Excerpt from The Library Journal, Vol. 2: Official Organ of the American Library Association, Chiefly Devoted to Library Economy and Bibliography, (January-December, 1886)
The key to this enormous heap of material is, of course, to be found in the index, in which a bibliographer, Of critical acumen could probably drive a horse and cart through every page. But any one who has ever been lost' in the labyrinth of Government publications will be grateful for what he gets, and in this index he gets a great deal. To take two or three examples: There are thirteen entries under Library of Congress, with perhaps a hundred page-references, but no reference from Congress or Congressional to Library the 1876 Report on Public Libraries is entered under Public. But not under Libraries, and, by the way, the note on this work on p.
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