+-----------+---------+-------+------------+------+-----+--------+ | Date of |Accession|Author.|Brief Title.|No. of|Class|Remarks.| |Withdrawal.| No. | | | Vols.| No. | | +-----------+---------+-------+------------+------+-----+--------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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