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LIBRARY NEWS AND NOTICES—FEBRUARY 1913 61
Third, by telephoning for information, which is given at
once if possible. If the question is of such a nature that it requires
research, the inquirer will be called when the information
is ready. The Library telephone number is Schenley 1205
on week days from 8 130 a. m. to 5 130 p. m. During the evenings
and on Sundays and holidays the Reference Department
number is Schenley 1205X.
The Library is supplied with books on all subjects, available
for reference use through the card catalogue and other
indexes. Special attention has been paid to local history, art
and architecture, music and ethics, special funds for some of
these collections having been provided by interested citizens.
A collection of thirty-eight city directories is useful.
A complete file of the United States public documents
forms part of the reference collection, and the library of the
American Philatelic Association is kept in this department.
Fifteen newspapers of Pittsburgh and other cities are
bound each year, and the Library contains more or less complete
files of the Pittsburgh Gazette Times, Chronicle Telegraph,
Dispatch, Leader, Post, Press, and Sun, besides files of
early Pittsburgh papers, such as the Tree of Liberty, the
Mercury, and the Gazette from 1786. Complete sets of the
principal magazines, both American and foreign, are also kept
in this department.
In the Periodical Room, a division of the Reference Department,
on the same floor, are the current numbers of newspapers
and magazines and a number of other publications. In all, 1,038
different magazines and 118 newspapers are kept on file here.
The books in the Reference Department are supplemented
by a collection of pictures which may be borrowed for home
use. The collection consists of twenty-nine sets of stereographs
arranged in tours of one hundred pictures each; mounted
photographs of buildings, selected chiefly for their architectural
importance; reproductions of famous paintings and sculpture;
pictures illustrating historical costume; views of places,
and a collection of 6,300 portraits, including men and women
of the day.