the appropriation lapses. But the Library, purchasing
long series of periodicals and other books not on the market, is unable to
tell whether its orders will be filled in the current fiscal year, one year hence,
two years hence, or even five years hence. The result was that each year,
allowance had to be made for our out-standing orders, so that in a sense the
Library had the same items charged against its account several times over.
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Therefore, though the Library has had in recent years an annual appropria-
tion for books of approximately $8,000, nothing like this amount could ever
be utilized. In 1907-1908, out of an appropriation of $8,000, only $6465.29
could be paid out, and during the year 1908-1909, out of an appropriation
of $7616, only $5531.97 could be used. My predecessor had pointed out
this difficulty in the administration of the Library for several years. During
this present year, finally, an arrangement has been made with the Business
Office of the University whereby these appropriations made out of the Uni-
versity fund for the use of the Library may now be made serviceable for the
purpose for which they were intended by the Board of Trustees. The arrange-
ment, to be sure, involves considerable additional bookkeeping for the
Library, but it is additional work well invested. Under the new arrange-
ment the book funds appropriated to the Library will be entered as expended
immediately at the beginning of the fiscal year, and transferred from the
budget to a ledger account entitled "Northwestern University Library
Account." This enables the Business Manager to carry all balances out of
the book funds over from year to year, and thus the Library will not have the
same orders charged several times against its account, as before.
While this matter to which my predecessor so frequently called attention
has now been satisfactorily adjusted, the other two items about which she
complained, still remain unsettled. The first of these items is the need of a
more satisfactory library building, or a large addition to the present one, and
the second is the necessity of a larger staff. The number of books in the
Library has been increasing so rapidly that we have now largely exceeded
our capacity and are compelled to send more and more books to seminary
libraries. I consider this a most unsatisfactory solution of our difficulty, for
I feel that in spite of the adoption by the Library Committee and the approval
by the Board of Trustees of the policy of a central library as contrasted with a
departmental library system, the continual withdrawal of books more or less
permanently from the general library and the removal of these books to
buildings scattered from one end of the campus to the other, means the
gradual disintegration of the whole library administration. The lack of a
sufficiently large staff is self-apparent when Table No. 5 is consulted. But
this problem is closely allied to the building question, for we cannot use a
larger staff until we have some place to put it. In the present building,
there is no additional room for either books or staff.
The question as to whether a new building is more desirable than an
addition to the present one, I would prefer not to enter upon here, but
some speedy relief, of whatever kind it may be, is necessary of that anyone,
who has done no more than to walk through the present building, must be
convinced.
Another matter that I have urged at one time and another, and that, it
seems to me, is at least worthy of further investigation, is the question of
making arrangements with some express company to handle all shipments
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intended for this University, whereby I believe that a considerable saving
might be realized. In such a saving, the Library whould have a large
share, especially since we are receiving more and more shipments from
abroad.
I beg before closing to call your attention to certain other problems
connected with the library administration, concerning which I reported to
you on December II, 1908 and on February 9, 1909.
I cannot close this present report without expressing my sincerest thanks
to the members of the Library staff of 1908-1909 who made the work so
easy and pleasant, and made me feel so quickly at home amid new and
strange surroundings.
Respectfully submitted
WALTER LICHTENSTEIN, Librarian
.
NOKIHWESTCRN
UNIVERSITY
BULLETIN
REPORT OF LIBRARIAN
1910
Evanston and Chicago
Published by the University
December, 1910
Report of the Librarian
To the President of the University:
I beg to submit my second report on the Library, covering the
year ending June 30, 1910.
Until this year it has been customary for the statistical year of
the Library to cover a period from May I of one year to April 30
of the following year, while the fiscal year of the University runs
from July I of one year to June 30 of the following. After this
year the statistical year of the Library and the fiscal year of the
University will coincide. In order to bring about this result it is
necessary this year to give statistics for fourteen months; that is, for
the period from May i, 1909, to June 30, 1910. For the sake of
making comparisons, however, it has seemed advisable to give figures
also for the old twelve-month period, i. e., from May I, 1909, to
April 30, 1910.
The year has been one of gradual progress in the Library, and
I trust that this report will show a condition of healthy growth. Our
situation would, of course, be infinitely improved if some of the mat-
ters mentioned in the last annual report were remedied, namely:
The lack of space and the deficiency in the numbers of the staff.
The building, as has been pointed out many times before, is not
only insufficient in size, but is in most other ways unsuited for the
purposes for which it is at present used. It is not fireproof; it is
impossible to prevent it from being noisy on account of the presence
of class-rooms, and the arrangement of the windows is not adapted
to our needs. We have had a practical illustration of the danger
which menaces our books. In the course of the year a slight fire
arose on account of poor insulation in the fuse box. Fortunately, it
happened in the daytime and was discovered before any damage was
done. A similar incident at night, when few or no people are present
in the building, would lead to disastrous results. Furthermore, as I
reported to you under date of May 17, 1910, there has been a notice-
able sinking of the main floor of the Library. The result is that we
have been instructed to place no more books in about the only place
where space was still available.
Another difficulty that results from our lack of room is that we
are not able to use our collections in the proper manner. My prede-
cessor for several years consistently tried to develop a reference col-
lection, and I have carried on this work to the best of my ability.
Our great addition this past year was the monumental "Catalogue
of Printed Books in the British Museum." If we had the space, I
would collect all our reference works in one suitable place, classify
them according to some scientific method, and thus approach more
nearly the ideal which this Library ought to have, and which is
discussed more fully below.
It may be also worth while to quote in this connection some of
the remarks made by me to the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts
on November 30, 1909: "Not even counting the College of Engi-
neering, the number of students here in Evanston has increased over
ten per cent from last year. As far as we are able to collect
statistics, the use of the Reading Room has increased about twenty
per cent over last year, so that this year it has been no uncommon
occurrence to have every chair in the Reading Room occupied, and
students actually unable to obtain seats." The Library Committee
has been compelled to adopt regulations restricting the privileges
heretofore granted to persons not members of the University. It
seems to me very unfortunate that the Library is actually compelled
to limit the number of its users. A library ought to be glad to have
its treasures made serviceable to as large a public as possible, and I
know of no way in which this Library and that means the Univer-
sity as a whole can make more and better friends than to welcome
everyone who can make intelligent use of its resources within its doors.
We are no longer able to do so.
The situation is the more to be regretted because we are gradually
approaching the fulfillment of a very definite ideal. It has seemed to
me that a library such as ours could hardly hope in the near future
to be able to say to its users that they might expect to find nearly any
and every book desired by them here. What we ought to do, how-
ever, is to provide a full equipment of all reference and bibliographi-
cal handbooks that the scholar can use, so that even if the books desired
are not actually in the Library, it may be discovered without much
trouble where such books can be found, what their nature is, and
what other works treat of like or correlated matters.
In this connection may be mentioned the establishment of a regu-
lar depository set of the Library of Congress cards in this Library.
Under date of September 21, 1910, Dr. Putnam, Librarian of Con-
gress, has informed us that he has authorized the deposit, and since
the Board of Trustees has made provision for carrying out this very
desirable undertaking, our resources will be strengthened in a most
unusual degree. The establishment of this depository set marks a
great step in advance in the history of this Library. It is planned to
have here a large union catalogue, comprising the cards from the
Library of Congress, the cards from the John Crerar Library, which
we are receiving at present, and the cards issued by the Royal Library
of Berlin for the German dissertations. To this catalogue it is also
planned to add the cards of the Harvard University Library (if they
are printed for distribution) and the cards of the Institut Interna-
tional de Bibliographic of Brussels.
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
The Library Committee held four meetings during the academic
year, namely, November 24, December 15, March 16 and April 26.
Besides the matter of the restriction of the privileges granted to per-
sons not members of the University, already mentioned, the Com
mittee considered the question of periodical subscriptions and continu-
ations, of the distribution of book funds among the various depart-
ments, and especially the question of recommending the President to
make provision for the employment of a male assistant for evening
service so that the young women might be relieved of this burdensome
duty. The latter question has been solved for the year 1910-1911
by the employment of Mr. Emil S. Ehmen, a member of the recent
graduating class of this University.
FINANCES AND ORDERING
The method of ordering has proceeded in the manner outlined in
my previous report. We are at present ordering directly from Leip-
zig, Paris and London, and I believe considerable sums of money
are being saved to the Library, though the entire saving is not sus-
ceptible of absolute proof. The finances of the Library have been
greatly relieved by the rearrangement of our system of accounts,
which has proved so successful that inquiries have been made by other
libraries concerning our methods. It is often forgotten by those
responsible for the financial accounts of a university that a library is
in a very different situation from most other departments, due to the
fact that a large proportion of book orders can never be filled in the
current fiscal year, nor can it be foretold when many of the orders
will be filled. This Library has not suffered from such misunder-
standings, and it gives me much pleasure to mention the cordial sup-
port that we have received from Mr. Dyche, the Business Manager
of the University, who has shown a thorough understanding of the
needs of our Library.
The following table gives an account of our finances for 1909-1910
and comparisons with the fiscal year 1908-1909:
FINANCIAL ACCOUNT
Administration: 1908-1909 1909-1910
Salaries $6,160.33 $7,227.00
Addit'nal clerical help 249.00
Furniture and fixtures 60.00
Cataloguing cards... 149.82 146.09
Freight and cartage. . 94-33 195-78
Postage, stationery
and supplies 300.00 374-83
Telephone 55.32 102.54
Incidentals 100.00 $7,168.80 $8,046.24
Binding 1,128.45 992.90
Music School Book Account (M.
S. 36) 94.63
Total expenditures from funds
not transferable to new fiscal
year $8,297.25 $9,133-77
BOOK FUND (N. U. L. ACCOUNT)
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Carried over from 1908-1909 $2,084.03
Miscellaneous old ledger accounts 341-33
Appropriated $7,616.00 7,300.00
Sales and rebates 32.40
Class of 1895 20.00
Fine money to June 30, 1910 (1909-1910,
$69-34) 105-81
Dr. O. L. Schmidt 100.00
Mr. Victor F. Lawson 250.00
Total $7,616.00 $10,233.57
1908-1909 1909-1910
Paid out for books $5,531-97 $7,554-89
Balance in Business Office. 2,084.03 2,762.50
Cash from Fine Money in
Library 10.81
Carried over into next fis-
cal year .$2,084.03 $2,084.03 $2,773.31 $2,773.31
Outstanding orders (estimated) 2,070.69
Gifts and funds restricted to specific departments 656.29 2,726.98
Free balance $ 46.33
This table shows clearly how necessary it was for the business
management of the University to adopt the policy of carrying over
balances from the book funds from year to year. If this had not
been done, instead of expanding, the Library would have been crippled
more and more. Thus this year, though our balance is nominally
$2,773.31, only $46.33 of this amount is in any real sense an unex-
pended balance. If, therefore, the old method were still in vogue,
the funds of the Library available for the coming academic year
would be not $9,973.31, but $4,473.02. It is also to be noted that
the amount of outstanding orders has increased this year by $642.95
over last year, or about thirty per cent. At that rate, if the old sys-
tem had been continued, the funds available would have just sufficed
inside of four years or so to pay for outstanding orders.
It is pleasant to note that the Library received this year gifts of
$350 for specific purposes. It is evident that gaps in the separate
collections can only be rilled by means of special gifts of this nature.
The funds appropriated by the University are merely sufficient to
meet current needs.
In the matter of fine money, a more businesslike procedure has
been adopted. Formerly, not so much insistence was placed upon the
collection of fines, and the money that was paid in was used for small
miscellaneous incidental expenditures. The present policy is to prevent
the incurring of fines as much as possible, by means of sending frequent
notices to borrowers that their books are due, but it is insisted that a
fine once incurred be paid. This money is now turned into the
Business Office regularly and is added to the book funds of the
Library. During the past year this money has been chiefly utilized
to purchase current fiction and other popular works desired by the
students, for which it has not seemed proper to devote money appro-
priated by the University out of its general funds. The small miscel-
laneous expenditures formerly paid out of the fine money are now
covered by means of a petty cash allowance given to the Library by
the Business Office, for which, however, careful account is rendered.
The work of the Ordering Department and the accessions to the
Library are shown in the following comparative table :
ACCESSIONS
1909-1910 1909-1910
1908-1909 May i -April 30 May I- June 30
Bound Volumes :
By gift 895 897 1,258
By purchase 3,182 2,889 3,476
4,077 3,786 4,734
Withdrawn 14 26 29
Increase 4,063 3, 760 4,705
Pamphlets added 3,512
Total number of bound volumes in Library on June 30, 1910.78,952
Total number of pamphlets in Library on June 30, 1910 52,852
We expended $2,022.92 more for books this past year than in the
preceding year, though we purchased 293 volumes less, if the same
periods of time in the two years are compared. This is due to the
fact that the amounts paid between July I, 1909, and June 30, 1910,
were largely for books received between May I, 1910, and June 30,
1910. Moreover, an unusual number of large and expensive sets,
such as the Catalogue of the British Museum noted above, were pur-
chased during the past year. After all, a satisfactory comparison of
accessions and financial statements will be possible only when the
statistical and fiscal years are identical, as will be the case after next
year.
CIRCULATING DEPARTMENT
The most important test of the value of a library is its use, and,
as the following table will show, there were drawn from the Library
this past year 6,699 more volumes than were taken during the same
period in the preceding year, and on an average, 67 more people used
the Reading Room per day. The figures, therefore, show practically
an increase of fifteen per cent.
USE OF BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY
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Books loaned: 1908-1909 May i -April 30 May I -June 30
Faculty and special list 18,083 19,605 20,456
Students 4,231 5,086 5,936
22,314 24,691 26,392
Books used in the Reading
Room* 31,383 35,705 39,366.
Total 53,697 60,396 65,758
1909-1910 1909-1910
1908-1909 May i -April 30 May i-June 30
Persons drawing books :
Faculty 104 141 141
Special list 53 40 43
Students 994 755 755
Libraries 10 9 9
Totals 1,161 945 948
Average number using
Reading Room per day 488 555 555
Average hours Library has
been open per week ... 84 84 84
*This does not take Into account the extensive use of the 4,558 books to
be found on the open shelves in the Reading Room.
CATALOGUING DEPARTMENT
The number of titles catalogued during the past year exceeds the
number of the year previous by 623, and there were 37 more cards
written. This means, roughly, an increase of two per cent, which
can be explained to a great extent by the fact that we are now able
to typewrite most of the cards that formerly had to be written by
hand. A stenographer is now permanently employed for the Library,
who has been of great assistance, not merely to the Cataloguing
Department, but elsewhere. The increase in the efficiency of the
cataloguing would have been much greater if a large amount of time
had not been spent by the cataloguers in revising thoroughly our por-
tion of the Union List of Periodicals for Chicago, of which a new
edition is to be published by the John Crerar Library. Moreover, it
was necessary to ask one of the cataloguers to help at the delivery
desk at the beginning of the academic year. The tables below give
a summary of the work of the Cataloguing Department and of the
whole cataloguing situation.
1908-1909: Titles Volumes Cards
Re-cataloguing 3,136 6,491 10,390
Current cataloguing 1,785 3>76i 7,ooi
Totals 4,921 10,252 17,391
Shelf list 4,686
Total number of cards 22,077
1909-1910 May i -April 30: Titles Volumes Cards
Re-cataloguing 2,380 4,200 8,520
Current cataloguing 3,164 4,772 9,357
Totals....! 5,544 8,972 17,87?
Shelf list ' 4,237
Total number of cards . . 22,1 14
1909-1910 May i -June 30: Titles Volumes Cards
Re-cataloguing 2,408 4,276 8,621
Current cataloguing 4,098 6,341 12,675
Totals 6,506 10,617 21,296
Shelf list 4,923
Total number of cards 26,219
CATALOGUING SITUATION
May i, 1909 July i, 1910
Total volumes in Library 74,247 volumes 78,952 volumes
Shelf-listed ,. . 38,513 volumes 49,309 volumes
(19,513 titles) (24,262 titles)
Completely catalogued 40,060 volumes 50,677 volumes
(20,583 titles) (27,089 titles)
Balance of books not shelf-listed 35,734 volumes 29,643 volumes
Of these, Greenleaf 8,991 volumes 7J78 volumes
Others 26,743 volumes 22,465 volumes
Balance of books not completely
catalogued 34, 187 volumes 28,275 volumes
Of these, Greenleaf 8,991 volumes 7,178 volumes
Others 25,196 volumes 21,097 volumes
Catalogued, but not shelf-listed 1,547 volumes 1,368 volumes
Neither completely catalogued
nor shelf-listed 34,187 volumes 28,275 volumes
THE STAFF
At the end of the year Miss Grace E. Lasher, who served the
Library faithfully and efficiently in several capacities for four years,
resigned, as did also Miss Lilian A. Anderson, who was with us for
nearly two years, and whose work also gave entire satisfaction. Miss
Lasher's place as cataloguer has been filled by transferring Miss
Thompson from the Circulating Department to the Cataloguing
Department, and the two places in the Circulating Department have
been filled by the appointment, as assistants, of Miss Amy Cowley
and Mr. Emil S. Ehmen, both of them members of the recent gradu-
ating class of Northwestern.
The members of the staff have continued to work with the utmost
faithfulness and cheerfulness under the somewhat adverse circum-
stances mentioned earlier in the report, and have continued to handle
the incoming current accessions with little delay, in spite of the fact
that these have increased without a proportionate addition to the
numbers of the staff. With only slight assistance, Miss Falley has
handled the new orders, larger in number and more complicated than
formerly, as also the now very detailed financial accounts. She is
deserving of special commendation.
Respectfully submitted,
September, 1910. WALTER LICHTENSTEIN, Librarian
NORTHWESTERN
UNIVERSITY
BULLETIN
REPORT OF LIBRARIAN
1910-1911
Evanston and Chicago
Published by the University
January 1912
Report of the Librarian
To the President of the University:
I beg to submit the following report on the Library, covering the
year ending June 30, 1911.
The following is a statement of the finances of the Library for
1910-1911, with a comparative table of the accounts for 1909-1910:
ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOUNT
1909-10 1910-11
Salaries $7,227.00 $7,670.00
Transferred to Library of
Congress Depository
Fund 150.00
Cataloguing cards 146.09 117.15
Freight and cartage 195.78 333.87
Printing, stationery and
supplies 374.83 363.60
Telephone 102.54 $8,046.24 $8,634.62
Binding 992.90 686.06
Transferred to Library of
Congress Depository
Fund 200.00
Music School Book Ac-
count (MS. 36) 94.63 6.38
Total expenditures from
funds not transferable
to new fiscal year $9,133.77 $9,527.06
BOOK FUND
Receipts 1909-10 1910-11
Carried over from previous year $2,084.03 $2,762.50
Miscellaneous old ledger accounts... 341.33
Appropriated 7,300.00 7,200.00
Sales and rebates 32.40 14.24
Class of 1895.. 20.00 20.00
Fine money for current year 105.81 65.00
Gifts 350.00 683.00
Miss Anna Seipp $230.00
Dr. Otto L. Schmidt 38.00
Prof. John A. Scott 15.00
Mr. H. G. Haugan 100.00
Mr. C. A. Smith 50.00
Mr. L. G. Hallberg 25.00
Mr. A. Lanquist 25.00
Dr. M. C. Bragdon 200.00
$10,233.57 $10,744.74
Disbursements
Paid out for books $7,554.89 $7,660.18
Transferred to Library of Congress Depository
Fund 1,450.00
Balance to be carried forward 2,762.50 1,634.56
Cash from Fine Money in Library 10.81 36.51
Carried into next fiscal year $2,773.31 $1,671.07
Outstanding orders, estimated 1,626.73
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DEPOSITORY FUND
Reserved for Library of Congress Depository
from 1910-1911 funds $1,800.00
Paid out on cases $1,050.50
Paid out on salary 394.35 1,444.85
Free balance $335.15
ACCESSIONS
The following figures show the accessions for the year, with the
corresponding accessions for the previous year :
1909-10 1910-11
May 1-June 30 July 1-June 30
Bound volumes added
By gift 1,258 1,835
By purchase 3,476 2,917
4,734 4,752
Withdrawn 29 29
Total ..4,705 4,723
Pamphlets added 2,531
Total number of bound volumes in Library on June 30,
1911 ' 83,675
Approximate number of pamphlets in Library on June 30,
1911 54,000
Among the accessions were the following gifts: 138 volumes from
the library of Professor A. B. Porter ; 420 volumes from the library
ot Professor Oliver Marcy; 201 volumes of the London Times, the
gift of Professor N. D. Harris ; a set of the Zeitschrif t f iir Deutsches
Alterthum, for which Miss Seipp gave $230 ; the first edition of the
Heine, Gedichte, for which Dr. Schmidt gave $38 ; 24 volumes, the
gift of the Hague Library; 91 volumes, the gift of Mr. George A.
Foster; 27 volumes, the gift of Mr. C. H. Chandler; 12 volumes,
the gift of Dr. Henry B. Hemenway; 6 volumes, the gift of Miss
Ada Townsend ; 7 volumes, the gift of Mrs. Emmy Straub, and 8
volumes, the gift of the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew.
The following are a few of the most important purchases for
1910-1911:
Revue de Philologie, 32 vols. 1845-1906.
La Grande Encyclopedic, 32 vols, 1886-1901.
Nuova Enciclopedia Italiana, 6th ed., 29 vols. 1875-1899.
Henry Bradshaw Society, Publications 39 vols.' 1891-1910.
Meyers Konversations Lexikon, 6th ed., 21 vols. 1903-1909.
Circolo Matematico di Palermo Rendiconti, 26 vols. 1887-1908.
Zeitschrif t fur Wissenschaftliche Photographic, 7 vols. 1903-
1909.
Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon, 11 vols. 1750-1897.
Bibliographical Society of London, Publications, 35 vols. 1894-
1910.
L'Ancien Moniteur; Reimpression, 32 vols. 1863-1870.
Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 4th and 5th series; 40 vols.
1855-1874; 9th series, 12 vols. 1905-1910.
Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach- und Culturgeschichte der
Germanischen Volker, 110 vols. 1874-1910.
American Society of Civil Engineers, 20 vols. 1893-1907.
Preussische Jahrbiicher, 134 vols. 1858-1908.
Astronomischer Jahresbericht, 9 vols. 1900-1908.
Finanz-Archiv, 48 vols. 1884-1907.
Hagen, Atlas Stellarum Variabilium, 8 vols. 1899-1908.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, llth ed., 29 vols. 1910.
British Astronomical Journal, 19 vols. 1890-1909.
Besides these, the Library has bought Spanish, Swedish, Norwe-
gian, Danish and Dutch trade bibliographies. We now have a very
complete library of the trade bibliographies of all the countries in
which we purchase.
CIRCULATING DEPARTMENT
The following are comparative tables covering two years, and
showing the extent to which the Library has been used.
USE OF BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY
1909-1910 1910-1911
Books loaned May 1-June 30 July 1-June 30
Faculty and special list 20,456 24,132
Students 5,936 7,634
Totals 26,392 31,766
Books used in the Reading Room 39,366 32,998
Total circulation 65,758 64,764
1909-1910 1910-1911
Persons drawing books May 1-June 30 July 1-June 30
Faculty 141 153
Special list 43 38
Students 755 1,388
Libraries . . . . 9 11
Totals 948 1,590
Average number using Reading Room
per day 555 566
Average hours Library has been open
per week 84 84
In this table, as in that of the accessions, it must be borne in mind
that because of the change in the end of the year from April 30 to
June 30, the statistics for 1909-1910 cover fourteen months, while
those for 1910-1911 cover but twelve months. When this is taken
into consideration, the statistics for this year compare very favorably
with those for last year. In one particular they show a remarkable
increase. The number of students drawing books out of the Library
is more than eighty per cent greater than the number for last year.
In part this increase is due to a growing disposition on the part of
the students towards more general reading. The books of a popular
nature which have been placed on the revolving book-case in the
Reading Room are in constant demand.
CATALOGUING DEPARTMENT
The statistics for 1909-1910 and 1910-1911 of the Cataloguing
Department are as follows:
1909-1910 May 1-June 30: Titles Volumes Cards
Recataloguing 2,408 4,276 8,621
Current cataloguing 4,098 6,341 12,675
Totals 6,506 10,617 21,296
Shelf list 4,923
Total number of cards 26,219
1910-1911 July 1-June 30: Titles Volumes Cards
Recataloguing 1,843 4,532 6,413
Current cataloguing 2,437 4,732 8,447
Totals 4,280 9,264 14,860
Shelf list 3,461
Total number of cards
CATALOGUING SITUATION
July 1,1910 July 1,1911
Total volumes in Library 78,952 volumes 83,675 volumes
Shelf-listed 49,309 volumes 58,275 volumes
(24,262 titles) (27,662 titles)
Completely catalogued 50,677 volumes 59,941 volumes
(27,089 titles) (31,369 titles)
Balance of books not shelf-listed 29,643 volumes 25,400 volumes
Of these, Greenleaf 7,178 volumes 6,435 volumes
Others 22,465 volumes 18,965 volumes
Balance of books not completely
catalogued 28,275 volumes 23,734 volumes
Of these, Greenleaf 7,178 volumes 6,435 volumes
Others 21,097 volumes 17,299 volumes
Catalogued, but not shelf-listed 1,368 volumes 1,666 volumes
Neither completely catalogued
nor shelf-listed 28,265 volumes 23,734 volumes
As in the previous tables, the statistics for last year cover a period
two months longer than that covered by the statistics for this year.
Besides this, during the first few weeks of school, the assistant cata-
loguer spent a large share of her time in the circulating department.
In addition, she has given a little time each week to desk work,
throughout the year.
We have continued our policy of trying "to provide a full equip-
ment of all reference and bibliographical handbooks that a scholar
7
can use, so that even if the books desired are not actually in the
Library, it may be discovered without much trouble where such books
can be found, what their nature is, and what other works treat of
like or correlative matters." Along this line we have been very for-
tunate in becoming a depository for the Library of Congress cards.
We began to receive these cards last fall. We are now also receiving
those issued by the Royal Library of Berlin for German disserta-
tions, and those of the Institute International de Bibliographic of
Brussels. These, with the John Crerar cards which we have been
receiving for some time, and the Harvard College Library cards, the
first of which will be issued soon, are forming a large union cata-
logue, which, with our bound catalogues, as that of the British
Museum and the Catalogue General de la Bibliotheque Nationale,
make a collection which is valuable, unusual and exceedingly useful
for the cataloguer, the order clerk and the advanced student.
This year the Library has been interested in a new shipping ar-
rangement. Because of the cost, hitherto it has been necessary for
our foreign agents to make shipments only as often as they have
collected enough books for us to fill a large case. This has meant
a long delay between the placing of an order and its receipt. Under
the new arrangement our agents in London, Paris and Leipzig
deliver each week the books they have ready for us, to a representa-
tive of G. W. Sheldon and Company, customs brokers. By an
agreement with the University of Chicago Library and the John
Crerar Library, the bundles for the three institutions are sent to
Chicago in one package, so that where none of us would have large
enough packages for separate shipments, our combined bundles fill a
fair-sized case, and are shipped at correspondingly cheap rates. In
this way we receive foreign books in the shortest possible time, and
at practically the same rates as before. Dr. Lichtenstein is adjusting
the last details while he is abroad.
Not only are the University of Chicago Library, John Crerar
Library and Northwestern University Library combining on a joint
shipping scheme, but, together with the Harvard College Library,
they are co-operating in a plan for the purchase of foreign sets. We
were honored by having our Librarian chosen to go abroad as their
representative. He left in May, for a five months' trip. The plan
is for him to purchase such second-hand sets and libraries as the insti-
tutions participating may wish. There is a strong feeling that such
a man can buy more intelligently than uninterested and distant
agents, and that the money saved in commissions and by buying
directly would more than offset his salary. Of course it is too early
for us to determine the results of this experiment, but the prospects
are bright.
Respectfully submitted,
ELEANOR W. FALLEY, Assistant-in-Charge.
September, 1911.
NOIC HWES1 ERN
UNIVERSI Y
BUllElIN
REPORT OF LIBRARIAN
1911-1912
Evanston and Chicago
Published by the University
January, 1913
Library Staff
Walter Lich^nstein, Ph. D.
Librarian
Eleanor Worthington Falley, B. S.
Assistant-in-Charge for 1911-1912
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT
Eleanor Frances Lewis, A. B.
Amy Cowley, B. S.
Assistant
Wallace Trescott Merrill
Assistant
CATALOGUING. DEPARTMENT
Adaline Maitland Baker, B. L. S.
Sadie Abia Thompson, Ph. B.
Assistant
ORDERING AND ACCESSIONING DEPARTMENT
Eleanor Worthington Falley, B. S.
Kathryn Allegra Kletzing, A. B.
Agnes Lockwood Mowbray
Stenographer
Report of the Librarian
To the President of the University:
I beg to submit the following report on the Library covering the
year ending June 30, 1912.
As in former years, the most pressing need of the Library is more
space. The crowded shelving situation has been aggravated by
new accessions until the problem seems almost unsolvable under
present conditions. We are compelled to store more and more of the
less used material and to send sets to the laboratories and seminars to
obtain the space they have occupied. The condition of the Reading
Room is as bad. Often every seat has been taken, and it has been
necessary to use the Guild Room and class rooms for those whom we
cannot accommodate. This state of affairs not only means confusion in
the Reading Room and stacks, but it materially increases the work of
the desk assistants. If more space is not available there is all the
greater need for more assistants. There also results from this over-
crowding and the shortage in attendants a large loss of books which
are needed for class use. It is impossible to keep track of the people
passing in and out of the Library, and books are very apt to disappear
temporarily at the time they are in greatest demand.
In 1910-1911 the University of Chicago Library, the John Crerar
Library, Harvard College Library and Northwestern University
Library combined to send our Librarian, Dr. Lichtenstein, abroad
for the purchase of books. He has spent the year in Europe carry-
ing out our plans. An account of the work accomplished, as far
as it relates to the John Crerar Library, is given by Dr. C. W. An-
drews in his report for 1911, on page 21. The same kind of work
as been done for the other co-operating libraries.
As a result of the experiment we have received the following sets :
Galileo, Opere; Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; Inscriptiones
Graecae; Monumenta Germanise Historica; Berlin, K. Preussische
Academic der Wissenschaften, Sitzungsberichte, 1882-1907. Aside
from these Dr. Lichtenstein bought a large number of separate
books for us. These, as well as the sets, were largely works that
were not easily obtainable, and we are fortunate in having secured
them at very reasonable prices.
Among the purchases for the John Crerar Library was the Library
of the late Dr. Ehrenburg. Through the kindness of Dr. C. W.
Andrews Northwestern was able to obtain the duplicate sets and
books amounting to about 900 volumes, for $132. This sum is less
than the regular price asked for one of the sets included, viz: The
Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. Practically all of these
900 volumes, which have been secured through the courtesy of the
John Crerar Library, relate to Geology, and have materially
strengthened this Department.
The Library was represented at the annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Library Association, held the last of June at Ottawa, by Miss
Eleanor F. Lewis. While it must be admitted that the value of
representation at such meetings is problematical, still it is a custom
followed by many libraries throughout the country. It may be
worth while to consider whether or not some special sum ought to
be appropriated to enable the Librarian and his assistants to go to
such meetings where matters of common interest to libraries are dis-
cussed.
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
The Library Committee has met twice during the year. It has
discussed the advisability of dividing the departments into groups,
each group to have a fixed percentage of the departmental appropria-
tion.
The idea is that it will be easier to buy sets and expensive works
that are of interest to several departments. The plan has not been
fully developed. Undoubtedly the whole question needs further
thorough discussion.
FINANCES
The accounts for 1910-1911 and 1911-1912 stand as follows:
AnTVfTMTQTTJ ATTVJ7 APrTHTXTT
ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOUNT
1910-11
Salaries $7,670.00
Transferred to Library of Congress
Depository Fund 150.00
Printing, stationery and supplies 363.60
Cataloging cards II 7-iS
Freight and cartage 333-87
1911-12
$5,753-32
Binding
Transferred to Library of Con-
Depository Fund
Music School Book Account (MS36).
School of Commerce Book Account
(SC 7 8)
Total expenditures from funds
not transferable to new fiscal
year
$8,634.62
686.06
200.00
6.38
399.29
149.76
321.62
$6,623.99
871.16
$9,527.06
351-30
$7,846.45
BOOK FUND
1910-11
Carried over from previous year $ 2,762.50
Appropriated 7,200.00
Sales and rebates 14.24
Class of 1895 20.00
Fine money for current year 65.00
Gifts
Dr. M. C. Bragdon
Anonymous source
Mrs. A. B. Porter
English Literature B ,
683.00
$200.00
200.00
5.00
37.64
$10,744.74
1911-12
$1,434.56
7,150.00
11.84
20.63
93-42
$ 442.64
$9,153.09
DISBURSEMENTS
Paid out for books $7,660.18 $7,497.29
Transferred to Library of Congress Depository
Fund 1,450.00
Balance to be carried forward 1,634.56 1,655.80
Cash from fine money in Library 36.41 27.13
Carried into next fiscal year 1,671.07 1,682.93
Outstanding orders, estimated 1,626.73 1,916.40
We regret that the gifts for this year are less than those for last
year, for it is only through these that the special needs of the Library
can be met.
The Library has purchased books for the School of Commerce
during the year, and thus further increased its usefulness to depart-
ments other than Liberal Arts.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DEPOSITORY FUND
Reserved for Library of Congress Depository from
1910-1911 funds $1,800.00
Paid out on cases $1,050.50
Paid out on salary, 1910-1911 394-35
Paid out on salary, 1911-1912 164.25
$1,609.10
Free balance $ 190.90
Miss Ruth D. Bannister has spent a half of each day during the
college year arranging the Library of Congress cards.
ACCESSIONS
The accessions for the year, with those for the previous year, are
as follows:
BOUND VOLUMES ADDED IpIO-II 1911-12
By gift 1,835 i527
By purchase 2,917 3>252
. Tota l 4,752 4,779
Withdrawn 29 21
Total 4,723 4,758
Pamphlets added 3i"&
Total number of bound volumes in Library on June 30, 1912 88,433
Approximate number of pamphlets in Library on June 30, 1912 57ioo
The following gifts were received during the year: 130 volumes
from the Library of the late Dr. C. J. Little; 100 volumes from the
Library of the late Dr. David D. Thompson ; 75 volumes of Swedish
literature, including the works of Topelius, Rydberg, Almquist and
others, from the Bonnier Publishing House; a set of Mark Twain
and a set of Bret Harte from the class in English Literature B, 43
volumes from Dr. and Mrs. S. J. Herben ; 32 volumes from Mr. Carl
Boecklun; 18 volumes from Professor U. S. Grant and n volumes
from Funk and Wagnalls.
The following are among the more important purchases:
Philological Society of London. Proceedings and Transactions, 31 vols.
1854-1906.
Archive for Nordisk Filologi, 28 vols. 1883-1911.
Corpus luris Sweo-Gotorum Antiqui, 13 vols. 1838-1877.
Galileo, Opere, 20 vols. 1890-1909.
Inscriptions Graecae, 22 vols. 1873-1909.
K. Academic der Wissenschaften Berlin Sitzungsberichte, 1882-1907.
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, 40 vols. 1862-1907.
Nordisk Familjebok, 15 vols. 1904-1911.
Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 101 vols. 1826-1909.
Svenska Fornskriftallskapet Samlingar, 46 vols. 1844-1911.
Hoe, Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700, 3 vols.
Hoe, Catalogue of Books by English Authors Before the Year 1790,
5 vols.
Beitrage zur Geophysik, 10 vols. 1887-1905. (Ehrenburg Collection.)
Verhandlungen des Deutschen Geographentages, 15 vols. 1882-1905.
(Ehrenburg Collection.)
Royal Geographical Society. Proceedings, N. S. v. 1-14. (Ehrenburg
Collection.)
Royal Geographical Society of London. Journal, 52 vols. 1833-1880.
(Ehrenburg Collection.)
Zeitschrift fur Ethnolgie, 27 vols. 1869-1893. (Ehrenburg Collection.)
Geographische Zeitschrift, 12 vols. 1895-1906. (Ehrenburg Collection.)
Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau, 14 vols. 1886-1899. (Ehrenburg
Collection).
Forschungen zur Deutschen Landes und Volkskunde, 10 vols. 1886-1897.
(Ehrenburg Collection.)
Ritter, Erdkunde, 22 vols. 1822-1841. (Ehrenburg Collection.)
Bibliotheca Geographica, 12 vols. 1895-1907. (Ehrenburg Collection.)
With the exception of the Ehrenburg Collection we have bought
fewer sets this year than last. This is chiefly due to the size and
value of those purchased.
CIRCULATING DEPARTMENT
The following are the statistics of the Circulating Department
for 1910-1911 and 1911-1912:
BOOKS LOANED
1910-11 1911-12
Faculty and special list 24,132 25,370
Students 7><>34 6,758
Totals 31,766 32,128
Books used in the Reading Room 32,998 46,516
Total circulation 64,764 78,644
PERSONS DRAWING BOOKS
Faculty 153 142
Special list 38 12
Students 1.388 M93
Libraries . u u
Totals I ,590 i,358
Average number using Reading Room, per day 566 594
Average hours Library has been open, per week 84 84
There has been a marked increase in the number of books drawn
out at the desk and used in the Reading Room. In order to show the
increased use of the Reading Room, which this goes to prove, we
should also need to take into account the use of the 4000 and more
books on the open shelves for which it is impossible to give statistics.
This increase also indicates additional work for the desk assist-
ants. In this connection it is necessary to remember that because of
the increased work in other departments one assistant has practically
been withdrawn from the desk where sufficient help must be avail-
able or the usefulness of the Library is impaired.
The number of students drawing books out of the Library is
smaller than last year, but the average number using the Reading
Room each day has increased by 28. In this connection it may be
remembered that the number of students drawing books increased
remarkably last year, so that the number for this year, although less
than that for last year, is still far beyond that of two years ago.
Aside from their regular work the desk assistants have spent part
of the vacation in straightening out the basement and arranging the
State and United States public documents.
CATALOGUING DEPARTMENT
The statistics of the Cataloguing Department for the last two
years are as follows:
1910-1911
Title* Volumes Cards,
Recataloguing 1,843 4,53^ 6,413
Current cataloguing ,...........,...,,.....,... 2,437 4>73 2 8,447
Totals 4,280 9,264 14,860
Shelf list ... 3,461
Total number of cards 18,321
1911-1912
Title* Volumes Cards-
Recataloguing z,688 3,314 IZ ,53>
Current Cataloguing ....2,183 4,674 12,136
Totals 3,873 7,988 23,667
Shelf list ... 3,497
Total number of cards 27,164
July 1, 1911 July t, 1912
Total volumes fn Library 83,675 volumes 88,433 volumes
Shelf listed 58,275 volumes 66,149 volumes
(27,662 titles) (30,974 titles)
Completely catalogued 59,941 volumes 67,929 volumes
(31,369 titles) (35,242 titles)
Balance of books not shelf-listed. ....... .25,400 volumes 22,284 volumes
Of these, Greenleaf 6,435 volumes 5,156 volumes
Others 18,965 volumes 17,128 volumes
Balance of books not completely cata-
logued 23,734 volumes 20,504 volumes
Of these, Greenleaf 6,435 volumes 5,156 volumes
Others 17*299 volumes 15,348 volumes
Catalogued, but not shelf-listed 1,666 volumes 1,780 volumes
Neither completely catalogued nor self-
listed 23,734 volumes 20,504 volumes
These figures, with an increase in cards and a slight decrease in
titles and volumes, indicate the large amount of analyzing that was
done in this Department last year.
THE STAFF
The place of Mr. Ehmen, who resigned in June, 1910, has been
filled by Mr. W. T. Merrill. The other members have been the
same as for the previous year.
Respectfully submitted,
ELEANOR W. FALLEY, Assistant-in-Charge
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NORTHWESTERN
UNIVERSITY
BULLETIN
REPORT OF LIBRARIAN
1912-1913
Volume XIV Number 24 February 27, 1914
Published weekly by Northwestern University
Northwestern University Building
Chicago
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN
To the President of the University:
I beg to submit the following report on the Library, covering
the year ending June 30, 1913.
In presenting this report the one thing that stands out more
plainly than all others is our increasing need of more space. So
much has been said about this in the past that one hesitates to
speak again about a matter so generally acknowledged. Yet it
is perhaps not known that to relieve the crowded condition of
the stacks, aside from the magazines and newspapers that we
pack regularly, we have withdrawn from the shelves during the
year 1,159 books and pamphlets and stored them away. We re-
gret paying this price for space that -is still inadequate. But
we can look forward only to greater congestion. In fact, at
present books are piled on the floor on both sides of many of
the aisles. The condition of the Reading-Room will be relieved
slightly by the space gained in crowding the cases of the Union
Catalog into a basement room.
There has been a steady, healthy growth in the addition of
books to the Library and in its use by the students. Nevertheless
we can hardly help looking at this growth with apprehension,
as we do not see our way to meet its demands or to cope ade-
quately with the situation under existing conditions. In fact, we
cannot hope to make any apparent progress, hampered as we
are on all sides.
In January a special meeting of the faculty was called to dis-
cuss the library situation. Dr. Lichtenstein presented our needs,
spoke at length of the crowded condition, and asked for more
co-operation on the part of the professors. His summary is clear
and brief : "The fact is that what we are doing is the work
done by large libraries, while our facilities are merely such as
are to be found in small institutions."
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
The Library Committee met twice during the year. Aside
from routine work, it discussed in detail the needs of the Li-
brary, and recommended the erection of a temporary structure
to house our books. It recommended also that the Statutes of
the University as they apply to the Library, be changed to con-
form more nearly to actual conditions.
FINANCES
The following tables give an account of our finances for the
last two years :
ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOUNT
1911-1912 1912-1913
Salaries $5,753-32 $7,432.05
Printing, stationery and supplies 399-29 386.05
Cataloging cards 149.76 182.57
Freight and cartage 321.62 291.88
$6,623.99 $8,292.55
Binding 871.16 1,04144
School of Commerce book account
(SC78) 351.30 29.74
Total expenditures from funds
not transferable to new fiscal
year $7,846.45 $9,363-73
BOOK FUND (N. U. L. ACCOUNT)
I9II-I9I2 1912-1913
Carried over from previous year $1,434.56 $1.655.80
Appropriated 7,150.00 7,150.00
Sales and rebates 11.84 16.59
Fine money for current year 93-42 100.00
Class of 1895 20.63 20.00
Gifts 442.64
Mr. V. F. Lawson 250.00
Dr. O. L. Schmidt 500.00
English 64 23.10
Total receipts $9,153-09 $9,715-49
Paid out for books $7,497.29 $7,042.07
Balance in Business Office 1,655.80 2,673.42
Cash from fine money in Library 27.13 20.85
Balance to be carried into next fiscal year 1,682.93 2,694.27
Outstanding orders, estimated 1,916.40 2,452.48
Gifts and funds restricted to specific departments 53-56 487.94
The gift of Mr. Lawson of $250 was made for the purchase
of Scandinavian literature. The $500 from Dr. Schmidt was
given to apply on the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, which
Dr. Lichtenstein bought while abroad in 1911-1912, and for which
we are paying in three installments. The class in English B4
raised $23.10 for the purchase of the works of some standard
American author. The New York edition of Henry James was
chosen.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DEPOSITORY FUND
Reserved for Library of Congress Depository from
1910-1911 funds $1,800.00
Total amount expended through 1911-1912 $1,609.10
Paid out on salary 1912-1913 42.00
Paid out on cases 1912-1913 117.00
Paid out on expressage 1910-1913 38.18
Overdraft
ACCESSIONS
The accessions for the two last years are shown in the follow-
ing comparative table:
Bound volumes added : 1911-1912 1912-1913
By gift 1,527 2,881
By purchase 3,252 2,170
Total 4,779 5,o$i
Withdrawn 21 82
Total increase 4,758 4,969
Pamphlets added 3,u8 3,483
Total number of bound volumes in Library on June 30, 1913 93,402
Approximate number of pamphlets in Library on June 30, 1913. .. . 60,000
Aside from the set of Henry James given by the class in Eng-
lish B4, we have received the following gifts during the year:
90 volumes, mostly of French literature, from Miss Emily F.
Wheeler; 15 volumes from the Library Book Club, 1911-1912;
12 volumes from Mrs. J. J. Spalding; n volumes from Presi-
dent A. W. Harris; 10 volumes from Professor N. D. Harris;
8 volumes from the class in History S, 1911-1912.
We have added 1,038 volumes from the Observatory which
have not until now been entered as belonging to the University
Library. We were fortunate in securing at a low price 167 vol-
umes from the library which Professor James Westfall Thomp-
son had collected in preparing his work on the Huguenots.
Among these are two sets of Thou, Histoire Universelle of n
and 16 volumes each ; Duplessis-Mornay, Memoires et Corre-
spondance, 12 volumes; Sully, Memoires, 6 volumes; Sirtema
van Grovestius, Guillaume III et Louis XIV, 8 volumes, and
Paris, Les Manuscripts Frangois de la Bibliotheque du Roi, 7
volumes.
In addition to those already mentioned, the following are a
few of the most important additions made to the Library during
1912-1913:
Centralblatt fur Bibliothekswesen, and Beihefte, 17 vols. 1884-
1893-
Bulletin Astronomique, 26 vols. 1884-1909.
Diderot et Alembert, Encylopedie ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des
Sciences, 35 vols. 1751-1780.
Sveriges National Litteratur, 25 vols. 1908-1912.
Georg, Schlagwort-katalog, 10 vols. 1889-1910.
Jahrbuch der Radioaktivitat und Electronik, 7 vols. 1905-1912.
Ballad Society, Publications, 14 vols. 1868-1897.
Book Prices Current, 15 vols. 1888-1901.
Astronomischer Nachrichten (anastatic reprint). 31 vols.
American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 27 vols. 1894-1911.
CIRCULATING DEPARTMENT
The following are the statistics of the Circulating Department
for 1911-1912 and 1912-1913:
Books loaned : 1911-1912 1912-1913
Faculty and special list 25,370 28,453
Students 6,758 5,115
Total 32,128 33,568
Books used in Reading Room 46,516 47,56o
Total circulation 78,644 81,128
Persons drawing books: 1911-1912 1912-1913
Faculty 142 87
Special list 12 12
Students 1,193 1,232
Libraries n 5
Totals 1,358 1,336
Average number using Reading Room per
day 594 678
Average number of hours the Library has
been open per week 84 84
This table shows the great increase in the number of students
using the Reading-Room. The work of supplying the demands
of this large body has been so great at times that it has been
impossible for the desk assistants to handle it alone, even by
working overtime, and during the year it was necessary to en-
gage Mr. W. Freeman Galpin to help during the rush hours
on the busy days. We hope in the future, with the co-operation
of the professors, to spread this work more evenly throughout
the year.
CATALOGING DEPARTMENT
The statistics of the Cataloging Department for the last two
years are as follows:
1911-1912 Titles Volumes Cards
Recataloging 1,688 3,314 ,S3i
Current cataloging 2,185 4,674 12,136
Totals 3,873 7,988 23,667
Shelf list .... 3,497
Total number of cards 27,164
1912-1913 Titles Volumes Cards
Recataloging 582 1,206 6,329
Current cataloging 2,466 5,861 10,766
Totals 3,048 7,067 17,095
Shelf list .... .... 2,967
Total number of cards 20,062
CATALOGING SITUATION
July I, 1912 July I, 1913
Total volumes in Library 88,433 volumes 93,402 volumes
Shelf listed 66,149 volumes 72,932 volumes
(30,974 titles) (33,9i8 titles)
Completely cataloged 67,929 volumes 74,996 volumes
(35,242 titles) (38,290 titles)
Balance of books not shelf-listed 22,284 volumes 21,189 volumes
Of these, Greenleaf 5,156 volumes 4,910 volumes
Others 17,128 volumes 16,279 volumes
Balance of books not completely cata-
loged 20,504 volumes 19,298 volumes
Of these, Greenleaf 5,156 volumes 4,910 volumes
Others 15,384 volumes 14,388 volumes
Cataloged, but not shelf-listed 1,780 volumes 1,884 volumes
Neither completely cataloged nor shelf-
listed 20,504 volumes 19,298 volumes
Miss Baker, who has been the efficient head of our cataloging
department for ten years, resigned her position in the Spring and
left the Library the first of May. Miss Thompson has had
charge of the department the two remaining months of the school
year. The fact that we have had only one cataloger during
May and June accounts for the decrease in the statistics for
this year.
THE STAFF
We began the year with three new assistants. The places of
Miss Kathryn A. Kletzing, Miss Amy Cowley and Mr. W. T.
Merrill, who resigned at the end of 1911-1912, were filled by
Miss Vera E. Penberthy, Miss Ruth D. Bannister and Mr. John
D. Hicks. As the position of head cataloger was left vacant
for two months, the unused money appropriated for the cata-
loging department was spent in employing seven students to help
with the Library of Congress Depository.
In June, Dr. Lichtenstein was granted a fourteen months leave
of absence. He left as the year closed, for South America,
where he will purchase books for some of the large American
libraries, much as he has done in Europe.
Respectfully submitted,
ELEANOR W. F ALLEY, Assistant-in-Charge
September, 1913.
LIBRARY STAFF,
Walter Lichtenstein, Ph.D., Librarian.
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT,
Eleanor Frances Lewis, A.B.
Ruth Delia Bannister, A.B., Assistant.
John Donald Hicks, Assistant.
CATALOGING DEPARTMENT,
Adaline Maitland Baker, B.L.S.
Sadie Abia Thompson, Ph.B., Assistant.
ORDERING AND ACCESSIONING DEPARTMENT,
Eleanor Worthington Falley, B.S.
Vera Ethel Penberthy, A.B.
Agnes Lockwood Mowbray, Stenographer.
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UNIVERSITY
BULLETIN
REPORT OF LIBRARIAN
1913-1914
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Volume XV Number 21 February 5, 1915
Northwestern University Building
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN
To the President of the University:
I beg to submit the following report on the Library, covering
the year ending June 30, 1914:
In June 1913 Dr. Lichtenstein was granted a leave of absence
of fourteen months. The first of July he left for South America
to purchase books for Harvard University, The John Crerar
Library and Northwestern University. Broadly speaking, he
has bought legal works for Harvard, scientific works for The
John Crerar Library and general works for Northwestern Uni-
versity. His two most important purchases for us are a part of
the Sanchez Collection, obtained in Venezuela, that will supply
us with material on northern South America, and a part of the
Lanza Collection, bought in Bolivia, that will give us material on
southern South America. To avoid excessive transportation
charges and to facilitate custom house clearance, all Dr. Lichten-
stein's purchases have been sent to Harvard. The shipments that
contain these libraries have reached Cambridge, but they have not
yet been forwarded and we are not able to make a detailed report
in regard to them at this time.
Ever since 1910 when we became a depository for the Library
of Congress cards, we have faced the problem of alphabeting the
Union Catalogue. For three years Miss Bannister has had charge
of this work. As a result of her efficient service we are able to
report that with the exception of part of U, and W, X, Y and
Z, the entire catalogue is arranged in no more than three alphabets,
and part is arranged in two. Although there is a great amount
of work to be done on the cards before they are reduced to one
alphabet, they are in usable form.
We have been gratified this year to begin on a small scale a
system of exchanges. In the past we have received a large number
of publications from other institutions on their exchange accounts.
On our part we have been able to do very little. This year, with
a number of copies of the Harris Lectures at our disposal, we
have been in a position to offer something more than University
reports and bulletins in return for these many favors.
Again it has been necessary to withdraw a number of volumes
from the shelves to make room for current accessions. This year
it has amounted to 343 bound volumes and 922 pamphlets. It
has been our policy to build up a central library system, as op-
posed to the so-called departmental library system. We have
not followed this out as we should wish, because of our crowded
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conditions. We have found it necessary to send large sets and
as many volumes as possible to the seminar rooms and laboratories
for housing. This expedient is beginning to fail. Many of
these rooms have been taxed to their limit and we cannot hope to
continue to use them as freely as in the past.
Another result of our over-crowding has become acute during
the year. We have spoken again and again of the congested state
of the stacks and of the Reading-Room, but we have seldom
referred to the conditions under which the Library assistants
work. Heretofore the preparing of books for circulation has been
done in the Catalogue Room and two basement rooms. Last year
it was necessary to give up the more usable of the latter to the
Union Catalogue. This means that a larger amount of our work
must now be carried on in the Catalogue Room. Orders must be
verified and books must be accessioned and catalogued where the
mechanical preparation and the alphabeting are done. Naturally
a great deal of confusion follows, a condition that is far from
desirable for exact work, such as cataloguing.
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
The Library Committee has met twice during the year. At
the meeting held on November fifth the distribution of the depart-
mental fund for the current year was made. Changes in the
Statutes of the University defining more clearly the position of
the Library, as suggested by a Committee of the University
Council, were discussed. These were left in the hands of the
Committee and were later passed by the Board of Trustees.
The second meeting, held April 22, was called to discuss the
purchase of the Library of the Chicago Academy of Sciences,
which was offered us and which we could doubtless have obtained
at a low figure. The Committee came to the conclusion that al-
though it might be possible to raise the money to purchase this
Library, the inability to house and to care properly for the books
after they were ours, must bar us from seriously considering
the matter.
FINANCES
The following comparative tables give an account of our
finances for the last two years :
FINANCIAL ACCOUNT
Administration 1912-13 1913-14
Salaries $7,432.05 $6,883.20
Printing, stationery and sup-
plies 386.05 460.89
REPORT OF LIBRARIAN
Cataloguing cards 182.57 233.77
Freight and cartage 291.88 294.95
Contribution to the Book
Exhibition at Leipzig 50.00
$8,292.55 $7,922.81
Binding 1,041.44 880.60
School of Music Book Account
(SM36) 46.54
School of Commerce Book Ac-
count (SC78) 29.74 47.70
Total expenditures from
funds not transferable to
new fiscal year $9,363.73 $8,897.65
BOOK FUND (N. U. L. ACCOUNT)
1912-13 1913-14
Carried over from previous year. ..$1,655.80 $2,673.42
Appropriated 7,150.00 7,200.00
Sales and rebates 16.59 15.75
Fine money for current year 100.00 107.98
Gifts 793.10
Class of 1895 25.78
Interest on endowment fund 5.78
Dr. Otto L. Schmidt 8.64
English B4 40.66
Total receipts ., $9,715.49 $10,078.01
Paid out for books $7,042.07 $7,975.25
Balance in Business Office 2,673.42 2,102.76
9,715.49 10,078.01
Cash from fine money in Library.. $ 20.85 $ 7.68
Balance to be carried into next
fiscal year 2,694.27 2,694.27 2,110.44 2,110.44
Outstanding orders (estimated) . . . 2,452.48 2,248.08
Gifts and funds restricted to spe-
cific departments 487.94 243.31
Total liabilities 2,940.42 2,491.39
We regret that the gifts for the year have been very small.
Dr. Schmidt has given $8.64 to cover the cost of the Wiinschel-
ruthe, Nos. 1-36. English B4 has again generously contributed
money for the purchase of books in American literature. With
this we have purchased a set of O. Henry in twelve volumes ; a
set of Thomas Bailey Aldrich in nine volumes ; Before Adam, The
Cruise of the Snark, and When God Laughs, by Jack London ;
With Walt Whitman in Camden, by Horace Traubel, and five
copies of Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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ACCESSIONS
The accessions for the last two years are as follows:
Bound volumes added 1912-13 1913-14
By gift 2,881 2,020
By purchase 2,170 2.922
Total 5,051 4,942
Withdrawn . 82 18
Increase 4,969 4,924
Pamphlets added 3,483 4,193
Total number of bound volumes in Library on June 30, 1914.. ..98,330
Approximate number of pamphlets in Library on June 30, 1914.. 64,000
Aside from the Wunschelruthe which we bought through the
generosity of Dr. Schmidt, we have also received from him a set
of Gellert, Sammtliche Schriften in 5 volumes. Elizabeth Forster
Nietzsche has sent us the works of her brother Friedrich Wilhelm
Nietzsche in 11 volumes. Professor Curme has given us 269
volumes, mostly on philology. Part of the Library of Dr. Daniel
Bonbright has been presented to the University. This contains
about 1,000 volumes, of which we have entered only 597 as yet.
We have also received 7 volumes from Dr. C. E. Slocum ; 8 vol-
umes from Mrs. Virginia J. Kent; 8 volumes from Director J. F.
Hayf ord ; 10 volumes from Mr. Augustine T. Smythe ; 10 volumes
from Professor U. S. Grant; 13 volumes from the Academia
Nacional de Historia of Colombia ; 26 volumes, largely engineer-
ing, from Mrs. C. J. Morse, and 92 volumes, mostly on physics,
from Mrs. A. B. Porter.
In addition, the following are a few of the most important
accessions made to the Library during 1913-1914:
Svenska Literatursallskapet. Skrifter, 52 vols. 1880-1911.
Hain, Repertorium Bibliographicum, 4 vols. 1826-38.
Copinger, Supplement to Hain's Repertorium Bibliographicum,
3 vols. 1895-1902.
Panzer, Annalen der Altern Deutschen Litteratur, 3 vols. 1788-
1805.
Collezione di Opere Inedite o Rare dei Primi Tre Secoli, 91
vols. 1863-1913.
Great Debates in American History, 14 vols.
Samfund til Udgivelse af Gammel Nordisk Litteratur, 43 vols.
1880-1912.
Suarez, Historia General de la Republica del Ecuador, 9 vols.
1890-1903.
Cervantes, Don Quijote, ed. by Cortejon, 6 vols.
Fichte, Sammtliche Werke, 11 vols. 1834-46.
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Schelling, Sammtliche Werke, 14 vols. 1856-61.
Altnordische Saga-bibliothek, 14 vols. 1892-1909.
Holinshed, Chronicles of England, 6 vols. 1,807-08.
Archiv fur Eisenbahnwesen, 33 vols. 1880-1912.
Royal Society of London. Philosophical Transactions, begin-
ning with vol. 93, 1803, 108 vols. 1803-1903.
The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. Series 1 and 2, 28 vols.
1890-1911.
Bibliographic der Sozialwissenschaften, 9 vols. 1905-13.
CIRCULATING DEPARTMENT
The following are the statistics of the Circulating Department
for 1912-1913 and 1913-1914:
1912-13 1913-14
Books loaned:
Faculty and special list 28,453 28,127
Students 5,115 6,160
Total 33,568 34,287
Recorded use of books in Reading Room 47,560 43,690
Total circulation 81,128 77,977
Persons drawing books:
Faculty 87 134
Special list 12 35
Students 1,232 1,209
Libraries .5 11
Total 1,336 1,389
Average number using Reading Room per day 678 623
Average number of hours the Library has
been open per week 84 84
The condition which threatened to overwhelm us last year has
been met more easily this year, as a new desk assistant has been
granted us. Mr. W. Freeman Galpin, whom we have called upon
previously to help part time, has been with us all this year.
CATALOGUING DEPARTMENT
The statistics of the Cataloguing Department for the past two
years are as follows:
1912-13 Titles Volumes Cards
Recataloguing 582 1,206 6,329
Current Cataloguing 2,466 5,861 10,766
Totals 3,048 7,067 17,095
Shelf list .... 2,967
Total number of cards 20,062
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1913-14 Titles Volumes Cards
Recataloguing 452 565 1,832
Current Cataloguing 2,510 4,531 14,948
Totals 2,962 5,096 16,780
Shelf list 2,571
Total number of cards 19,351
CATALOGUING SITUATION
July 1, 1913 July 1, 1914
Total volumes in Library 93,402 volumes 98,330 volumes
Shelf listed 72,932 volumes 77,839 volumes
(33,918 titles) (36,496 titles)
Completely catalogued 74,996 volumes 80,092 volumes
(38,290 titles) (41,252 titles)
Balance of books not shelf-listed... 21,189 volumes 21,206 volumes
Of these, Greenleaf 4,910 volumes 4,706 volumes
Others 16,279 volumes 16,500 volumes
Balance of books not completely
catalogued 19,298 volumes 19,126 volumes
Of these, Greenleaf 4,910 volumes 4,706 volumes
Others 14,388 volumes 14,420 volumes
Catalogued, but not shelf-listed 1,884 volumes 2,073 volumes
Neither completely catalogued nor
shelf-listed 19,298 volumes 19,126 volumes
The place of Miss Baker, who resigned in the spring of 1913,
has been filled by Miss Etta Lane Matthews.
THE STAFF
Miss Matthews and Mr. Galpin are the only new members
of our staff. The other members are the same as last year.
Respectfully submitted,
ELEANOR W. FALLEY,
Assistant Librarian
LIBRARY STAFF
WALTER LICHTENSTEIN, PH.D., Librarian
ELEANOR WORTHINGTON FALLEY, B.S., Assistant Librarian
CIRCULATING DEPARTMENT
ELEANOR FRANCES LEWIS, A.B.
RUTH DELIA BANNISTER, A. B., Assistant
JOHN DONALD HICKS, A.B., Assistant
WILLIAM FREEMAN GALPIN, A.B., Assistant
CATALOGUING DEPARTMENT
ETTA LANE MATTHEWS
SADIE ABIA THOMPSON, PH. B., Assistant
ORDERING DEPARTMENT
VERA ETHEL PENBERTHY, A. B.
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UNIVERSITY
To the President of the University:
Sir : I beg to submit the seventh annual report of my admin-
istration of the Library, covering the year ending June 30, 1915.
The outstanding fact of the past year is that an attempt is being
made to relieve some of the worst conditions in our building.
The plan adopted, it cannot be too strongly emphasized, is merely
a temporary expedient and not a permanent solution. We are
somewhat in the position of a man with an old suit of clothes who
has it repaired simply because he cannot afford to buy a new one.
After admitting all this, it is true that when the changes now
going on in the building are completed, we shall probably be more
comfortable than we have been for many years past. It may be
worth the while to give here in full the resolutions as they were
finally submitted to the Executive Committee of the Board of
Trustees by a special committee appointed at the meeting of the
Board of Trustees held on June 8, 1915:
"1. That the present Library Building is unsatisfactory and that
a thorough remedy is needed as soon as at all feasible.
2. That it is undesirable to carry out the chief recommendation
of the original committee, namely, to add a fireproof stack to the
present building,
a. Because the amount of money needed to build such an
addition approximately $100,000 is not at present available.
b. Because it is desirable that in the first place the question
of site of the future permanent library be determined before
large sums are expended upon improvements or additions to
the present building. This question of site, however, cannot
be determined until the negotiations now in progress with
Garrett Biblical Institute have been concluded.
3. That it be recommended to the Board of Trustees to appro-
priate a sufficient amount of money,
a. For the purpose of undertaking such repairs as may be
necessary to make the present main floor of the Library per-
fectly safe.
b. For the purpose of connecting the present Reading-
Room of the Library with the Assembly Room on the second
floor and converting this into an auxiliary reading-room so
that the congestion prevalent during term time in the present
Reading-Room may be relieved.
c. To make such changes in the basement as are necessary
to enable the Library to use some of the space now allotted
to class rooms, for its purposes.
4. That as soon as the site for a future permanent library is
definitely determined, steps be taken to enable the University
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to begin the building of a permanent fireproof stack, in order to
house the collections now contained in the present Library Building,
which is in no sense fireproof, and which does not afford sufficient
space to make accessible all the book collections owned by the
University, and does not provide any accommodations for professors
and students who are engaged in advanced work."
In accordance with these resolutions, steel beams have been
placed under the main floor of the Library and the whole building
has been rewired. This last was very necessary, since the electric
wiring in the building no longer conformed to even the most mod-
est standards of safety. By taking over the class room and the
office in the northeast part of the basement, we shall have in the
future a suitable room for the women of the staff who until now
have had no place where they could rest for even a moment, or
eat their lunches conveniently. The staff has been growing larger
and the need for a suitable place for the women has been making
itself felt in an increasing degree. In addition, we have obtained
a separate room for the Union Catalog, easily and conveniently
accessible to the public, and at the same time not interfering in
any way with our own official catalog. By tearing down the
partitions between the old store room and the little room in which
the Union Catalog recently stood, we have gained a forge, light
room which will be prepared as a receiving and collating room.
This will make it possible to have all the preliminary work, such
as the unpacking, plating, labelling and accessioning of books done
in the basement, so that the workroom on the main floor will in
the future be used solely for cataloging and classifying. This is
a decided improvement, for until now this room was much too
small for the work which we tried to do there. As a result it
was overcrowded and noisy, and hence there was danger that
sufficient care could not be given to what is perhaps the most
difficult work which the Library has to do. By changing the
entrance to the reading room on the main floor and moving the
delivery desk somewhat forward into the old reading room there
has been gained a little additional shelf space. Furthermore,
since the floor has been sufficiently strengthened it is possible to
shelve completely the Librarian's Office and the Cataloging Room,
which until now was impossible on account of the danger of over-
weighting the floor. As soon as Harris Hall is finished the
Library will take over the large assembly room on the second
floor, the smaller adjoining lecture room and the private office
now used by Professor A. C. L. Brown. By changing the par-
titions it will be possible to obtain a large additional reading room,
capable of seating about ninety people, and also an office for Miss
Lewis. Miss Lewis has been to all intents and purposes the
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Reference Librarian of the University now for many years, but
she has been much handicapped by having no place where she
could do her work without continuous interruptions and dis-
turbances. In these upstairs rooms there will be shelf space for
about five thousand volumes.
It is calculated that by means of all these changes additional
shelf room will be provided for about twenty thousand volumes.
As there are stored in the basement something in the neighbor-
hood of thirty thousand volumes it is evident that the problem
of adequate book space is by no means solved. The Library,
however, it is hoped will be able to provide room for all readers
for several years to come, and it is also hoped that by judicious
division of the books between the two reading rooms a more satis-
factory condition for studying in the Library will be provided.
The upper reading room will be divided into a number of
alcoves, and it is planned to utilize these for students doing ad-
vanced work, and for professors. The continuous growth in the
number of students coming to the University has made the pro-
vision of additional reading room space increasingly urgent, and
it is highly advisable that the Library take over these rooms on
the second floor of the building as soon as possible, for at present
there is hardly a morning in which students are not turned away
from the reading room on account of lack of space.
The upstairs rooms will be connected with the main floor of the
Library by means of a service stairs, which will enable the as-
sistants in cases of necessity to pass rapidly from one reading
room to the other. Also, by means of a house telephone system
it ought to be possible to overcome some of the difficulties that
will arise, owing to the work of the Library being spread over
three floors instead of being confined to one.
On the other hand, while what might be termed our difficulties
as regards the human element have thus been met, the Library
still remains in a building in no sense fireproof, and as pointed
out, we are only very slightly better off than before as regards
shelf room.
DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARIES
It has been suggested, in order to overcome some of the diffi-
culties that have arisen on account of lack of stack-room, that the
number of books in the various seminary libraries be increased,
and especially that a large number of volumes be moved to Harris
Hall. It cannot be too strongly emphasized that such a policy
would be suicidal as regards the ultimate efficiency and value of
the Library. The experience of other universities has shown that
it is very difficult, once books have been scattered, to bring them
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together again; that the scattering of such books results in an
entirely disproportionate increase in administrative expense, and
in an incalculable loss of time to all users of the Library. In our
own case since it is not likely that any adequate provision would
be made for such additional administrative force as would be
necessary to take care of enlarged seminary libraries, we should
probably lose a large number of books each year. Moreover,
most of the books would be inaccessible for considerable periods
of time. As it is, the seminary or departmental libraries have
been increasing to an alarming extent. At present the figures are
as follows:
University Hall . 5,749
Science Hall 1,711
Old College 142
Old Gym 266
Music School 449
Observatory 2,361
Lunt Library (in offices) 6,447
Engineering Building 1,944
Total 19,069
It is difficult to do anything to prevent this increase as long as
the Library cannot offer adequate quarters within its own build-
ing to the various departments. The result is that the following
resolution adopted by the Library Committee at a meeting held on
April 6, 1909, and subsequently approved by the Executive Com-
mittee of the Board of Trustees is rapidly becoming a dead letter:
"It is believed that a central library system as contrasted with
the so-called departmental library system, best serves the common
interests of members of the University. In order to carry out this
fundamental principle, the Librarian shall have full control of all
seminary libraries. No books shall be transferred to a seminary
library or be withdrawn from a seminary library without the
Librarian's consent."
It is to be hoped that since the Trustees are now fully awake
to the danger we are facing, a remedy will be found for all these
difficulties within the next few years.
FINANCES AND ORDERING
The South American purchasing trip undertaken by the
Librarian, together with the European War, considerably inter-
fered with the regular method of ordering and with the finances
of the Library. A large proportion of the departmental funds
had to be used toward paying for purchases made in South Amer-
ica, as it was found inadvisable to ask the Trustees, as had been
planned, for additional appropriations to cover these expenses.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
The effect of the European War has been to check our shipments
from Europe, those from Germany having ceased almost entirely.
Librarians can sympathize with the universal complaint that the
European War is interfering with the regular permissible traffic
of neutrals, when this interference reaches such an absurd stage
as to prevent the exportation of scientific manuals and treatises
needed for educational purposes in this country. Representa-
tions have been made by organized library associations to the
State Department, but so far have resulted in no alleviation of
the existing difficulties.
The following table gives an account of the financial situation :
FINANCIAL ACCOUNT
Administration 1913-1914 1914-1915
Salaries .$6,883.20 $7,568.34
Printing, stationery and supplies. 460.89 437.75
Cataloging cards 233.77 314.55
Freight and cartage 294.95 517.49
Contribution to the Book Exhibit
at Leipzig 50.00
$7,922.81 $8,838.13
Binding 880.60 675.18
School of Music Book Account
(SM36) 46.54 4.20
School of Commerce Book Account
(SC78) 47.70 334.60
Total expenditure from funds
not transferable to new fiscal
year $8,897.65 $9,852.11
BOOK FUND (N. U. L. ACCOUNT)
1913-1914 1914-1915
Carried over from previous year. .$2,673.42 $2,096.98
Appropriated 7,200.00 7,400.00
Sales and rebates 15.75 7.20
Interest on endowment fund 5.78
Fine money for current year 115.66 120.85
Gifts 80.86
Class of 1895 25.78
Otto L. Schmidt 64.80
Wiliam A. Peterson 10.00
Transferred to N. U. L. Account
from accounts ordinarily laps-
ing 3,586.65
Gain on exchange $38.84
Loss on exchange : South Ameri-
can account of Law School.. 2.32 36.52
Total receipts $10,085.69 $13,354.56
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Paid out for books $7,975.25 $12,530.72
Cash on Hand in Library 7.68 24.85
Balance in Business Office 2,102.76 798.99
$10,085.69 $13,354.56
1913-1914 1914-1915
Balance to be carried into next
fiscal year $2,110.44 $2,110.44 $ 798.99 $ 798.99
Outstanding orders (estimated)... 2,248.08 2,278.83
Gifts and funds restricted to spe-
cific departments 243.31
Total liabilities $2,491.39 $2,278.83
As will be noted, the gifts of money to the Library have been
small again this year, probably because of general business condi-
tions. This is very unfortunate, because this Library, as most
university libraries, can hardly meet its regular and current needs
from the funds provided by the University. For all larger de-
velopment it must depend upon the gifts of its friends, and it
is to be hoped that there may be established here, as has been done
in the larger eastern universities, a group of people who can be
counted on more or less definitely each year for the sums of
money needed for the development of special collections in the
Library.
ACCESSIONS
The accessions for 1913-1914 and 1914-1915 are as follows:
Bound volumes added 1913-14 1914-15
By gift 2,020 2,407
By purchase 2,922 2,150
Total 4,942 4,557
Withdrawn , 18 13
Increase 4,924 4,544
Pamphlets added 4,193 3,754
Total number of bound volumes in Library
on June 30, 1915 102,874
Approximate number of pamphlets in Li-
brary on June 30, 1915 67,900
As has been mentioned above, the chief expenditure of the
Library was for South American books. On account of the
changes in the Library, work on these books has by no means
been completed, so that our accessions for the past year show a
falling off, while those for the current year will presumably show
an unwarranted increase, part of which ought to be credited to the
year 1914-1915. The apparent decrease would have been greater
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had it not been that work has been progressing steadily on the
Bonbright bequest.
Through the kindness of Dr. Schmidt, we have purchased the
Faustbuch, edited by G. R. Widman, 1599. The gift of Mr.
Peterson made it possible for us to buy for a fraction of their
value ninety- four volumes of Scandinavian literature.
We have also received the following gifts : Seventeen volumes
dealing with tuberculosis from the National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis ; fifty-one volumes on
physics from Mrs. A. B. Porter; twenty-one volumes on South
America from Mr. Domingo Amunategui, Rector of the Univer-
sity of Santiago de Chile ; twenty volumes from Professor N. D.
Harris ; eleven volumes on Chile from Mr. Moises Vargas, and
twelve volumes of President Buchanan's Works, from the Buch-
anan estate.
The following are a few of the most important purchases made
during the year :
Fuller Worthies Library, 39 vols. 1868-1876.
Nueva Biblioteca de Autores Espanoles, 20 vols. 1905-1912.
Royal Institution of Great Britain, Notices of Proceedings, 19
vols. 1854-1912.
Verein fur Niederdeutsche Sprachforschung, Jahrbuch, 9 vols.
1876-1912.
Hobbes, T. Opera Philosophica . . . Latin and English
Works, ed. by W. Moleswirth, 16 vols. 1839-1845.
Canada and Its Provinces, 22 vols. 1914.
CIRCULATING DEPARTMENT
Comparative figures are given herewith for the Circulating
Department :
Books loaned: 1913-1914
Faculty and special list 28,127
Students 6,160
Total 34,287
Recorded use of books in Reading Room 43,690
77,977
Persons drawing books:
Faculty 134
Special list 35
Students 1,209
Libraries 11
Total 1,389
Average number using Reading Room per day. 623
Average number of hours the Library has been
open per week 84
1914-1915
31,153
7,960
39,113
61,217
100,330
124
22
1,425
10
1,581
675
84
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It will be noted that there is a decided growth in the amount
of work done by this department. This, together with the fact
that in the future our reading room space will be greatly increased
and will cover two floors, makes it almost imperative that we
have additional desk assistants. It may be permitted at this point
to refer to a letter dated September 10 and addressed to the Pres-
ident of the University, dealing at length with this matter. While
properly belonging to the current year, it may not be out of place
to note that at its meeting on September 29, 1915, the Library
Committee authorized its Chairman to approach the President of
the University on this same subject.
CATALOGING DEPARTMENT
The statistics for the Cataloging Department for the last two
years are as follows:
1913-1914 Titles Volumes Cards
Recataloging 452 565 1,832
Current Cataloging 2,510 4,531 14,948
Totals . . 2,962 5,096 16,780
Shelf list .... 2,571
Total number of cards .... 19,351
1914-1915 Titles Volumes Cards
Recataloging 76 117 300
Current Cataloging 2,233 4,716 13,398
Totals . . 2,309 4.833 13,698
Shelf list .... 2,668
Total number of cards 16,366
CATALOGING SITUATION, JULY 1, 1914
July 1, 1914 July 1, 1915
Total volumes in Library 98,330 volumes 102,874 volumes
Shelf listed 77,839 volumes 82.384 volumes
(36,496 titles) (38,564 titles)
Completely cataloged 80,092 volumes 84,637 volumes
(41,252 titles) (43,320 titles)
Balance of books not shelf-listed... 21,206 volumes 20,490 volumes
Of these, Greenleaf 4,706 volumes 4,675 volumes
Others 16,500 volumes 15,815 volumes
Balance of books not completely
cataloged 19,126 volumes 18,237 volumes
Of these, Greenleaf 4,706 volumes 4,675 volumes
Others 14,420 volumes 13,562 volumes
Cataloged, but not shelf-listed 2,073 volumes 2,253 volumes
Neither completely cataloged nor
shelf-listed 19,126 volumes 18,237 volumes
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Miss Thompson, the Assistant Cataloger, has been engaged for
some time in cataloging the valuable Franklin Collection owned
by Mr. W. S. Mason. This has further hampered our Cataloging
Department, which has always been very short-handed. We
greatly need a cataloger who is thoroughly familiar with foreign
languages. The number of books in the Library is steadily in-
creasing, and after all, while the quantity of work we do is not as
great as that of the largest libraries in the country, the kind is
identical with that done at Yale, Harvard, the Library of Con-
gress and others of equal importance, and our need for additional,
thoroughly equipped catalogers is very great.
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
The Library Committee met three times during the last fiscal
year. Aside from routine affairs, it was busied chiefly with
finding ways and means to pay for the South American purchases.
THE STAFF
At the end of the last fiscal year Miss Bannister, Mr. Hicks and
Mr. Galpin left the service of the Library. Their places were
filled by Miss M. Florence Griffin, Mr. Gilbert F. Loveland and
Mr. George E. Irwin.
The whole question of the Staff is one that needs to be taken
up and discussed thoroughly. As said above, we shall be in
greater need than ever of additional assistants as soon as the new
reading room is ready for occupancy. Then there is the matter
of additional help in our Cataloging Department, to which refer-
ence has also been made.
The salaries of several of the members of the Staff ought to
be increased materially, since the salaries paid here compare un-
favorably with those paid by other libraries, and it is impossible
to obtain and retain skilled assistants for the rate of pay which
the Library offers at present.
This summer the Northwestern University Press issued a de-
tailed report on the results of the trip of the Librarian to South
America. This report may well be considered a part of the
present one, so that there is no need of again discussing the sub-
jects considered there. The Librarian returned from this trip
to South America in April. During his long absence Miss
Eleanor W. Falley had charge of the Library, and in order
that this situation which was so long continued might have a
definite authorization on the part of the Trustees, the title of
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Assistant Librarian was conferred on Miss Falley by the Execu-
tive Committee of the Board of Trustees on April 2, 1914. This
title had been obsolete in the University since 1908.
Respectfully submitted,
WALTER LICHTENSTEIN, Librarian
LIBRARY STAFF
WALTER LICHTENSTEIN, Ph.D., Librarian
ELEANOR WORTHINGTON PALLET, B.S., Assistant Librarian
CIRCULATING DEPARTMENT
ELEANOR FRANCES LEWIS, B.A.
MYRA FLORENCE GRIFFIN, Assistant
GILBERT FRANCIS LOVELAND, B.A., Assistant
GEORGE EARLE IRWIN, Assistant
CATALOGING DEPARTMENT
ETTA LANE MATTHEWS
SADIE ABIA THOMPSON, Ph.B., Assistant
AGNES LOCKWOOD MOWBRAY, Ordering
VERA ETHEL PENBERTHY, B.A., Accessions
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NORTHWESTERN
UNIVERSITY
BULLETIN
REPORT OF LIBRARIAN
1915-1916
Published Weekly by Northwestern University
Northwestern University Building
Chicago
Vol. XVII, No. 22 February 3, 1917
Report of the Librarian of the
University
To the President of the University:
Sir: I beg to submit the eighth annual report of my admin-
istration of the Library, covering the year ending June 30, 1916.
The most important change during the year came as a result of
alterations in the building. Some of the difficulties with which
we have struggled for many years have been alleviated. With
the opening of the Upper Reading Room described in my last
report, the Reading Room on the first floor is no longer over-
crowded, and a place has been furnished which is better adapted
for advanced students and others desiring a quiet place to work
than we had dared to hope for. The room is not only very prac-
tical, but by common consent is considered one of the handsomest
rooms in any building on the campus. As already pointed out in
the last annual report, while our difficulties resulting from over-
crowding of the building by readers have ended, the question of
shelf space for books has been met in only a most temporary
fashion. At the present moment, to be sure, we have almost
enough room for the books ordinarily in use, though not for those
that have been packed up in previous years, and above all, not
for such as have been scattered from one end of the campus to
the other and placed in so-called seminary rooms. In the course
of two or three years we shall be as badly off as ever. The only
remedy is either a large addition to the present building or an
entirely new building. The Board of Trustees decided last year
that it would not be advisable to carry out the first alternative.
There remains, therefore, only the possibility of a new building,
and it is earnestly to be hoped that something decisive may be
done to obtain the money for this purpose within the next few
years.
I regret to report that a condition complained of occasionally
in previous years has continued to interfere at times seriously
with the efficiency of the Library. I refer to the custom which,
according to a communication of the class of 1916 to the Faculty
of the College of Liberal Arts, is almost universal among the
student body, namely, the custom of taking out books reserved
for definite courses without the permission and without the
knowledge of the Library authorities. The books lost in this
way are usually not of great intrinsic value, but they are taken
either temporarily or permanently just at the time when they
are most needed by other students, often preventing a large part
of the student body from preparing properly for examinations.
Furthermore, magazines and other books are often mutilated and
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marked in such fashion as to become useless for our purposes.
The most serious aspect, however, of this question is not the
mere loss to the general student body and to the Library, but the
fact that again I follow the communication of the class of 1916
the student body should regard such offenses and such evident
lack of sense of responsibility as a matter of minor account. It
fosters among the whole body politic a spirit of lawlessness and
complete disregard for the rights of others. Owing to the fact
that we have no cloak-room with an attendant or other means of
controlling the exit and entrance to the Library, it is very difficult
for the Library authorities to prevent the continuance of this prac-
tice. It is planned to issue a manual calling more emphatic
attention to the rules and regulations of the Library, and it is
also planned to post notices conspicuously calling to the atten-
tion of the users of the Library the necessity of having in mind
the rights of others. The only certain remedy, however, for this
evil would be to have a coat room near the entrance to the
Reading Room with a regular attendant who would look over
every book taken out of the Library to make certain that it had
been properly charged. There is no other way to stop the prac-
tice as long as it is almost universal and is countenanced by the
sentiment of a large part of the student body.
FINANCES AND ORDERING
As will be seen by consulting the tables which follow, we have
expended much less for books during the current year than in
the year preceding. It must be borne in mind, however, that the
year 1914-1915 included all the purchases resulting from my
South American trip, and that hence the situation was abnormal.
If this year the amount of money expended for books is some-
what less than usual, it is due to the continuance of the European
War. In spite of all representations made by library organiza-
tions to the Department of State, it has remained impossible to
obtain shipments from Germany. Shipments from France and
Italy, while not ceasing, have been much delayed, owing to the
use of many ships for other purposes than those of peaceful
trade and the destruction of a large number of others. British
books, on the other hand, have been received almost as regularly
as ever. If, in spite of this fact, the total number of volumes
added by purchase is larger this year than last, it is due to
the fact that the South American purchases are nearly all
included in the statistics of this year, though payment was made
last year. If it had not been for these South American purchases,
our total accessions would have been very much smaller than for
many years past.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT
Our gifts for the year have also fallen off considerably, but
the loss in number is more than made up by the quality of the
books received. For the first time in the history of this Library
gifts of valuable old manuscripts have been received. These are :
1. LATIN BIBLE. Manuscript written on fine vellum during the
first half of the 13th century, in England, probably in Canter-
bury. Borders and initials exquisitely drawn in pen and ink of
several colors. The text of the Bible is of great importance, as
it differs in many respects from the Vulgate, especially in the
book of Esdras. This manuscript was exhibited by the
Antiquarian Society of London in 1802, and belonged at an early
period to the Harwich Library. It has the inscription: Codex
Harbargensis No. 1.
2. QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS. Ars Poetica et Epistolae.
A rather handsome manuscript of the 15th century and having
some excellently illuminated initials.
3. STATIUS PAPINUS. Manuscript, 15th century. Twelve books
of Thebaidos; two books of Achilleidos, and a poem of St.
Cyprian. Manuscript written on fine Roman vellum, c. 1470,
in the north of Italy; ornamented with fifteen finely illuminated
initials.
The first two of these manuscripts are the gift of Mr. James
A. Patten, Vice President of the Board of Trustees, while the
third manuscript is the gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus, Presi-
dent of Armour Institute of Technology. The three manuscripts
came from the collection exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago
by Mr. Wilfred M. de Voynich of London. This collection
aroused much interest, and we are very fortunate to have
acquired a few of the excellent specimens shown.
just after the close of the year here described and therefore
not included in the number of volumes given in the table below,
there was received a most notable gift of ninety-eight volumes
from Mr. Albert M. Todd of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Mr. Todd
was a student in the Evanston Academy in the early seventies,
and, therefore, when planning to give away part of his valuable
collection, he included Northwestern University among the insti-
tutions which he desired to benefit. The collection of ninety-
eight volumes includes the complete set of Purchas, Samuel,
Hakluytus Posthumous ; or Purchase his Pilgrimes, 20 Vols., Glas-
gow, 1905. Most of the volumes are early editions of the classics,
many of them bound by noted book binders, such as Riviere,
Zaehnsdorf, and Sansgorski and Sutcliffe. Another notable gift
which ought to be specially mentioned is the volume presented
to us by Mr. Louis C. Tiffany, giving an account of his own
art work. The printing and illustrations of this volume are such
as to make it a notable monument of the best that our own day
is able to do in the way of producing handsome books.
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Dr. Merritt C. Bragdon, Northwestern '70, the constant friend
of the Library, has given us a handsome illuminated manuscript
page of the fourteenth century, presumably of Italian origin.
This has been framed so as to show both sides of the page and
has been hung in the Upper Reading Room. Dr. Bragdon also
gave a clock to replace the old one in the Lower Reading Room.
The ladies of the Staff are much indebted to Mrs. James A.
Patten, who furnished their Rest Room with a complete set
of dishes and other necessaries.
The only gift of money received from an individual was $85.50
from Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, who has been for several years a
most generous benefactor of the Library. Dr. Schmidt gave this
money for the purchase of a complete set of the translations of
German classics which appeared in twenty volumes in 1913-1914
under the editorship of Professor Kuno Francke of Harvard
University, one of the sub-editors being our own Professor Hat-
field. As in past years, we have received money from the fund
given by the class of 1895, and we have also received sums of
money from Professor Snyder's course, English B4, and Pro-
fessor Vanderblue's course, Economics Cll. It would be a
great aid to the Library if the custom of giving money by the
classes for the purchase of books for the University Library
were to become more general. As it is, the sums received here
and there have been of the greatest benefit in filling gaps in our
collections. As has been stated before, the satisfactory develop-
ment of a university library can be assured only if it has the
support of the alumni and other friends of the institution.
The usual tables giving an account of the financial situation
follow :
FINANCIAL ACCOUNT
Administration and Accounts
Not Transferable 1914-15 1915-16
'Salaries $7,568.34 $9,269.32
Printing, Stationery and Supplies 437.75 628.84
Credit not entered 1.40 627.44
Cataloging cards 314.55 338.26
Freight and cartage 517.49 239.26
$8,838.13 $10,474.28
* The amount expended for salaries as given here does not agree
with the statement of the Business Manager of the University. This
is due to the fact that in the Library statistics the salaries are given
as paid out during the fiscal year, while the Business Office places
a part of each salary in a so-called suspense account, owing to tjhe
fact that salaries begin September first, while the fiscal year ends June
thirtieth.
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Carried forward $8,838.13 $10,474.28
Binding 675.18 914.68
School of Music Book Acount
(SM36) 4.20 2.57
School of Commerce Book Ac-
count (SC78) 334.60 253.84
Total expenditure from funds
not transferable to new fiscal
year $9,852.11 $11,645.37
Book Fund (N. U. L. Account) 1914-15 1915-16
Carried over from previous year$2,096.98 $ 823.84
Appropriated 7,400.00 7,400.00
Sales and rebates 7.20 272.10
Interest on endowment fund .... 5.78
Fine money for current year 120.85 125.25
Gifts 100.58
Dr. Otto L. Schmidt 85.50
Class of 1895 25.78
Economics Cll 1915-1916.... 10.00
English B4, 1915-1916 25.10
Transferred to .N. U. L. account
from accounts ordinarily lapsing 3,586.65
Gain on exchange $38.84
Loss on exchange: South
American account of
Law School 2.32 36.52
Total receipts $13,354.56 $8,767.57
1914-15 1915-16
Paid out for books $12,530.72 $5,377.55
Cash on hand in Library 24.85 5.92
Balance in Business Office 798.99 3,384.10
$13,354.56 $8,767.57
1914-15 1915-16
Balance to be carried into next
fiscal year $ 823.84 $823.84 $3,390.02 $3,390.02
Outstanding orders (estimated) . . 2,278.83 3,614.67
Gifts and funds restricted to spe-
cific departments 1,047.94
Total liabilities 4,662.61
The large increase in the salary account is due partly to the
fact that for the first time since 1910-11 the Librarian has
been in service the whole year and has drawn his regular salary.
For the coming year the Board of Trustees has made a large
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additional appropriation for binding. This was needed to make
good the loss of previous years when some of the money usually
appropriated for this purpose was used to help pay for the South
American purchases. Unfortunately, however, owing to the
War, the price of leather has risen to such an extent that the
additional money voted will not accomplish nearly as much as
had been hoped. It will be noted that we are receiving an unusual
amount of money from the sale of duplicates. These duplicates
are almost entirely a result of the South American trip. We have
now sold all of such duplicates, practically without loss. Some
of the money received from this source does not appear here,
belonging to the financial account for 1916-17.
ACCESSIONS
The accessions for 1914-1915 and 1915-1916 are as follows:
Bound Volumes added 1914-15 1915-16
By gift 2,407 1,419
By purchase 2,150 3,318
Total 4,557 4,737
Lost and withdrawn 13 46
Increase 4,544 4,691
Pamphlets added 3,754 5,764
Total number of bound volumes in Library
on June 30, 1916 107,565
Approximate number of pamphlets in Library
on June 30, 1916 73,700
Besides the books mentioned we have received gifts from the
following :
Mr. Fritz v. Frantzius: two volumes.
Professor G. O. Curme: five volumes.
Mr. A. McConnell: Quarterly Register of Current History and
Cyclopedic Review of Current History, 12 volumes, 1892-1903.
Professor A. L. Elmquist: sixteen volumes.
Professor N. D. Harris: eighteen volumes.
In addition we are indebted to many state and municipal gov-
ernments, as well as to the Federal government for important
gifts.
Among our purchases perhaps the most notable ones are the
South American books and manuscripts which came to us from
Harvard University and the John Crerar Library as our share
of what had been left undivided of joint purchases in the previous
year. The manuscripts consist of seventeen bound volumes and
twelve large portfolios of documents of the eighteenth and early
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nineteenth centuries. One of the manuscripts is described at
length in my report "A Trip to South America," pp. 16-17. This
manuscript is already being used by a graduate student in the
preparation of her doctor's thesis. Among the portfolios there
has been discovered a large unknown tract bearing upon the lan-
guage of the Moseten Indians of Northeastern Bolivia. A full
description of this important discovery will be published by Dr.
R. R. Schuller, who found this manuscript while arranging this
material for the binder. A few of our other purchases are given
herewith :
Royal Astronomical Society, Memoirs, 41 vols. 1822-1875.
Chertsey Worthies' Library, A. B. Grosart, ed. 14 vols. 1878-1881.
Collection of Old English Plays, Bullen, A. H. ed. 2 series,
7 vols. 1882-1890.
Real Academia Espanola Diccionario de la lengua castellana.
6 vols. 1726-1739.
British Museum. Subject index of the modern books added.
1881-1910. 5 vols. 1902-1911.
Book Auction Records, v. 1-9. 1903-1912.
A transcript of the registers of the company of stationers of
London, 1554-1640. 5 vols. 1875-77.
A transcript of the registers of the worshipful company of
stationers. 1640-1708. 3 vols. 1913-1914.
The last five titles are given chiefly to show that we are con-
tinuing to add to our reference collection. In addition to the
works mentioned, it may be well to note the fact that we are
also subscribing to the Catalogue of Accessions of the British
Museum going back to 1900, the date at which the Supplement
to the Catalogue of Printed Books of the British Museum ends.
It is probably not an exaggeration to say that our reference
collection as a whole is excelled only by a few in the largest
libraries of the country.
CIRCULATING DEPARTMENT
Comparative tables for the Circulating Department are given
herewith :
Books loaned: 1914-1915 1915-1916
Faculty and special list 31,153 37,485
Students 7,960 7,611
Total : 39,113 45,096
Recorded use of books in Reading Rooni.. . 61,217 60,393
100,330 105,489
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Persons drawing books:
Faculty 124 138
Special list 22 31
Students 1,425 1,106
Libraries . 10 11
Total 1,581 1,286
Average number using Reading Room per
day 675 462
Average number of hours the Library has
been open per week 84 84
Owing to the changes going on in the building the students,
for a part of the year at least, used the Library less than usual,
and consequently there was a falling off of the number of books
drawn by students. For the very same reason, however, members
of the faculty drew out more books, presumably because they
were not able to use them in the Library, as had been their
custom before. For like reasons, there was naturally a sharp
falling off in the number of persons using the Reading Room.
Probably, however, it will be some time before the use of the
Reading Room will reach the same figure as in 1914-1915.
Formerly, when large classes met in the Library building, students
were accustomed to flock into the Reading Room between hours.
Since most of the classes have now been moved to other buildings
on the campus, these transient users will not figure in our totals.
As a result of the opening of the Upper Reading Room, we
needed additional assistance as pointed out in my report of last
year, and the money for this purpose was granted by the Board of
Trustees. Miss Irene I. Strickler has had charge of this Upper
Reading Room during the last half of the year 1915-1916 and
will return to us for the coming year. The Trustees also voted
sufficient money to enable us to engage a page. His services
will be especially needed to carry the magazines to the offices
of professors, where many of the periodicals are now kept.
This was formerly undertaken by the University messenger, but
with the increase of his work he found it more and more im-
possible to undertake the distribution of this material promptly.
The result was that members of the faculty were complaining
that they received their scientific periodicals weeks after they
had reached the Library.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT
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CATALOGING DEPARTMENT
The statistics of the Cataloging Department for the last two
years are as follows:
1914-1915 Titles Volumes Cards
Recataloging 76 117 300
Current Cataloging 2,223 4,716 13,398
Totals 2,309 4,833 13,698
Shelf list 2,668
Total number of cards .... 16,366
1915-16 Titles Volumes Cards
Recataloging 44 85 152
Current cataloging 2,139 4,287 11,072
Totals 2,183 4,372 11,224
Shelf list 2,031
Total number of cards .... 13,255
CATALOGING SITUATION
July 1, 1915 July 1, 1916
Total volumes in Library 102,874 volumes 107,565 volumes
Shelf listed 82,384 volumes 86,695 volumes
(38,564 titles) (40,574 titles)
Completely cataloged 84,637 volumes 89,033 volumes
(43,320 titles) (45,330 titles)
Balance of books not shelf listed.. 20,490 volumes 20,870 volumes
Of these, Greenleaf 4,675 volumes 4,667 volumes
Others 15,815 volumes 16,203 volumes
Balance of books not completely
cataloged 18,237 volumes 18,532 volumes
Of these, Greenleaf 4,675 volumes 4,667 volumes
Others 13,562 volumes 13,865 volumes
Cataloged, but not shelf listed.... 2,253 volumes 2,338 volumes
Neither completely cataloged nor
shelf listed 18,237 volumes 18,532 volumes
As has been noted for many years past, the Library was badly
in need of a cataloger of wider experience than we had been
able to obtain for the amount of money at our disposal. The
Trustees have now voted sufficient funds, and as a result it has
been possible to obtain for the coming year the services of Miss
Effie A. Keith. Miss Keith comes to us from Columbia Univer-
sity Library where she was a senior cataloger. Previous to that
Miss Keith was in the Library of the University of Minnesota
as cataloger and classifier, and it is to be hoped that she will
be able to undertake the classification and cataloging of our
classical collection and such other work as it had been impossible
for us to do, owing to the lack of sufficiently experienced assist-
ants, or, in fact, of assistants of any kind.
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Miss Thompson, as has been mentioned in the previous report,
was employed during most of the year by Mr. W. S. Mason to
catalog his valuable Franklin collection. She did not return to
our service until January, 1916, so that Miss Matthews for many
months had to carry on the work of the Cataloging Department
almost unaided. The result, naturally, was a falling off in the
amount of work done by this Department.
UNION CATALOG
The work on the Union Catalog has been progressing satis-
factorily, but it has been found more and more necessary for one
person to give her whole time to the task. Miss Mowbray has
therefore taken charge of the Union Catalog, and her place has
been taken by Miss Sarah B. Harris. The question of the Union
Catalog is one that the larger libraries are considering carefully.
The cost is great, and at the moment it may well be questioned
whether the use warrants the large expenditure necessary. To be
sure, the catalogers find the material in this Union Catalog of
great value, but it would hardly be desirable to keep it up purely
for their use. On the other hand, libraries that do not have a
Union Catalog now will not be able to form one later on, as many
of the libraries printing cards do not print a larger edition than
is needed, and their cards are therefore out of print immediately
after being published. There is a general feeling that out of
these Union Catalogs will develop in time some means and method
of a closer co-operation between the various libraries in the
country having Union Catalogs. Libraries not having them in
such an event will be much handicapped. It would seem, there-
fore, that for the present at least we ought to continue to keep
on with this Union Catalog in the hope that it may prove of the
very greatest value some time in the future.
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
The Library Committee met twice during the year. At the
first meeting it concerned itself chiefly with the distribution of
the departmental appropriations ; at the second with the drawing
up of new rules for the Upper Reading Room.
THE STAFF
It is a pleasure to report that in accordance with the sugges-
tion made in the report of last year the Trustees have materially
increased the salaries paid to some of the assistants in the Library.
There have been very few changes during the year. The addi-
tions to the staff have been noted above. Three assistants left,
namely, Miss Griffin, and Messrs. Loveland and Irwin. Their
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT 13
places were taken respectively by Miss Sweet, Messrs. Stromberg
and Porter. For the coming year the only change will be that
Mr. Stromberg's place will be taken by Mr. Stewart S. Williams.
Respectfully submitted,
WALTER LICHTENSTEIN, Librarian.
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SUMMARY OF LIBRARY STATISTICS IN THE FORM RECOMMENDED BY
THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Annual report for year ended June 30, 1916
Name of Library Northwestern University Library.
Name of Librarian Walter Lichtenstein, Ph.D.
City of Evanston, State of Illinois.
Terms of use Free to students and faculty of University and
others specially introduced.
Number of days open during year 309 days.
INCREASE
Number of volumes at beginning of year 102,874
Number of volumes added during year by purchase 3,318
Number of volumes added during year by gift and exchange. 1,419
Number of volumes lost or withdrawn during year 46
Total number at end of year 107,565
Number of pamphlets at beginning of year, approximate.... 67,800
Number of pamphlets added during year, approximate 5,900
Total number of pamphlets at end of year, approximate 73,700
USE
Total recorded use (number of volumes lent for home use) . . 10,164
Number of volumes in seminary libraries 25,289
REGISTRATION
Number of borrowers registered during year 1,286
FINANCE
Receipts from Payments for
Unexpended balance.... $ 823.84 Maintenance:
Endowment funds 7,400.00 Books and periodicals. .$ 5,633.96
Fines and sales 397.35 Salaries, Library service. 9,269.32
Gifts 146.-38 Janitor, heat, light 3,759.58
Binding 914.68
Total $8,767.57 Other maintenance 1,204.96
Grand total $20,782.50
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT 15
LIBRARY STAFF 1915-1916
Walter Lichtenstein, Ph.D., Librarian
Eleanor Worthington Falley, B.S., Assistant Librarian
CIRCULATING DEPARTMENT
Eleanor Frances Lewis, B.A., Reference Librarian
Frances Sweet, B.A. Hjalmar Stromberg, B.A.
Reuben Boring Porter Irene Isabel Strickler
CATALOGING DEPARTMENT
Etta Lane Matthews Sadie Abia Thompson, Ph.B.
Agnes Lockwood Mowbray, Union Catalog
Vera Ethel Penberthy, B.A., Accessions
Sarah Bacon Harris, B.A., Secretary to the Librarian
LIBRARY STAFF, 1916-1917
Walter Lichtenstein, Ph.D., Librarian
Eleanor Worthington Falley, B.S., Assistant Librarian
CIRCULATING DEPARTMENT
Eleanor Frances Lewis, B.A., Reference Librarian
Frances Sweet, B.A. Stewart Samuel Williams, B.A.
Reuben Boring Porter Irene Isabel Strickler
Frank Joseph Neuhaus, Page
CATALOGING DEPARTMENT
Effie Almira Keith, B.A., B.S. Sadie Abia Thompson, Ph.B.
Etta Lane Matthews Frances Sweet, B. A.
Kate Dorothy Ferguson.
Agnes Lockwood Mowbray, Union Catalog
Vera Ethel Penberthy, B.A., Accessions
Sarah Bacon Harris, B.A., Secretary to the Librarian
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REPORT OF LIBRARIAN
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Published Weekly by Northwestern University
Northwestern University Building
Chicago
Vol. XVIII, No. 17 December i, 1917
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF
THE UNIVERSITY
LIBRARIAN S REPORT
To. the President of the University:
I beg to submit the ninth annual report of my administration
of the Library, covering the year ending June 30, 1917.
The temporary relief afforded by the alterations in the build-
ing is a thing of the past, and as far as the housing of books
is concerned we are in almost as bad a condition as we were in
1915. The worst feature of this situation is not the fact that a
large number of valuable sets are deposited on the floor instead
of on shelves, but that large numbers of books are packed away,
and an ever increasing number of books are removed to depart-
mental libraries, often very distant from the main library build-
ing, inaccessible except during a few hours of the day, and rarely
properly guarded and administered. Theoretically, this Uni-
versity believes in a central library system, but, in practice, the
Library has been breaking up into a number of departmental
libraries. The experience of other institutions shows that once
a large number of departmental libraries are established, it is
very difficult to bring them together again under one roof. There
is no doubt that the departmental library system has some defin-
ite advantages for the individual professor and in the case of
some of the strictly scientific branches departmental libraries are
perhaps unavoidable, but for the students of a university, as
distinguished from its faculty, there is little to be said in favor
of a departmental library system. Very few students, especially
undergraduates, confine their attention to so limited a range that
they can find the books they need in any one departmental
library. The result is that they waste much time in going from
one place to another and, still more important, they miss the
great opportunity afforded by seeing large collections of books
together and becoming familiar, even though only externally,
with books not related to their immediate studies. There is
much to be gained by students from merely browsing among
books. It is an aim to be desired for its own sake and is especially
to be wished for in the case of the students at Northwestern,
few of whom have had much previous acquaintance with and
love for books. It would seem to me that this is one of the chief
things that a university ought to inculcate in its student body
and nothing can do more to accomplish this object than a well
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arranged and easily accessible library in which all the books '
which the University possesses are housed. The whole matter
is aggravated here by the fact referred to above, that on account
of lack of funds, it has never been possible to furnish attendants
for the departmental libraries, and hence books disappear from
them and students are unable to use the books housed therein
except during a few hours each day and that at a time in which
most of them are too fully occupied already by lectures and
recitations. .
Until now most of the departmental libraries were scientific
collections, which often formed more or less of an entity. But
now it is proposed to remove all the classical collections to Fisk
Hall. Here we have a class of books which everyone interested
in the humanities needs. It is high time that some effective steps
were taken to obtain a new library building or a large addition to
the present one, and this ought to be done in spite of the heavy
demands made on the University and its friends by the needs
of the present war. Two years ago the Executive Committee
of the Board of Trustees adopted a resolution recognizing this
and stating that some definite steps toward building a new li-
brary should be undertaken within a period of two years. This
period of time has now elapsed, but nothing has been done, not
even a beginning made, no plans have been drawn or other im-
portant questions considered.
If, however, our situation is fundamentally bad as regards
housing of books, I am glad to report that in one important
branch of the library work we have begun to make much needed
improvements. As noted in my previous annual report, Miss
Keith had been appointed as our head cataloger, and she has
begun a thorough revision of our catalog which was gradually
falling into a state of disorder and was therefore in danger of
becoming useless for our purposes and the purposes of the users
of the Library. There is still much to be done in regard to the
catalog, and we are still in much need of additional help to make
up for deficiencies in past years. As pointed out on several pre-
vious occasions, our classical collections had not been classified
at all. This work has been finally begun, but as we can only
give the part time of one of the catalogers to this work it pro-
gresses very slowly indeed. As a result also of the much needed
general revision which is being undertaken under Miss Keith's
direction, the routine work of cataloging is falling somewhat
behind. Miss Keith herself has made a report to me upon the
situation from which I shall quote below.
LIBRARIANS REPORT 5
MANUSCRIPTS
Last year I noted the fact that for the first time in the history
of the Library we had received some valuable manuscripts. It
was also noted that we had purchased a large collection of South
American manuscripts and that these were being arranged by Dr.
Schuller. Dr. Schuller completed his task during the course of
the year. The material turned out to be very much more valuable
than we had anticipated. It consists of a large mass of diplo-
matic correspondence throwing much light upon the causes of the
War of the Pacific (1879-1883) and upon other Bolivian condition's.
These manuscripts will furnish material for innumerable doctors'
theses. We have had all the manuscripts and broadsides bound up.
This collection consists, at present, of fifty-nine volumes of South
American manuscripts, three Latin manuscripts, and one German
manuscript. In addition, there are three volumes of broadsides,
one portfolio containing miscellaneous manuscript material, one
portfolio containing broadsides, and one portfolio containing fug-
itive material of various kinds which could not be more definitely
classified.
Among the manuscripts, Dr. Schuller found, as noted in my
previous report, a large tract bearing on the language of the Mose-
teno Indians of northeastern Bolivia. Mr. James A. Patten gen-
erously offered to pay for issuing this work, and Dr. Schuller under-
took to prepare it for publication and to write an exhaustive
introduction for it. On account of the breaking off of the dip-
lomatic relations between the United States and Austria-Hungary r
Dr. Schuller left this country to return to his native land and his
work had to be completed by Dr. Truman Michelson of the Bureau
of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution of Wash-
ington, D. C., Professor Georg Edward of this University, and
myself. The volume which is being printed and bound by the
Lakeside Press of R. R. Donnelley and Sons Company of Chicago
will appear within a few days. It is a handsome volume, and it
is to be hoped that it merely marks the first of a long series of
learned monographs based upon the manuscript collections in
this Library.
GIFTS
The only large gift of unusual books received during the current
year was a collection from Mr. Albert M. Todd of Kalamazoo,
Michigan. This gift was described in detail 'in my last annual
report. We also received a large gift of books from Professor
N. D. Harris and from a number of others all whose names are
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listed below. A very interesting and valuable single volume was
presented to us by Mrs. Clara A. Coolidge, entitled Thomas Jeff-
erson, Architect, edited by Fiske Kimball, Cambridge, 1916.
From the N. W. Harris Endowment Fund and Professor N. D.
Harris we received for the purchase of books falling within the
field of Political Science the sum of $238.75, and from the Class
of 1895 the annual interest from their fund, amounting to $25.78.
It is natural that under existing circumstances we should be re-
ceiving less and less gifts of money and this situation is likely to
continue as long as the present war lasts. Furthermore, libraries
and institutions of learning must face the fact that with the in-
creased taxation that the cost of the war will entail for many
years after its close, the lean years are likely to continue for an
indefinite period of time.
FINANCES, ORDERING, AND ACCESSIONS
As will be noted from the tables below, we paid out somewhat
more for books this year than in the year previous. This is part-
ly due to the fact that we have expended some of the money which
had been accumulating for books ordered from Germany. As
these did not come, and there is little likelihood that they will
come in the immediate future, the Librarian with the consent
of the Library Committee used some of this money to order some
large sets which the Library has long needed and desired, but for
which there were no funds available. As such sets are expensive
the total number of volumes purchased is less than in previous
years, in spite of the increased amount of money devoted to the
purchase of books.
Afew of our more notable purchases are given herewith:
British Museum. Catalogue of Printed Books and Accessions. 429 parts. 1900-
1916.
Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada, Europeo-Americana 25 volumes. In progress.
Sabin, J. Dictionary of Books Relating to America. 20 volumes. 1868-1892.
Baily, F. Catalogue of Stars of the British Association for the Advancement of
Science. 1845.
Cauchy, A. L. Oeuvres Completes. Series 1-2. 24 volumes. 1882-1916.
La Place, P. S. Oeuvres. 13 volumes. 1878-1904.
Royal Society of London. Catalogue of Scientific Papers. 15 volumes. 1867-1916
American Chemical Journal. Volumes 1-50. 1879-1913.
American Chemical Society. Journal. Volumes 14-31. 1892-1909.
Chemical Abstracts. Volumes 1-3. 1907-1909.
Jahrbuch der Chemie. Volumes 1-23. 1893-1914.
Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie. Volumes 1-24. 1887-1897.
Menendez y Pelayo, M. Historia de las Ideas Esteticas en Espafia. 9 volumes.
1901-1912.
Chalmers, A., ed. Works of the English Poets. 21 volumes. 1810.
LIBRARIAN
REPORT
Cockayne, T. D. Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of early England. 3 vol-
umes. 1864-1866.
Revue Celtique. Volumes 1-28. 1870-1907.
Biblioteca Ayacucho. 16 volumes. In progress.
Buchez, B. J. B. et Roux, P. C. Histoire Parlementaire de la Revolution Fran9aise.
40 volumes. 1834-1838.
Casas, B. de las. Historia de las Indias. 5 volumes. 1875-1876.
Harrisse, H. Discovery of North America. 1892.
Institute Historico e Geographico Brazileiro. Revista Trimensal. 69 volumes.
1841-1913.
Rhode Island Historical Society. Collections. 10 volumes. 1827-1902.
South Dakota State Historical Society. Historical Collections. 8 volumes. 1902-
1916.
Vermont Historical Society. Collections. 2 volumes. 1870-1871.
FINANCIAL ACCOUNT
Administration and Accounts Not
Transferable 1915-16 1916-17
*Salaries $9,269.32 $9,541 .50
Printing, Stationery, and Supplies 627.44 630.14
Cataloging cards 338.26 393.89
Freight and Cartage 239.26 272.66
Binding
School of Music Book Account (SM36) ..
School of Commerce Book Account
(SC78)
Total expenditure from funds
not transferable to new fiscal year...
$10,474.28
914.68
2.57
253.84
$11,645.37
$10,838.19
1,625.45
126.18
$12,589.82
Book fund (N. U. L. Account) 1915-16 1916-17
Carried over from previous year $ 823.84 $3,390.02
Appropriated 7,400.00 7,900.00
Sales and rebates 272.10 480.49
Fine money for current year 125.25 110.93
Gifts 146.38
N. W. Harris endowment 238 . 75
Class of 1895.. 25.78
$ 8,767.57
$12,145.97
1915-16
Paid out for books $5,377 . 55
Cash on hand in Library 5.92
Balance in Business- Office 3,384.10
1916-17
$6,511.96
33.54
5,600.47
$ 8,767.57 $12,145.97
*The amount expended for salaries as given here does not agree with the statement
of the Business Manager of the University. This is due to the fact that in the
Library statistics the salaries are given as paid out during the fiscal year, while
the Business Office places a part of each salary in a so-called suspense account,
owing to the fact that salaries begin September first, while the fiscal year ends
June thirtieth.
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1915-16 1916-17
Balance to be carried into next fiscal
year $3,390.02 S3.390.02 15,634.01 $5,634.01
Outstanding orders (estimated) 3,614.67 4,037.36
Gifts and funds restricted to special
departments 1,047.94 3,110.97
Total liabilities $ 4,662 . 61 $ 7,148 . 33
ACCESSION STATISTICS
The accessions for 1915-1916 and 1916-1917 are as follows:
Bound volumes added 1915-16 1916-17
By purchase 3,318 2,554
By gift 1,419 1,794
Total 4,737 4,348
Withdrawn.. 46 34
Increase 4,691 4,314
Pamplets added (approximately) 5,764 6,770
Total number of bound volumes in Library on June 30,
1917 '. 111,879
Total number of pamphlets in Library on June 30, 1917
(approximately) 80,481
Sources of gifts of bound volumes accessioned during the year
are as follows:
James A. Patten 2 Mss.
Frank W. Gunsaulus 1 Mss.
N. D. Harris 2tO
F. M. Sharp 129
A. W. Harris 98
Albert May Todd . 98
James Lyman 79
Mrs. Bessie R. Lesquereux 16
Professors Bauer and Hayford 14
G. E. Foss 11
T. E. Donnelley 9
Walter Lichtenstein 9
Mrs. Grant-Schaefer 8
Miss Abby Tallmadge ... 1 7
Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Lowe 1 5
Other Individuals 66
U. S. Government 228
State Governments 168
Cities, societies, etc 26
Colleges 59
Publishers 27
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 16
Carnegie Institution 26
Dean's Office. . 18
LIBRARIAN S REPORT 9
Dental School 14
Law School 102
Garrett Biblical Institute 36
Latin Seminar 23
Miscellaneous 36
Anonymous 14
Academy 103
Music 53
Commerce 3
Total 1794
It is greatly to be regretted that no provision was made by "the
University Council for a working arrangement by which the city
departments of the University might deposit with the University
Library annually a report of their resources. The result is that
in comparative tables of library statistics published by various
bodies, the library resources of this University are only partially
presented, and hence do not make a favorable showing in com-
parison with the statistics of other libraries. It would seem that,
as in other universities, the University Librarian would be the
proper official to whom such reports should be made. This would
not, in the least, imply that the University Library had any con-
trol over the libraries of the city departments.
Under the head of accessions may also be noted here that with
the close of the Evanston Academy its library is being transferred
to the University Library. This does not increase the number
of volumes in the Library, since the Academy statistics have always
been included in the statistics of this Library. The collection
of books of the Academy did not contain any notable items, but it
will add to duplicate collections which can be used very advantag-
eously by some of the larger elementary classes.
CIRCULATING DEPARTMENT
Comparative tables for the Circulating Department are given
herewith:
Books loaned: 1915 1916
Faculty and special list 37,485 36,428
Students ". 7,611 7,623
Total 45,096 44,051
Recorded use of books in Reading Room 60,393 53,595
105,489 97,646
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Persons drawing books:
Faculty 138 144
Special list 31 45
Students. - 1,106 1,596
Libraries ... 11 14
Total 1,286 1,799
Average number using Reading Room per day 462 499
Average number of hours the Library has been open
per week 84 84
In the previous year there wasafallingoffoftheuseof the reading
rooms owing to the alterations in the building. This last year
there was little increase chiefly owing to the general disorgan-
ization in the University caused by the outbreak of the war. At
the close of the academic year a large number of the students
left and the others were not in a mood to do any more reading than
was absolutely required. The Upper Reading Room, however,
was used more and more and is proving in many ways to be of the
greatest usefulness. Students and others comment with great
satisfaction on the fact that there is now a place in the Library
where persons desiring absolute quiet amid congenial surroundings
may go.
This Reading Room was made still more attractive by the very
welcome gift of a handsome clock from the Class of 1917. This clock
has been placed behind the delivery desk in the Upper Reading
Room. It forms a valuable addition to the room.
Mr. James A. Patten presented us, for the use in the Upper
Reading Room, with an exhibition case of the latest and most
approved type. We are enabled thereby to show to students
and others our treasures which formerly had to be kept under lock
and key in our fireproof vault.
CATALOGING DEPARTMENT
I have commented above upon the Cataloging Department,
and I wish to quote in this connection, in order to bring the matter
more fully before you, from a report submitted to me by Miss
Keith.
"The increase in the number of the staff in the Cataloging Department has
made possible several changes both in the organization of the department and in
the methods used in cataloging. For several years we have been using the Library
of Congress printed cards, as most libraries do, but have not followed its rules.
For the sake of uniformity, as well as for the help that a fuller description of
the book gives, we decided to make our rules conform more fully with those of
the Library of Congress, though it meant more work for the cataloger. At the
same time it was decided to use the Library of Congress list of subject headings.
LIBRARIAN'SREPORT 11
The work of changing from the old to the new headings was begun early in the
year and has involved more labor than was at first expected, as in many cases
it practically meant recataloging. It is hoped, however, this work will be finish-
ed before long.
"The work of recataloging the classics was begun in October. Owing to the
fact that the Dewey system of classification .which is in use here, has no adequate
scheme for a collection of classics of any size, it was necessary to make our own.
The schemes in use at Harvard, Columbia, Illinois, and Minnesota libraries were
sent for and carefully studied. The one finally adopted is based on those used
at Columbia and Illinois. It has been tested on the works of several Latin authors,
including Cicero, and is proving satisfactory. The work of recataloging of necess-
ity goes slowly, as the books present many difficulties. We expect, however,
that the cataloging of Latin books will be completed by the end of the coming
year and that a good beginning will be made on the Greek.
'Owing to the pressure of work in the Cataloging Department, because of
these various changes, extra help was needed in order to continue the cataloging
of our Spanish American collection. Miss Ferguson, who was on the staff of
the Evanston Public Library and who had a good working knowledge of Spanish,
gave some time to this cataloging. Later two catalogers from the University
01 Chicago Libraries came out Saturdays to assist. With this extra help it was
possible to catalog all of the bound material and a large number of the pamphlets.
"In May a request came from the John Crerar Library to cooperate in bring-
ing up to date the list of serials in public libraries of Chicago and Evanston, as t
a union list for the libraries of the Middle West was planned. Owing to the in-
complete cataloging of our serials, this work took a large part ot the time tor
several weeks of two catalogers. It was time well spent, for not only will a union
list prove of very great value, but the work has given an opportunity to revise
some of our serial cataloging and to bring the catalog cards more nearly up to date.
In connection with this it may be well to add that of the titles recataloged one
hundred and nine have been serials. No attempt was made to include in the sta-
tistics the number of volumes recataloged, though in many cases the whole of a
set had to be examined.
"In the previous spring the American Library Institute had decided to publish
a check list of periodicals on German History based on a bibliography compiled
by a former student of Northwestern University. Since this bibliography was
not originally prepared for publication it was not in the approved form for such
lists and la'cked much information which would be of value to libraries using it.
The work of putting this into shape was turned over to the Cataloging Department
and completed. The list is now in the hands of Dr. Richardson of Princeton
University and is to be a companion work to his Collections on European History
in American Libraries published a few years ago under the auspices of the Ameri-
can Historical Association."
The statistics of the Cataloging Department for the last two
years are as follows:
1915-1916
Recataloging
Titles
44
Volumes
85
Cards
152
Current cataloging . .
2,139
4,287
11,072
Totals
2,183
4,372
11,224
Shelf list
2,031
Total number of cards 13,255
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1916-1917
Recataloging :
Titles
1,097
Volumes
1,805
Cards
3,340
Current cataloging
1,965
4,318
9383
Totals
3,062
6,123
12,723
Shelf list
3,062
Total number of cards..
15,785
CATALOGING SITUATION
Total volumes in Library .
Shelf listed . .
Completely catalogued ,
Balance of books not shelf listed
Of these, Greenleaf
Others
Balance of books not completely
cataloged
Of these, Greenleaf
Others
Cataloged, but not shelf listed
Neither completely cataloged nor shelf
listed . .
July
107,565
86,695
(40,574
89,033
(45,330
20,870
4,667
16,203
1, 1916
volumes
volumes
titles)
volumes
titles)
volumes
volumes
volumes
18,532 volumes
4,667 volumes
13,865 volumes
2,338 volumes
July
111,879
91,013
(42,500
93,351
(47,256
20,866
4,157
16,709
1, 1917
volumes
volumes
titles)
volumes
titles)
volumes
volumes
volumes
18,528 volumes
4,157 volumes
14,371 volumes
2,338 volumes
18,532 volumes 18,528 volumes
UNION CATALOG
The preliminary work on the Union Catalog is now finished
and since Miss Mowbray resigned at the end of the 'academic
year, the care of this catalog has been turned over to the Catalog-
ing Department. We shall be compelled, for the present, to
rely chiefly on the aid of students holding scholarships for alphabet-
ing the cards that are to be added to this Union Catalog. In
the work of revising our own catalog, described by Miss Keith,
the Union Catalog has proved extremely useful and in fact it
would appear as if some of the work could hardly have been
done at all or only at great expense if we had not had this aid.
On the other hand, I regret to report that very few of the mem-
bers of the Faculty seem to be aware of this great bibliographical
tool and that they make very little use of it. In fact judging
by some of the comments occasionally made to the Librarian,
some of the members of the Faculty do not seem to comprehend
the purpose of a collection of this kind.
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LIBRARY COMMITTEE
'The Library Committee met twice during the year. At
the first meeting it busied itself chiefly with the distribution
of departmental appropriations; at the second, among other things
with the formulating of rules for the drawing out of books for
over-night use from the reserve shelves n the reading rooms. It
was decided to permit such use of reserved books, but, in order
to insure their prompt return the following morning, a schedule
of fines was adopted, no fine, however, to exceed one dollar per
volume.
THE STAFF
It is a pleasure to report that the members of the Staff continue
to work together harmoniously and begrudge neither time nor effort
on behalf of the Library. During the year and at the close of
the year there were a number of resignations which, however,
did not indicate any dissatisfaction with the work here, but were
dictated solely by reasons over which we have no control. Miss
Agnes L. Mowbray who served the Library most efficiently in
various capacities for a period of eight years, decided that she
wished to join her family in the East and hence resigned. Miss
Etta L. Matthews, who was cataloger in the Library and part
of the time had full charge of the work, resigned in the middle
of the year in order to accept a better position elsewhere. Miss
Penberthy, who was the very competent accession clerk of the
Library for a period of five years, resigned at the close of the
year in order to be married. - Miss Harris, who had been secre-
tary to the Librarian for a period of a year and a half, left us
to accept a somewhat better position in another office ori this
campus. Messrs. Porter and Williams resigned before the end
of the year in order to enter the service of the Government.
Miss Irene I. Strickler resigned at the end of the year in order
to become assistant librarian of the Public Library of Iowa City.
In order to fill these various vacancies the following appointments
were made: Miss Beetle was appointed cataloger; Miss Kappes,
secretary to the Librarian; and the following four were appointed
library assistants and assigned to various classes of work; Miss
Anderson, Miss Armstrong, Miss Carney, and Mr, Swaney.
I regret that owing to the fear that there would be a large
falling off in the number of students and hence a reduction of
income, the Trustees of the University thought it best to leave
vacant one of the positipns at the desk usually filled by a man
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and also made no provision permitting us to appoint a page for
this current year. Experience this fall has shown that the slight
reduction in the number of students has not lessened the work
of the Library in the least and that the want of a page has meant
a great delay in the delivery of periodicals and books desired by
professors for their departmental libraries It is to be hoped,
therefore, that during the year the Trustees may be able to ap-
propriate the additional sums needed to fill these two vacancies.
Respectfully submitted,
WALTER LICHTENSTEIN
Librarian
Octobes 23, 1917.
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SUMMARY OF LIBRARY STATISTICS IN THE FORM
RECOMMENDED BY THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Annual report for year ended June 30, 1917
Name of Library Northwestern University Library.
Name of Librarian Walter Lichtenstein, Ph.D.
City of Evanston, State of Illinois.
Terms of use Free to students and faculty of University and
others specially introduced.
Number of days open during year 309 days.
INCREASE
Number of volumes at beginning of year 107,565
Number of volumes added during year by purchase 2,554
Number of volumes added during year by gift and exchange 1,791
Number of volumes lost or withdrawn during year 34
Total number at end of year 111,879
Number of pamphlets at beginning of year, approximate 73,700
Number of pamphlets added during year, approximate 6,700
Total number of pamphlets at end of year, approximate 80,400
Manuscripts added during year 63 volumes
1 portfolio
Collections of broadsides added during year 3 volumes
2 portfolios
USE
Total recorded use (number of volumes lent for home use) 12,112
Number of volumes in seminar libraries 24,632
REGISTRATION
Number of borrowers registered during year 1,799
' FINANCE
Receipts from Payments for
Unexpended balance $ 3,390.02 Maintenance:
Endowment funds 24,184.61 Books and periodicals $ 6,511.96
Fines and sales 591 . 42 Salaries, Library service . . . 9,541 . 50
Gifts.: 264.53 Janitor, heat, light 3,820.97
Binding 1,625.45
Other Maintenance 1,296 . 69
Unexpended balance 5,634.01
Total $28,430.58 Total $28,430.58
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LIBRARY STAFF, 1917-1918
Walter Lichtenstein, Ph.D., Librarian
Eleanor Worthington Falley, B.S., Assistan* Librarian
CIRCULATING DEPARTMENT
Eleanor Frances Lewis B.A., Reference Librarian
Amy Lovena Armstrong, B.S.
Charles Baumer Swaney, M.A.
CATALOGING DEPARTMENT
Effie Almira Keith, B.A., B. S.. Head Cataloger
Sadie Abia Thompson, Ph.B.
Clara Beetle, B.S.
Frances Sweet, B. A.
Sallie Bell Kappes, B.A., Secretary to the Librarian
Minnie MacKenzie Anderson, -B. A., Ordering
Helen Louise Carney, B.A., Accessions
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UNIVERSITY
BULLETIN
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN
1917-1918
Published Weekly by Northwestern University
Northwestern University Building-
Chicago
Vol. XIX, No. 9 September 21, 1918
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF
THE UNIVERSITY
LIBRARIANS REPORT
REPORT OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN
To the President of the University:
I beg to submit the tenth annual report of my administration of
the Library, covering the year ending June 30, 1918. As this year
will end my active connection with the University and also marks
the end of a decade, it may be of interest to note in the report not
merely what has been done during the past year, but also to give a
summary of the whole of my administration and some comparative
statistics.
When I came to Northwestern University in September, 1908,
the Library consisted of 70,184 volumes and approximately 47,500
pamphlets, while now there are on the shelves 115,492 volumes and
approximately 85,200 pamphlets. Of course, a mere increase in
numbers means little, but in this case the development has been
greater qualitatively than it has been quantitatively. Formerly, the
development was somewhat haphazard, owing to the fact that the
purchase of books rested almost entirely with the Library Committee,
with the result that there was a continual attempt to balance the
acquisitions of one department with those of another. There was
no definite policy followed from year to year, and those works of
learning which did not specifically relate to the work of any one
department were rarely purchased. The result was that the Library
was exceedingly weak as regards general books of reference and
those works which were needed by the library departments, such as
the Cataloging Department or the Ordering Department, for the
proper performance of their work. In the case of Northwestern
University Library this was all the more to be deplored, because, on
account of the nearness of Chicago 'and its large libraries, there was
little need for the University to seek to purchase expensive works of
ephemeral and limited interest. It was of vastly more importance
that the Library should possess all those books of reference and
bibliographical collections which would enable the ready identifica-
tion of a title so that the prospective user might know, as far as
possible, whether it was the work really desired and where it might
be found in Chicago. This Library was and is not in a position to
supply to its users even a fraction of the books demanded, but there
is no reason why it should not be able to supply its users in every
field of learning with bibliographies and handbooks which will enable
them to know which books they will require. It is along these lines
that the Library has chiefly developed within the last ten years. I
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was enabled to carry out this work, because after my first year
the Library Committee left the expenditure of the general fund of
the Library entirely in my hands. This fund consisted of approxi-
mately five hundred dollars annually, and in addition any funds
assigned to departments and not expended by them before the close
of the fiscal year. Before 1908 all the book funds of the Library
not actually expended at the close of the fiscal year had lapsed. The
result was that each year allowance had to be made for outstanding
orders, so that in a sense the Library had the same items charged
against its account several times over. At my suggestion, an arrange-
ment was made with the Business Office of the University whereby
the appropriations for books were entered in a permanent ledger
account at the beginning of each fiscal year, and the funds remained
available until such time as they were actually expended. As a result
probably more than $30,000.00, which under the earlier arrange-
ments would have lapsed back into the general funds of the Uni-
versity, were available for the purchase of books.
For the purpose of carrying out the plan of supplying the Library
with the necessary tools for ordering books intelligently and catalog-
ing them properly after they arrived, it was fortunate for us that
we were able to purchase from the British Museum in 1910 the
almost complete Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum.
This was the last somewhat complete set which the Museum had
for sale. Our set had two gaps, Bury-Bzowski and Swede-Szymon-
owicz. With the aid of Dr. Richardson of Princeton University
we completed our set by having the missing portions reproduced^
by means of the photostat. It would be impossible to list all the
innumerable individual volumes and larger sets of a bibliographi-
cal nature which have been purchased in the last ten years. They
include the catalog of the Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris, which when
completed will be one of the greatest bibliographical works in exist-
ence; also Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Italian, Spanish, and
certain German trade lists, as well as complete files of auction records.
My published reports since 1908 list many of the more important
works as they have been added from year to year to the Library.
The most important step, however, was taken when, in the summer
of 1910, I visited the Library of Congress and induced the authorities
of that great institution to make us a depository for its catalog. To
the Library of Congress catalog we have added the cards of the John
Crerar Library, and, as far as they have been issued, the cards of
Harvard University, the University of Chicago, the University of
California, and the Newberry Library. Until the outbreak of the
European War we received also the cards of the Royal Library of
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Berlin, and of the Institut International de Bibliographic of Brussels.
Our Union Catalog now contains about one million cards arranged
alphabetically by author, and it furnishes a bibliographical tool the
equal of which only a small number of other libraries in the country
possess. Until the outbreak of the European War we purchased
regularly also the accession catalog of the Royal Library of Berlin.
We have also added the catalogs of the manuscript collections of the
British Museum, of which we now have thirty-two volumes ; the
Transcript of the Stationers' Registers, 1554-1708, a very rare work
in eight volumes ; full collections of the various important bibliographi-
cal societies of the world ; the rare American catalog known as Sabin,
Bibliotheca Americana. We have purchased the leading handbooks
and catalogs of incunabula, and within the last year we have obtained
the accession catalogs of the British Museum, which form a most
valuable supplement to the Catalogue of Printed Books of the British
Museum, which ended with the year 1899. It would be possible to
extend this list greatly, but the titles mentioned will give a sufficient
idea of 'the character of these accessions.
In 1908 the only two really notable collections in the Library were
those relating to the classics, for which, however, very little had been
done in recent years, and the collection of German literature for the
upbuilding of which Professor James Taft Hatfield had done excel-
lent work, and which included a very notable number of first editions
of German classical writers. To the classical collections we have
added the Inscriptions Graecae, twenty-two volumes, and the Corpus
Inscriptionum Latinarum, forty volumes, both purchased by me while
in Europe. These two sets were chiefly the gift of Dr. Merritt C.
Bragdon, an alumnus of the University. I have also used every
effort to bring the rest of the classical collections more up to date,
and extensive purchases have been made with the help of members
of the department.
Professor Hatfield obtained from Dr. Otto L. Schmidt of Chicago
the necessary funds to enable me to purchase, while in Europe in
1911, a complete set of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, IOI
volumes. This set is the chief work for the mediaeval history and
literature of Europe, and is of the utmost importance for the study
of German, Italian, and French mediaeval history and literature.
We have also added this year many other notable sets, such as the
publications of the Hakluyt Society, in 152 volumes, the standard work
for the study of voyages of discovery and exploration. Likewise, we
purchased the great historical work known as the Oncken Series, in
forty-five volumes, and for English history the Report of the Historical
Manuscripts Commission of Great Britain and Ireland, in 144
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volumes. Finally, in April of this year I induced a friend of the
University to give two thousand dollars in order that we might avail
ourselves of the offer of our English agents to supply us with a
complete set of the Calendar of State Papers, a set consisting of over
four hundred volumes, which is fundamental for the study of nearly
any phase of British history and even of some parts of our own
history. As this set, however, arrived just after the close of the
fiscal year, it is not included in the accession figures of this year.
In English literature we have made very extensive purchases
acquiring most of the standard sets, so that now we have an excellent
working collection. Our collection on French literature has been
rather weak. On a recent trip to New York I purchased one hun-
dred and forty-six volumes from a well-known book dealer. This
will do much to strengthen the Library in French literature, but
much still remains to be done, and the same is true in the fields of
Spanish and Italian literatures.
In the sciences very large additions have been made, especially in
physics. The notable collections that have been added are the Royal
Italian edition of Galileo's works in twenty volumes, the Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society of London, and other collections
too numerous to mention. This year, finally, when the John Crerar
Library took over the collections of the Chicago Academy of Sciences,
we made an arrangement with the former by which we received all
the publications of learned societies which it already owned. The
result is that we have received fourteen hundred and fifty-six vol-
umes, most of them sets of the publications of some of the principal
scientific societies of the world.
The largest collection, however, that we have added in the last
years has been our collection of South American history, concerning
which a full report was published by me in 1915, as number i of
volume 1 6 of the Northwestern University Bulletin. Our collection
of South American history is among the best west of the Alleghanies.
It consists not merely of all of the standard series and many rare
works relating to South American history, but also includes a notable
collection of manuscripts. It was one of these manuscripts which
was published as Bibolotti, Moseteno Vocabulary and Treatises, con-
cerning which I have more to say below.
However, the Library 7 has received not only South American
manuscripts, but, through the generosity of Mr. James A. Patten and
Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus, also an English Bible of the thirteenth
century, and a Statius and a Horace of the fifteenth century. These
three manuscripts belonged to the notable collection of manuscripts
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exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago by Mr. Voynich of London
in 1915.
A notable event in the history of the Library was the publication
in October of Bibolotti, Moseteno Vocabulary and Treatises, based
upon a manuscript discovered by Dr. R. R. Schuller in our collection
of South American manuscripts. The volume was sent to learned
institutions and individuals interested in the subject. The work
was very favorably received, and many laudatory reviews were
printed. I beg to call especial attention to the review of Dr. Edward
Sapir of the Geological Survey of Canada in International Journal
of American Linguistics, volume i, pages 183-184, and of Dr. Fay-
Cooper Cole in the Alumni Journal of December 15, 1917, pub-
lished by Northwestern University. The Librarian also has received
numerous, letters from scholars from different parts of the country
commenting upon the value of this work, and also upon the excellent
typography and beautiful appearance of the book.
THE LIBRARY BUILDING AND DEPARTMENTAL
LIBRARIES
As has been noted in my recent reports a great difficulty in the
last decade has been the lack of proper facilities for housing and
storing the collections of books. Lunt Library had been outgrown
before I came in 1908, and all efforts to bring about a radical im-
provement of the situation either by building a new library or making
large additions to the present building proved to be in vain. Though
the Library Committee realized the great need of the Library, similar
needs existed in the case of many other departments of the University,
with the result that as the Library concerned everyone no one felt
responsible. The most curious omission was the failure to appoint
the Librarian or a representative of the Library Committee, as such,
on the Building Committee appointed by the Board of Trustees,
which was to survey the material needs of the University. The needs
of the Library were apparently not considered at all, and probably
many thought that to emphasize its needs would delay the fulfillment
of other desires. The Librarian felt called upon to point out that
the failure to improve the building situation was bringing about the
complete disintegration of the Library and preventing the proper use
of its resources. The Library Committee adopted this viewpoint,
and the chairman of the Committee presented the facts at a meeting
of the Building Committee held on December n, 1917. The Build-
ing Committee adopted a resolution that it thought it inadvisable for
the Library Committee to press the need of a new building until a
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conference had been held between the Library Committee and the
Building Committee to settle policies connected with the Library.
This referred to a division of opinion as regards the desirability of
maintaining a centralized library system. The Library Committee
felt that this question concerned a much larger group than merely
members of the Building Committee, and at the suggestion of the
Library Committee the President of the University called a meeting
of members of professorial rank of the College of Liberal Arts, the
College of 'Engineering, the School of Music, and the School of
Oratory. In preparation for this meeting the Librarian sent out a
full statement of what had been done in regard to departmental
libraries in other institutions. The meeting itself was held on the
evening of January n, 1918, and the policies adopted and followed
by the Library Committee met with general approval. The prin-
ciple of a centralized library as opposed to a policy of a number of
departmental libraries was specifically approved. Nevertheless, on
account of the war it is unlikely that it will be possible to make any
radical improvements for the present, and it is to be feared that
more and more books will have to be sent out of the main building.
At present, there is stored in the basement of the Library material,
chiefly newspapers and magazines, which if placed on the shelves
would require the space occupied by about thirty thousand volumes.
We can hardly pack away much more for there is now little on the
shelves which is not needed there.
One large improvement was made in the building in 1915, as
described in my reports for 1914-15 and 1915-16. This change
which gave us the Upper Reading Room relieved the situation as
far as housing the readers is concerned, and took care of our acces-
sions for the last two years. Probably the accessions for another
year or two can be taken care of by placing shelves in the rooms in
the basement which were vacated this fall by the Classical Depart-
ment. What can be done after that I am unable to say, but apres
mol le deluge. The removal of the classical collections from the
Library to Fisk Hall is especially to-be regretted for, as I noted in
last year's report, classical collections, after all, interest everyone who
studies the humanities, and in this differ from scientific collections,
which often form more or less of an entity.
The following table giving the number of books in seminar
libraries at the end of each year shows to what an increasing extent
books are being withdrawn from the main library:
LIBRARIAN S REPORT
1907-08 4.5^9 1912-13 16,361
I9I3-H 17,497
1908-09 8,709 1914-15 19,419
1909-10 n,399 1915-16 25,289
1910-1 1 14,672 1916-17 24,632
1911-12 15,322 1917-18 32,382
FINANCES, ORDERING, AND ACCESSIONS
Larger activities on the part of the Library naturally have meant
some increase in expenses, though much less than might have been
expected, especially since the staff, which in 1907-1908 numbered
eight members, rose in 1916-1917 to fifteen members. In the fol-
lowing comparative tables I shall give the figures for the ten years
of my administration and the total for these ten years, and in addi-
tion the sum for the year before I came (1907-1908).
The table for salaries is as follows:
1907-08 $ 5,160.00 1913-14 $ 6,833.20
1908-09 $ 6,160.33 '914-15 7,568.34
1909-10 7,227.00 1915-16 9,269.32
1910-11 7,670.00 1916-17 12,524.84
1911-12 5,753.32 1917-18 ",398-25
1912-13 7,432.05
Total $81,836.65
Expenditures for books in the last eleven years have been as
follows :
1907-08 ................. $ 6,465.29 1913-14 ................. $ 7,975-25
1908-09 ................. $ 5,531-97 T 9i4-'S ................. 12,530.72
1909-10 ................. 7,554.89 '915-16 ................. 5,377-55
1910-11 ................. 7,660.18 1916-17 ................. 6,511.96
I9 II-I2 ................. 7,497.29 I9I7-I8 ................. 7,403-44
1912-13 ................. 7,042-07 -
Total ................. $75,085.32
This table shows that on the whole the University and its friends
have done little to increase the book funds at the disposal of the
Library in the last decade over those of former years, though in this
decade most other larger institutions of learning have developed their
resources with almost feverish energy. If the Library has grown in
value it has evidently not been due to the fact that the University
suddenly expended larger sums for books than had been customary.
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Expenditures for binding for the last eleven years have been as
follows :
1907-08 ................. $ 1,250.00 1913-14 ................. $ 880.60
1908-09 ................. $ 1,128.45 I9H-I5 ................. 675.18
1909-10 ................. 992.90 1915-16 ................. 914.68
1910-11 ................. 686.06 1916-17 ................. 1,62545
1911-12 ................. 871.16 i9!7-i8 ................. 1,637.16
1912-13 ................. 1,041.44 ,
Total ................. ,$10,453.08
It may be of interest also to give a comparative table showing the
total expenditures of all kinds for the Library in the last eleven years,
excluding, however, the expenditures for building and general Univer-
sity charges:
1907-08 ....... .......... $13,760.28 1913-14 ................. $16,872.90
1908-09 ................. $13,829.21 1914-15 ................. 22,382.83
1909-10 ................. 16,688.66 1915-16 ................. 17,022.92
1910-11 ................. 16,187.24 1916-17 ................. 22,085.12
1911-12 ................. 15,343-74 '917-18 ................. 22,250.47
1912-13 ................. 16,405.80
Total ................ $179,068.90
The detailed statement for the last two years is as follows :
FINANCIAL ACCOUNT
Administration and Accounts Not
Transferable 1916-17 1917-18
*Salaries ........................ $12,524.84 $11,398.25
Printing, Stationery, and Supplies.. 630.14 1,014.76
Cataloging Cards ................ 393-89 360.87
Freight and Cartage ............. 272.66 410.48
$13,821.53 $13,184.36
Binding 1,625.45 1,637.67
School of Commerce Book Account
(SC78) 126.18 25.00
Total expenditure from funds not
transferable to new fiscal year $15,573.16 $14,847.03
*The amount expended for salaries as given here does not agree with
the statement of the Business Manager of the University. This is due to
the fact that in the Library statistics the salaries are given as paid out
during the fiscal year, while the Business Office places a part of each salary
in a so-called suspense account, owing to the fact that salaries begin Sep-
tember first, while the fiscal year ends June thirtieth. The sum of $9,541.50,
however, which was given in last year's report as expended for salaries in
1916-17 was incorrect.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT 11
Book Fund (N. U. L. Account) 1916-17 1917-18
Carried over from previous year. .$ 3,390.02 $ 5,634.01
Appropriated 7,900.00 7,500.00
Sales and Rebates 480.49 61.72
Fine Money for Current Year 110.93 98.35
Gifts 264.53
For Calendar of State Papers 2,000.00
N. W. Harris Endowment 400.00
Class of 1895 *. 25.78
$12,145.97 $15,719.86
1916-17 1917-18
Paid out for Books $ 6,511.96 $ 7,403.44
Cash on Hand in Library 33-54 35-2i
Balance in Business Office 5,600.47 8,281.21
$12,145.97 $15,719.86
1916-17 1917-18
Balance to be carried into next
fiscal year $ 5,634.01 $ 8,316.42
Gifts and funds restricted to special
departments $ 3,110.97 $ 4.758-55
Outstanding orders (estimated) . . . 4,037.36 6,799.48
7,148.33
Net Liability ................. $ 1,514.32 $ 3,241.61
ACCESSIONS
The accessions of bound volumes for the last eleven years, together
with the total for the last ten years, are as follows:
1907-08 ..................... 4,243 1913-14 ..................... 4,924
1908-09 ..................... 4,063 '9I4-I5 ..................... 4,544
1909-10 (14 months) ......... 4,705 i9 I 5" I 6 ..................... 4,69*
1910-11 ..................... 4,723 1916-17 ..................... 4,314
1911-12 ..................... 4,758 1917-18 ..................... 3,617
..................... 4,969
~ t ,
Total .............. ....... 45,308
The detailed tables for 1916-17 and 1917-18 are as follows:
Bound volumes added 1916-17 1917-18
By purchase ............................. .......... 2,554 2,800
By gift ............................................. 1,794 831
Total ............................................ 4,348 3,631
Withdrawn ......................................... 34 14
Increase 4,3*4 3, 617
Pamphlets added (approximately) 6,770 4,800
Total number of bound volumes in Library on June 30,
1918 115,492
Total number of pamphlets in Library on June 30, 1918
(approximately) 85,200
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Among the more notable purchases this last year have been the
following :
L'Alighieri. 4 vols. 1889-1893.
Giornale Dantesco. 24 vols. 1894-1916.
Americana Germanica. New series. 26 vols. 1904-1918.
Aristophanes, Facsimile of the Codex Venetus Marcianus 474. 1902.
Aristotles [Oeuvres], tr. by J. B. Saint-Hilaire. 32 vols. 1839-1892.
The Atlantis. Vols. 1-5. 1858-1870.
Aubigne, T. A. d', Oeuvres Completes. 6 vols. 1873-1892.
Biographic Universelle (Michaud) Ancienne et Moderne. 45 vols. 1854-1865.
British Museum, List of Catalogues of English Book Sales, 1676-1900. 1915.
British Museum, Manuscripts:
Catalogue of Manuscripts of King's Library. 1734.
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library. 1802.
Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts. 4 vols. 1808-1812.
Catalogue of the Landsdowne Manuscripts. 1819.
Catalogue of the Arundel Manuscripts. 1834.
Catalogue of the Burney Manuscripts. 1840.
Index to the Arundel and the Burney Manuscripts. 1840.
Index to the Sloane Manuscripts. 1904.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts. 5 vols. 1889-1912.
Index to the Charters and Rolls. 2 vols. 1900-1912.
Catalogue of Stowe Manuscripts. 2 vols. 1895-1896.
Catalogue of the Fifty Manuscripts and Printed Books Bequeathed by
A. H. Huth. 1912.
Fragments of the Iliad of Homer. 1851.
Facsimiles of Royal and Other Charters. Vol. i. 1903.
Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts. 2d ed. 3 vols. 1910.
Schools of Illumination. 2 vols. 1914-1915.
Coleccion de Documentos Ineditos Relatives al Descubrimiento . . . de las
Antiguas Posesiones Espanolas de Ultramar. 2d series. 13 vols. 1885-
1900.
Daremberg, C. V. and Saglio, E., Dictionnaire des Antiquites Grecques et
Romaines. 4 vols. 1877-1912.
Flamsteed, J., Historiae Coelestis Britannicae. 3 vols. 1725.
Flaubert, G., Works. 18 vols.
Gautier, T., Works. 27 vols.
Gondinet, E., Works. 6 vols.
Loti, P., Works. 26 vols.
Prevost, M., Works. 30 vols.
Zola, E., Works. 35 vols.
Great Britain, Historical Manuscripts Commission, Reports. 130 vols. 1872-
1916.
Hakluyt Society, Works. 148 vols. 1847-1916.
Harrisse, H., Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima. 2 vols. 1866-1872.
Real Academia de la Historia, Historia General de Espafia. 18 vols. 1890 & ff.
Lasteyrie du Saillant, R. C. de, Bibliographic Generale des Travaux His-
toriques et Archeologiques. 5 vols. 1888-1905.
Machinery's Encyclopedia. 7 vols. 1917.
Madden, F., Syr Gawayne. 1839.
Morris, William, Collected Works. 24 vols. 1910-1915.
New York State Historical Association, Proceedings. 14 vols. 1901-1915.
LIBRARIAN'SREPORT 13
Oncken, W. ed., Allgemeine Geschichte in Einzeldarstellungen. 45 vols.
1879-1893.
Sejourne, P., Grandes voutes. 6 vols. 1913-1916.
The Times History of the War. 13 vols. 1914-1917.
Upham, C. W., Salem Witchcraft. 2 vols. 1867.
This last year there have been no gifts totaling a large number
of volumes, which will explain why in spite of an increase in our
purchases the total oi our accessions is less than last year. There
were, however, several gifts of individual volumes worthy of special
mention.
After long efforts the Library has gradually been able to purchase
an almost complete set of the interesting and valuable publications
of the Caxton Club of Chicago. The three volumes, Caxton Club
Scrap-book, 1903; Davenport, C., Samuel Mearne, 1906; Uzanne,
O., The French Bookbinders of the Eighteenth Century, 1904, which
we still lacked, were presented to the JLibrary by the Club. We are
indebted to Cornell University for a gift of the expensive and
scholarly Catalogue of the Petrarch Collection bequeathed by Wll-
lard Fiske. London, 1916. This institution has been especially kind
to Northwestern University, having given in previous years the
catalogs of its Dante collection and its Icelandic collection. Worthy
of note is also the gift of the late Mr. George B. Harris of Chicago
of the beautiful edition of Alexander v. Humboldt, Vues des Cordi-
lleres et Monumens des Peuples Indigenes de I'Amerique. Paris,
1810.
Sources of gifts of bound volumes accessioned during the year are
as follows:
D. A. Apcar i
Charles B. Atwell. 5
Library of R. E. Baird i
E. S. Balch i
T. W. Balch i
Holmes Beckwith I
Bonbright Library . . . - I
J. Boyd ';< ';
Mrs. M. C. Bragdon 6
George F. Butler 14
James Byrne i
Emile Carbonnel i
H. E. Cobb 3
G. A. Coe i
Warren H. Cudworth I
Robert E. Dawson 15
W. Macneile Dixon 15
H. P. Dutton 2
Axel Louis Elmquist 2
Clarence A. Fisher ' i
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Mrs. Herbert F. Fisk i
Mrs. Dwight Furness i
R. H. Gault 5
W. H. Haas. 10
Dan W. Hagin i
George B. Harris i
John F. Hayf ord i
Ralph E. Heilman i
W. E. Hotchkiss 14
M. C. Janet i
Orvis F. Jordan i
Effie A. Keith i
Henry H. Klein ; 2
G. H. Lepper i
Walter Lichtenstein i
Daniel E. Marsh i
Agnes L. Mowbr ay 3
Sir Gilbert Parker r
John M. Potter .- 2
W. E. Ranger i
Hans Rastede 9
P. Orman Ray i
G. L. Raymond 2
R. R. Schuller 7
John A. Scott i
Horace Secrist i
Major J. E. Spingarn i
G. H. Strong i
A. Turpain 4
Mrs. E. K. Voorhees 5
Mrs. Cyrus Walker i
Horatio White i
Dean John H. Wigmore i
U. S. Government 114
State Governments 202
Cities, societies, etc 38
Colleges 57
Publishers 27
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 28
Carnegie Institution 12
Academy 95
Miscellaneous 19
Anonymous 32
Garrett Biblical Institute 14
School of Commerce ; 6
School of Music 10
Belgian Consulate 10
Caxton Club 8
Total 831
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT 15
INCUNABULA AND MANUSCRIPTS
We did not receive any incunabula during the current year; in
fact all of our incunabula came with the Greenleaf Collection years
ago. Nevertheless, for the first time we brought all of our incu-
nabula together and listed them. This was done in order to be able
to have our incunabula included in the list to be published by the
Bibliographical Society of America. We found that we had the
following thirteen incunabula:
Caesar, C. J. Commentarii de bello gallico. Venetiis, Theodorus de Rega-
zonibus, 1490.
Anselm, St. Opera et tractatus. Nurenburgae, Caspar Hochfeder, 1491.
Quintilianus, M. F. Quintilianus cum commento. Venetiis, per Bonetum
Locatellum, 1493.
Gaza, Theodorus. Grammatica graeca. Venetiis, in aedibus Aldi Romani,
H9S-
Boethius, A. M. S. De consolatione philosophiae. In Colonia, per Henricura
Quentell, 1497.
Aristophanes. Comoediae IX, graece. Venetiis, apud Aldum, 1498.
Horatius Flaccus, Q. Horatius cum quattuor commentariis. Venetiis, 1498.
Statius. P. P. Silvae. yenetiis, Johannes Petrus de Quarengiis, 1498.
Tauler, Johann. Sermonen und historia. Leipzig, Kachelofen, 1498.
Epistolae graecae variorum auctorum. Venetiis, apud Aldum, 1499.
Nicander. 9rjpcaxa [xat~] Ah^t<papiJLd.xa. Venetiis, apud Aldum, 1499.
Scriptores astronomici veteres. Arati Solensis. Phaenomena. [Venetiis,
Aldus, 1499.]
Sprenger, J. Malleus maleficarum. [Speier], undated.
Some of these incunabula we have exhibited in the case in the
Upper Reading Room. This Library also participated in the exhi-
bition of manuscripts at the Art Institute of Chicago which was
arranged and prepared by the Caxton Club. This was perhaps the
most notable public exhibition of mediaeval manuscripts ever held in
this country. It ought to be a source of some satisfaction to know
that some of our manuscripts were thought worthy of being included,
and hence will be mentioned in the large catalog of this exhibition
which is to be published by the Caxton Club at some future time.
CIRCULATING DEPARTMENT
The statistics of the Circulating Department, as will be seen from
the following tables, show that the use of the books in the Library,
which is after all the best criterion of the value of the institution, has
increased very largely in the last decade. The figures given are those
for books drawn out of the building as well as books used in the Read-
ing Room, and also include the number of volumes deposited in the
seminar libraries. The figures must not be taken too seriously since
16 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
the recorded use of books in the Reading Room depends upon the
number of volumes which the desk assistants think it wise to reserve
behind the desk. The use of those on the open shelves is not recorded
at all. As before, I give the figures for 1907-08 as well as those of
the last decade:
1907-08 .................... 45.478 1913-14 .................... 77.977
1908-09 .................... 53,697 X 9i4-i5 .................... 100,330
1909-10 (14 months) ........ 65,758 1915-16 .................... 105,489
1910-11 .................... 64,764 1916-17 .................... 97,646
1911-12 .................... 78,644 1917-18 .................... 96,188
.................... 81,128
Total .................... 821,621
The above figures are the ones that have appeared from year to
year in the Library reports. In addition, however, I give here a
table showing the number of volumes actually lent for home use, and
also the number of borrowers registered each year:
No. of Borrowers Volumes Lent for
Registered Home Use
1907-08 ................................... I.H9 _ 8,251
1908-09 ................................... 1,161 7,564
1909-10 ( 14 months) ........................ 948 10,011
1910-11 ................................... 1,590 11,810
1911-12 ................................... 1,358 JI ,855
1912-13 ................................... 1,336 10,300
1913-14 ................................... 1,389 11,041
1914-15 ................................... 1.581 13.557
1915-16 ................................... 1,286 13,172
1916-17 ................................... 1.799 12,112
1,474 12,454
Total 13,922 113,876
In 1908 the charging system used at the desk had become very
cumbersome and burdensome to the assistants. Since all the books
in the Library had not been classified, the users of the Library were
not required to look up the call numbers of the books given in the
catalog, but simply mentioned author and title, and left the desk
assistant to do all the work. Therefore, in the fall of 1909 we
inaugurated a system of calling for books by their number and made
the necessary changes in the method of keeping our records. This has
relieved the assistants at the desk very much, and I believe that it is
not an exaggeration to say that without this alteration the whole desk
work would have broken down sooner or later.
Since the Upper Reading Room has been finished the serious stu-
dents have had a place where they could find quiet and pleasant sur-
roundings. I had always hoped, however, that the University might
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT 17
have a building some day in which there would be a room handsomely
fitted up, where students could pass pleasant hours browsing among
books not necessarily bearing upon their studies. With this in mind
I began some years ago a small collection of sets of some authors like
Stevenson and Kipling, well bound and well printed, which might
form a nucleus for a library to be placed in such a room or rooms.
Here at Northwestern too little is done to familiarize the students
with the aesthetic side of books and literature. The students are
drawn largely from homes in which books and objects of art are not
very common, and it would be well for the University to impress
upon its members the fact that books are not merely utilitarian. The
only thing in this direction that has been attempted has been to place
on a revolving book case in the Lower Reading Room such current
novels as the Library could afford to purchase, and some other books
of a semi-popular nature. It must be confessed that the selection
of books for the revolving case has not been uniformly a happy one,
and there has been no place in the Library sufficiently attractive to
induce a student to spend an idle hour browsing among books, an
appeal which one could imagine easily made by a room fitted up in
the manner of the libraries of some private clubs.
The reference work of the Library has in some respects been well
done. Much assistance has been given to students in preparing de-
bates and in finding references. The Library has, however, lacked
an assistant who would have the ability to prepare really scholarly
bibliographies, and thus be of assistance to professors and others
engaged in research. To be sure this is not a charge against North-
western alone. In most institutions there is lacking the really
scholarly library assistant. In an article which I wrote for the April
number of the Library Journal I spoke of this question at length, and
there is no need to repeat here what I said there.
The usual statistics for the Circulating Department for the last
two years are as follows :
Books loaned: 1916-17 1917-18
Faculty and special list 36,428 43,654
Students 7,623 8,091
Total 44,051 5 I )745
Recorded use of books in Reading Room 53,595 44,443
97,646 96,188
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Persons drawing books: 1916-17 1917-18
Faculty 144 154
Special list 45 38
Students 1,596 1,262
Libraries 14 20
Total i,799 i,474
Average number using Reading Room per day 499 412
Average number of hours the Library has been open per
week 84 *
CATALOGING DEPARTMENT
In the Cataloging Department for many years there was little
improvement, and, in fact, some deterioration in the work done.
There was, above all, no attempt made to keep step with the changes
going on in other libraries in regard to cataloging processes. Only in
the last two years has there been a decided change for the better. I
quoted from Miss Keith's report to me in my last year's report, and I
give here her report of this year:
Since 1908 the Cataloging Department has doubled in size. There are
now four catalogers who are giving very nearly full time to the work and
a typist who gives part time. In 1908 many of the cards for the catalog
were being written by hand, the typewriter being used only in connection
with printed cards. Now all cards are either printed or typewritten, re-
sulting in a great saving of time.
The work of reclassifying has progressed so that practically all the
books in the Library are now fully classed and cataloged, with the excep-
tion of the classics, some books other than classics in the Greenleaf Collec-
tion, and the government documents. The latter will probably not be
cataloged for some years to come, as there are very good indexes which
make this material available. Of the classics, Latin is practically finished,
and Greek well started. Under ordinary conditions the work of reclassify-
ing the classics can be finished in about a year.
As was stated in the Librarian's Report, 1916-17, a change has been made
in the methods of cataloging, and we are now doing work of a similar
grade to that of the larger university libraries, using up-to-date methods
and doing more detailed work than was possible hitherto. We are also
co-operating with the Library of Congress by furnishing copy for some
books which it does not possess and for which it desires cards.
*Owing to the need of saving fuel and the lack of one desk assistant, the
number of hours in which the Library was open each week varied during
the year. At the beginning of the academic year it was open 84 hours a
week ; from early in January until the first of March the Library was open only
from 8 :45 A. M. to 6 P. M., from 7 P. M. to 9 P. M., and from 8 45 A. M.
to 6 P. M. on Saturdays; a total of 65^ hours a week. From the first of
March until the end of the second semester the Library was open from
8 A. M. to 6 P. M., and from 7 P. M. to 9:30 P. M., and from 8 A. M.
to 6 P. M. on Saturdays, making a total of 72^2 hours a week.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT
19
The Union Catalog, begun in 1910, now nearly fills twenty-one cases,
and has finally been arranged in one alphabet, so that it is very easy to
consult. It is proving a very valuable bibliographical tool, which is used
frequently by members of the Library staff. Unfortunately its value as a
large and accurate bibliography is not yet fully appreciated, and the
number of people using it outside of the staff is still very small.
Up to last year all pamphlets were roughly classified as they came in
and shelved with ^the books on the subject, an arrangement which made
necessary a thorough knowledge of the classification on the part of the user;
consequently much valuable material was often very difficult to find. Sub-
ject cards for all pamphlets are now being made and inserted in the
catalog, where they form a general subject index to the pamphlet material
in the Library. This plan will make pamphlets easily accessible at a very
small cost.
Last year three university students asked for instruction in library methods
in return for a certain number of hours' work in the Library each week.
Since we had three new assistants who had had no previous library train-
ing, an apprentice class was formed and lectures given by members of the
staff on various phases of library work. This brief and informal course of
lectures and practice was under the direction of the head cataloger. " It is
doubtful whether the plan of training assistants for positions in the Library
is really economical or entirely satisfactory, but as long as the salaries
offered here for such positions are far below those offered college graduates
in other lines of work this course must be continued.
I shall not attempt to give comparative statistics for the Cataloging
Department for the last ten years since the character of the work has
changed so much that there would be little meaning in comparative
figures. I shall content myself with giving the customary figures for
the last two years :
1916-1917 Titles Volumes Cards
Recataloging 1,097 r ,8o5 3,34
Current cataloging 1,965 4,3*8 9,383
Totals 3,062
Shelf list .
Total number of cards.
1917-1918 Titles
Recataloging (97 periodicals) i,343
Current cataloging (1,104 pamphlets) 2,970
Totals 4,313
Shelf list .
6,123
Volumes
1,784
5,219
7,003
Total number of cards.
12,723
3,062
15,785
Cards
3,657
14,824
18,481
3,378
21,859
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CATALOGING SITUATION
July i, 1917 July i, 1918
Total volumes in Library 111,875 volumes 115,492 volumes
Classified 91,013 volumes 96,833 volumes
(42,500 titles) (45,326 titles)
Completely cataloged 93,35' volumes 99,171 volumes
(47,256 titles)* (51,272 titles)
Balance of books not classified 20,862 volumes 18,659 volumes
Of these, Greenleaf 4i57 volumes 2,452 volumes
Others 16,705 volumes 16,207 volumes
Balance of books not completely cataloged 18,524 volumes 16,321 volumes
Of these, Greenleaf 4 I 57 volumes 2,452 volumes
Others 14,367 volumes 13,869 volumes
Cataloged, but not classified 2,338 volumes 2,338 volumes
As Miss Keith points out, the significant fact is that while in 1909
there were 34,187 volumes in the Library which were neither cata-
loged nor shelf-listed, at present the Library is approaching complete-
ness in its catalog and shelf list.
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
The Library Committee held a larger number of meetings than
usual this last year owing chiefly to the question of seminar libraries,
and the urgent need of more room for books. There were in all five
meetings. The Librarian is glad to express his cordial thanks to
the members of the faculty who served on the Library Committee
in the last decade. He is glad to be able to say that his relations
with the Committee have been uniformly cordial, and that there has
never been any friction between the Librarian and the Committee.
This has been due to the fact that the Committee acted strictly as an
advisory body and did not seek to interfere with the executive func-
tions of the Librarian. In part the satisfactory relationship has been
due to the fact that, on the whole, there has been little change in
the personnel of the Committee. A committee, such as the Library
Committee, which has not and ought not to have executive power,
should consist of men who are familiar with the work of the Library,
and interested in its problems, and as long as these men enjoy the
confidence of the faculty there ought to be as little change made in
the membership as possible. A committee such as the Library Com-
mittee is not supposed to represent various factions of the faculty nor
ought it to be a place through which all members of the faculty can
expect in time to pass for the purpose of gaining familiarity with the
Library and its administration. At the meeting held January 1 1 ,
1918, of which mention has been made before, it was found that the
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT 21
faculty, as a whole, approved heartily of the policy which the Com-
mittee had consistently followed. Consequently, the suggestion made
that a certain number of the members of the Committee be dropped
each year in order that there might be a kind of rotation in office
seems to me to be very unwise, since it would tend to bring about a
radical change in those policies, which, in spite of many handicaps,
have made the Library a valuable part of Northwestern University.
In the last decade only one radical change has taken place in the
position of this Library in the University. When I came to North-
western University in 1908 this Library was merely a department
of the College of Liberal Arts, and the Librarian was a subordinate of
the Dean of that college. As the Library, however, served not only
the College of Liberal Arts, but also, even though to a lesser degree,
the College of Engineering, the School of Music, and the School of
Oratory, as well as the Evanston Academy, until this ceased to exist,
it seemed proper for this reason alone to make the Library a univer-
sity library. This was done in 1911. Since this time this Library
has been a separate department of the University, and the Librarian
has borne the title of University Librarian, without, however, having
had any control over the libraries of the Chicago departments of the
University. Besides certain other advantages this placed this Library
on the same level as the libraries in neighboring institutions, though
it still lacks a unity which most of them possess in that the university
librarian in the other institutions has some control over all book
resources of the university.
THE STAFF
Thirty-six people have been members of the Library staff in the
last ten years, and it would be difficult to find a group that has
worked together more harmoniously and willingly than the various
assistants which I have had. There has never been any personal
friction to allay or personal jealousies to take into consideration. At
all times members have made willing sacrifices for the sake of the
work and the service, in spite of the fact that the salaries have
usually been lower than they ought to have been.
This last year the staff has been keenly interested in the efforts
made by the American Library Association to obtain books for the
soldiers and sailors in this country and overseas. We started our
preparations very early, and were able with the aid of the Woman's
League of the University to obtain more than one thousand volumes
of the best type for sending to the men in the service of the country.
If I may speak of myself in closing, I may say that I feel in-
debted to Northwestern University for the long leaves of absence
given me in the years from 1911 to 1915. During these years the
22 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
internal work of the Library was well taken care of by Miss Eleanor
W. Falley, since 1914 Assistant Librarian, and now to succeed me as
Acting Librarian. These leaves of absence, however, did not mean
that I ceased for long periods of time to serve the Library entrusted
to my care. In fact most of the notable additions that have come to
the Library, and especially is this true of the South American collec-
tions, are due to the trips made by me to Europe and other parts of
the world. In no other way is it likely that with the resources at the
command of Northwestern University the Library could have been
built up in the way it has been. I may quote in this connection
from the report of former President Harris for 1912-13, page 24:
The Librarian has been called upon for important service by other
libraries, most of them university libraries, and is developing a technical
service in library science and administration that is the cause for great satis-
faction. He has been granted leave of absence twice in order to visit
Europe in the interest of a group of co-operating libraries, and in June was
granted leave of absence for fourteen months in order to visit South
America upon a similar errand. . . . The work at Northwestern has
been so well organized that no loss has resulted to local interests by the
development of this important public service.
During eight of the ten years in which I have been connected
with Northwestern University I served under President Harris, and
I am glad to take this opportunity of expressing to him in this final
report, though he is no longer at the head of the institution, my deep
gratitude for his unfailing interest in my work, and the frequent
encouragement w r hich he gave me. And I trust that it will not be
taken amiss that I give expression to a feeling of regret that the
service which I rendered to Northwestern University and American
scholarship throughout the country by undertaking book-buying trips
of a scope and kind not previously attempted, should have been
given as the chief reason for not needing me during the present
financial crisis. A librarian just as the head of any other institution,
need not necessarily be tied to his desk in order to render the greatest
services to his employers. Judging, however, from the official state-
ment which said that "it was recalled that during [my] absence for
an extended period in South America, the library work was carried on
successfully," and that therefore my services were not essential,
apparently those activities which ought to be the strongest recom-
mendation for me and my work are recalled at this time only for the
purpose of showing that the librarian is quite unnecessary at present.
Perhaps, however, it merely proves the need of a report such as this
one which shows what has been done in, for, and by the Library in
the last decade. Respectfully submitted,
WALTER LICHTENSTEIN,
July IO, 1918. Librarian.
LIBRARIAN'SREPORT 23
SUMMARY OF LIBRARY STATISTICS IN THE FORM
RECOMMENDED BY THE AMERICAN LIBRARY
ASSOCIATION
Annual report for year ended June 30, 1918
Name of Library Northwestern University Library.
Name of Librarian Walter Lichtenstein, Ph.D.
City of Evanston, State of Illinois.
Terms of use Free to students and faculty of University and
others specially introduced.
Number of days open during year 308.
INCREASE
Number of volumes at beginning of year 111,879
Number of volumes added during year by purchase 2,800
Number of volumes added during year by gift and exchange 831
Number of volumes lost or withdrawn during year 14
Total number at end of year 1 1 5,496
Number of pamphlets at beginning of year, approximate 80,400
Number of pamphlets added during year, approximate 4,800
Total number of pamphlets at end of year, approximate 85,200
Manuscripts at end of year 63 volumes
1 portfolio
Collections of broadsides at end of year 3 volumes
2 portfolios
USE
Total recorded use (number of volumes lent for home use) 12,454
Number of volumes in seminar libraries 32,382
REGISTRATION
Number of borrowers registered during year i,474
FINANCE
RECEIPTS FROM PAYMENTS FOR
Unexpended balance $ 5,634.01 Books and periodicals. . . .$ 7,403.44
Endowment funds 27,096.37 Salaries, Library staff.... 11,398.25
Fines and sales 160.07 Janitor, heat, light, etc. ... 4,749.34
Gifts 2,425.78 Binding 1,637.67
Other maintenance i,8n.n
Unexpended balance 8,316.42
Total $35,316.23 Total $35,316.23
24 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY STAFF, 1918-1919
*Walter Lichtenstein, Ph.D., Librarian
Eleanor Worthington Falley, B.S., Assistant Librarian
CIRCULATING DEPARTMENT
Eleanor Frances Lewis, B.A., Reference Librarian
Amy Lovena Armstrong, B.S., Assistant
, Assistant
CATALOGING DEPARTMENT
Effie Almira Keith, B.A., B.S., Head Cataloger
Sadie Abia Thompson, Ph.B., Assistant
Frances Sweet, B.A., Assistant
, Assistant
Sallie Bell Kappes, B.A., Secretary to the Librarian
, Ordering
, Accessions
*Resigned, but on leave of absence for the year 1918-1919 as resignation
does not take effect until August 31, 1919.
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Northwestern University Bulletin
Vol. XX, No. 27 January 3, 1920
Report of the Librarian
of the University
for the Year 1918-1919
Published Weekly by the University
Northwestern University Building
Chicago
To the President of the University:
I beg to submit the following report on the Library for the year
ending June 30, 1919. With all other departments of the Univer-
sity the Library has felt keenly the war conditions under which this
institution labored during the first quarter of the school year and
the results which have affected the entire year. As the men of the
National Army studied under supervision and as their free time was
limited, the Library served almost exclusively the women of the
University for the first quarter. As a result, during October, Novem-
ber and December the average number of students using the Reading
Rooms was 286 as against 412 of last year and 499 of the year
before. During the spring, with the men again regularly registered
in college, the average number of students using the Reading Rooms
rose to 367. The plan of holding classes five hours a week, due to
the quarter system, has seemed to result in less collateral reading,
and this has also tended to lower the average.
But war conditions were felt not alone at the desk. The refer-
ence work began to look altogether war-like early in the year. As
far as possible all college courses used the war directly or indirectly
as a background, and themes and long papers generally related at
least indirectly to the world struggle. The latest published infor-
mation, for the most part found in periodicals and pamphlets, was in
greatest demand. The order department was likewise affected. Pro-
fessors at first were too closely tied down by the S. A. T. C. to think
about orders, and on the whole requests for books came late in the
year. Publishers were short of stock, and books ordered were slow
in being received. This in turn affected the cataloging department,
and the amount of current cataloging was considerably less because
of it, at least during the first six months.
Besides the fact that each separate department was affected, the
Library as a whole was seriously hampered. Because of shortened
funds, the staff was cut from thirteen regular assistants and a page
giving part time to the equivalent of ten people giving full time.
The demand in all lines for trained workers and the ill health of
several assistants has caused what is unusual for us and bad for the
efficiency of the work, a considerable shifting of people within the
year and long periods of time with positions unfilled. The members
of the staff have been most loyal and their hearty co-operation under
these trying conditions has been gratifying beyond words.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
With the establishment of the S. A. T. C., the Library hoped to
be of especial use to the men of our National Army, and in confer-
ence with the Y. M. C. A. Secretary their needs and desires, speak-
ing from a library point of view, were learned. The Evanston Public
Library was already the accredited collector of magazines and books
for camps at home as well as abroad, and we found Mr. Skarstedt,
the Librarian, most cordial and helpful. His supplies were placed
at our disposal, and the best of what he had was offered for the use of
our students. The Y. M. C. A. soon worked directly with him, and
throughout the time Northwestern had a S. A. T. C. the Public
Library proved to be a very generous friend.
The crowded condition that every two or three years has threat-
ened to overwhelm us was once more relieved by taking over two
rooms in the basement hitherto used by the Classical Department.
The books on science, except for those in most demand that are
kept in the offices and laboratories, were shelved here. Although
we had high hopes of finding ourselves fairly comfortable again with
this additional space, the relief is slight and can not last more than
another year. From time to time as we have been pressed for
space we have packed in boxes books least used. The store-room
became overcrowded, and this year we have taken over space in Fisk
Hall and have moved 118 of these cases out of our store-room. This
means more room for storage here. Storage seems necessary, but it is
I not a solution of the problem.
The American Library Association, through its Committee on
Importations headed by Dr. Raney of Johns Hopkins University,
was permitted to bring in German periodicals for 1918. Through
this channel we were able to receive the German periodicals to which
we subscribe, barring those prohibited by the State Department,
namely those of a popular, historical, political or theological nature.
With the coming of peace we hope to fill in the gaps and to obtain
soon the German books needed by various professors for research
work.
Last year we recorded the anonymous gift of $2,000. This was
for the purchase of the Calendars of State Papers, a set of 395
volumes that has come in this year. Out of the general fund we
purchased the Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ire-
land in 253 volumes. These two sets are an invaluable addition to
the Library. Aside from the gift that helped make the purchase
of these possible we have received another unusual gift. This is from
Mr. Charles Deering and consists of a magnificent portrait of his
LIBRARIAN S REPORT
father, the late Mr. William Deering, by the famous Swedish painter
Ander Zorn, and a number of sumptuous books on birds, hand
colored and in beautiful bindings. They include the following:
Audubon, J. J. Birds of America. 5 vols. 1827-60.
Elliot, D. G. A Monograph of the Paradiseidae. 1873.
Elliot, D. G. A Monograph jof the Phasianidae. 6 vols. 1870-72.
Gould, J. A Monograph of the Trochilidae. 5 vols. 1861.
Vieillot, L. P. Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de 1'Amerique
Septentrionale. 1807.
FINANCES
The following tables give an account of our finances for the last
two years :
Administration and accounts not transferable:
1917-18 1918-19
*Salaries $11,398.25 $10,535.87
Printing, stationery and supplies... 1,014.76 77-?2
Cataloging cards 360.87 297.23
Freight and cartage 410.48 472.35
$13,184.36 $12,076.17
Binding 1,637.67 1,800.34
School of Commerce book account
(SC78) 25.00
Total expenditure from funds not
transferable to new fiscal year. $14,847.03 $13,876.51
Book Fund (N. U. L. Account) :
Carried over from previous year..$ 5,634.01 $ 8,281.21
Appropriated 7,500.00 6,900.00
Sales and rebates 61.72 265.86
Fine money for current year 98.35 T S2.54
Gifts 2,425.78
N. W. Harris Endowment 500.00
Class of 1895 25.75
$15,719.?
$16,125.36
*The amount given as expended for salaries does not agree with the
statement of the Business Office. This is due to the fact that these 'figures
are for the fiscal year while those of the Business Office are from September,
1918, through August, 1919, the salaries for the summer months being thrown
into a Summer Salary account in June.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Paid out for books $
7.4.O3.4..1
R O O77 77
Cash on hand in Library
35-21
7.8Q
Balance in Business Office
8,281.21
7.O3Q.7O
Balance to be carried into next
fiscal vear .
$15,719.86
$ 8.716.42
$16,125.36
$ 7.04.7. <;Q
Gifts and funds restricted -to special
departments $ 4,758.55
Outstanding orders (estimated)... 6,799.48
872.27
4,706.01
Total liabilities
$11,558.03
$ 5,578.28
Note In the table of total expenditures given last year in the report
of the Librarian for the previous ten years there are several errors. The
sum for 1910-11 ought to have been $16,837.24, which would make the grand
total for the ten years $179,718.90. But in addition there was expended in
the years from 1910 to 1913 for the initial materials and work required for
the Union Catalog the sum of $1,806.28, so that the total expenditures for
the Library for the ten years from 1908 to 1918, excluding expenditures for
building and general university charges, were $181,525.18. The table, there-
fore, is as follows:
1907-08 ..... ............ $13,760.28
1908-09 ................. 13,829.22
1909-10 ................ . 16,688.66
1910-11 ................. 18,282.09
1913-14 $16,872.90
1914-15 22,382.83
1915-16 17,022.92
1916-17 -. . 22,085.12
1917-18 22,250.47
1912-13 ................. 16,602.98
Total $181,525.18 ,
ACCESSIONS
The accessions for the past two years are as follows:
Bound volumes added:
1917-18
By purchase 2,800
By gift 831
Total 3,631
Withdrawn 14
Increase 3,617
Pamphlets added (approximately) 4,800
Total number of bound volumes in Library on June 30,
1919 :
Total number of pamphlets in Library on June 30, 1919
(approximately)
1918-19
2,897
1,196
4,093
4,079
5,029
"9,575
90,229
Although the departmental funds were 25 per cent less than in
normal times, a larger number of books were received this year than
LIBRARIAN S REPORT
last. This is due in part to the fact that the volumes covered by the
gift of $2,OOO given in 1917-18 were received in 1918-19.
Aside from the gifts already mentioned, Mrs. J. H. Long pre-
sented us with 46 volumes from the library of her husband, Professor
Long, of our Medical School. Professor A. Louis Elmquist gave
us 48 volumes of text books, 'in addition to these we purchased
from him about 160 volumes on Swedish literature and philology.
Professor Georg Edward has given the Library 10 volumes during
the year. This is only part of a larger gift, most of which came
in after the first of July, 1919. It is made up of files of magazines
and yearbooks, either complete in themselves or completing files
already in the Library. For this reason this gift is especially wel-
come.
Among the notable purchases of the year are the following:
Carducci, G., Opere. 17 vols. 1907-17.
Cicero, De Natura Deorum (photographic facsimile). 1912.
Homer, Illias cum Scholiis (photographic facsimile). 1901.
Rogers, R., Ponteach, or The Savages of America, 1914 (vellum edition,
published by the Caxton Club).
Rosas, J. M., Papeles de Rozas. 2 vols. 1904-07.
Stevin, Simon, De Beghinselen der Weeghconst. 1586.
Diderot, Oeuvres Completes. 20 vols. 1875-77.
Maupassant, Oeuvres Completes. 32 vols. 1908-10.
Voltaire, Oeuvres Completes. 52 vols. 1877-85.
Bibliotheque Litteraire de la Renaissance. 16 vols. 1903-12.
Mind. 16 vols. 1876-91.
Shelley Society. Publications. 22 vols. 1884-92.
Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle
Ages. 253 vols. 1858-97.
Great Britain Public Record Office. Calendars of State Papers. 395 vols.
1856-1916.
Encyclopedia Americana. 18 vols. 1918.
Aa, A. J. van der, Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlander. 17 vols.
Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek. 3 vols. 1911-14.
Tourneux, M., Bibliographic de 1'Histoire de Paris pendant la Revolution.
5 vols. 1890-1913.
Sources of bound volumes received as gifts during the year are
as follows:
C. B. Atwell 4
E. S. and E. M. Balch
T. W. Balch
S. E. Baldwin
Mrs. W. Warren Case
Henry Crew
G. O. Curme
T. Doki .
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C. S. Davison i
R. E. Dawson 10
Charles Deering 1 8
W. Macneile Dixon i
W. A. Dyche i
Georg Edward 10
A. L. Elmquist 48
R. C. Flickinger i
C. A. Fosnes i
H. Fox i
Clara Grant 3
U. S. Grant i
Dr. Samuel Greif 2
W. H. Haas 10
N. D. Harris N 5
Director Hayford 2
John Crerar Library 3
Eleanor Lewis i
W. A. Locy i
J. H. Long , 3
Mrs. J. H. Long 46
R. A. M. Lovatelli i
A. C. McClurg & Co i
Baron Tanetaro Megato I
Grace Merrill 2
P. Reinberg i
W. E. Ritter 2
Rockefeller Foundation i
E. G. and M. S. Routzain I
Rus'sell Sage Foundation i
T. Schroeder i
F. B. Snyder i
A. M. Todd i
R. C. Tolman I
Weld, L. H. *
Wallace & Tiernan Co I
U. S. Government 183
State governments 95
Cities, societies, etc 87
Colleges 351
Publishers 15
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 19
Carnegie Institution 17
Academy 49
Campus offices 21
Garrett Biblical Institute .' 58
School of Music 1 1
Source unknown 63
Caxton Club i
School of Pharmacy 20
Total 1,196
LIBRARIANS REPORT
For the first time we are giving a table of all the volumes, com-
pletely classified and cataloged according to the classes into which
they fall:
Volumes
Bibliography and bibliographical aids 2,499
General encyclopedias, periodicals, serials and newspapers 4,675
Philosophy 3i594
Religion 4,560
General sociology, political science and economics 10,488
Education 2,940
Philology 4,715
General science 2,508
Mathematics 1,851
Astronomy 2,058
Physics 2,365
Chemistry 1,688
Geology and paleontology 2,152
Biology 868
Botany 1,356
Zoology 1,403
Useful arts 2,063
Engineering 1,435
Fine arts 1,785
General literature 853
American literature 1,382
English literature 5,664
German literature 6,1 54
Dutch and Scandinavian literature 1,068
French literature 2,423
Italian literature 564
Spanish and Portuguese literature 520
Latin literature 1,856
Greek literature 1,010
Literature of minor languages 312
General history 717
Geography and travels 1,882
Biography and genealogy 787
Ancient history 1,038
General European history ' 896
Great Britain. History 1,076
Germany. History 838
France. History 708
Italy. History 1 14
Spain and Portugal. History 145
North America and Canada. History 309
United States. History 2,709
South America and Mexico. History i>3 2 2
History of other countries 467
Total 89,817
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The balance of the books are unclassified and are in most part
either classics or the official publications of cities, states, and the
Federal Government. In this connection it may be interesting to
note the recognition that our South American collection has received
during the year. The Hispanic American Historical Review for
November, 1918, published an article prepared by Miss Ethel M.
Crampton and Miss Laura F. Ulrich under the direction of Dr.
Lichtenstein, based on material found among our South American
manuscripts. An accompanying note mentioned the rich field these
manuscripts open to the advanced student.
CIRCULATING DEPARTMENT
The following tables give the statistics of the Circulating Depart-
ment for two years:
Books loaned: 1917-18 1918-19
Faculty and special list 43.654 47.659
Students 8,091 5,292
Total 51,745 52,951
Recorded use of books in the Reading Room 44.443 30,082
96,188 83,033
Persons drawing books:
Faculty 1 54 149
Special list 38 36
Students 1,262 1,066
Libraries 20 n
Total i,474 I >262
Average number using Reading Rooms per day:
First quarter 286
Second and third quarters 367
Average number of hours the Library has been open per week:
First quarter 7
Second and third quarters 75
LIBRARIANS REPORT
CATALOGING DEPARTMENT
The following tables give the statistics of the Cataloging Depart-
ment for 1917-18 and 1918-19:
1917-1918 - Titles Volumes Cards
Recataloging 249 628 1,466
Current cataloging 2,970 5,219 14,824
Classics recataloging 1,094 M5^ 2,191
Totals 4,313 7,003 18,481
Shelf list 3,378
Total number of cards .... 21,859
Periodicals recataloged 97 ....
Pamphlets classified and partially cataloged 11,104
1918-1919 Titles Volumes Cards
Recataloging 477 630 1,293
Current cataloging 2,530 3,586 10,640
Classics recataloging 124 171 509
Totals 3,131 4,387 12,442
Shelf list 2,083
Total number of cards I 45 2 5
Printed cards 10,899
Typed cards 3,626
Periodicals recataloged 20
Pamphlets classified and partially cataloged i,473
Owing to the scarcity of trained catalogers and to the limited
funds at our disposal, we were forced to leave one vacancy in this
department unfilled, and to fill another vacancy with a cataloger who
was not sufficiently experienced to work with classics. The recata-
loging of this collection that we had hoped to finish during the
year was of necessity postponed for the time being.
THE STAFF
As we have said before, our staff has been badly disorganized this
year. Early in the fall Miss Sweet of our Cataloging Department
left to accept a business position. In her place we engaged Mrs.
Helen B. Dixon. Miss Kappes, our stenographer, was forced to
resign in April after being ill for two months, and Miss Hingeley
was married in May. We were unable to fill either of these posi-
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tions before June. At that time we engaged Miss Marion Davis as
stenographer and Miss Eleanor Blake as a general assistant. We
have trained a number of men who have given part time, equaling
altogether the time of one regular assistant.
Our shortage of help has been slightly relieved in two ways :
first, by the large number of students who worked off scholarship
time in the Library; second, by obtaining the services of Mrs. Vera
P. Brodfuehrer, a .former assistant, who was with us about two
months. She has checked up gifts, overseen packing, helped to train
our new assistants and proved herself invaluable at a critical time..
Respectfully submitted,
ELEANOR W. FALLEY,
August 1 6, 1919. Assistant Librarian.
LIBRARIANS REPORT
SUMMARY OF LIBRARY STATISTICS IN THE FORM
RECOMMENDED BY THE AMERICAN LIBRARY
ASSOCIATION
Annual report for year ended June 30, 1919
Name of Library Northwestern University Library.
Name of Assistant Librarian Eleanor W. Falley.
City of Evanston, State of Illinois.
Terms of use Free to students and faculty of University and
others specially introduced.
Number of days open during year 308.
INCREASE
Number of volumes at beginning of year 115,496
Number of volumes added during year by purchase 2,897
Number of volumes added during year by gift and exchange.... 1,196
Number of volumes lost or withdrawn during year 14
Total number at end of year "9.575
Number of pamphlets at beginning of year, approximate 85,200
Number of pamphlets added during year, approximate 5,029
Total number of pamphlets at end of year, approximate 90,229
USE
Total recorded use (number of volumes lent for home use) 9.47 1
Number of volumes in seminar libraries 39.998
, REGISTRATION
Number of borrowers registered during year 1,262
FINANCE
RECEIPTS FROM . PAYMENTS FOR
Unexpended balance $8,281.21 Books and periodicals $ 9.O77-77
Endowment funds 26,124.83 Salaries, Library staff 10,535.87
Fines and sales 418.40 Janitor, heat, light, etc... 5.348-32
Gifts 525.75 Binding 1,800.34
Other maintenance 1,540.30
Unexpended balance 7>47-59
Total $35,350.19 Total $35,35o.i9
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A*
LIBRARY STAFF, 1918-1919
*Walter Lichtenstein, Ph.D., Librarian
Eleanor Worthington Falley, B.S., Assistant Librarian
CIRCULATING DEPARTMENT
Eleanor Frances Lewis, B.A., Reference Librarian
Amy Lovena Armstrong, B.S.
CATALOGING DEPARTMENT
Effie Almira Keith, B.A., B.S., Head Cataloger
Sadie Abia Thompson, Ph.B.
Frances Sweet, B.A.
Helen B. Dixon, B.A.
Sallie Bell Kappes, B.A., Secretary to the Librarian
Helen Carney Fathschild, B.A., Accessions
Margaret E. Hingeley, B.A., Ordering
*Resigned, but on leave of absence for the year 1918-1919 as resignation
does not take effect until August 31, 1919.
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UNIVERSITY
BULLETIN
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN
1918-1919
Published Weekly by Northwestern University
Northwestern University Building
Chicago
Vol. XX, No. 27 January 3, 1920
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1912. Acceptance for mailing
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