Medlock, Louisa county. Mobjack, Mathews county. Montross, Westmoreland county. Pamplin City, Appomattox county. Poindexter, Louisa county. Port Norfolk, Norfolk county. Pulaski, Pulaski county. Rice Depot, Prince Edward county. Richmond, Henrico county, Woman's Christian Association. Roanoke, Roanoke county, Norfolk and Western Paint Shop Club. Rosena, Albemarle county. Rural Retreat, Wythe county. Seven Mile Ford, Smyth county. Swansonville, Pittsylvania county. Thorn Spring, Pulaski county. Van Dyke League, Lynchburg, Gampbell county. Virginia Beach, Princess Anne county. Walkers Ford, Amherst county. Wallace, Washington county. Warsaw, Richmond county. The sixty-five school libraries are located as follows: Abingdon, Washington county. Accomac, Accomac county. Achilles, Gloucester county. Alley, Scott county. Amelia, Amelia county. Appalachia, Wise county. Basic, Augusta county. Brentsville, Prince William county. Brodnax, Brunswick county. Burkeville, Nottoway county. Cape Charles, Northampton county. Capeville, Northampton county. Cardwell, Goochland county. Cartersville, Cumberland county, Public School No. 8. Cheriton, Northampton county. Cumberland, Cumberland county. Deep Creek, Norfolk county. Draper, Pulaski county, Graham School. East Stone Gap, Wise county. Edinburg, Shenandoah county. Elkton, Rockingham county. Emory, Washington county, School 9, G. S. District. Emporia, Greenesville county. Gordonsville, Orange county. Hayes Store, Gloucester county. Keezletown, Rockingham county. Lawrenceville, Brunswick county. Lincoln, Loudoun county. Long Hollow, Smyth county. Manchester, Chesterfield county, High School and Public School. Millboro, Bath county. Mobjack, Mathews county. Monterey, Highland county. Morrisville, Fauquier county. Mt. Clinton, Rockingham county. Murat, Rockbridge county. Narrows, Giles county. New Castle, Craig county. Newport News, Warwick county, School No. 2. Oceana, Princess Anne county. Otway, Nelson county. Palmyra, Fluvanna county. Pungoteague, Accomac county. Reedville, Northumberland county. Remington, Fauquier county. Rondo, Pittsylvania county. St. Elmo, Alexandria county. Saltville, Smyth county. Sandidges, Amherst county, Buffalo View School. Scottsburg, Halifax county. Scottsville, Albemarle county. Sea View, Northampton county. This makes a total of 132 traveling libraries in active operation at this date. During the past year 2,400 new books have been purchased for this department, 2,200 for use in the school libraries, and 200 for the citizens' libraries. Donations have been received from only one source, the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union presenting twenty-seven copies of "The Great American Fraud," by Samuel Hopkins Adams, a reprint of articles published in Collier's Weekly against patent medicines. The following statement is an account of disbursements made in behalf of this department for the fiscal year ending October 31, 1908: STATEMENT Of Expenses of Traveling Library Division since October 31, 1907, date of last report. The report of the bibliographer for the year ending October 31, 1908, is a tentative list of Virginia books, pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides-imprinted in Virginia or elsewhere-during the years 1608-1776, inclusive. The list includes 443 titles, to many of which are appended descriptive, critical and biographical notes. The object of these notes is to draw the attention of students of Virginia colonial history to the rarest and most important-the least frequently, if ever, used-contemporary political and economic accounts, and to gather in under one cover a record of the lives of the early Virginia chroniclers and pamphleteers, many of whom are little known beyond the limits of a family connection or a small body of special students. The titles given in this list include few works of a general nature in which only brief reference is made to Virginia, and has been rather con fined to those publications dealing exclusively with the colony. This field in itself has proved sufficiently extensive for the labors of one man. Even with the care that has been exercised in making the research necessary to the compilation of this work, I am not willing to call it other than a tentative list. None of the large libraries in the middle west or abroad has been searched. My purpose could not possibly have been accomplished through correspondence. It is my wish to enlarge upon this work by the collection of titles of such general works as refer to Virginia, and to ask the assistance of those into whose hands the list may fall to make such additions of titles as they may discover. The work of this department in comparative legislation during the 1908 session of the Virginia Assembly will be seen from the appended list of subjects of references furnished to legislators. These lists were: Election of supreme court judges. Towns in Virginia with population of 100 and over with only one railroad. Concerning governors' powers. Insurance laws. Population of Virginia by counties 1860, white, free colored and slave. Violation of contract by employee. State's revenue from fisheries and oystering. Expenses of party primaries. State tax commissions. Sale of liquor on railway trains. Valued policy laws. Pay of officers and attaches of legislatures. Special place for execution of felons. Pure food laws. Institutions for epileptics. Court stenographers. State accountants, State examiners and traveling auditors. State control of road construction. Compulsory education. Automobiles. Immigration. State appropriations for treatment of hydrophobia. State aid to county high schools. Pharmacy laws. Adulteration of liquor. Delinquent taxes, tax sales and redemption. Judges and clerks of election. Employment of convict labor on highways. Payment of sheriffs by salary instead of fee. State control of road construction. Pensions to Confederate soldiers. Forestry laws. State boards of charity. Boards for the equalization of taxation. In addition to these lists of references, many single questions were answered. |