some large cities there are as many as twelve or fifteen departments, including in general a department of public safety, public health, public works. finance and legal. The annual reports of the different departments are usually bound together in volumes, but for the largest cities are bound separately. There is no general index to the reports and other publications of cities. Such reports are useful in connection with the study of municipal government. English Documents. Great Britain. His Majesty's Stationery Office. Catalogue of works. (Non Parliamentary) revised ed. London, H. M. Stationery Office, 1921. Monthly circular of recent selected publications, 1921 to date. The stationery Office of the English Government issues a number of lists of their publications, including the two above. Branches of the Office are maintained in a number of the large cities of the Empire, and also one in New York; where the publications may be purchased. Questions on Government Documents. Find four references in the Congressional Record on immigration. Can information on the Missouri Compromise be found in the Congressional Globe? Do the Annals of Congress contain any of Washington's addresses? Select five references in the Document Catalogue and locate the documents. Locate Geological Survey bulletin, number 345: bulletin, Bureau of Ethnology, number 24. Locate a volume of the Report of Smithsonian Institution; Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, and Proceedings of National Museum, and note character of each. What is the character of the following publications: bulletins, Bureau of Mines; scientific papers, Bureau of standards; bulletins, Bureau of Labor, Census Reports; Commerce Reports; Miscellaneous and Special Agent series? Make a list of government publications of use to grade and high school teachers. How may they be obtained? Make a list of documents published by your state, and indicate those most useful for teachers. References. Check List of United States public documents. 3rd ed. Washington, Gov't Print. office, 1911. Clarke, Edith E. Guide to the use of United States government publications. Boston, F. W. Faxon Co., 1918. Guerrier, Edith, Comp. Federal executive departments as Washington, Wyer, J. I. United States government documents. Chicago, A. L. A. Publishing board, 1922. Investigating a Subject. The ability to investigate the literature of a subject, to find the titles of the various books and articles that have been written upon it and to arrange them in correct order is important for any one in college, and especially for those engaged in educational work. Many of those graduating from college every year might have found their work less difficult, and might have done better work, if they had made the greatest possible use of the library. Those who make use of the library in preparation for writing the theme and "long paper" have a decided advantage over those who do not. For such work indexes periodical usually provide enough references to satisfy all requirements. Articles and books treat different phases of subjects, and in order to make sure that several references treating to same phase have been included a fairly large number should be compiled. Many students make the mistake of not compiling a sufficient number. The ordinary examined for new titles, especially for literature. If the subject in question is one the general indexes to periodical be examined. These should probably cases because some articles on technic in some of the periodicals included As references are found they should betical order by author's names, and references to books may be arranged i to periodicals in another. Each refer include name of author, title of bod periodicals, name of author, title of volume number and inclusive pages. nical and scientific subjects the index scientific and technical literature must If a complete list of books and is desired the trade and national bib examined. While many of the titles o not be in the particular library in wh is always a possibility of borrowing bo A thorough examination of the necessary for those who write articles investigation is not made then they f what others may have done, and fur they are really producing something the sum of knowledge on the subject. Looking Up The Literature. The kind of books one needs in investigating a subject depends in part upon the extent of the proposed investigation. If only important facts, or the main facts, are desired general works will answer, but if detailed information is desired then treatises and periodicals must also be examined. As indicated in the previous section the card catalogue should be examined a) for general works on the subject such as dictionaries, cyclopedias, and for bibliographies; b) for special treatises; and c) for a list of the periodicals. General works, usually in the form of dictionaries or cyclopedias, have been published on many of the important subjects, and some of them include lists of references at the end of the longer articles, or at the end of the book. Then also bibliographies either current in the form of journals or in book form may be found for a great many subjects. They are listed in the catalogue under the subject but with the sub-head bibliography. The publications of different kinds listed under the following general subjects will enable one to begin an investigation of a great many different subjects. That is many subjects less extensive in scope fall within some one of the general classes of literature included in the list. After a start has been made the literature examined will itself suggest other publications and these in turn others and so on. Agriculture. Agricultural index; Experiment Station Record; Bailey's Cyclopedia of American Agriculture and Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture; Indexes to Farmers' Bulletins and Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture; and card catalogue of the publications of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and state Experiment Stations. Art and Architecture. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers; Champlin and Perkins' Cyclopedia of Painters and Painting; Masters in Art; and Sturgis' Dictionary of Architecture and Building. Biography. National Cyclopedia of American Biography; Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography; Who's Who in America; General Encyclopedias and Cyclopedias of Special Subjects; Card Catalogue for names of individuals, for Biography, Collections, and for name (sub-head, biography) of business or profession of person. For English biography, Dictionary of National Biography; and Who's Who. For local biography, state and county histories and local newspapers. Botany. Botanical Abstracts; Experiment Station Record. Chemistry. Chemical Abstracts; Journal of Chemical Society (London); Thorpe's Dictionary of Applied Chemistry; Sohon and Schaaf's Reference List of Bibliographies; International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. Economics and Sociology. Readers' Guide; International Index to Periodicals; Bulletin of Public Affairs Information Service; Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy; Cyclopedia of American Goverment; Lalor's Cyclopedia of Political Science; Proceedings of Conference on Social Work; Proceedings of National Tax Association; U. S. Document Catalogue. Education. Readers' Guide; International Index to Periodicals; Bibliography of Education issued by U. S. Bureau of Education; Monroe's Cyclopedia of Education; Watson's Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Education; Index to Proceedings of National Education Association; Psychological Index; Index to Reports of U. S. Bureau of Education; Index to Barnard's Journal. Electricity. Science Abstracts; Engineering Index; Industrial Arts Index. Engineering. Engineering Index; Industrial Arts Index; Technical Review; Engineering News Index; Crane's Index of Mining Engineering Literature; Cyclopedias for different branches and subjects of Engineering. Geology and Geography. Bulletins of U. S. Geological Survey on Bibliography of Geology; List of Manuscript Bibliographies on Geology and Geography published by National |