A Manual of Library Routine
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A Manual of Library Routine

W.E. Doubleday

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A Manual of Library Routine

W.E. Doubleday

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This book, first published in 1933, addresses the 'routine' in library work: administration, organization, book selection and classification and cataloguing, as well as the office work, room supervision, shelf tidying and registration of borrowers, among others.

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  • Accession numbers, uses of, 72–3
  • Accession registers, 61, 68–75
  • Accessioning—
    • definition of, 62
    • redundancy in, 61
    • variant methods in, 61, 74
  • Accessioning by lot, 74
  • Accounts—
    • preparation of, 300–1, 310, 319
    • submission of to committees, 306–7
    • treatment of in committee, 307
  • Administrative records, 61–79
  • Admission—
    • to lectures, 322
    • to lending departments, 122–44
    • to reference departments, 165
  • Agendas for committees, 306
  • Alphabetico-classed catalogues, 95
  • Alphabetization in catalogues, 100
  • American Library Association on bindings, 285–6
  • Analytical cataloguing, 114–15
  • Anglo-American cataloguing rules, 99
  • Application forms—
    • in university libraries, 228–9
    • lending department, 128–32, 197
    • reference, 163–4
  • Approval, books on, 34–5
  • Attendance registers, public, 165
  • Attendances in reading - rooms, 211
  • Balance of stock, 26–8
  • Bibliographies, use of, 25–6
  • Binderies at libraries, 286
  • Binding, 282–95
    • adaptation of, 283
    • cased books, 17–18
    • examination of books for, 284
  • Binding, leathers and other materials for, 285–6
    • records relating to, 287–9
    • specifications for, 286–7
    • staff repairs, 290–4
    • treatment of newly bound books, 18
  • “Black list” of defaulters, 137–8, 160
  • Blind, books for the, 333–4
  • Book carrying, 19
    • charging cards, 147–50
    • committee lists, 32–4
    • numbering, 54–9
    • ordering, 36–8
    • purchasing considerations, 32
    • selection, 23–41
    • terms of supply, 39–40
    • trade symbols, 44–5
    • votes, 31–2
  • Book delivery system, 201
  • Bookcard-in-pocket system, 146–9
  • Bookcard-in-tray system, 1...

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