Class Reports Wanted

A few months ago the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C., informed the Alumni Secretaries of twenty American universities and colleges that the Library was seeking to strengthen its resources in the field of American biography, and to that end would welcome to its shelves all Class Reports and kindred volumes containing biographical "matter relating to graduates and former students of the institutions to which this notice was sent.

The response has been most gratifying. Some 650 publications have already been added to the biographical section of the Library, and their usefulness to future workers on biographical and historical subjects can hardly be calculated.

The Librarian would have it known among all alumni officials of the universities and colleges that volumes of the character described above are regarded as especially appropriate for preservation in the Library of Congress, to which students of American life in all its aspects are resorting in constantly increasing numbers. All copyrighted American books come automatically to the Library. Since Class Reports are seldom copyrighted, their accession can be counted upon only through special intention and direction. It is much to be hoped, therefore, that the officials, class secretaries and others, who have already forwarded their Reports to the Library will continue to do so year by year; and also that the institutions not represented at present in the biographical collections of the Library will be represented hence forth, through the cooperation of alumni and class secretaries throughout the country.

All correspondence and printed matter should be addressed to the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.