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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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e paper to curl in either directionmay be neutralized. When dry the manuscript is againpressed and mounted for filing.The entire collection is grouped by subjects.An accession record is kept in book form. There is acard catalogue in progress. Thus far the entries are gen-catalogues. erally for groups of material, not for individual manuscripts*but cards have been made for the individual manuscripts inthe following groups, viz : The Washington papers, theDolly Madison papers, the Paul Jones papers, the Vernon-Wager papers, the Blaine papers, the Davis papers, the SirWilliam Johnson papers, the Sullivan papers, the OliverPollock papers, the Atlee papers, the Arnold-Varick papers,the Revolutionary War papers, the papers of the ThirteenOriginal States, the United States Army papers, the UnitedStates Navy papers, and the Proceedings of the LoyalistCommissioners. The final stage is making cross referencesfor all names appearing in the documents. A total of over Manuscripts.Classifi ca-tion.
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Faciliti ES OR RESEARCH. Division of Maps and Charts. 263 30,000 cards have been written in cataloguing the above-mentioned groups. A Calendar of the Washington Manuscripts has recently manuscripts.been published. (See Part I of this Report, pp. 40-41.)A calendar of the Paul Jones papers is in preparation. The Manuscripts Division was purposely located in a por-tion of the building secluded from the activities of ordinaryuse. It may be reached through the Main Reading Roomor through the Division of Maps. Access to it is entirelyinformal; and all of the administration being centered in theone room, immediate access may be given to any manuscriptspecified, and prompt aid furnished to the resources of thecollection on any given subject, period, or individual.Manuscripts may of course be handled by outsiders onlyunder supervision of the attendants. But as the regularwork of the attendants is adjacent to the space provided forvisitors, this supervision may be sufficiently vigilant withoutb

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