Word: indexing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There has been placed on top of the card catalogue in the library, an index to the subject catalogue. This is bound to prove a great help to men in looking up subjects. Anyone wishing to look up the sublect of "Rivers" for example, has but to turn to "Rivers" in this index, read the number opposite (for instance 1506.2) and find the drawer in the card catalogue of subjects which contains this number (say the drawer numbered 1500.1 - 160). In this way a great deal of time spent in finding information will be saved...
...Gray Herbarium, and, on Dr. Gray's death, took charge of the Herbarium, continuing Dr. Gray's systematic work. The results of his scientific activity are found chiefly in the Proceedings of the American Academy, and in large separate works. Of these the most important are the Index to North American Plants, The Botany of California, and James's Mosses. He was for a time one of the assistant editors of the Century Dictionary...
...most important event at the library during the current year has been the completion of the index to the subject catalogue. The catalogue itself has been greatly benefited by this and several important changes have been made in it. The Library is sadly in need of a new building. At the end of two years the librarian has announced that the entire shelf room in Gore Hall will be filled. It is proposed to build a new reading room retaining the present building as a book-stack. Such alterations would cost $150,-000 at the least. There are now twenty...
...interesting to find that eight of the societies which were mentioned in the Index of last year do not appear this year. Of these, the editors say that three have gone out of existence, while five have not been heard from. Seven new clubs appear on the list: the International Law Club, the Odontological Society, the Oxford Club, the Prospect Progressive Union, the Sigma Omicron Tau, the Western Club, and Worcester Academy Club...
...only feature of the Index of this year which is an innovation, is the presence of the three leaves containing the scores of last year's contests with Yale. They are very well gotten up, and are welcome additions, but the editors made a curious slip when they called the games of the University Track Athletic Cup Association, Mott Haven games...