ARCHIVIST OF THE HALL OF RECORDS 9

tion. He also spoke to the three hundred and fifty employees of the
Historical Records Survey at a dinner in Baltimore, to the Women's
Club of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County, to the Carroll County
Historical Society at the dedication of their beautiful new home. With
the assistance of Mrs. Krebs and Mr. Trader he gave a day long demon-
stration of the repair and photographic work of the Hall of Records
at the C. Burr Artz Library in Frederick. The Assistant Archivist
spoke before the Junior Business Women's League and the Zonta Club
of Annapolis. She also addressed a dinner meeting of all the WPA
workers of Annapolis. The Archivist was consulted about the new
archives vault at Constitution Hall and about archival procedures. He
was also a guest at the D.A.R. Golden Jubilee dinner in Washington
and of the Centennial celebration of the St. Mary's Female Seminary
at St. Mary's City.

RECEPTION AND ARRANGEMENT

In the course of the past year a new department was set up for the
reception of new materials and for their care in the stacks. This depart-
ment has been put in charge of Mr. Gust Skordas who has been relieved
of the duties in the Research Room which formerly occupied him. Mr.
Skordas' duties begin when negotiations have been completed for the
transfer of records to the Hall. He is responsible for the preliminary
lists of records made before the transfer and for the final inventory
made after arrival at the Hall. He supervises the transfer and is re-
sponsible, with the Archivist, for the care of materials in transit. Fumi-
gation and transfer from the basement to the stacks are also in bis
province, as are unfolding, arranging and labelling.

With the completion of the sixth deck of the stacks this year it has
become possible to adopt a definitive plan for the permanent location
of old materials as well as new in the stacks. The work of rearranging
old materials within the Hall has already begun and should be almost
complete by the end of the coming year. Supplies of all kinds must be
provided, and a good deal of instruction must be given to workers. We
have been able to spare Mr. Skordas no regular members of the staff
for this work. Mr. Skordas and WPA workers assigned to him have
accomplished the following in the course of the year:

Court of Appeals Judgments: over 25,000 have been unfolded and placed in
folders: labelling and boxing are still in prepress but the entire collection has been
put in folders.

Court of Appeals Miscellaneous Papers : about 7,000 have been unfolded and
placed in folders. Very few bundles remain. Among these materials were found