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²Reports of the State Library were published as follows: 1832-1837, 1839-1841,
1845, 1847, 1849, I860, 1864, 1867, 1900-1935/36. It appears that no reports
were made during the period 1867 to 1900, nor since 1936.

3This agency issued biennal reports from 1879 to 1881 and from 1888 to 1914.
During the period 1883 to 1886 reports were issued annually.

LIBRARY

The Hall of Records maintains a small reference library consisting
mainly of printed materials dealing with Maryland to supplement our
series of records and of the latest works on archival techniques. Of the
materials relating to archives, a majority are received on an exchange basis
costing us little or nothing, and are valuable in that they permit the staff to
observe modern archival procedures. Thus, in the accompanying list of
yearly acquisitions will be found interspersed with Maryland titles many
federal, state, and foreign publications.

The library, operating as it does under limitations of budget and
space, has been greatly strengthened this year by the acquisition as gifts
of numerous wanted items from the St. John's College Library and the
Caroline County Register of Wills. Many authors have presented copies of
their books or reprints of their articles for which we are grateful. We are
particularly pleased to receive as gifts such items as Queen Anne's County,
by Frederic Emory, newly reprinted, which was presented by Mrs. Thomas
R. Crumley and The Monumental City by George W. Howard, given by
Mr. Edward Damarel Cook. We would like also to acknowledge the courtesy
of the Maryland State Library, the Maryland Historical Society and the
C. Burr Artz Library for permitting us to photocopy certain of their
holdings.

LIBRARY 1951-1952

ALLEN, REV. ETHAN, Who Were the Early Settlers of Maryland. A paper read
before the Maryland Historical Society, October 5, 1865. New Haven, Connecti-
cut, 1866. Gift of St. John's College Library.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY, American Heritage,
Vol. I, Nos. 2, 3, 4, Vol. II, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, Vol. III, Nos. 1, 2, Burlington,
and Brattleboro, Vermont, 1950-1952. Subscription.

——————, Bulletins of the American Association for State and Local History,
Vol. I, No. 8, War Records Projects in the States, 1941-1943, by Lester J.
Cappon, Washington, D.C, 1944. Gift.