摘要：The order routine of the New York State Library probably differs little from that of other large libraries of the university or college type except for the multiplicity of detail incident upon the expenditure of state funds. Purchases are limited only by the annual appropriation of the legislature. This sum is apportioned to the various sections of the State Library by the Director, after deducting funds for binding and for subscriptions to current periodicals, of which the Medical Library receives the lion's share, depending, as it does so largely upon its journals to keep in touch with medical progress. Foreign and domestic subscriptions are ordered through separate agents, who handle all except a few that depend upon membe-ships in societies or whose publishers individually grant better iJ'es than can be obtained through the agents. Certain publisL.e±s, too, like the American Medical Association, refuse to deal through an agent.
