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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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on. This also is true of eachcartographic list compiled by the division for publication.The following lists have been published:List of maps of Cuba. 1898. 15 pp.Alaska and the Northwest part of North America.1588-1898. 1898. 119 pp. List of maps and views of Washington and the Dis-trict of Columbia. 1900. 77 pp. A list of works relating to cartography. 1901. 90 pp. A list of maps of America in the Library of Congress. 1901. 1137 pp. As the maps of America constitute three-fourths of the collection, the list named covers a considerable portion of it, and the most important. It lacks, however, many titles, which will appear in a supplement. There is in preparation a list of the atlases in the Library.Scope. See under The Present Collections: Maps, pages 344-350. DIVISION OF MUSIC. (Portion of Room H 2; G 5.) Six persons. W. R. Whit-tlesey, chief. Created by appropriation act effective July 1, 1897. Hours from 9 a. m. till 10 p. m. The collection of music, though numerically the largest
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Division of Music. 267 single collection in the United States (it contains 319,121items), is almost exclusively the result of deposits under thecopyright law. It is, therefore, composed chiefly of Ameri-can compositions or of foreign compositions published andentered here since the international copyright act of 1891.The bulk of it is in sheet form. The literature of music is not in the custody of this divi-sion, but is for the most part in the stacks, and to be calledfor in the main reading room. The division has been in room M 4, but has just been SI^USIC DIVImoved to its present quarters. It has as yet no permanentequipment either for storage or for administration. The collection accumulated prior to 1897 was neither ac-cessioned, classified, catalogued, nor made accessible. Thelabors of the division during the past four years have beenlargely to reduce the material to order and make it availablefor use. But the current accessions had also to be incorpor-ated. Those received throug

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