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104 number on them at the small cost of about half a cent a card. In addition to these the Government has other helpers, called bibliographers, who read all the new books and make lists of those published on a certain subject. There are other Government librarians who plan the simplest possible arrangement of books on shelves so that there will be little delay in getting them. Some of our state librarians box books in sets and send them out as traveling libraries to farms or small settlements that lie far away from a public library.

All this work is hidden between the covers of your library book. What is your work for Uncle Sam in connection with it? Be just as careful as you can of every book that the library lets you borrow. Keep it clean. Do not fold over the pages or mark them. And be sure to return the hook to the library when your card says that it is due.

Uncle Sam believes in making collections of objects that help us to remember history, and the wonders of the world. He searches all over the earth for such objects and he has so many that they overflowed his own special museum at Washington. So Uncle Sam built a new museum at Washington that will hold everything new which he collects for the next fifty years.