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character in some cases affect the library.
Where the agricultural college is part of a
university having a large general hbrary, as
in the case of the New York State College
of Agriculture at Cornell University, the col-
lege library may develop very intensively its
own special collections, relying on the uni-
versity hbrary for general works in kindred
or alien sciences.
In some states, however, as in Maine and
in Ohio, there is no separate agricultural
library, the agricultural collections being
kept together with other collections in the
university library. In all there are in the
United States sixty-five agricultural colleges,
supported by federal and state funds.
Twenty-three of these are of the character
of state universities, twenty-eight are sepa-
rate institutions having the function of state
colleges, and fourteen exist for colored per-
sons in the South.
The agricultural college libraries serve
particularly the teaching staff and the stu-
dents. The latter comprise those doing
graduate work, undergraduates engaged on
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