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...Metcalf said, however, that "the withdrawal of the cards will have no direct effect on the proposed merger of catalogues...
...cards describe volumes which are in the Library of Congress, but not in the Harvard College Library. According to Metcalf, these cards were used chiefly for reference purposes...
...merger is approved," Metcalf added, "then the withdrawal of the Library of Congress cards will give us enough space to accommodate the cards to be added from the Harvard College Catalogue...
...Metcalf said that "the Library of Congress cards require too much space and money." The 1,500,000 cards that will eventually be withdrawn will rave the Library $15,000 in space, the equivalent of one cent per card. In this way, the saving in catalogue space will balance the cost of removing the cards...
Next year a 40-volume supplement will be issued, bringing the catalogue to date until 1948. "We will keep all Library of Congress cards dated after 1948 in a special case," Metcalf said. "These will be removed as we receive successive volumes of catalogues...