from Ninth Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Library for the Fiscal Year Ending November,
In judging of the work accomplished in the making of the new catalogue, it must be borne in mind that the number of volumes involved is but one element.
This is generally taken as the basis of comparison of one library with another, but in estimating the strength of any collection we must also note the number of items on each subject, while the useful ness of the catalogue as a tool will
depend largely upon the extent to which the several items are analyzed on the cards.
The title of a book or a reference to it in the group to which it belongs may give no indication of some of the most valuable portions of it.
That can be done only by analyzing its contents, a task which tests the skill of a cataloguer,
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