. History and description of the theological seminary libraries of Chicago and vicinity . xactly upon what funds to count eaoh yearand Hamend has nothing for administration. It hat acre newbofcka a year than any og the othere, but in this connection remember that the students at Haskell have all the greatUniversity library at their disposal, and at Bvanstoni theNorthwest rn library, though not nearly so large, is very con-venient. All but the Virginian library rise the standardor the Condensed secession beck and at Virginia, without know-ing of the existence of such e book, ver
. History and description of the theological seminary libraries of Chicago and vicinity . xactly upon what funds to count eaoh yearand Hamend has nothing for administration. It hat acre newbofcka a year than any og the othere, but in this connection remember that the students at Haskell have all the greatUniversity library at their disposal, and at Bvanstoni theNorthwest rn library, though not nearly so large, is very con-venient. All but the Virginian library rise the standardor the Condensed secession beck and at Virginia, without know-ing of the existence of such e book, very similar headings in a blank book, as another proof of the advisability ofthose subjects being recorded* Tic libraries but that at Western Theological seminary use the Dewey Decimal classification without .modifications). Asthis to joint the fact that the Devey classification isnot adequate for a special theological library, it would be in-teresting to see the Cutter expansive classification applied toone of the libraries, since religion is said to-be especially well. worked ct:t in that . it would seen practical to use the seventhscheme for religion and use one of the smaller for all bookson other ri bje< te in the library. It i»3 unfortunate that three of the libraries have no sub-ject catalogs at all, but Hannond is naing one, Virginia h ba very good one, and a very eareful indexing in the author cat-alog and Barrett has a couplet ) dictionary catalog in preparation. Each library Has sone valuable rare bo^ke, and each l&&esa good many periodicals. Of course, many are duplicates, butjrianymust be unique. In this d^y of inter*llbrary loans* and justafter that great Eounenioni council, when •• the denominationsof the Christiar World united to study BUseione, would it notseen fitting if these °ix seminaries could help each other insending to all othe s, lists of their periodicals and rare books, that students in one seminary might enjoy the advantag
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