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ANNUAL REPORT XVU will also be housed thus facilitating access from those departments to the libraries which are in effect their laboratories Some years must inevitably elapse before these plans for new Library the paramount need for which has been recognized in the College for over quarter of century can come to fruition and the Librarian must continue to make such provision as he can within the inadequate space at his disposal The opening of the University's library depository at Egham will relieve storage space in College for books infrequently consulted and will in particular enable the Library to evacuate the bookcases in the Great Hall but this facility will make no contribution towards the solution of the very urgent problem of placing larger proportion of books in the working collections needed for the proper service of the teaching and research carried on in the College The Library continues to grow and now numbers some 220 000 volumes and pamphlets Of this total 251 items were added during the session The Library has continued to extend its resources in periodical literature and to this end has placed fifty-one new subscrip- tions for periodicals and series twenty-eight fall within the field of science and technology four being English translations of leading Russian journals Substantial sets of back volumes of eight periodicals have been purchased Among the more important works in progress for which standing orders have been placed are the new definitive edition of the works of the German novelist Theodor Fontane new edition of the works of Gregory of Nyssa in implementation of the agreement noted in last year's report whereby King's College has assumed special responsibility within the University for the provision of primary sources in Ecclesiastical History the Encyclopaedia of Chemical Technology the fourth edition of Houben and Weyl's Methoden der organischen Chemie and the eighth edition of Gmelin's monumental Handbuch der anorgani- schen Chemie the Library was fortunate in being able to buy the back volumes of the last-named work at favourable price from former student of the College Of the 534 volumes and pamphlets gratefully received by gift or bequest full list of donors is given in Appendix the outstanding collection was one of 542 volumes mainly 18th- and 19th-century works in the fields of theology and history from the library of Dr John Wordsworth Bishop of Salisbury from 1885 until his death in 1911 these books have been in the College since 1916 when they were de- posited on indefinite loan by the Bishop's widow it is now possible to record with great pleasure that his children have made the collection an outright gift The resources of the Library in the field of American literature have been augmented by collection of 268 volumes deposited through the generosity of the United States Information Service The College has derived much satisfaction from the agreement of Captain Β Liddell Hart the distinguished military thinker and historian to his valuable library of military books and papers ultimately coming to King's College The library proper consists of some 000