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The new edition of the "Pacific Northwest Americana; a checklist of books and pamphlets relating to the Pacific Northwest," the most ambitious co-operative project so far undertaken by the Pacific Northwest Library Association, justifies our expectation of its increased value; both on account of its more permanent form and its larger size.

There are some changes in the list of contributors. Montana State Library, Pacific University Library and State College of Washington have withdrawn, although unique items in these libraries have been retained from the old edition. The checklist has been greatly strengthened by the addition of five new libraries: University of British Columbia, Oregon Historical Society, Oregon State Library, and the public libraries of Boise and Tacoma. This makes a total of fifteen co-operating libraries.

Neither the larger number of contributing libraries, nor the numerical increase in the items (two and a half times as many as the old list) is an index of the real gain in titles and in completeness, since many titles and imprints have been omitted on account of closer limitations of the scope of the work, and entries for serials have been condensed. Without doubt the Oregon Historical Society is the most important of the new contributors, both from the number of items and their rarity. All the libraries previously co-operating have added much valuable material and have listed items in their collections which they had not had time to list for the earlier edition. Perhaps the most notable of these additions are those of the Provincial Library of British Columbia, only a small