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Title: Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Library and Information Services
Publisher: Library of Congress
Contributing Library: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
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of thetrade lists and other publications which guide to the varyingcommercial values of books past and present. It receivesin the first instance all trade catalogues and other offersof material on sale; forwards these to the Library officialshaving special knowledge of the deficiencies of the Library,or special judgment as to the particular items offered, andsubmits to the Librarian the resultant recommendations. Itsystematizes also all recommendations for purchase origi-nating in the Library. It determines, in conformity withgeneral instructions, where and with what dealer a particu-lar order shall be placed, whether, e. g., in New York orLondon or Paris or Amsterdam or Leipsic. It places ordersfor the items approved by the Librarian for purchase andattends to all the business connected with the purchase. Itthus represents the Library in all its business relations withthe book trade, excepting only those concerned with copy-right. It handles also all gifts of material, all exchanges
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Order Division. 213 and all articles drawn into the library proper throughcopyright; in short, all accessions. Its equipment isadapted to these functions. It has the responsibility of ascertaining finally whetherany item whose purchase is approved will not duplicatematerial already in the Library or ordered, and also of advis-ing as to any cheaper or more desirable editions in themarket or prospective new editions which may render a post-ponement of purchase desirable. It would seem to be easyto determine whether or not a proposed item is already inthe Library. In this Library it is at present very difficult,because no accurate statement exists of what the Libraryalready contains. (See under Catalogues, pp. 235-240.) Sources.— The sources ofmaterial are (a) copyright, (b)gift, (c) exchange, (d) deposits by the Smithsonian Institu-tion, (<?) purchase. (a) Copyright.—The Library receives from the CopyrightOffice one at least of the two copies of the works requiredby law to be dep

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