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[[underlined]] JAMES B. FORD LIBRARY [[/underlined]]

The accessions from April 1, 1942 to March 31, 1943 are as follows: 

Books
Purchase 98
Gift [[underlined]] 55 [[/underlined]] 153

Pamphlets
Purchase 36
Gift [[underlined]] 281 [[/underlined]] 317

Serials 727
Clippings 475
Photostats By purchase 81

Manuscripts
Purchase 107
Gift 1359
Deposit [[underlined]] 25 [[/underlined]] 1491

Typescripts 50
Paid subscriptions maintained 18
Maps By purchase 4

Magazines
Purchase 12
Gift [[underlined]] 57 [[/underlined]] 69

Sketch books 1
Drawings 10
Letters - not included as manuscripts - 124
Phonograph records 5
Prints 15
Notes - Historical and ethnological - 300
Congressional Bills, Hearings, etc. 21
Miscellaneous [[underlined]] 37 [[/underlined]]
TOTAL ....... 3,898

There have been 79 readers during the year.
 
Forty-one typed bibliographies of varying lengths have been sent to inquirers through the year.

The Library carried 18 paid memberships in various societies for their publications.
 
There were 3 new serial issues added during the year.

Since January 1942 we have had bound 397 volumes of serials, 79 books and 1 portfolio atlas of plates and, additionally, 29 of our rarer books have been repaired and protected with dust cases - in all 506 items.