=48. Suggestions on Management.=--It is well to keep a book or to provide forms to enable readers to make suggestions on the management of the library. Frequently such suggestions take the form of complaints, but it is a useful thing to allow free opportunity for the expression of public opinion. In some libraries separate books are kept for propositions of new books not in the library and suggestions on management. A simple form, on which the reader can make suggestions on management or of books, is preferable. When these forms are made readily available, and are kept in public view, together with a locked box in which the slips can be lodged through a slit in the lid, they are much more effective as a means of drawing suggestions than special MS. books which have to be asked for. A useful form of slip is the following:-- +----------------------------------------------------------+ | | | LIBERTON PUBLIC LIBRARY. | | | | I beg to make the following suggestion (.if a book or | | periodical, please give publisher and price.):-- | | | | ........................................................ | | | | ........................................................ | | | | ........................................................ | | | | ........................................................ | | | | Name.............................................. | | | | Address........................................... | | | | Date.............................................. | | | | ~Please fold across and leave in “Suggestions” Box.~ | | | +----------------------------------------------------------+ FIG. 3.--Suggestion Slip.