42 THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT

LIBRARY

During the 1967-1968 fiscal year, we added nearly 160 titles to
the library, a figure somewhat larger than in previous years. Our
library now consists of slightly more than 8,100 items. This rapid
rate of growth has brought with it the problems of adequate housing,
allowances for future expansion, increased maintenance and the need
for greater selectivity in our acquisition policies.

We received the usual items through exchange and subscription.
Many of these we have received for many years. We have also re-
ceived additions through purchase, gift, exchange, subscription and
deposit. Only a few of the more noteworthy accessions can be men-
tioned here.

Most of our valuable gifts were of genealogical nature. We added
genealogies of the Barrickman, Bounds, Carr, Despain and Stevenson
families. Important items from the Genealogical Society of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints include their excellent series on
Genealogical Record Sources in various countries as well as their aids
to genealogical research in various English Probate Jurisdictions prior
to 1858. Mrs. Helen W. Brown added to her previous typescript gifts
by her index to the register of St. John's Parish in Baltimore County.
Mrs. Mary Ross Brown compiled and presented to us a copy of her
Illustrated Genealogy of the Counties of Maryland and the District of
Columbia. Two D.A.R. Chapters in the State made valuable additions
to our growing collection of secondary sources of County records. The
Cresap Chapter compiled a volume of Allegany County Records while
the William Winchester Chapter assembled a collection of Carroll
County Tombstone Inscriptions. Both gifts will be extremely useful.

Other gifts included a history of the Farmers and Mechanics
National Bank of Frederick, biographical sketches of Mrs. John Quincy
Adams and Mrs. Zachary Taylor, and a history of Harford County by
John Fremont Cox.

We held our purchases to a bare minimum during the fiscal year.
These included only printed compilations of 1800 Census Records, a
list of emigrants between 1718 and 1759, and a reprint history of
Frederick County.

There were no county or municipal codes received during the year.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY, History News, Vol. XXII,
Nos. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1967; Vol. XXIII, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1968. Nash-
ville, Term., 1967-1968. Subscription.

AMERICAN HERITAGE PUBLISHING Co., American Heritage, Vol. XVIII, No. 5, August
1967. New York, 1967. Gift.