a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 FIG. 91.--Hand-Printing for Catalogues (Section 265). =266. Printing Specifications.=--Hints on printing specifications relating to catalogues can be gained from Philip’s _The Production of the Printed Catalogue_ and from Quinn’s _Library Cataloguing_, but the specifications there given must be adjusted to the special kind of catalogue proposed. An excellent practical method of obtaining estimates of cost is to have specimen pages printed of the body of the catalogue and the indexes, exactly of the required model, spaced out with the number of lines per page. If the manuscript copy is not ready, estimates can be obtained from the printers per page, according to the specimen pages, and this is a fair way of tendering. If the copy is ready, estimates should be obtained for the whole job, including covers, in the style of the specimen pages. A printer can soon tell how much print a manuscript will run to, especially if the copy has been prepared in a uniform manner, with ten or twelve slips mounted on the folio. A clear understanding as to payment for corrections and additions to proof should be reached before the tender is accepted. =267. Co-operative Cataloguing.=--Efforts have been made from time to time to obviate the duplicating of cataloguing work that occurs all over the country, and in every country, and brief reference should be made to these. The principal is the Library of Congress card-distribution system, to which detailed reference has been made. In Great Britain various attempts have been made, but chiefly in the form of annotated and classified lists of new books, which it was expected that libraries would transfer to their own catalogues. Such lists were issued in _The Library World_ in 1901, but were discontinued for lack of support. Later the Library Association issued such lists in _The Library Association Record_, but in recent years this work, which is still done by members of the Association, is published in the form of weekly lists in strict catalogue form (Decimal classified, and annotated) in _The Athenæum_; and _The Librarian and Book Selector_ publishes monthly annotated lists which are classified by both the Decimal and Subject classifications. In America, _The A. L. A. Book-List_, _The Wisconsin Library Bulletin_, and _The Ontario Library Review_ all provide similar lists. Any of the entries in all of these is suitable for cutting out and mounting on cards or slips for insertion in existing catalogues.