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To library assistants where the library or chief librarian is already a subscriber, and to students in library schools, the LIBRARY JOURNAL will be furnished, not including the Literary News, at $2.50 per year; The Publishers' Weekly at $2.00 per year; and the Literary News at 50 cents per year. In libraries and library schools, etc., where two or more assistants or students join in sending subscriptions, the LIBRARY JOURNAL will be furnished, not including the Literary News, at $2.00, The Publishers' Weekly at $1.00, and the Literary News at 50 cents per year. Subscriptions are received only for the complete year, beginning January. NOW READY!. The Annual American Catalogue, 1896 THE ANNUAL AMERICAN CATALOGUE for 1896, which is now in the bindery, will be published February 15. It contains: (1) Directory of American Publishers issuing books in 1896. (2) Full-title Record, with descriptive notes, in author alphabet, of all books recorded in THE PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY, 1896. 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