Manual of Library Economy Third and Memorial Edition

CHAPTER XIV

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ACCESSION METHODS

=207. Donations.=--The first British Public Library Act did not make any provision for funds with which to buy books: it trusted entirely, with the innocence of extreme youth, to the benevolence of donors. As these somewhat rare persons did not respond in an encouraging manner, the Acts were forthwith amended, and communities given power to purchase books from such limited funds as were left after loans, the librarian’s salary and the lighting bill had been settled. Although every library benefits now and then from the generosity of donors of books and money, donations cannot be regarded as a reliable source of a constant and liberal supply of good and suitable books. Indeed, it may be asserted that more printed rubbish is bestowed annually on public libraries than anything of a useful or valuable sort. Touting for gifts is to be avoided. It is not only undignified, but often results in failure and a certain loss of status to the library which employs a general begging policy.

State papers and public documents are carefully preserved in many libraries in the United Kingdom. Many of the best parliamentary papers and reports can be obtained free on application to H.M. Stationery Office in London, but other valuable public documents, such as some of the Record Office publications, the Ordnance Survey, etc., must be purchased. The parliamentary papers were not given free to public libraries till after years of agitation dating from the time of Edwards in 1850. A selection of these papers will be found sufficient for most libraries, and this can be made from the lists published by H.M. Stationery Office.

=208.= All donations, good, bad or indifferent, should be duly recorded in a special DONATION REGISTER, and the donors should be thanked in the usual manner, either by means of a special circular or post-card. For the majority of donations a printed post-card of acknowledgment is commonly used, and specially valuable gifts are acknowledged by special resolutions conveyed in a handsome form. It would seem better, however, if a letter-form of acknowledgment were generally used. Gratitude, even for small gifts, costs little, and its expression frequently leads to more valuable gifts. The usual wording for acknowledgments runs thus:

+-----------------------------------------------------------+ | | | LIBERTON PUBLIC LIBRARY. | | | | I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your gift | | named below, and to convey to you the most cordial thanks | | of the Library Committee. | | | | Yours faithfully, | | | | ............................_Chief Librarian._ | | | | ......................................................... | | | | ......................................................... | | | | ......................................................... | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+

FIG. 57.--Donation Acknowledgment (Section 208).

=209.= The ruling of a donation book (Fig. 58) will be found to answer all ordinary purposes.

The donation number is a progressive number which should be given to all gifts, particularly books, because, when pencilled on volumes which are duplicates or not stocked for any reason, it is easy to ascertain their history by turning up the number in the donation book. Most of the other headings explain themselves. When books are added to the library as donations it is well to carry into this record the accession numbers given to them in the columns provided. In the “Remarks” column can be entered any information as to the disposal of the gifts. In some libraries a book is used which resembles a receipt book in having a counterfoil and a tear-off sheet forming a thanks circular or acknowledgment form. This style of book is less satisfactory than the form of record given above.

<-----------------9″------------------><-------------9″--------------> +----++------+------++---------++-----+--------++----------++--------+ | || |Date || || | ||Accession || | ^ |Do- ||Date |of Ac-||Descrip- ||No. |Name and||Number. || | | |na- ||of Re-|knowl ||tion of ||of |Address ++-----+----++Remarks.| | |tion||ceipt.|edg- ||Donation.||Vols.|of ||Lend.|Ref.|| | | |No. || |ment. || || |Donor. || | || | | +----++------+------++---------++-----+--------++-----+----++--------+ | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || |13″ | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | | | || | || || | || | || | V

FIG. 58.--Donation Book Ruling (Section 209).

=210. Readers’ Suggestions.=--There are comparatively few suggestions of new books made by readers in public libraries, most of the recommendations coming from the librarian and the committee. It is customary to provide a book in which members of the public can enter their suggestions, or slips as described in Section 48. Slips are perhaps preferable to books, as they are more likely to be used by the public and are handier to arrange. Failing them, an ordinary foolscap folio book can be provided, ruled with columns across two pages showing:

FIG. 59.--Proposition Book Ruling (Section 210).

=211.= From the suggestions of the public and the committee and his own study of reviews, catalogues, journals, etc., the librarian prepares a list of book suggestions for the use of the committee, or special books sub-committee, as the case may be. This list may either be entered and kept in the suggestions book, or written out on separate slips (5 inches × 3 inches), which can be afterwards used as a catalogue for staff use. The latter plan is preferable as being more economical and convenient, especially when worked in conjunction with suggestion slips, of the same size, instead of a proposition book. Some committees require a duplicated list of the suggestions to be prepared and circulated before they meet in order that every member may have the opportunity of examining it beforehand. In a few cases the librarian also (or as an alternative) obtains all the books on approval from the bookseller, and the committee chooses from direct examination of the books themselves. This method involves extra labour, especially in large libraries, but is very successful and well worth the trouble. When the list has passed the committee, with whatever modifications they may have imposed, the books can be ordered as described below in Section 213. These suggestions are the main source from which the library is built up, and ought to be prepared and examined with great care. Arising out of this part of the subject is the question of buying books at sales. This is often done through a bookseller or other agent, who receives a marked copy of the catalogue, with the prices to be offered written against each entry, and for his services in attending and bidding 5 to 10 per cent. is generally allowed. Of course, at any book-sale in the same town as the library, the librarian may attend, but an experienced agent is more likely to avoid mistakes. Unfortunately few public libraries can afford to compete with booksellers and private collectors in the saleroom, and practically this source of accessions is not of much use to the majority of British public libraries.

=212. Subscription Books.=--Sources of book supply in many libraries are the works coming regularly as annuals, or from societies to whose publications the library subscribes. Patents’ specifications, parliamentary reports and other periodical publications also furnish a constant, if somewhat irregular, stream of additions. There should be some simple means of checking these annual and irregular publications, and a series of cards, somewhat similar to those suggested for magazines in Section 475, will be found very convenient. It is hardly necessary to add that these check-cards should be examined regularly for overdues and omissions. Societies which issue only occasional monographs are the most difficult to trace and check. With annual publications of a definite kind, such as _Whitaker’s Almanack_, there is no trouble whatever.

=213. Ordering.=--The routine of book ordering should be reduced to the simplest possible system. There are plenty of elaborate methods designed to find out and penalize defaulting assistants, booksellers, etc., but they are not recommended. The very simplest plan is to place the proposition slips, when dealt with by the committee, in a special tray, or, better, drawer of a card cabinet, in a compartment marked “Books passed by committee,” and then to enter them in an ordinary order-sheet, of which a carbon copy should be taken, or which may be copied later. These order sheets (8 inches × 10 inches) may be ruled thus:

FIG. 60.--Book-order Sheet (Section 213).

In the “Remarks” column of the duplicate copy can be entered the date of receipt when a parcel of books is being marked off.

Libraries which use vertical and similar filing systems preserve carbon copies of order lists and file them under appropriate headings, and dispense with the ruled order sheet given above, merely accompanying the lists with a general official order. Where a duplicated (cyclostyled, mimeographed, etc.) list of suggestions is used for the committee, a copy of this, with the committee’s adjustments, can be used as an order list. The bookseller’s invoice and the books are checked by the suggestion slips, and discrepancies of price or books not supplied are revealed immediately. The use of books for entering lists, or for other library record purposes, is gradually giving way to the more mobile and economical systems to be obtained by the use of expansible files and card indexes.

[7] This illustration is retained because it illustrates a satisfactory method of guiding; but this type of tray is inferior to a special drawer in an “administrative” card cabinet. In such a cabinet drawers would be assigned to (1) “SUGGESTIONS,” which would include the slips for all books noted by the librarian for consideration; suggestions by experts; by staff; incomplete works, etc.; (2) “COMMITTEE DRAWER,” containing books “Submitted to the Committee,” and “Passed,” and “Rejected” (with reasons), or “Postponed for further inquiries, etc.”; (3) “ORDER DRAWER,” with guides showing “Ordered,” “Overdue,” “Not Supplied” (when O.P., Binding, Reprinting, etc., the reasons should be stated and dated); and (4) “ADDITIONS,” containing the slips of books added during the year, after the slips have been used in the cataloguing processes. After a year the slips are worked into the Staff Catalogue.

=214.= When the order has been placed with the bookseller, the slips aforesaid should be transferred to a compartment marked “Books on order,” and as the books are supplied they can be withdrawn and placed in a compartment marked “Books for catalogue.” This will leave a residue of overdue books, which can be overhauled at intervals, and, when the books have been written for, transferred to a compartment marked “Books overdue.” A simple form of tray is one divided by means of projecting guides to indicate the contents of each compartment (Fig. 61).

This plan of keeping check of books on order, at every stage, will be found much simpler, and more accurate and convenient than any system of book-keeping.

=215. Accession Work.=--When a parcel of new books arrives from the bookseller, or a monthly lot of donations is passed, it is wise to enter each lot in a special book called the routine book, which will determine the order of numbering, and give rough figures of cost and number of additions to all departments. This book is ruled as shown in Fig. 62A, and explains itself.

Each new book should be carefully examined for imperfections, etc., before being numbered. The books should next be arranged in order of invoice or donation book, with the lending, reference, branch and children’s books in separate lots.

=216.= The ACCESSION NUMBERS must next be applied, and it should be made a rule in every library, whatever method of classification is adopted, to give the books a progressive accession number irrespective of a class number. A special book for recording these numbers can be obtained, one each for the lending and reference libraries, ruled as follows:

+-----------+-------++--------------------------+---------+ |Progressive| Class || Author and Title. |Class or | | No. |Letter.|| |Shelf No.| +-----------+-------++--------------------------+---------+ | 1 | A ||Balfour. Manual of Botany.| 200 | | 2 | || | | | 3 | || | | | 4 | || | | | 5 | || | | | and on | || | | | to 50 per | || | | | page | || | | +-----------+-------++--------------------------+---------+

FIG. 62.--Accessions Number Book (Section 216).

This will show at a glance the next vacant number to be used, and also, roughly, the total number of books in the library at any given moment, when the withdrawals are counted off. The accession numbers should be written on the back of the title-page of each book, and should also be written against the entry on the invoice, and also, if a donation, in the appropriate column of the donation book. In cases where the stock book is also the order book, the accessions number book can be dispensed with, and the accessions routine book used alone.

+------++---------+--------++----------++----------++ | || | || || || | || | First ||Accession || Number of|| | || Source: | Word || Number. || Vols. || | Date.|| Donor or| of || || || | || Vendor. |Invoice.|| || || | || | ++-----+----++-----+----++ | || | ||Lend.|Ref.||Lend.|Ref.|| +------++---------+--------++-----+----++-----+----++ | 1901 || | || | || | || |June 6||Tompkins |Balfour || 1-50|1-25|| 50 | 25 || | „ 12||Donations|See Book||51-56| .. || 6 | .. || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || | || +------++---------+--------++-----+----++-----+----++

+------++---------+--------++------------------++---------------++------+ | || | || || Replacements. || | | || | First || Cost. || || | | || Source: | Word || || || Re- | | Date.|| Donor or| of || || ||marks.| | || Vendor. |Invoice.|| || || | | || | ++--------++--------++-----++--------++ | | || | || Lend. || Ref. ||Vols.|| Cost. || | +------++---------+--------++--+--+--++--+--+--++-----++--+--+--++------+ | 1901 || | || | | || | | || || | | || | |June 6||Tompkins |Balfour || 7|10| 0|| 6| 5| 0|| 6 || 0|19| 0|| | | „ 12||Donations|See Book||..|..|..||..|..|..|| .. ||..|..|..|| | | || | || | | || | | || || | | || | | || | || | | || | | || || | | || | | || | || | | || | | || || | | || | | || | || | | || | | || || | | || | | || | || | | || | | || || | | || | | || | || | | || | | || || | | || | | || | || | | || | | || || | | || | | || | || | | || | | || || | | || | | || | || | | || | | || || | | || | | || | || | | || | | || || | | || | | || | || | | || | | || || | | || | | || | || | | || | | || || | | || | | || | || | | || | | || || | | || | +------++---------+--------++--+--+--++--+--+--++-----++--+--+--++------+

FIG. 62A.--Accessions Routine Book (Section 215).

=217.= According to the system of charging used, each book should be dealt with further, as regards appropriating its equivalent card, indicator book, or ledger page, as may be needful. Assuming that card charging is the adopted plan, a specially made manila book-card must be prepared, having the accession and class number and letter, and its author and title written on its front surface, as below:

+----------------------------------------------+ | E 100·3. | +..............................................+ | Balfour. | +..............................................+ | Manual of Botany. | +..............................................+ | | +----------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +----------------------------------------------+

FIG. 63.--Manila Book-card.

This form of book-card may be ruled to take the borrowers’ numbers and dates of issues, and is one of the main accessories of the card system described in Sections 380, 381.

=218.= With indicators it is necessary to write the accession numbers on to the indicator books or tabs according to the style of indicator used. In forms such as the Elliot, the number is already fixed on the indicator frame and requires no additional book tab or block. Other processes connected with book numbering for shelving purposes are considered in Chapter XXV.

=219.= The next process is the LABELLING of the books. Reference library books are usually labelled on the inside of their front boards with the library book-plate, which may be an artistic device, or a simple label bearing the town’s arms and a few of the chief rules of the department (Fig. 64). Some libraries add a label ruled in columns to show dates of issue, but this does not seem particularly useful. Lending library books are labelled with a label pasted down on the inside front board bearing the chief rules for borrowers, and with a date label secured to the front fly-leaf by means of a narrow line of paste on the inner edge.

FIG. 64.--Book Label with Abstract of Rules (Section 219).

This enables the label to be removed easily when stamped all over with dates of issue. An ordinary form of date label is ruled in columns to take the dates as shown in Fig. 65.

=220.= It is a very important matter, affecting not only libraries, but general readers of all kinds, that books should be issued by their publishers in a condition of readiness for immediate use. The absurd and most inconvenient practice of publishing novels, reference books, and indeed any kind of work, with uncut leaves, is one which causes more waste of time and irritation than almost anything else in connexion with books. A publisher may be justified in sending out special books in limited editions with uncut edges and leaves unopened, but every other kind of book should have its edges neatly and smoothly trimmed and its leaves cut in readiness for the reader. It is cleaner and more convenient, because nothing holds dust like the rough top and fore-edges of books cut with a paper-knife, and for this reason alone it should be made a penal offence to issue books with unopened leaves.

+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | TIME ALLOWED FOR READING. | | | | This book is issued for 15 days and must be returned on or before | | the date last stamped below. If kept beyond that date, a fine of one | | penny per week or part of a week will be incurred. | | | +----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No person shall take out of any library any book for use in any | | house in which there is a person suffering from infectious disease, | | and no person shall return to any such library any book which has | | been exposed to infection from any infectious disease, but shall at | | once give notice to the Medical Officer of Health that it has been | | exposed to infection and leave the book at the office of the Medical | | Officer of Health or hand it over to any Sanitary Inspector acting | | on his behalf, who shall cause the same to be disinfected and then | | returned to the Library, or destroyed. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

FIG. 65.--Book Label for Dates (Section 219).

=221.= The STAMPING and CUTTING of the leaves of new books is the next step in the preparation of books for public use, and as regards the latter it is necessary to insist that the leaves should be cut close into the backs of the books, and not left uncut to within half or quarter an inch of the back, so that an ugly tear is made whenever the book is fully opened. A half-cut book is an abomination not to be endured.

Various kinds of stamps are used, ink, embossing and perforating. The ink ones, usually applied with rubber dies, are not altogether satisfactory when used with ordinary aniline endorsing inks, as they can be erased. Printers’ ink is more satisfactory, but it takes some time to dry, and requires metal stamps to make it work easily. The ink used by the Post Office when applied with a metal stamp has been found effective. But for their expense embossing stamps are most satisfactory, and of the various kinds of these the perforating stamp formed like a pair of nippers is the easiest to apply. Whatever kind of stamp is used, it should be made in a circular shape, as in whatever position it is applied it never appears to be upside down or uneven, as other shapes too frequently do.

Every library should select certain fixed pages on which the stamps are to be placed, and every title-page, first and last pages of text, and all plates should be stamped. As a rule too much time is wasted in stamping library books, and it will be found quite enough to stamp the places indicated, and use a blind embossing stamp for the boards.

=222.= In certain books it is desirable to insert special labels for the instruction of the staff and as a gentle warning to readers; for example:

FIG. 66.--Warning Label.

This is especially useful in the case of books containing plates of art subjects which are liable to theft or disfigurement. In reference books with large folding maps or plates, the following label, which is attached to each map or plate, has proved to be serviceable:

FIG. 67.--Map or Plate Label.

=223. Process Checking.=--Many libraries keep a complete check of the processes through which a book passes from its receipt from the bookseller to its issue to the public, in the form of a rubber stamp which is impressed upon the back of the title-page, or at some other convenient place in the book:

FIG. 68.--Process Stamp (or Label).

The assistant carrying out the process initials the appropriate blank on the impression, and this protects the good assistant from blame for the faults of the occasional careless one. What is more important, they show anyone coming newly to a batch of books the stage that has been reached in their preparation. Such stamps are readily applied and have justified their use.

=224. Stock Book.=--This is the chief inventory or record of the books contained in the library in every department, and should be ruled to show the history of each book from its accession till its final withdrawal. The intermediate renewals of worn-out copies need not be shown in this book, as they complicate the record immensely, and there seems no strong reason for doing more than noting the total number of renewals in the Routine book, as already shown in Section 215. There are many forms of stock books, but for ordinary British municipal libraries the variety shown in the ruling on page 202 will be found, with its accessories, sufficient for every purpose.

There does not seem to be any obvious advantage in the American plan of printing the accession numbers progressively down each page, as this renders it impossible to re-enter a new book which has been given a withdrawn number, and there is a decided waste in using up from two to a hundred lines for a single work.

=225.= The stock book now recommended can be adapted to any system of classification, and when used in conjunction with the annual abstract sheets, ruled as shown on page 203, the exact position of the stock can be easily and correctly ascertained.

FIG. 69.--Stock Book.--Left-hand Folio (Section 224).

+-----+--------+--------+--------+--------+-------+------++------+ |Class|Binding.|Donor or|Date of | Price. |Special|With- || Re- | | No. | | Vendor.|Receipt.| |Collec-|drawal||marks.| | | | | | | tion. |Book. || | +-----+--------+--------+--------+--+--+--+-------+------++------+ | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | | | | | | | || |

FIG. 70.--Stock Book.--Right-hand Folio (Section 224).

=226.= Every book received into the library must be entered in the stock book, and a separate book should be kept for the reference and lending departments and for every branch. Provision is made in the ruling for any needful cross-reference to the withdrawals book, and a column is used for any remarks required to elucidate further the history of each book. When a book is discarded it is entered in the withdrawals book, and the page of this register is carried into the appropriate column in the stock book against the original entry. The stock is balanced annually by the withdrawals of the year being deducted from the total stock as ascertained at the end of the previous year, plus all the new additions. Withdrawn numbers should be applied to new books so as to prevent blanks in the sequence, and such books must be entered in the stock book in its chronological order, and cross-references made between the new and original entries.

+-----++---------------------++-----++-------+-------++--------++----+ |Page.|| Classification. ||Total||Bought.| Pre- || Special|| | | || ||Vols.|| |sented.|| Collec-|| | | || || || | || tions. || | | |+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++ || | ++--+--+--++----+ | || | | | | | | | | | | || || | || | | || | +-----++-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-----++-------+-------++--+--+--++----+ | || | | | | | | | | | | || || | || | | || | | || | | | | | | | | | | || || | || | | || | | || | | | | | | | | | | || || | || | | || | | || | | | | | | | | | | || || | || | | || | | || | | | | | | | | | | || || | || | | || | | || | | | | | | | | | | || || | || | | || | | || | | | | | | | | | | || || | || | | || | | || | | | | | | | | | | || || | || | | || | | || | | | | | | | | | | || || | || | | || | | || | | | | | | | | | | || || | || | | || | | || | | | | | | | | | | || || | || | | || | | || | | | | | | | | | | || || | || | | || | | || | | | | | | | | | | || || | || | | || | | || | | | | | | | | | | || || | || | | || | | || | | | | | | | | | | || || | || | | || |

FIG. 71.--Abstract Sheet for Stock and Withdrawals Book (Section 225).

This will cause occasional irregularities in the progression of numbers of the “Accession Number” column, but it is of much greater importance not to allow extensive blanks to occur in this series of numbers, as it will play havoc with the charging system later on. This method of re-entering cannot be done with stock books having the accession numbers ready printed, and librarians who use this form must make up their minds to run a very irregular series of numbers.

The whole process can be simplified by the use of a loose-leaf accession book, such as the “Kalamazoo” ledgers. As entries become congested by the substitution of other books for those originally stocked, the congested pages can be re-written as a whole. A register of discarded books or withdrawals can be kept in a separate book--the superseded loose leaves can be filed for the purpose--if it is thought desirable to retain a record of books which have been and are no longer in the library; but experience has not shown such a record to have any precise or practical value.

As in many other branches of library work, the tendency in accession work is to elaborate every process instead of simplifying it. The simplest form of stock book is that in which a specially ruled counterfoil is attached to the order forms and which only provides columns for accession and class numbers, author, title and number of volumes, publisher and price. After all a stock book need only be a kind of record of origin, and not necessarily an epitome, of the catalogue and classification. What a stock book is wanted for is to answer the questions: When did a given book come; where did it come from; what did it cost; how many books does the library possess; what are they about? There are so many records which give other particulars, that it seems a great waste of time to repeat a large number of the particulars given in some stock books.

=227.= The withdrawals book is the necessary complement of the stock book, and in it is entered every book permanently withdrawn from the library for any reason. The ruling given below will show better than description its scope and style:

FIG. 72.--Withdrawals Book (Section 227).

=228.= Opinion is divided upon the point, but usually in the enumeration of the stock of a library no distinction is made between a book and a pamphlet; every number represents a complete item, and the number of pages or subject-matter does not enter into the question; and for accession purposes a pamphlet is a book or work, whether it extends to a hundred pages or consists of but four. The Library Association, however, recommends that in presenting public statistics of stocks, as in annual reports, there should be differentiation, and gives the following definitions:--

“_Volumes_ mean books as they stand on the shelves. _Pieces_ mean separate works or parts (each usually having a separate title-page to itself, as with pamphlets, parts of periodicals, and the like); _Papers_ mean lesser items, usually with less than five pages, as broadsides, cards, flysheets and prints; _Items_ mean volumes, pieces, papers, lantern-slides, and generally all material constituting the library stock, and issued to readers; _Works_ mean whole literary productions, whether in several volumes or only one piece. Thus--ten pamphlets bound together, with five broadsides at end, are one volume, ten works or pieces, fifteen items. A dictionary in twenty volumes would count as twenty volumes, pieces, and items, but one work, and in a sense one book. Having regard to these definitions, care should be taken in recording the number of volumes in a library, to reckon ten pamphlets or parts as the equivalent of a single volume.”

Thus, if these definitions are used, it becomes necessary to indicate in the stock book the nature of the work; and to differentiate, one or two symbols, such as p.=pamphlet, and pr.=paper, may be used; but if “p.” is written in the “No. of vols.” column to distinguish a pamphlet, that will meet all usual statistical purposes.

=229.= BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dana, J. C. Accessioning Books. _In his_ Library Primer, 1910, p. 81.

Dewey, Melvil (_Ed._). Library School Rules, 1892.

Hitchler, Theresa. Accession Record, etc. _In her_ Cataloguing for Small Libraries, 1915. A.L.A.

Hopper, F. F. Order and Accession Department. _In_ A.L.A., Man. of Lib. Econ. Preprint of chapter xvii., 1911.

Jast, L. S. Accessions: The Checking of the Processes, 1909.

Roebuck and Thorne. Primer of Library Practice, 1914, chapters ii.-iii.

Sayers and Stewart. Book Selection and Ordering; Stock Register. _In their_ The Card Catalogue, p. 66.

For articles, see Cannons, G 25-38, Preparation of Books for the Public, etc.

DIVISION VII

CLASSIFICATION AND SHELF ARRANGEMENT