7. Under head (iv) should be included only the cost of periodicals not permanently retained. In cases of periodicals which are subsequently bound and added to the permanent library stocks, their cost should be included under head (i) books and head (ii) binding. 8. Care should be taken that head (vii) should be confined to the salary payments made to the library staff proper. All wages paid to caretakers, cleaners, messengers and the like, should be included under head (xii). 9. It will be observed that there is no separate heading for “miscellaneous” or “other items.” It is desired that all items of expenditure should be allocated to the headings detailed above. _Stocks._ 10. It is recognized that the word book or volume has no definite technical meaning, and is usually an indeterminate expression useful for popular purposes. It may therefore be useful to make the following definitions for the guidance of the Libraries:-- _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 5 pages, as broadsides, cards, fly-sheets. _Items_ mean volumes, pieces and papers. _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. _Issues._ 11. Head (iii) should give the issues from the reference library actually recorded. 12. Head (iv) should give the estimated use made of the books from the open shelves of the reference library. 13. Sunday use of libraries should be separately recorded. BIBLIOGRAPHY =63. Statistics:= Hetherington, A. L. Library Statistics. _In_ L.A. Record, v. 19, p. 3, 1917. [Also separately.] For articles, see Cannons, E 135, Library Statistics. =64. Annual Report:= Bostwick, A. E. Administration of a Public Library. _In_ A.L.A., Man. of Lib. Econ. Preprint of chapter xii., 1911. For articles, see Cannons, E 136, Annual Report. DIVISION III STAFF CHAPTER V THE LIBRARIAN